GHOSTS OF TENNESSEE - Full-Length, Award-Winning Ghost Documentary | Tennessee Ghosts

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Tennessee the home of Elvis Presley's Graceland the Great Smoky Mountains Davy Crockett the Chattanooga choo-choo Dollywood Beale Street the National Civil Rights Museum and of course the Country Music Hall of Fame not to mention the roaming grounds for many restless spirits hi I'm Deborah Shaw and I'm Sabrina Segal and we'll be your guides through this exploration of the unknown Tennessee is unique it shares a border with eight other states and over half of it is still rustic and forested with its feet planted firmly in the traditions of the Bible Belt and having those traditions offset by a rich history of violence and social turbulence due to the Civil War it should come as no surprise that Tennessee has its share of ghost stories and haunted happenings so many stories in fact the most Tennesseans just consider these paranormal events part of their everyday life as children there are plenty of creepy stories to be shared most of them are urban legends designed to give goosebumps like the lady who comes and kills you in the middle of the night if you've said her name three times or the troll that lives under the bridge or the escapes lunatic with a hook for a hand that kills teenagers who have ventured out in the night however now and then you might be introduced to a tale that would be a little too believable or hit a little too close to home and these were always the most interesting and the most frightening if these spooky tales we'll be concentrating on as we explain to you how they tie into Tennessee's rich history with hundreds of Tennessee stories to choose from we've assembled the most interesting some of the most famous hauntings and some of the most not so famous as we introduce you to Tennessee ghosts [Music] the former home of tennessee icon and seventh american President Andrew Jackson is located just outside of Nashville on an estate of eleven hundred and twenty acres which includes the 1,050 acres that Jackson owned when he died in 1845 simply known as The Hermitage the plantation was a refuge for the general the building's architecture is a blend of federal Palladian and Greek Revival styles and today it's been almost completely restored to the condition it was in in Jackson's time including most of the furnishings which recovered from family and collectors in fact Jackson loves his plantation so much he had himself and it wife Rachel entombed in the Hermitage mansion garden they are both entombed out there and interesting thing about that is Rachel's of course was buried there while he lived 16 years longer than she did and we always just assumed when he was buried that he buried right beside her in normal grave you know but what is unusual about it is oh in the 80s sometime 1980 someone tried to steal that his coffin and they'd moved the top and all and tried to get in there well they didn't make it it's too heavy and they couldn't get away with it no but to make sure nothing had been disturbed of course they went and took the top off to look and thought they'd have to dig up to make sure no soil had been destroyed and found that there was no soil on top you take that cement part off and there's the coffin right there he never and in his notes he had always said don't cover me with the ground Andrew Jackson was a polarizing figure who dominated American politics from the 1820s to the 1830s nicknamed Old Hickory because he was renowned for his toughness Jackson was the first president primarily associated with the frontier as he based his career in Tennessee born in the backwoods of South Carolina Jackson moved to Tennessee in 1787 though he could barely read law he found he knew enough to become a young lawyer on the frontier since he was not from a distinguished family he had to make his career by his own merits and soon he began to prosper in the tough world of frontier law fiercely jealous of his honor he frequently engaged in brawls and in a duel killed a man who cast an unjustifiable slur on his wife Rachel later he was elected as Tennessee's first congressman upon at statehood in the late 1790s and he quickly became a US Senator in 1797 Jackson soon after joined the military and became a colonel in the Tennessee militia his service in the war of 1812 against the United Kingdom was noticeable for its bravery and success the Tennessee legislature nominated Jackson for president in 1822 but even though he was considered a man of the people he lost he was again nominated for the presidency in 1828 and handily defeated the re-election of John Quincy Adams becoming the last US president to have been a veteran of the American Revolution and the only president to have been a prisoner of war the president's Hermitage plantation was a self-sufficient profitable gentleman's farm run on slave labor it has two generations of the Jackson family when not attending to his military and political career Andrew Jackson enjoyed spending his time at the hermitage growing his own food and taking pleasure in the country style of living Andrew and Rachel were unable to have children but that didn't stop them from having a family they adopted the orphan nephew of Rachel's calling him Andrew Jackson Jr who became Jackson's heir to his property Jackson jr. was not much of a farmer so upon his inheritance of the estate he didn't try to improve the plantations