The bell wich of Tennessee?

Question

Does anyone know about the bell witch?

Answer 1

The bell witch is not a witch  but a ghost that haunted a homestead in Robertson County Tennessee.  She is responsible for the death of several of the residents of the homestead.  President Andrew Jackson was supposedly present at one time she manifested herself.  For complete information about who she was the legend concerning her check out the website www.bellwitch.org

Answer 2

This is genealogy.  We research dead people.. Maybe this question would get a better response in the supernatural section.

Answer 3

Kate Bates, was supposedly, the witch that haunted Red River, Tennessee.  Supposedly, she still haunts the area, around the river.  

According to the legend, the first manifestation of the haunting occurred in 1817 when John Bell, Sr. encountered a strange animal in a cornfield on his large farm in Robertson County, on the Red River, near Adams, Tennessee. The animal, described as having had the body of a dog and the head of a rabbit, vanished when Bell shot at it. This incident was quickly followed by a series of strange beating and gnawing noises manifesting around the outside, and eventually inside, the Bell residence. Betsy Bell, the family's younger daughter and the only daughter still living at home (Bell's oldest daughter Esther married Alexander Bennett Porter July 24, 1817 when she was 17), claimed to be assaulted by an invisible force.

An artist's drawing of John Bell's death, originally published in 1894. In the foreground one can see a couple of men feeding the family cat with some of the unidentified liquid which was found near the body of John Bell. The cat died.

John Bell Sr., later in life, suffered frequent facial seizures, often rendering him speechless. While the Bell family blamed John's affliction on the witch, modern analysis of his symptoms indicates that he may have have possibly suffered from Bell's Palsy,[1][2] a paralysis of the facial muscles. (The name "Bell's Palsy" comes from Charles Bell, the anatomist that discovered the condition. Charles Bell is no relation to the Bells of Adams, Tennessee. The name is a coincidence, and Bell's Palsy was not identified until 1821, the year after John Bell's death.)

John Bell, Sr. died on December 20, 1820. A small vial containing an unidentified liquid he had apparently been given or ingested thinking it was medicine was found near the body. When some of the contents were force-fed to the family cat, the animal died immediately; the bottle was then thrown into the fireplace.Story goes, that in Red River, Tennessee, in 1850, a woman lived, named Bell.