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Bell witch cave story3/2/2023 ![]() ![]() The children would report hearing the sounds of rats gnawing on their bedposts in the night, but upon examination neither rat nor bite mark could be found. In early 1818, seemingly supernatural activity had started within the farmhouse. ![]() John Bell also reportedly saw the creature lurking around on occasion. The Bell family’s slave, Dean, saw this same creature, among other bizarre and supernatural sights, multiple times on his walks in the evening to visit his wife on a nearby farm. It was large and dark and utterly unsettling. A strange mixture of dog, sometimes two-headed, and rabbit. In the earliest days of the haunting, a strange creature was spied around the Bell’s farmland by a number of people. The “ family trouble ”, as the Bells would one day call it, began late in 1817. He had a good life along the Red River for well over a decade, he and his wife had nine children, and they were well-liked as a family. He developed a good name for himself as well, and would eventually become an elder at the local church (though later he was excommunicated for unscrupulous business dealings). He was quite successful in this, and by the time of his death, his farm would boast more than three hundred acres of land. Bell had been a barrel-maker in his youth, but had decided to turn to farming. They settled along the Red River, near the modern town of Adams. In the very early years of the nineteenth century, John Bell Senior came to Robertson County, Tennessee with his wife, Lucy, and their young children. The story itself is the story of the Bell family. It has spawned other stories and even traveled in a slightly altered form to become folklore in Mississippi, where several Bell children settled in their adulthood. ![]() To date, there are a half dozen movies based on the story with more having been influenced by it there is a doom metal band called Bell Witch, and several songs by other musicians based on the tale. John Bell Sr died 200 years ago, and much of the haunting occurred years prior to that. The Bell Witch haunting is one of the most famous American hauntings on record, not only for the extent of the hauntings but because it is credited as the only American haunting to result in the death of a living person. The Terrifying True Story of the Bell Witch The Bell Witch Poltergeist by Joe Nickell You can find EM Hilker’s original article HERE.Īn Authenticated History of the Bell Witch by Martin Van Buren Ingram Unpleasant Dreams is a production of Jim Harold Media. EM Hilker is our principal writer and researcher with additional writing by Cassandra Harold. ![]()
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