output said he invested money in an ironworks operation and a lead mine these were incredibly bad investments at the time and it forced Jackson jr. to begin selling off outlying parcels of Hermitage land in 1856 his death became so high that he had to sell the mansion outbuildings and remaining farmland to the state of Tennessee who planned to utilize it for public use the Jackson family's poor fortune eventually landed them in the position of merely being tenants in the mansion that used to be their home Civil War came to America causing the state of Tennessee to temporarily abandon its plans for the property due to an indecisive government the Hermitage mansion suffered a slow deterioration and fell into a state of disrepair finally the people of Tennessee petitioned for the preservation and restoration of this classic home the lady's Hermitage Association was formed and they took over the care of what was left of the buildings and the land it was during this restoration process when the first signs of paranormal activity were noticed and recorded while the house was undergoing renovations members of the Association became concerned about vandals and thieves gaining access to the property so two members agreed to camp out inside the house until a caretaker could be hired later in the middle of the night the ladies were awakened by a rude clattering noise it sounded as if someone was in the kitchen throwing pots and pans around those noises were followed by a racket resembling cabinets opening and closing dishes breaking shattering against the walls the floor jolting wide awake the ladies quickly lit their kerosene lantern and the sounds abruptly stopped the next morning the women searched the house looking for an explanation or a source of the bizarre noises but nothing was they checked rooms doors closets windows still nothing was out of place the next night they were awakened again by the same sounds from the kitchen this time though the destruction went further the sounds of chains were being dragged across the porch clattering and claimed followed by the sounds of a horse charging up and down the main staircase mounted upon the thundering horse was the apparition of a military officer strangely resembling President Andrew Jackson none of us interpreters have seen them yet thank goodness but we do often have smells that we get down in by his library and the generals bedroom a smell of coffee brewing or tobacco smoke and you know we drink coffee in there and he smoked tobacco but we try to recreate that when we have the hauntings at the Hermitage during Halloween we've been unable to really get it to stay around or be that obvious but yet at the most unexpected times there's that smell many of the odd events at the Hermitage have been attributed to the ghosts of Jackson's servants and slaves while Andrew Jackson met the needs of his slaves as evidenced by their adequate food and housing which was much more generous than other plantations and the ability of a slave women being healthy enough to bear children slavery was still a brutal system The Jacksons never forgot that their slaves were property when the general felt that offenses were severe he did permit slaves to be whipped and disciplined in other ways throughout the years apparitions of slaves have been witnessed congregating on the balcony in front of the master bedroom that was used by President Andrew Jackson and other family descendants when we hear the most about has been passed down generation to generation is relating to little Rachel's bedroom upstairs when she was small of course you know she was a founding member of the ladies Hermitage Association in her 90s but when she was little should run downstairs to her parents and tell her that something had grabbed her blankets off of her and her and coverings and put them on the floor they'd go up and they'd be piled there but they just wrote that off as maybe her two brother pulling a prank or she just wanted to go down and get with mom and dad but the interesting thing there is she got older she kept hearing and hearing these tales and she had just laughed them off you know well even in modern days now I've never witnessed it but I have heard even in the last 10 years where the cleaning lady Shirley has been out on vacation gone and Marshall Mullen a curator has been on a business trip to Washington they're the only to have access to the rooms and that they've been gone and yet the interpreters would come in in the morning and the linens be right there on the floor with restoration now fully complete fewer and fewer sightings of the President and his slaves have been reported some believe that Jackson was unhappy about the state that the Hermitage had fallen into and could not bear to see his beloved home in such disrepair once restoration was complete though he was finally able to rest and return to the quiet country living that he enjoyed so much when he was alive [Music] South Pittsburg Tennessee home of the National cornbread festival the sleepy little town lies between the Tennessee River and the great mountain ranges it's just west of Chattanooga population voted for head Alstom home of lodge manufacturing they make those iron skillets that are famous across the entire United States however this quaint little city has a violent past but dates back to the Christmas Day Massacre of 1927 when shotgun blast shattered the Silent Night and left several men lying lifeless