Cade Merrill is the cousin of Heather Donahue, one of the three students who disappeared when they went into Maryland's Black Hills to research a documentary on the legend of the Blair Witch. Searchers found only their camp and some film footage which became 'The Blair Witch Project', the cult box-office success of Summer 1999.

Cade subsequently collected further case files, in the hope of finding the person who holds the key to the mystery of the Blair Witch. Each 'file' narrates an individual case, with occasional inserted observations noting Cade's own research and verification of the facts.

The Death Card

In 1974, Gavin Burns disappeared in the woods near Deep Creek Lake. The only witness, 16-year-old Sharon Webster, knows he was a victim of the Blair Witch - and she will carry that secret to the grave. But her silence means that someone else may suffer Gavin's fate...