LEGEND
February, 1785
November, 1786
November, 1809
1824
August, 1825
March, 1886
November, 1940 - May, 1941
May 25, 1941
An old hermit named Rustin Parr walks into a local market and tells the people there that he is "finally finished." After Police hike for four hours to his secluded house in the woods, they find the bodies of seven missing children in the cellar. Each child has been ritualistically murdered and disemboweled. Parr admits to everything in detail, telling authorities that he did it for "an old woman ghost" who occupied the woods near his house. He is quickly convicted and hanged.
Several children accuse Elly Kedward of luring them into her home to draw blood from them. Kedward is found guilty of witchcraft, banished from the village during a particularly harsh winter and presumed dead.
By midwinter all of Kedward's accusers along with half of the town's children vanish. Fearing a curse, the townspeople flee Blair and vow never to utter Elly Kedward's name again.
The Blair Witch Cult is published. This rare book, commonly considered fiction, tells of an entire town cursed by an outcast witch.
Burkittsville is founded on the Blair site.
Eleven witnesses testify to seeing a pale woman's hand reach up and pull ten-year-old Eileen Treacle into Tappy East Creek. Her body is never recovered, and for thirteen days after the drowning the creek is clogged with oily bundles of sticks.
Eight-year-old Robin Weaver is reported missing and search parties are dispatched. Although Weaver returns, one of the search parties does not. Their bodies are found weeks later at Coffin Rock tied together at the arms and legs and completely disemboweled.
Starting with Emily Hollands, a total of seven children are abducted from the area surrounding Burkittsville, Maryland.
FAST FACTS
~Characters of Transitus Fluvii were found written on walls of Rustin Parr's House. Transitus Fluvii is a Hebrew-dervied alphabet created by mystics and secret socities during the middle ages.
~Some believe that Kyle Brody killed or forced Rustin Parr to kill those seven children. For more on this visit www.rustinparr.com
~Regardless of wild speculations and beliefs, the three student filmakers in the movie WERE actors..They did not die, they are alive and well. The movie mixed history and legend with Hollywood and sometimes it is hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.