or bleeding to death in the streets much mystery still surrounds this event that left virtually all local law enforcement officers dead or disabled as mysterious as the massacre was it doesn't hold a candle to the mysteries hidden in the walls of the South Pittsburgh hospital the 68,000 square foot nonprofit medical facility founded by four doctors opened its doors in 1959 and served the community for almost 40 years before closing its doors in 1998 many feel the various lawsuits arising from malpractice suits and wrongful deaths were the major contributing factor to the hospital's closing while others attributed to the opening of a new 30 million dollar facility in the nearby city of Jasper whatever the case may be former patients at the hospital who have passed on have refused to leave the South Pittsburg structure I see an old lady walking across the hallway the lights are on I'm thinking somebody's playing a joke on me it was no joke I went immediately after her into one of the surgical rooms and there was nobody there I've seen probably 20 to 25 shadows seen full apparitions spoken to more than anything growled at recently the owner dr. Hayes has allowed paranormal investigation teams to come into the locked environment to see if they could capture some of this reported activity which resulted in piles of evidence including full-body apparitions black shadows disembodied voices door slamming of their own will sounds of footsteps medicine carts moving down the hallways flashing lights ringing phones where no phones exist and items sent violently flying through the air of their own accord you could be leaving your room and you hear Norton just a random disembodied voice you we could be cleaning in one area of the hospital we would see black shadows that's pretty common here we have documented 13 to 14 EVP voices which they are what I call repeat offenders they are the ones that come back over and over it Wow we have fun with it hey Wow we have a lot of black shadows here and some of them some of them are smaller some of them are bigger a man waving up me up on the third floor all the way down the very end some of them do not want to talk to you at all some of them just like leave me alone this kind of thing they want you to get out of the room hi Kenton tell his hand is this like kind of like that but there's one in particular that it's kind of recognizable he's thin and he's gangly kind of thing he doesn't have hands he doesn't have legs every time I go there I hear whispering and he pops up and kind of surprises you at the last minute you don't expect it's gonna happen sometimes I'm scared sometimes I'm not the scariest thing I've ever seen would have to be down in what we call the pharmacy hallway and I was just working like I'm always doing and I expect to see anything so it doesn't it doesn't faze me this fazed me usually when I see a shadow person they're gone as soon as they know that I've seen them they're gone this individual came out of a doorway right at the pharmacy and I said okay that's it he's not gonna let me see him anymore so I turned around the hallway to come back and see if he thought I was gone and he was still walking he was walking to me so I kept walking towards him and he was getting closer and closer and closer to me to the point where I felt that he was seeing who was gonna back down first and I ended up winning but he he just poof just like that what you say was your favorite thing experience there well I the combo platter favorite thing is the fact that I experienced I've never experienced being brushed up against by a spirit and or being touched by one when we were recreating a hospital scene that was very intense to have actual physical contact just like a I felt just a quick press that I felt down to my muscle it wasn't just on the surface or cloth it was sort of like a press that I can only compare it to when people put the suction cups on you to monitor your heart I can't prove to anybody but I know and just me knowing you know how truthful that is is enough for me for all we know it could be my muscle randomly contracting could be but sing I've actually had operations I know what that feels like specifically and it's not something that would have tensed up on it so like it's an odd area to tense up for no reason so when it became three people and the activity picked up it was a completely different activity Gemma reowr sounded myself we were sitting kind of by the nurse's station and we looked down the hallway and we're the geriatric ward was I had seen like an apparition and I was kind of in that I want to see something you know or here's something I hadn't experienced anything up until this point and I saw only all I can describe as some thing about this high that went down the hallway but I couldn't get like a depth perception of how far it went and so we investigated a little bit then we went back to the nurse's station and all of a sudden the three of us hear this whoo and we all went did you hear that which sounds silly and possibly silly if you said to somebody you know of all things you know some it's not something really you know you know a mate it's not an amazing sentence that would change somebody's life it's just whoo-whoo you know like people might laugh at that but it was so clear it was like I was hearing somebody speak to me what was weird about the sound was here you're in this empty Hospital a building with like marble floors and