328: The Bell Witch

GraveYard Tales

Adam Zero

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, History, Philosophy

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

This week, we FINALLY cover The Bell Witch of Adams Tennessee! People have been asking for years and we finally got the episode in our catalogue! What are your thoughts on the Bell Witch?

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Sources

“An Authenticated History of the Bell Witch” by M.V. Ingram (1894)

https://www.bellwitchcave.com/bell-witch-legend/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghosts/comments/18fy1f2/a_closer_look_at_the_bell_witch_of_adams/

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http://www.bellwitch.org/adams.htm

https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/robertson-county/

https://www.tngenweb.org/goodspeed/robertson/history.html

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/robertson/2021/10/28/history-tennessee-bell-witch-could-science-explain-paranormal/8568160002/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=false&gca-epti=z115647u003447e002500v115647&gca-ft=194&gca-ds=sophi&sltsgmt=0154_A

https://customshousemuseum.org/news/the-bell-witch-the-scariest-ghost-story-in-tennessee/

https://www.apsu.edu/news/october-2021-bell-witch-1029.php

https://drivingbackroads.com/2019/12/28/adams-tennessee-and-the-bell-witch/

https://genteelandbard.com/southern-history-haunts-folklore-journal/2022/7/28/the-strange-legend-of-the-bell-witch

http://www.bellwitch.org/bell_witch_pictures.htm

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ghosts/comments/1ke88nb/the_legend_of_the_bell_witch_true_accounts_of_the/

https://patfitzhugh.wordpress.com/2018/11/16/the-bell-log-cabin-in-adams-tennessee/

https://www.agdaily.com/features/haunted-farms-spirits-of-the-bell-witch-cave-farm/

https://nanahood.com/the-history-of-the-bell-family-dinner-bell

https://www.fabledcollective.com/the-bell-witch-the-southern-haunting-that-terrified-a-president/#google_vignette

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https://allthatsinteresting.com/bell-witch#:~:text=She%20even%20reportedly%20made%20predictions,have%20emerged%20over%20the%20centuries.

https://genteelandbard.com/southern-history-haunts-folklore-journal/2022/7/28/the-strange-legend-of-the-bell-witch#:~:text=The%20supernatural%20activity%20all%20but,Witch%20for%20all%20to%20ponder.

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http://www.bellwitch.org/bell_witch_essay_ncversion.htm#:~:text=The%20first%20story%20involves%20John,smokehouse%20and%20let%20her%20die.

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

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Witch_Cave

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0:00.0	All right. So, Matt, I was talking with Ashley the other day, and I was like, you know, I can build pretty much anything, right? And she goes, yeah, almost anything, but I bet you you cannot build a car out of spaghetti.
0:16.3	So I took that challenge, and you should have seen her face when I drove pasta.
0:43.9	Yeah. So I took that challenge, and you should have seen her face when I drove pasta. Meatball wheels. It's good. Good evening, everybody, and welcome to the graveyard.
0:46.0	Thank you for joining us tonight.
0:47.5	My name is Adam.
0:48.9	And my name's Matt.
1:00.0	Now, pull up a tombstone, or settle into your casket and get comfortable because this is Graveyard Tales.
1:04.6	All right, everybody.
1:06.2	Here we are again.
1:07.8	Matt, how you doing tonight, brother?
1:09.4	I'm doing good, man.
1:09.7	Good.
1:13.5	I've been looking forward to this for eight years.
1:14.4	Yeah, exactly.
1:15.3	Exactly.
1:19.9	So before we get into that, a couple housekeeping things.
1:24.1	One, next week is our Halloween live stream.
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