America's Bell Witch Legend: The REAL Story

Podcast: Unexplained History · Tom McKenzie

Opublikowano: 2026-09-03

John Bell died on a Tennessee farm in eighteen twenty after months of illness. According to America's most famous haunting story, his family found a mysterious vial beside his medicine, tested its contents on a cat, and heard an invisible voice confess to poisoning him. But the detailed accusation did not appear in a surviving full account until decades after Bell was buried. Earlier records describe a talking voice, crowds of visitors, and suspicions of ventriloquism, yet tell a very different story about what the spirit wanted. This episode separates a real death from the murder...