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.

Frank Hunter takes a wrong turn and finds himself in a strange, silent town that seems to exist only in his dreams. Then he meets a beautiful young woman who shares those dreams - but in hers, Frank is marked for death.