Skeptoid #118: Demystifying the Bell Witch
Skeptoid
Brian Dunning
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2008
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
An exploration of the best way to evaluate an old, unsubstantiated folk legend like The Bell Witch.
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| 0:00.0 | There's a famous story from the 19th century from a remote part of Tennessee. |
| 0:08.4 | Famous for the fact that it's believed to be the only case where a simple haunting |
| 0:13.5 | caused the death of an actual person. |
| 0:16.2 | The Bell Witch has a number of such stories around it, and today we're going to follow |
| 0:20.7 | the threads back into history and see whether those stories are true or have other more |
| 0:27.0 | interesting sources. |
| 0:29.3 | The Bell Witch is coming up right now on Skeptoid. |
| 0:33.0 | Hey everyone, Brian here. |
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| 1:00.7 | Please visit survey.prx.org slash Skeptoid to take the survey today. |
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| 1:15.7 | Thanks. |
| 1:21.5 | You're listening to Skeptoid. |
| 1:22.9 | I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com. |
| 1:26.3 | Be mystifying the Bell Witch. |
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