The Bell Witch: The Full Account

Never has the world witnessed an entity so intelligent yet evil as what terrorized John Bell's family and community in rural Tennessee between 1817 and 1821. Bell is the only man in history whose death was directly attributed to the work of a supernatural entity. Known as “Kate,” the entity first arrived in the form of rats gnawing at bedposts, and later began pulling the Bell children's bedcovers and relentlessly slapping them. Over time, the entity learned to communicate and began speaking in different voices and using reverse-speech. "Kate" often debated religion with people and possessed the ability to tell them of their pasts in astonishing detail. Over the course of four years, John Bell died a painful death that the entity took full responsibility for. There was no escape. From the image of a lifeless body hanging from a tree, to the apparition of a pale-faced woman and three children in a field, “Kate” was all-knowing, all-powerful, and the personification of evil. The people, places and dates were real. Unexplainable events still occur on the old Bell farm today, leading many to believe that the sinister entity known as "Kate," never left the place. For nearly two centuries, this authentic haunting has been considered by scholars and researchers as one of the greatest supernatural phenomena known to humankind.