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Heather Donahue was born in Upper Darby, PA, but soon relocated to
Baltimore, on the outskirts of which her great-grandmother lived. Some
of Heather's earliest memories are of her great-grandma's tales
of civil war ghosts and witches said to haunt the area. While Heather
relished the terror those stories inspired in her early on, she later
came to appreciate the historical and sociological value that this oral
tradition provided. She made it her mission to investigate and document
the origins of these stories, primarily as an act of preservation.
Moving out on her own to Wheaton, Maryland in 1991, this led her to
Montgomery College in Rockville, where she studied video production.
After saving money she earned as the videographer of countless weddings
and bar mitzvahs, she began planning her first major project, a
documentary on the story of her great-grandmothers that both fascinated
and frightened her the most, the story that resurfaced so often in both
history and her own mind -- the legend of the Blair Witch.
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