The Bell Witch

 This is a funny one.

It is described as a poltergeist case, but seems to have a malevolence 

not so much in keeping with the type.

It also lasted for a long time and recurred ten years later.

It's also not unusual for cases from America

 to be associated with native American burial grounds. 

If you watch A Haunting, you'll notice this occasionally.

The cases in America have a dual repertoire,

 the one brought by the beliefs of the settlers themselves, 

and those already innate in the culture, of the native people and their land.

Was John Bell really killed by the poltergeist, 

or was this, as in a Carnacki story,

A case of the psychic being used as a ploy 

by a real criminal to mask their activity?

To be continued.......

 

The Bell Witch Cave