List of Blair Witch characters
B
- Bill Barnes - Barnes ran the Burkittsville Historical Society.[1]
- Eliza Baynes - convicted of murder at 18-years-old, Baynes wrote to Cade explaining she was framed by the Blair Witch.[2]
- Thomas Billings - The Reverend of Blair, he oversaw Elly Kedward's trial as a witch.[3]
- Nathan Blair - Colonel Blair founded the village of Blair.
- Kyle Brody - the only survivor of the Rustin Parr murders.
- Gavin Burns - the nephew of Bill Barnes, disappeared in 1974 near Deep Creek Lake.[4]
C
- Ronald Cravens - the sheriff of Burkittsville, he disbelieves anything related to the Blair Witch legend.
- Randy Crawford - in August 1995, Detective Crawford ended up following a lead to Burkittsville after chasing convicted serial-killer John Lee Fellowes for the last six months.[5]
- Leroy Creegan - Leroy was a failed musician who in the summer of 1969 hosted a series of drug induced rituals performed by a group of hippies known as the "Blair Witch Cult".
D
- Michael DeCoto - Heather's film professor at Montgomery College.
- Angela Donahue - Heather's mother.
- Heather Donahue - a college student who disappeared in the woods around Burkittsville while making a documentary on the Blair Witch.
- Jim Donahue - Heather Donahue's father who had worked as a fairly prominent prosecuting attorney in New York City. After successfully convicting mob figure "Bud DiGrassi" in 1989, Jim moved his family to Frederick, Maryland.
F
- John Lee Fellowes - a convicted serial killer, Fellowes tried to obtain power from Okee.[5]
G
- Jonathan Goodneighbor - Judge Goodneighbor oversaw the trial of Elly Kedward.
- Lukas Graham - as a seventh grader, Lukas was heavily bullied. It only got worse when he started seeing the ghost of Eileen Treacle.[6][7]
H
- Frank Hunter - Frank moved to Burkittsville as high school senior.[8][9]
- Raymond Hunter - Dr. Hunter was the father of Frank, who died in a car accident. As a Native American scholar and anthropologist, he taught Frank all about tribal rituals, myths, and legends.[10]
K
- Harper Kemp - Justin Petit's grandfather, he is convinced that a girl from his childhood has returned to kill him.[11]
- Beth Krizer - she vanished after pretending to help Justin Petit on his search for answers.[12]
L
- Joshua Leonard - a college student who disappeared in the woods around Burkittsville while making a documentary on the Blair Witch.
M
- CeCe Malvey - he was a deaf student at Johns Hopkins Medical College, who disappeared around Burkittsville in November 1983. He was found unconscious in a dry riverbed six-hours later. When he awoke, he said he'd been struck from behind, and cared for by invisible people who spoke to him. Malvey was written off as an attention seeker. He went on to drop out of school, and self-publish the comic, Wood Witch Said, which he'd give to passers-by. Ostracized, Malvey was found hanged in his apartment.[13]
- Cade Merrill - the cousin of Heather, who never came to terms with her disappearance. In desperation for an answer, he established The Blair Witch Files to track legends and leads related to Heather and the Blair Witch.[14]
- Mr. Merrill - Cade's father is an engineer for a high-tech wireless company. When he is not focused on working, his full attention is devoted to fly fishing.[15]
- Mrs. Merrill - Cade's mother went to law school, but never practiced. Instead she opts to sell health-food supplements to her friends.[16]
- Donald Merrill - the uncle of Cade, and his father’s older brother. He and his family live on the west coast.[17]
- Walter Merrill - the son of Donald, and Cade’s cousin. Walter got accepted into MIT after high school. [18]
- Rachel Meyer - Heather's best friend since they met at Wheaton High School. Rachel moved to Frederick County from New Orleans where she had developed a healthy distrust of the occult, and never liked the side of Heather that was obsessed with all thing occult.
- Laura Morely - Morely went to Burkittsville to photograph the forest, but her camera photographed past events.[19]
- Russell Morris - at first, Russell Morris was everyone's favorite high school teacher, but according to witnesses, halfway into his camping trip in Black Rock State Park, Morris's personality changed.[20]
N
- Cecilia Northrup - she answered Cade's website call for info about the Eileen Treacle legend. When Cade heard about Cecilia's brutal camping trip in Black Rock State Park, he knew she'd lived through a nightmare and barely escaped alive.[6][21]
P
- Lee Irwin Papert - orphaned at the age of thirteen, Lee Irwin spent a miserable childhood being tortured and teased by Harper Kemp and his cronies. In an attempt to escape her tormentors, she ran straight into the hands of Rustin Parr.[22]
- Dale Parr - the twin brother of Rustin Parr. He was beaten to death by Rustin as a child.[23]
- Rustin Parr - the twin brother of Dale. Rustin went on to murder seven children claiming the Blair Witch told him to.
- Jeffery Patterson - blamed for the Black Hills murders of 1999.
- Justin Petit - a high school senior who stumbled into Blair Witch Territory. He contacted Cade in a desperate attempt to save his grandfather Harper Kemp's life.[24]
R
- Mark Reddick - Cecilia Northrup's boyfriend, who died on a camping trip into the Black Hills.[6][25]
- Lilith Roderick - a Goth-chick from Frank Hunter's high school, everyone she dreamed about ended up dead.[8][26]
S
- Louis Strauss - a private investigator, and family friend of the Merrills. He helped Cade track down Lukas Graham.[27][6]
- Elizabeth Styler - a resident of colonial Blair, Styler was charged with witchcraft and jailed in the hysteria following the trial of Elly Kedward.[28]
T
- Eileen Treacle - a drowning victim, who disappeared in Tappy East Creek. Eyewitnesses say a white hand pulled her underwater.
W
- Robin Weaver - as a young child Weaver disappeared in the woods around Burkittsville. A search party was sent after her. Weaver returned to the town, but the search party that went after her were found slaughtered in the forest.
- Michael Williams - a college student who disappeared in the woods around Burkittsville while making a documentary on the Blair Witch.
- Jesse Winslow - a resident of Petersville, Maryland, Jesse came face-to-face with werewolves that pulled their power from the Blair Witch.[29]
- Leslie Wolf - beautiful, blonde, and magnetically irresistible, according to Justin Petit.[30]
