Bell Witch or Bell Witch Haunting is a legend from Southern United States folklore, centered on the 19th-century Bell family of northwest Robertson County, Tennessee.
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26 Facts About Bell Witch
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Dean, a person enslaved by the Bell Witch family, reported being followed by a large black dog on evenings he visited his wife.
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Military officer John R Bell joined the Stephen Harriman Long expedition in 1820 to explore the central Great Plains.
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Later that day, Bell Witch stopped at the Murphey residence in Robertson County to eat dinner.
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The journal's connection to the Bell Witch legend was discussed by local historian David Britton during a television broadcast produced for the Discovery Channel in November, 2020.
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Bell Witch then used her skill to attempt to convince Joshua Gardner to marry her.
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About 1849 the Saturday Evening Post, published either in Philadelphia or New York, printed a long sketch of the Bell Witch phenomenon, written by a reporter who made a strenuous effort in the details to connect her with the authorship of the demonstrations.
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The matter was settled without litigation, the paper retracting the charges, explaining how this version of the story had gained credence, and the fact that at the time the demonstrations commenced Betsy Bell Witch had scarcely advanced from the stage of childhood and was too young to have been capable of originating and practicing so great a deception.
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Rawls testified that the Bell Witch was a frequent topic of conversation during her lifetime and pointed to a murder of a man for witchcraft as evidence for this claim.
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Several page account of the Bell Witch legend was included in a sketch of Robertson County and was reportedly written for Nashville's Centennial Exposition in 1880.
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Bell Witch again attempted to place the sack of corn on the horse's back several more times, but each time the sack fell off.
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Bell Witch felt it jump off as he neared his home and move in the leaves into the woods.
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Bell Witch became a citizen of Clarksville forty years ago and from that time practically until the day of his death his greatest concern was the advancement and welfare of his adopted town and county.
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Allen Bell Witch expressed the belief that his father's manuscript was written when he was 35 years old in 1846.
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Bell Witch stated his father gave him the manuscript and family notes shortly before his death in 1857.
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Bell Witch household was strained of resources from visitors and Jackson brought a wagon load of supplies with his men.
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Bell Witch descendants described the sound of something rubbing against a house, a paper like object that flew out the door and reentered through a side door, and faint music heard from a piano.
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Bell Witch turned the kettle over and found a pearl buckle in the grass.
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Attorney Charles Romaine Willett, son of Sarah Elizabeth Bell Witch, began an interest in the newspaper business at the age of 16.
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Bell Witch left English class, playing 'hooky, ' and borrowed a lantern from Mrs Garrison, the cave owner.
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Bell Witch reported to have explored the cave with her friends for several years.
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Bell Witch managed to relight the lantern and it blew out again.
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Bell Witch began to walk towards town when a rabbit came out of the woods and began to follow him.
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Roger Clarke, former film critic for The Independent, argues the legend has had a measurable influence on cinema such as in the Poltergeist film series, the found footage Paranormal Activity film series, The Bell Witch released in 2015, the trope of burial ground disturbance in The Amityville Horror, and the apport of cherries to the children in Mama released in 2013.
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An American television series – Cursed: The Bell Witch – based on selected descendants of the Bell family trying to end a curse.
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Murfreesboro Little Theatre performed Who Killed John Bell Witch, written by Jess Townsend, at Oaklands Mansion in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in August 2022.
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