The 200-year-old house made famous by the hit horror movie The Blair Witch Project is to be spared the wrecking ball. Maryland's Department of Natural Resources has decided that the historic Griggs House, located in Patapsco State Park in western Baltimore County, will not be demolished as planned. In the film, the house 'plays' the former home of child-killer Rustin Parr, who murdered his victims in the spooky cellar.
William Whitacre, a lawyer for Haxan Films which produced TBWP, says he believes the film's distributor, Artisan Entertainment, paid the state to save the Griggs House, which is owned by Maryland. Ed Sanchez and Dan Myrick, creators of the Blair Witch, are working on a sequel, but Whitacre says he did not think there was an immediate plan to use the house in the second film. It's more likely that it would be used in a Witch prequel, further exploring the horrific exploits of Parr, who, according to the film's mythology, claimed that a ghostlike woman made him kill.