Despite the fact that these terrible events took place a very long time ago - at the beginning of the 19th century, in America there was still no ghost who could do more harm than the evil witch Bellov, who gained fame as the most famous ghost in the United States. The Bell family haunted is one of the most famous mysteries in American history.
It all began in 1817, when a young farmer, John Bell, and his entire extended family moved from North Carolina to the Red River Valley, Robertson County, Tennessee. He settled in the Adams community, bought a piece of land and a spacious house from a woman named Keith Butts.
Things were going well for John Bell, but soon frightening things began to happen: ghost dogs and giant phantom birds began to appear. He shot them, but the shots did not frighten these creatures. For a year, the ghost tormented John and Lucy Bell and their eight children. They heard knocking and grinding near the house. Inside the house, it looked like giant rats were gnawing at the legs of the beds and scratching the floor. The bedspreads slipped off the beds, and the sleeping inhabitants of the house woke up from the slaps of invisible hands, which, moreover, dragged them by the hair.
Over time, whistles began to be heard, and then words. At first the voice claimed that it was everywhere: in heaven, in hell and on earth. “I am in the air, in houses, everywhere and always. I was born millions of years ago. That's all I can tell you. " Later, the spirit announced that "I am old Kate Butts, the witch, will haunt and torture old John Bell while he is alive." According to one version, during the deal to buy the house, John Bell deceived Kate Butts and now she wanted to take revenge on him.
Rumors of a witch spread throughout the country, and Andrew Jackson (who later became President of the United States) decided to visit the Bell farm accompanied by a demon exorcist. After trying to shoot Keith with a silver bullet, the shooter was slapped in the face by invisible forces and quickly retreated.
Most of all, the wealthy planter was furious with the witch for upsetting the engagement of Betsy, his daughter. The ghost at the guests let go of such dirty words about the girl and her fiancé that Betsy ran away in tears and locked herself in her room. One day, immediately after this incident, John saw a whitish transparent silhouette in the corner of the living room. The planter grabbed a saber and shouted: "I will destroy you, devil of hell!" - rushed to strike the ghost. Of course, he did not do any harm to the spirit, but he made him very angry.
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The witch began to take revenge on the owner of the house. At first, it was as if a stick was stuck in John's mouth: his jaw and tongue were stiff to such an extent that he could not eat or speak. The planter's face twitched with convulsions causing terrible grimaces. In 1820, while walking with her son, the witch took off his shoes several times, the weakened John, who, in addition, received a strong slap from the spirit, sat down on a fallen tree and began to cry. The witch still broke the will of this strong and self-confident person.
Shortly after this incident, John fell into a coma. It turned out that the witch had changed his medicine bottle for a bottle of some suspicious liquid, which he apparently took. The confusion of the household was aggravated by the statement of the spirit that the elder Bell was no longer a tenant in this world. The arriving doctor decided to test the "medicine" of the witch from a bottle on a cat that turned up under his arm, and she died immediately. It became clear that old Bell would not last long either. The planter died a few hours later.
Even after death, the ghost mocked poor John to his heart's content. During the funeral, the heart-rending screams of the witch, then her bold songs were heard. It is not known whether the elder Bell stood up for his family in the next world or entered into an invisible battle with this evil spirits, but a few months later, when one day the whole family settled down at the dinner table, a terrible roar was heard, a cannonball fell into the fireplace and immediately exploded. After such a "spectacular" introduction, a witch's voice came: "I'm leaving, wait for me in seven years."
The witch kept her word and, returning in 1828, she talked with John Bell Jr. and told him a lot of interesting information about future events, which, by the way, turned out to be prophetic, including about the upcoming wars of the 19th and 20th centuries. Then the ghost decided to retire (according to him) for 107 years, but when he left, he promised that he would no longer torment the descendants of the Bell family. And he again kept his word, returning not to the Bell house, but to a nearby cave.
Visitors to the Bell Witch Cave and the surrounding area encounter many strange phenomena: they may hear the voices of children playing in the cave, or see a woman hovering above the ground. The most common manifestation of anomalous phenomena is recorded in photographs taken in or near the cave. Some argue that if you approach the cave at night, you can see lights gliding over the fields and "dancing" in the hollow.
Although this mysterious and tragic story is very old, researchers of anomalous phenomena are still arguing about this mysterious case. The fact is that the Bell witch case had too many witnesses to be a hoax or fiction. Richard, the son of John Bell, even wrote a book about the ghost called Our Family Anxieties. Some consider this case a classic manifestation of a poltergeist, others see in it a riot of devilish forces, others even insist on the hypothesis of mass hallucinations. Some suspect that John Bell was not poisoned by an invisible witch, but by some insidious killer. Whether it is true or not, it is no longer possible for us to know.