Inside the Bell Witch Cave, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
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🗓️ 4 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
For more than two hundred years, the Bell Witch legend has occupied a singular place in American folklore—an account so disturbing that it continues to unsettle even seasoned paranormal researchers. At the heart of the story lies Bell Witch Cave, a site many believe remains one of the most actively haunted locations in the country.
In this classic episode of The Grave Talks, we begin part one of an in-depth conversation with Candy Wooten, Director of Operations at the Bell Witch Cave. Together, we explore the long history of the property, the origins of the Bell Witch legend, and why the stories surrounding the site have endured for generations.
From unexplained sounds echoing through the cave to reports of apparitions and unsettling encounters, Candy shares what visitors, investigators, and staff have experienced firsthand. We also discuss how the line between folklore and lived experience continues to blur—and why the Bell Witch remains a uniquely American haunting. This is Part Two of our conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Grave Talks, the Bell Witch Cave, we continue our conversation with Candy Wooten. |
| 0:07.8 | And Candy, there is so much interesting and lengthy history that goes with the Bell Witch Cave and the property, and we discussed that yesterday. |
| 0:17.8 | And John Bell originally owned the property. |
| 0:24.6 | And he has a very interesting, |
| 0:27.2 | mysterious, supernatural death? |
| 0:30.5 | Yes. |
| 0:37.3 | This is the only known case of the supernatural to have ever killed the person. |
| 0:47.7 | When the hauntings were happening and this thing began to talk, a lot of people asked who it was and why it was here. |
| 0:54.4 | It always gave two reasons for being here. One was to kill John Bell. |
| 0:59.6 | The other was to stop his youngest daughter, Betsy, or Elizabeth, |
| 1:03.1 | from getting married to a neighbor boy named Joshua Gardner. |
| 1:07.9 | Joshua and Betsy had been engaged, |
| 1:14.1 | and the spirit terrorized them so much that she finally broke off the engagement. |
| 1:22.2 | But in 1820, John Bell became sick and he was in kind of like a comatose state. |
| 1:23.6 | They called it a stupor. |
| 1:27.3 | And they went to go get his medicine. instead of his medicine there was a small vial |
| 1:31.9 | of dark liquid and the spirit said that that was her medicine for old jack which was what she |
| 1:39.1 | called him and she said i gave him a big dose of it last night, which fixed him. |
| 1:46.9 | They tested it on a cat. |
| 1:49.0 | The cat died within a few minutes. And then the next day, December 20th, 1820, John Bell died. |
| 1:55.8 | So when you talk about the spirit and she talked, it almost sounds like a person the way she communicated. |
| 2:07.4 | She almost was, even though I don't think she was ever connected with a person. |
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