In The Blair Witch Project, what Maryland town is linked to the Blair Witch legend?

In The Blair Witch Project, the Maryland town linked to the Blair Witch legend is Burkittsville.

The 1999 film presents itself as assembled from footage recorded by student filmmakers Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, and Joshua Leonard. Their investigation takes them into the nearby woods while they research stories about a local figure called the Blair Witch.

Burkittsville was formerly named Blair, and the film’s fictional history connects the town and surrounding forest with disappearances and supernatural folklore. The setting is deliberately presented in a documentary-like style, which made the boundary between invented legend and real place especially memorable to audiences.

The movie was marketed using an extensive pseudo-documentary campaign, including fictional missing-person material. Burkittsville itself is a real Maryland community, although the Blair Witch story and the filmmakers’ disappearance are fictional elements created for the film.