Case file · Witch trials
The Blair Witch of Burkittsville
The Blair Witch Project (1999) presented invented 18th-century witch lore of Burkittsville as real, using a fake documentary website and missing-person flyers.
1999 CE · 39.39, -77.63 · status: hoax
The account
Many viewers believed the legend was genuine, and the real village was flooded with visitors and souvenir hunters who stole its road signs.
The sceptical view
The witch, the 'Blair' township and the lost student filmmakers were all fiction, and the filmmakers have always said so.