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Blair Witch star fighting for public access to woods in rural Maine

Rob Beschizza
May 21, 2025
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Heather Donahue, star of low-budget horror classic The Blair Witch Project, was famously misled by ominous symbols on trees. Now she lives in rural Maine and has upset a landowner there by marking trees with orange paint signifying a public easement in the woods.

Donahue painted the orange blazes using historical maps to show what she holds is the center…

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