‘Blair Witch’ Gets The Heave-Ho From A Maine Town Named Freedom

By Ted Cohen/The Maine Wire

The actress who starred in the Blair Witch Project says she may have to leave her adopted home after getting thrown out of office.

Heather Donahue was voted out last week from her elected selectboard position in a battle over road rights.

The retired actress had provoked the ire of some townspeople in Freedom, Maine when she marked trees with orange spray paint along Beaver Ridge Road.

After getting elected a year ago, Donahue got embroiled in a dispute with neighbors who insist at least part of the road is private.

Donahue took her role as a town official so seriously she began marking the trees that she believes help outline public property.

But a number of townspeople said she exceeded her authority and petitioned for a recall vote.

The witch actress who moved to Maine two years ago ended up on the short end of a broomstick, losing the vote 122 to 91 last Wednesday.

Donahue said her safety has been threatened since national news stories broke about the recall, with many focusing on her starring role in the movie “The Blair Witch Project.”

Cameras surround her house, she said, and she is receiving threatening calls from people across the country.

“This is completely insane,” Donahue said. “Because, this is where I planned to live the rest of my life, and now I have to reconsider that as well.”

The retired horror-movie star, an avid hiker and snowshoer, said she moved to the area because trails were an important feature to her.