and sound echoes and you can kind of triangulate like if I went down the hallway and said hey you know you could triangulate where I was you know you would hear the room you'd hear the reverb this sound hat was flat it was like a dry no reverb sound you heard it down there and I also like heard it right here and it was the weirdest sound I've never experienced anything like that that it was that loud and have so many people witnessed it meaning you know more than yourself and to validate that that that changed my life right there and that led us down the geriatric ward where we went into one of the rooms this is geriatric swing this is where Martha and her friends hang out and I'm told what that is very chatty I we've got about floating lights down here and noises and shadow people what happens down here I'm a little nervous I'm thinking that I see shadow people everywhere and I probably will go running down the hallway as Jim told me not to if I see something but because I heard footsteps earlier and you know don't want to believe but that was pretty pretty scary and Jim had an experience on the doorknob where I thought I saw it Darden so Brian had seen this thing and you know tell us about it and I didn't see it so I said well let's go find out what it is and so we took off down the hall into geriatrics and he got there and said it was you know right around here and it was there were a couple doors there that he had seen this thing go into and weren't sure which one so we just you know we picked the the furthest one in the hallway and I reached down and got the grab the the doorknob and I got slimed like you know I thought it was a joke and Ghostbusters but I got slimed I reached the doorknob where Brian said was about the level that the thing was going and it was this weird I don't know what what it was it was like it was it was slippery but it wasn't slippery and it was oily but it wasn't oily and it was like wet but not wet at the same time it was really weird and it had like it no smell so no clues so we had no idea how it got there nothing there was nothing like that on any other doors anywhere else in the hallway so we went and we asked Cindy and Doug who run the hospital had they been cleaning down there had they done anything in that area on the doors or anything like that and they had not even started in that hallway yet so we can't explain it and then later that night when we were Jim made a good point he said something is hunting us something not very nice decided to throw a piece of wood at my head and probably could have hit me if he wanted to I don't know but yeah greatest my ear hit the wall here thought of the floor it wasn't very nice I'll just say that my stomach's a notch and I'm a little nervous that's about as far as I can go with that right now at this point you can check with me in a little bit okay when we went upstairs by the psychiatric ward and where the nursery was there was an energy that was pressing when we got up there I mean it was hot anyway but it was like a very uncomfortable energy and it was so overpowering and you know being touched and you know tricked and prodded and and played with and Jim said let's bum-rush it so we ran at it and whatever it did it started up because we started hearing knocks and those same thud sounds you didn't hear like thud and hear like a trail or an echo it was again it was a flat sound it was just like this dry sound it was like unlike anything I'd ever heard before it was really interesting and it wasn't because you know there was less of us and we were afraid because at that point we were rather relaxed and enjoying our experiences with the entities and spirits so it wasn't like we were you know so amped up that any little you know krinkle that could be explained away was freaking us out it's that it had to be almost more powerful to get to us at that point and so that tells me the magnitude of what we were dealing with so it's very hard to say what one thing it had the blew me away more but it was little things like you know the box that would ding when an entity would come near you [Music] [Music] whoever it is it's very comfortable hanging out here with us should we ask Miss Amy miss Martha if she can make this ding twice quickly yep yeah the closer it gets to the box of fast your old date is she able to make it go ding ding sure let's see if you get some reaction still Martha that's you and you'd like to communicate with us can you make this box go ding ding quickly come on closer or the when you would switch the box and it wouldn't be able to speak if the entity tried to communicate through it to use words go ahead you can continue to manipulate the Box property what about the property are you happy here yeah we're trying to video if you if you can show us something a flash of light [Music] [Music] it sort of proved itself you know everything that you believed or didn't believe sort of came to a head and everything just proved itself that it was just so very real and just it's rather life-changing to know that you know this stuff is powerful and real and that people don't want to believe it it's okay and it's fine the Old South Pittsburgh hospital is quickly becoming a favorite location for paranormal investigators across the country as it seems to house multiple entities and every type of haunting imaginable do you dare walk these halls the Tennessee State Capitol building is quite a sight to behold located on