Copy of Episode 2.23 // The Bell Witch: America’s Greatest Ghost Story

In the early 1800s, a Tennessee farm-dwelling family began hearing suspicious noises around their home, seeing strange apparitions along their property and believing a wicked force had befallen them. The Bell Witch would go on to become a legendary haunting, complete with ghostly dialogue, violent scares in the night and even a cowardly visit from Andrew Jackson himself. And when the spirit finally left… it wasn’t for good.

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• https://sharetngov.tnsosfiles.com/tsla/exhibits/myth/bellwitch.htm

• https://web.archive.org/web/20030307101405/http://bellwitch02.tripod.com/chapter_2.htm

• ​​American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales: An Encyclopedia of American Folklore. 2016.

• ​​http://www.bellwitch.org/story.htm

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• https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4118

• https://patfitzhugh.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/a-new-development-in-the-bell-witch-case/

TRANSCRIPT:

The Bell Witch .pdf

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