Young adults become fascinated by the events of the three missing filmmakers in Maryland, so they decide to go into the same woods and find out what really happened.

Melissa and Yul, Americans honeymooning in China, come across the exotic 'Hungry Ghost' festival. When night falls, the couple end up in a remote village, and soon realize the legend is all too real. Plunged into an ancient custom they cannot comprehend, the couple must find a way to survive the night of the Seventh Moon.

Newlywed Molly moves into her deceased father's house in the countryside, where painful memories soon begin to haunt her.

A group of friends venture into the remote Texas woods for a party weekend and find themselves stalked by Bigfoot.

Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.

Tijekom listopada 1994., tri studenta filma na koledžu u Montgomeryju, Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard i Michael Williams dali su prijedlog za stvaranje projekta koji će se predstaviti u filmskoj klasi, a projekt nazvan Heather "Projekt vještica iz Blaira" uključivao je intervjue sa stanovnicima grada iz Burkittsville-a, Maryland, o lokalnoj vještici.