Later that same year, half the town's children, along with Kedward's accusers, vanish from sight. The township of Blair is deserted by those fearing a curse. Burkittsville is soon after founded on that site. So in 1994, Heather Donohue, Mike Williams and Joshua Leonard hike into the woods to make their film. They are never heard from again.
Massive searches turn up nothing, and the case of their disappearance is declared unsolved.
They are determined to belong to the missing students. After two years of inconclusive research, the police turn over the film footage to Heather's mother, Angie Donohue, who commissions Haxan Films of Orlando, Florida to edit together this found footage, in an attempt to explain what happened. The film released in theatres this summer shows three carefree kids who gradually become unhinged when they become lost in the woods, convinced they are being pursued by persons or forces unseen. In the first several days they generally have fun and enjoy their time in the wilderness. But when it becomes clear they are lost, and that they are being followed, things break down rapidly.