Burkittsville in Maryland, USA gained notoriety in 1999 after the release of which 'fake real' film that supposedly took place there?
Burkittsville, Maryland includes about 70 contributing structures. The Burkittsville Historic District is itself part of the larger Crampton's Gap Historic District, which comprises the southern portion of the lands involved in the Battle of South Mountain, extending from the western side of Crampton's Gap, over South Mountain and about a mile to the east of Burkittsville. Burkittsville gained uninvited attention with the 1999 release of the film "The Blair Witch Project" and the franchise it spawned. "The poor town of Burkittsville suddenly found itself overrun with "Blair Witch" groupies, wandering around in the woods, trying to find the 'real' places where the
Burkittsville, Maryland story had happened." Contrary to popular belief, however, the majority of the film was not filmed in Burkittsville, but in Maryland's Seneca Creek State Park, about away, and the events depicted in the film and the legend of the Blair Witch itself are false. Furthermore, other potentially identifiable landmarks from the Blair Witch story - Coffin Rock, the Black Hills, Black Rock Road, and the local convenience store - are not located in the real Burkittsville or the immediate surrounding area, but are rather in Germantown, Maryland. A Burkittsville town welcome sign appeared briefly in the film, which featured cursive