the highest summit in Nashville it is one of the most highly regarded Greek Revival style buildings in the nation the ghosts of this building are directly linked to the history of the structure so let us start from the beginning in 1806 Nashville was chartered as a city and was selected as the permanent capital of Tennessee on October 7th 1843 early on the legislature met in a small house in town but it quickly became obvious that a permanent structure was needed land was purchased at a place called Cedar nob and an architect named William Strickland was hired in 1845 William Strickland was a well-respected architect from Philadelphia Pennsylvania who had worked on several structures of note including the United States Capitol building as an apprentice to Benjamin Latrobe Strickland moved to Nashville fully expecting his state to be a brief one but construction actually took more than nine years to complete as a matter of fact Strickland died before he could even see it finished it is a shame too because the Tennessee Capitol building is to be the masterpiece of Strickland's entire career costing almost $900,000 it was one of the most magnificent public buildings of its time anywhere in the United States the extended length of construction time was not necessarily caused by Strickland's designed production was often delayed due to a shortage of funds and because of the fact that Strickland had to deal with another man named Samuel Morgan appointed by the Capitol commission Morgan was to oversee Strickland's work and to make sure he came in under budget unfortunately the two men hated each other it could never agree on anything they argued about everything building materials cost of labor color schemes designs any detail that would piss each other off Morgan made Strickland's very existence help on many occasions their bickering got so loud and out of control on the construction site that several laborers reported a complete shutdown of productivity in 1854 Williams Strickland died his work unfortunately was far from complete in his memory the state of Tennessee bestowed upon him a rare honor they voted to construct a vault inside the walls of the North Portico where they would entombed Strickland's body now I mentioned that this was a rare honor but not an exclusive one you see there was one other man who was given the same honor his name was Samuel Morgan in the end these two men who hated to be near each other in life were doomed to spend eternity together in death by sharing the same burial space forever many Nashvillians believe that Strickland and Morgan have never stopped arguing I've been in a lot of big cities and stuff before it and you know it's kind of the same thing you always hear people talking yelling and stuff it's you know you get that when you get a whole bunch of people crammed into one location but every night I would hear these two guys just screaming and yelling at each other and I went okay well he's somebody's drunk you know whatever but the voices were different there are a little otherworldly and and you could hear them I mean they had this sort of tone and echo to it and and sure enough you could look all around the area around the Capitol building and there's just there's nobody to be found reports like this are common the Nashville metro police records are loaded with public disturbance calls that center around the Capitol building at night many investigating officers have noted hearing men involved in a heated argument yelling and cursing one another around the North Foundation of the building but every time the officers were baffled to find no one on the scene there's always police that are called up to this area because they think people are fighting and it's I hear that it's kind of a joke that they like to pull on some of the rookies that they'll get calls that you know there's a disturbance around the Capitol building so I'll send the rookies up on this wild goose chase and I remember a policeman telling me that there was a rookie that came back and he was just completely confused he couldn't figure out you know what was going on there was nobody to be found there and finally that the chief gave in and they said oh no that's just the two guys up there that built the the Capitol building and they've been arguing on that hill for years is it a coincidence that the north entrance is also where Strickland and Morgan are in tune [Music] Nashville Tennessee a small city that feels more like a big town it is situated along the banks of the Cumberland River in the center of the state and is referred to as Music City USA due to its longtime association with the country music industry country or hillbilly music was born in the 1920s soon after radio and records made it possible for local folk musicians to hear what their contemporaries were creating in other parts of the United States the nickname Music City USA makes Nashville sound like such a happy place but as with all things in the entertainment industry the city has a darker side could the ghost of certain entertainers be haunting Nashville venues or are these reports just the ramblings of crazed fans who can't let go of their favorite celebrities memories there have been hundreds of reports concerning paranormal activity linked to the country music industry in Nashville some people even believe that certain venues are cursed such as the Ryman Auditorium the building we know today as the Ryman was originally