[.ca] Infamous Bell Witch of Tennessee (ISBN 1570720088)

Super!:
Anyone who has an interest in Tennessee's most famous ghost should check out this book. It takes a long and complicated story and breaks the facts down in a clear and easy to read way. I have read several of Mr. Price's books and this is by far the best. We even get an update of "Kate's" activities into the 1990's. Is the Bell Witch still in Adams, Tennessee? I don't know but reading this book has made me want to go over to Robertson County and find out. On the other hand, if she was too tough for Andy Jackson I might just stay here.

Short On Sources And Facts:
This is sort of a touristy little version of a fascinating historical case. It might make a nice souvenir from a local gift shop, but it won't satisfy any serious reader or tackle any of the important questions the story raises. Were any contemporary accounts of the haunting published at or near the time? (Apparently not, unfortunately). Did Andrew Jackson really visit the Bells? What record exists that he did? (In fact, the evidence to substantiate this seems to be lacking). You can find a great deal more hard information on this extraordinary episode on any of several websites. The attempt to link the ultra-colorful and complex personality of the spirit known as Kate to some lights flickering in a cave near the site today is especially dubious.

Not your typical haunting:
Within the first chapters of this book, I realized that this wasn't your typical haunting or ghost story. Not only was the story very unbelievable but several times I had to ask myself why I was continuing to read. At first, the book looked promising until I got to the part where the Bell Witch started having full conversations with her housemates. I have never heard of a ghost, witch, or any other paranormal being having full conversations with people. Even if this story were true, I will never understand why the Bell family never moved out of their home. The fact that Lucy Bell would ask the the witch to sing to her while knowing that this was the ghost that was physically abusing her daughter and husband is beyond me. Lucy Bell pretty much outraged me because it seemed like she had a friendship with the witch...the same witch who would repeatedly slap her daughter and lefte marks on her body. It's a short read but leaves lots of gaps in the story and I wonder how the author got a hold of the exact conversations the witch had with the Bell family. He presented the conversations as if they were word for word. Much of the book was dedicated to how the witch haunted the Bell family. There also wasn't enough evidence that the witch is still haunting. So if you want to read a book that is different from your normal haunting, then maybe this is the book for you. But if you are just looking for a scarey and haunting book, then you might want to look over this one.

Fascinating and Frightening Book!:
The Infamous Bell Witch of Tennessee is a good, thorough account of the Bell Witch. I liked the fact that the author threw in some relevant history so I could get a better idea of the time frame of the Bell Witch visitations. I highly recommend this book to students of the paranormal.

A great retelling of this fasinating and mysterious story!:
I found this book to be a very interesting page turner. Mr. Price is a great writer who knows how to keep your attention. I have enjoyed every book of his that I read and this one is no diffrent.I live less than 2 hours from the small community of Adams and have been to the locations that Mr. Price writes about. What I really enjoyed was that he not only told the story, but also told modern day stories about things that still go on in Adams, especially around the cave and Red River(both of which are on or near the old Bell farm).The one thing that seperates the Bell Witch from other supernatural stories is that hundreds of people at one time or another witnessed it, even Andrew Jackson himself, and this book tells about these events, too. So if you want a story to read for folklore, history , or a dark night ,get this book. You won't be disapponted.