The Thing That Can't Be Explained

one of our world's most unnerving places is called Tennessee it's a land of vast mountains and dense woods inhabited by species of freakish monster known as people from Tennessee but these people are not remotely nightmarish creatures from the state just outside a small rural town is a creature unlike any other no one knows for certain what that creature actually is some say a Demon obviously of which or ghost or even a goblin the only certainty is that this creature is deadly to all who encounter it for 200 years it has caused hammer in a way al-qaeda could only dream of and this is the story of that creature and of those it has tormented in the early 19th century America was expanding West with massive new territory one needed to be settled the government was encouraging people from the east coast to move land was cheap and many Americans headed west to take advantage of this among them was John Bell Bell was a successful farmer from North Carolina with a keen sense for business in 1804 he moved his family to an area of Tennessee known as four barren Plains the journey alone was brutal taking them through snow-covered mountains during the winter but on arriving they didn't regret coming before long the Bell family gained a reputation as some of the community's most successful farmers by 1817 they owned a large house and huge amounts of farm land surrounding it all seems well but it was after this everything would change one night John Bell was out inspecting his lands when he noticed a strange creature prowling his fields assuming it was a wolf he approached with a rifle but on getting a clearer view he realized it was no wolf the creature had the body of a large dark hound but he head of a rabbit driven purely by instinct he shot of a beast by mist and it disappeared into the night with nothing much to be done about it he decided to call it a night and went in side unfortunately for him the night was just beginning hours later a loud thumping noise started coming from outside it sounded as if someone outside was hitting the wall of our house with a stick they looked outside they saw no one almost immediately even noise started again when they went back inside the next night he thumping was hard again and again no cause was found it would be heard on different walls as if someone outside was trying to scare them as four days went by those noises increased in volume and intensity over time it started to sound as if it was coming from inside the house at this point it was not just thumping but also strange scratching the children complained about hearing the scratching below their beds as they lay awake at night after weeks of torment they began to hear a voice at night at first it was too quiet to understand like someone mumbling in the distance but over time it became more clear resemblance a would hear it sing hints besides bible passages and after a long while hold conversations its hold them it was the voice of Kate batts an old neighbor of the bells who died mysteriously they didn't know what to do her home appeared to be haunted by a ghost one whose presence was only becoming more vivid but if they told anyone about it they might sound crazy guarding their reputation was extremely important to them but a situation soon turns dangerous John Belle's daughter Elizabeth was now being attacked by the ghosts having her hair pulled and skin bruised in desperation John told his friend all about it to investigator v-front stayed for night over Belle home by morning he was convinced it was haunted what got out and people came from all over hoping to encounter the ghost for themselves Andrew Jackson a baton he was a military leader and acquaintance of John Bell whose sons had previously served in Jackson's army on arriving at the farm the wheels of his wagon suddenly locked unable to move Jackson and his men couldn't move a wagon how hard they tried jokingly Jackson said by the eternal boys it must be the ghost suddenly they heard a loud laugh and a mysterious voice encouraging them to carry on their journey the wagon now moved and it wasn't long before they arrived of Abell home inside Jackson and his men drank and spoke with John Bell for hours one of em joked that he was a ghost hunter who would drive any spirits away from the home the others fought this was funny but it didn't go down well with the ghost itself suddenly it appeared and struck the Joker in the face before disappearing Andrew Jackson was an almost fearless man and went on to become one of America's toughest presidents but it said that night even he grew scared of a bell House ghost as rumors spread she came to be known as four Bell which the Bell which never stopped causing harm to Elizabeth Bell for whatever reason it hated the girl when she grew old enough to marry and became engaged the Bell Witch became even more aggressive taunting and attacking her fiance when he was at four house it could only go on like this for so long and the engagement fell apart with the suitor driven away and Elizabeth heartbroken for which turned its attention to be person it hated most of all John Bell by now he was 70 years old amber years had not been kind to him he suffered episodes of illness as his health deteriorated but even during these bursts of sickness for Belle which didn't leave him be slapping and scratching and tormenting the old man it continued until one December morning when John Bell was found dead it was assumed he died a natural death 70 was a grand old age in those days but when a small vial was found containing a mysterious black liquid this was doubted no one in the house recognized of a liquid when a drop was given to their pet cat it died immediately and they heard distant laughter from that moment it was clear John Bell had been poisoned by the witch in me grip of rage John Jr FRU v vial into the fireplace and the cloud of black smoke filled their home of a smoke didn't clear for hours by the time it did it was for start of John bells funeral people came from all over Tennessee to attend the funeral and the Red River community silver largest gathering it had ever witnessed the crowd was silent everyone had too much respect for John Bell to make a sound but when his coffin was lowered into the ground laughter was heard echoing from the distance for surviving Bell family members it was an unmistakable sign of a witch in coming weeks encounters with a bell which gradually decreased until she disappeared but not before warning that she would one day return seven years later a captive his promise appearing before John Bell jr. she mocked and taunted him over the death of his father for two long weeks only after that period did which disappear again and again she gave a prediction this time she told of a great war that would divide America a war that would cause unseen destruction and risk tearing the union of heart he didn't know whether to believe his claim until the outbreak of the Civil War 33 years later neither he nor his children would ever sieve a bell which again and the story was forgotten by most in 1880 a newspaper article was published on alleged haunting it told of a house somewhere in Tennessee where strange knocking sounds would usher in the appearance of a terrible ghost a house four people came from all across North America to investigate its publication caused a sort of Bell Witch Renaissance and ever since V legend has been told over campfires in the state generations of folklorists have debated the exact nature and origin of four Bell which but little agreement has been reached some believe it is a protective spirit summons long ago to guard a native burial grounds somewhere on the Bell farm a more widely believed version describes her Bell Witch as a powerful shapeshifter with almost limitless supernatural abilities it lives in a small cave of a boundary of what was once for Bell farm when a young Elizabeth Bell wandered into that cave she inadvertently disturbed of a beast inside that's why I reserved an extra measure of hatred just for her in the years between encounters V Bell which for its hands to this cave and if local law is to be believed it's there waiting for a new victim to latch on to ;) #peace