What do you think about this?
In 1817, on the Bell family farm in Adams, Tennessee, something started knocking on the walls at night.
By the spring of 1818 it had a voice. Sometimes it sounded like an old woman. Sometimes a child. Sometimes a grown man preaching scripture. It would carry on conversations with multiple people in the room at the same time, in different voices. It knew things the family had never spoken aloud.
Neighbors heard it. Visitors heard it. The local pastor heard it and wrote about it.
What it wanted, according to everyone who lived through it, was John Bell dead. It said so out loud. It threw furniture. It pulled the bedclothes off the children. It slapped the youngest girl in front of witnesses. And on December 20, 1820, John Bell died from a vial of dark liquid no one in the household could identify.
Andrew Jackson, then a U.S. general and future president, heard about the case from a Bell family acquaintance. He rode out with a small group of men to spend a night in the house. According to multiple accounts, Jackson left before sunrise the next morning and said he would rather fight the entire British army again than spend another night under that roof.
The Bell Witch case is the only haunting in American history that an official death investigation attributed to a paranormal cause.
Makes you wonder what was actually living in that farmhouse, and whether anything ever really left.
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