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Okay there's this low-budget direct-to-dvd film called "A Day With SpongeBob SquarePants: The Movie (Unauthorized Mockumentary)" which is supposedly made by Reagal Films(side note: do not go to Reagal Films's website, right now it has trojan horse viruses). Except there is one problem: No physical copies of traces of the actual film itself are known to exist.
The only things we know about it are the DVD cover:

and the supposed plot as stated by Amazon:
_In this mockumentary, SpongeBob lives above ground like all Hollywood superstars. Afraid that SpongeBob is becoming old news, his boss runs a contest called "Spend a Day with SpongeBob." The contest makes SpongeBob the talk of the town, as thousands of kids enter to win. The lucky winner is Seth, and he is ecstatic about his day with SpongeBob. However the day becomes a rollercoaster ride as things don't go quite the way they planned. _

THis was, in fact discovered on Amazon, but unavailable for purchase, and with several reviews which may or may not be real(if you check the comments for those reviews you'll see people asking for physical proof that the reviewers have the film or if they could post it online)
Amazon link
(as you can see you can not really purchase the film)
Allmovie link

So one person named Matthew Elder discovered the Amazon page and, finding little to no actual info on the film otherwise, created a page for it on the Lost Media Wiki and it basically blew up from there
Lost Media Wiki page

So after this there came a huge internet following that to this day is trying to find any evidence of the movie's existence, if not the movie itself. There is a thread on r/unsolvedmysteries with 102 upvotes and 85 comments, Gawker Made an article about it, and so did a French Newspaper called La Monde. This also apparently blew up on 4chan but all the links I checked to 4chan archives ceased to exist.

Reddit Thread

Gawker Article

La Monde article

Pan Pizza aka RebelTaxi made a video about it which has as of now over 330,000 views

There has also been an influx images and videos from people claiming that they're from the film itself, all of which have been later declared fake however.

Here are just a few of them

So yeah really feel like this has more than enough spread and notoriety to be its own KYM article, but I don't know how to format one properly so if someone else could help create the article I'd greatly appreciate it.

Also the Gawker article, Reddit thread, and Lost Media Wiki page all have plenty more info if you need it so I'll re-link them below:
Gawker

Lost Media Wiki link 1

Lost Media Wiki link 2

Reddit thread

Another video that tackles this movie.

I was actually pretty involved with the search early on when it was based on /co/; in fact, I was the one who managed to find the original art that was used on the cover. I also managed to trace down a lot of info about Reagal that some of these videos claimed was discovered a lot later than it actually was. I considered making a page back when the search was early, but I held off. Now that it's picking up more steam I'd say go for it.

Yeah I heard about this one a while back but then kinda forgot about it. Nice to see that people are still searching.

Shit. Now I remember this old gem. I heard few rumors outside of KYM years ago I think. I wonder if anyone could get even a single glimpse of this mockbuster. I am now morbidly curious on how it looks if it even exists in the first place. More info here

There are no screenshots or anything that even exists because it's not even known if the film even exists. There are claims and things people said working for some related companies, but there is no conclusive evidence of the film's actual existence. That's what mystifies so many people so much about this. With other "lost" media like Christine Chubbuck's suicide and The Day The Clown Cried, we at least know that at one point those were recorded and seen by people, hell we actually have leaked footage form The Day the Clown Cried, but with this we have nothing

also what got me to suggest this just about now was the latest video from LostWiki's video series, which is actually about ADWSS

btw sorry for the triple post but I can't really space out my paragraphs otherwise, I'm not experienced with writing articles and it would take me a long time to properly format it if I did one, so I was wondering if someone else could create/organize the article because I'm not sure I have the time to

just letting everyone know I made the article

if anyone wants to help improve it feel free to request editorship

+100 confirm.