Re:The Elusive, Maddening Mystery of the Bell Witch
by pavel_lishin on Thursday August 03, 2023 @04:11PM
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> Who was the Bell Witch?
> Eventually, in the Post story it is revealed that Betsey had been using ventriloquism to simulate a haunting, and the ghost, so exposed, “vanished into thin air.”
Almost everything else sounds like a fiction made up by Ingram, who wrote the "definitive" book 70+ years after the events took place, loosely based on the facts he was able to gather.
The article is still interesting, especially the part about the societal issues at the time that influenced Ingram, but the mystery of the Bell Witch seems to be a teenager who wanted to marry a boy, and didn't much like her dad.
> Eventually, in the Post story it is revealed that Betsey had been using ventriloquism to simulate a haunting, and the ghost, so exposed, “vanished into thin air.”
Almost everything else sounds like a fiction made up by Ingram, who wrote the "definitive" book 70+ years after the events took place, loosely based on the facts he was able to gather.
The article is still interesting, especially the part about the societal issues at the time that influenced Ingram, but the mystery of the Bell Witch seems to be a teenager who wanted to marry a boy, and didn't much like her dad.