TAPE 001: The Bell Witch | America’s Most Infamous Haunting

The Bell Witch haunting is one of America’s most infamous paranormal stories. In the early 1800s, the Bell family of Adams, Tennessee claimed they were being tormented by something they couldn’t explain. Strange noises echoed through their home. An unseen presence spoke from the darkness. Family members were scratched, slapped, and attacked. And at the center of it all was John Bell, whose mysterious death would become forever tied to the entity known as the Bell Witch. But what actually happened on the Bell farm? In this episode of Tales From the Keeper, we descend into the legend of the Bell Witch, from the earliest encounters and the terrifying entity known as “Kate” to the death of John Bell and the stories that have kept the haunting alive for more than 200 years. Was the Bell Witch a ghost? A curse? A carefully constructed hoax? Or was something truly waiting in the darkness of rural Tennessee? Turn out the lights. Put on your headphones. This is the Bell Witch haunting. Tales From the Keeper explores true ghost stories, famous hauntings, paranormal encounters, urban legends, horror history, and the unexplained.