Family curse: a scary story about the witch of the Bell family

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Family curse: a scary story about the witch of the Bell family

In 1804, farmer John Bell and his wife settled on 300 acres of land in Northern Tennessee, a state in the eastern United States. For thirteen years they managed to make two children and arrange their life. No one expected that in 1817 their lives would change drastically.

It all started as a horror movie, with the only difference that Bell did not watch the horror. The doors slammed, although there was no draft taken from nowhere, an invisible chain sailed ...
Soon the unknown creature appeared in person. Seeing him, John could not move from the horror, because his eyes looked like a cross between a dog and a rabbit. John Drew’s son claimed to have watched a huge bird sitting on the fence, and Betsy’s daughter said she saw a girl in a green dress swinging on an oak branch.


But these events were only the beginning of a dark history and not its end. Something began to wade into the house, tormenting and torturing John and his wife Lucy in a dream. They woke up from scratching something and later found bruises and scratches on their bodies as confirmation that they didn’t dream of all this. To make sure that they did not go crazy and do not lie, Bell was invited to spend the night in his house neighbors Johnston.
James Johnston not only heard strange sounds, he even distinguished the words: "They listen to hymns." Someone said this in a high clear voice and introduced himself - indiscernible, but the neighbors claimed that they had clearly distinguished the word "witch."


Most of the spirit battered the youngest daughter of Betsy. The witch pulled her hair, pulling it from the roots, pinched, pricked and beat so that the bruises did not leave the body of Betsy. She was only 11, and neither then nor later could she explain why she had become the victim of a witch. The ghost interfered in his life until she grew up. Betsy died in 1888 at the age of 82, and she never discussed the family curse outside the family circle and never slept alone.

The most amazing thing is that the witch loved John Lucy’s wife very much, even called her the best woman on Earth, treated her to fresh fruit and sang to her. Lucy and John's son, John Bell, Jr., was also sweet to the evil spirit.

But who is this wicked Tennessee witch and why was her family so angry with Bell? The most popular assumption is that after the death, the former owner of the land, Kate Butts, became a witch, who was sure that John had cheated by buying land from her. The spirit responded to the name Kate.

John Bell died in 1820. He was found dead in a bed, and a vial with an unknown liquid was lying nearby. A few drops were given to lick the cat, and she immediately died. Witch Bell did not stand aside here, she completely took the blame for the death of John, and at the funeral, she even sang some cheerful songs in a drunken voice. A year later, Betsy tried to marry a guy named Joshua Gardner, but the witch was against this union - she tormented the girl with a vengeance and showered with threats, claiming that Betsy would not be happy with Joshua. The guy got scared and broke off the engagement.

Gradually, the paranormal disappeared, before the final disappearance of the witch promised to return in 1935, after 107 years. They say that after the death of John she found shelter in a cave near the farm.

In 1937, Louis Harrison, the new owner of the farm in whose territory Bell Cave was located, complained that he constantly hears strange sounds coming from there. The descendants of the Bell family claimed that they constantly heard the same sound, something rustling on the floor and window frames, sometimes the sound of the piano came from somewhere. Many years have passed, but in the tiny town of Adams, they still believe that an evil spirit lives in these places.

Who knows whose family the witch will choose after the victim?