Hello again, Story Club members. I'm Ivy, your ghostly host with the most and keeper of the

strangest, spurious tales on earth. Today is another Ivy's chilling tale. This bewitching tale

story club members might make you sleep with the lights on. It's one I call the Bell Witch.

In the early 1800s, an ordinary man named John Bell moved his family from North Carolina

to a farm in the Red River Bottomland in Robertson County, Tennessee. The family settled in a

community that later became known as Adams, where Mr. Bell purchased

some land and a large log home.

The Bells quickly made friends and gained prominence in the community.

One day in 1817, while walking through one of his cornfields, John Bell came across a strange-looking

animal.

The bizarre creature had the body of a dog and the head of a rabbit.

Frightened by its unnatural appearance, Bell aimed his rifle and fired at it, he missed, and the animal vanished.

The shots that John Bell fired would mark the beginning of one of the greatest torments by a supernatural entity ever recorded.

The story of the Bell witch has inspired

countless books and movies. After Mr. Bell's encounter in the cornfield, he tried to forget

about the strange animal. But that same evening, the Bell family heard a strange beating

sound on the outside walls of their house.

This mysterious sound continued, becoming more forceful each night.

Mr. Bell and his sons would run outside to catch the culprit, but they never found anyone or anything.

More problems soon followed.

One night, the Bell children woke up frightened, complaining of something

that sounded like rats gnawing at their bedposts. Then, the children said that their bed

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