THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT 2016 ROTTEN TOMATOS SERIES
The town of Burkittsville was founded on the site in 1824, and over the next two hundred years a series of strange disappearances plagued the town:
Nevertheless, in 1809 a book titled The Blair Witch Cult was published about the incident, though conveniently enough, only a single, badly-damaged copy still exists, in the hands of a private collector. Over the next two years, half of the town's children, including all of Kedward's accusers, vanished, and by the end of 1786 the remaining townsfolk, deciding that Kedward had cursed the town, abandoned it and vowed never to speak her name again. She was found guilty of witchcraft and banished from the town of Blair, presumably dying of exposure in the harsh winter.
In February 1785, an elderly woman named Elly Kedward was accused of witchcraft by several children, who claimed that she had attempted to lure them into her home and drain their blood. Williams, and Joshua Leonard, ventured to the town of Burkittsville, Maryland (formerly known as Blair) to produce a documentary about a local legend, the Blair Witch. In 1994, three student filmmakers from Montgomery College, Heather Donahue, Michael C. 3.1 Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000).