opened in 1892 as the Union Gospel Tabernacle captain Tom Ryman a steamboat captain and hard-drinking Hellraiser found God after hearing an in Banglore ways and began construction on a building that would be dedicated to religious revivals and activities it was also occasionally used as a public meeting hall and in 1897 hosted a large reunion of Confederate Veterans when Captain Tom died in 1904 the tabernacle was renamed the Ryman Auditorium and soon became an entertainment venue some believe that captain Tom stayed around to watch over his beloved building reportedly he makes the presence known during any performances that don't meet his approval record has it the captain tom was so disturbed by one rather risk a musical event in the early 1900's that he preceded thrash about creating so much noise that the patrons couldn't hear the performance yeah yeah a lot of weird stuff you can really feel some energy going on in there I mean and they that's not just something they say I mean it really is the first time I play the Ryman I was completely freaked out you know a ghost of the quieter nature is a figure simply known as the gray men while numerous employees and artists have reported seeing someone dressing gray sitting in the balcony after hours and during rehearsals this man has never been seen attending an actual performance no one knows who this strange figure may be possibly a past patron or a long-dead Confederate soldier just wanting to visit the Confederate gallery in 1925 a small radio station in Nashville Tennessee began broadcasting a radio program featuring live performances by country musicians the hour-long Saturday night show followed a classical musical program called the Grand Opera so it was quickly nicknamed the Grand Old Opry the show was eventually relayed to radio stations across the country and was heard by millions of country music fans from 1943 to 1974 the Ryman became the home of the Grand Ole Opry featuring some of the best country music artists the industry had to offer it is said than many musical celebrities that have passed away come back to the Ryman for frequent visits when I was younger I used to think we had the Phantom of the Opera because I would get there was always this guys standing backstage at the Opry that I would toss my dad who he was and every time my dad would turn to find out who he was it was gone and so we we smile friend and I start calling him the Phantom of the Opera because we would only seem every now and then and we'd ask somebody who he was and he'd be gone when so we were like and he was scary look and he wasn't cuter I mean he was scary-looking long white hair kind of thin stands over in the corner and people go no I don't know man you talk about Porter Widener and I'd say no not afford our Wagner the most famous ghost to return to the Ryman is the great Hank Williams who died tragically in the backseat of his car 1953 numerous performers and tourists have reported spotting him at various times encounters with Hank Williams include performers who have bumped into him backstage visitors who have seen him hanging out an alley behind the Ryman and an employee who saw a white mist resembling Williams singing onstage after hours sightings of the ghost of Hank Williams have become so common they inspired two major country music hits David Allen coaster ride 1983 and Alan Jackson's midnight in Montgomery 1992 I mean Terry Smith our bass player we used to work with Bobby and Sonny the Auburn brothers and we were doing a filming a taping at the Ryman one day and they had a bunch of different acts on there and anyway Sonny and I were standing around at the end of the tape and there and he was he was talking just kind of joking saying you know you think like Hank Williams and Patsy Cline Alma's flying around here you don't own that and two of the windows at the back of the stage flew up opened up and I mean not they didn't fall down they were already shut and they flew up and he just turned looked at everybody said I'm getting the heck out of here to this day sightings of long past country music artists around the Ryman are these real spectral encounters are just the overactive imaginations of rabid fans unwilling to let go [Music] the Carter house in Franklin Tennessee has plenty of reasons to be haunted the structure was built in 1830 by fountain Branch Carter and became the centerpiece of one of the most brutal battles in Civil War a battle in which nearly the entire army of Tennessee was destroyed a small town of Franklin had been a Union military post since the fall of Nashville in early 1862 late in the summer of 1864 Confederate President Jefferson Davis placed General John Bell hood in charge of the army of Tennessee hood immediately began to formulate a plan to drive the Union army away from Atlanta and robert e lee's forces under hoods command the army of Tennessee moved north through Georgia Alabama and then into Columbia Tennessee flanking the Union forces they forced the Yankees under the command of General Schofield to flee somehow under the cover of night Schofield was able to slip past hood and move further north into Franklin Tennessee as the Yankees arrived in Franklin general Cox commandeered the Carter House the command post the Carter family was pulled out of their beds in the middle of the night only to watch helpless as the Union troops moved in and fortified their position hood was determined to destroy the Union Army