The movie the Blair Witch takes place in Black Hills Forest, a young man’s sister goes missing it the forest as him and a few of his friends search for her. The movie gives more detail of the story, so the story of the Blair witch goes; in 1785, several children in the township of blair accused an irish-born woman of witchcraft named Elly Kedward, she was then convicted and sent into the woods during winter, they say she died from exposure.