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It's Josh and Chuck here in our scary October rolls on.

It's rolling along with the short stuff on the bellwitch.

That's right, rolling along the Red River of Tennessee, because that's where the bellwitch that's right rolling along the red river of tennessee because that's

where the Bellwitch is now Adams Tennessee but that's where the Bellwitch story finds its roots about an

hour north of Nashville uh and it was a family the bells that moved from north carolina in

1806 to Tennessee and did pretty well they were land landowners. They were very respected. They had a

pretty good life. And about nineish years after they moved there, they started to get haunted by a

angry ghost witch. Yeah. And before we get too much deeper into, I want to shout out a historian

named Pat Fitzhue, who runs bellwitch.org

and wrote the book, The Bell Witch, colon, the full account.

Legends of America, Victoria Klein, Peter at the Tennessee State Museum.

Okay?

Got it.

Rocky Top, baby.

So the haunting of the Bell family began in 1817 when John Bell, the patriarch of the family, sometimes called Old Jack Bell, because remember this is 1817 in Tennessee.

Yeah.

He was in his fields.

He was a huge planter in the area.

And he was in one of his fields at one point. And he noticed a big animal sitting in his

field. So he looked at it a little closer and he found that it was quite disturbing. This large

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