before it reached Nashville the army of Tennessee knew the assault on the town of Franklin would be suicidal but they bravely advanced toward the town and the Carter House with their heads held high in the late afternoon of November xxx 1864 hoods men charged the federal troops the Carter family took refuge in the basement 23 men women and children many under the age of 12 were safely protected while the sounds of war erupted above them the fighting was brutal and fiendishly savage men were bayonetted and clubbed to death in the back of the Carter yard soldiers were clawing and punching and stabbing and choking each other to death the smoke from the cannons and guns are so thick that they couldn't tell friends from foe after only a few hours of battle could it already lost 6,200 men by dawn the next day Schofield had lost over 2,300 men the land around the Carter house became a human slaughtering pen it was such a bad situation that the Battle of Franklin has been called the bloodiest hours of the American Civil War and is known as the Gettysburg of the West it was one of the few night battles in the War Between the States and also one of the smallest battlefields only two miles long and one and a half miles wide after it was all over the Carter family left their basement to receive some very bad news a son Todd Carter had been with the Confederate troops in the assault he was lying somewhere in the battlefield with thousands of other soldiers who were wounded dead or dying after intensely searching he finally found Todd the boy had only been 100 yards away from the house when he had been hit the family carried Todd into the house and placed him in a first-floor bedroom he was tended to for two days but unfortunately died from his injuries the Carter house was open to the public for tours in 1953 operating as a historic landmark a museum to the Battle of Franklin despite the heavy traffic visitors and staff have reported many paranormal events poltergeist occurrences happen often in the house and are attributed to Annie Carter one of Todd sisters so Annie apparently stays pretty busy in the house there was a tour guide doing a tour one time and there's a little girl on the tour the started pointing behind the tour guide and they turned around everybody saw that there was a statue hopping up and down on the shelf and other people have seen things appear and disappear and a lot of people visiting the house will feel like something about the height of a child tugging on their clothes some staff members even claim to have seen some apparitions as well the most common is that of a little girl who wanders through an upstairs hallway and travels up and down the staircase others have reported hearing the soothing voice of a woman when no one else is in the house not surprisingly Todd Carter also makes appearances in the house usually tied to the bedroom in which he died a recent visitor was looking into the bedroom when he saw Todd's apparition sitting on the side of the bed he was visible for only a few moments before he disappeared with so much death tied to the Carter house you're sure to experience some sort of paranormal activity while visiting the property the Carter house wasn't the only home to be drastically affected by the battle though another structure stands in Franklin directly across the battlefield from the Carter House as a grim reminder of the Kahn like between the states this structure has been called the most haunted building in Tennessee it is the Carton mansion a plantation home that is now the final resting place of over one thousand four hundred and eighty soldiers before the war the Carton mansion was a peaceful and quiet location it was built in 1826 by the former mayor of Nashville Randall McGavock and was inherited by John and Caroline McGavock in 1844 the mansion is a beautiful two-story building with 22 rooms out front the home has greeted dignitaries such as Andrew Jackson and Sam Houston with seven large white columns and a front porch on both stories in November of 1864 cartons quiet life ended when carolyn mcgavock looked out of the window and noticed that the livestock seemed frightened of something it was not long before the sounds of frightened animals were replaced by the sounds of gunfire cannons and the screams of dying men battle erupted around the carton mansion more than 200 injured soldiers were brought inside where the McGavock stride to do anything they could to help them doctors operated in the parlor and the dead were taken out back to the porch and stacked for No More war survivor private Sam Watkins said this about the battle would to God I could tear the page from these memoirs and from my own memory this blackest page in the history of the war of the lost cause it was the bloodiest battle of modern times in any war was the finishing stroke to the independence of the Southern Confederacy would to God that I had never witnessed such a scene two days later the army buried hundreds of dead men just outside the Carter house but John McGavock was so troubled by the experience that in 1866 he had the hastily buried men moved to a permanent resting ground at the carton unfortunately this act did not help the souls rest in peace carton mansion is loaded with paranormal phenomena not all of it is related to wartime events either for example the ghost of a young servant girl roams the halls the young woman was said to be a well-mannered fair skinned beauty there was no surprise that she had been chosen to be one of the health servants the young woman became the envy in the desire of many field servants unfortunately the desire of one of the jealous field hands became too strong and when she rejected his advances as a suitor he crept into the kitchen and brutally murdered her if he could not have her and no one could now she is seen in various parts of the house still carrying out her chores another curiosity linked to the kitchen at carton was a spirit of a former cook this entity is often heard bustling around kitchen doing her various duties going about her business letting the living know that she is not left this ghost is usually most active around mealtimes the reason that this is a curiosity though is because many times you can see only the cooks head floating in the hallway outside the kitchen it's owned by the Franklin Historical Society that they do not condone having paranormal teams out there at this time even though they do give ghost tours and whatnot on the property we are allowed to be in the Confederate cemetery which is does a join the the property of the Cardin plantation because that is owned by the Sons of the Confederacy who has given us permission to be out there after dark the spirit of a soldier seems to have moved into one of the bedrooms perhaps he died there but close by outside and decided to come into the mansion to stay not quite ready to leave this world one oddity attributed to this soldier and his chosen bedroom is an event that involved a painting of the mansion the piece of art normally hung firmly to the bedroom wall but somehow came crashing to the floor one night the really odd thing about it is that the painting was found lying on top of a floor heater nowhere near the location where the frame would have logically fallen it was as if the painting had been ripped from the wall and thrown across the room maybe it reminded the soldier of the fateful night when he lost his life the most famous and the most encountered spirit at the Carton mansion is that of a Confederate soldier has been witnessed walking through the mansion and across the porch some visitors report they also see him marching around the everywhere that he goes the sound of his heavy boobs accompanies his wandering this Confederate has also been known to carry on lengthy conversations with visitors as a matter of fact he has spent so much time speaking with tourists that his spirit has been positively identified it is none other than the ghost of General Pat Clayburn yeah we went out there and as we were out there Franken police officer showed up and about the time he got out of his vehicle we could hear faint cannon and gunfire in the distance and as time progressed it started getting closer and closer to the point where we could actually hear horses running by here soldiers yelling I mean we were in the midst of the Battle of Franklin for roughly 20 minutes and as that started to die down the Franklin police officer walked around the back of the the plantation and we heard him talking so we went back there and we saw the holy grail of paranormals there was a full-bodied apparition of General Patrick Cleburne on the balcony having a conversation with this Franklin police officer he looked like you do to me right now talking to you I mean just as clear as day the conversation never met the way it should have you know it wasn't like the gentleman was answering questions by the police officer or vice versa it was obvious that General Patrick labor was aware of us I mean he was solely looking at the three of us when we were there but I think he still thinks he's in his time period you know and is unaware of our time frame the spirits of the departed definitely still linger at the Carton mansion the sounds of Asteria tsa's footsteps drums beating screaming men and the cacophony of war hang in the air daily apparitions abound and objects often move of their own free will carton is packed with paranormal activity night for those brave enough to hang around and it's the only place that I'm aware of where you can actually speak to a celebrated Civil War general Memphis Tennessee was founded in 1819 by John Overton James Winchester and Andrew Jackson creating a river port halfway between New Orleans and the Ohio Valley made this spot atop the Chickasaw bluffs ideal for a new city by the late 1840s flat boats loaded with trade goods and cotton lined the riverbanks meanwhile history of another sort was being made on Beale Street in 1890 the Grand Opera House was built on the corner of Main and Beale Street the grand was billed as the classiest theater outside of New York City vaudeville was the main source of entertainment at the time the grin became part of the Orpheum vaudeville circuit in 1907 it was renamed at the Orpheum Theatre the Orpheum is one of Memphis's most incredible success stories a theater able to overcome such a variety of hardships multiple bankruptcies a devastating fire the decay of downtown Memphis and the possible demolition from a construction crew to build an office building this brick building houses a five-floor theatre with over 2,500 seats and features a high ceiling supporting two thousand-pound chandeliers ornamental plaster work gold leafing lavish tasseled brocade draperies and a large Wurlitzer pipe organ nicknamed the South's finest theatre the Orpheum is one of the few remaining movie palaces of the 1920s it is also said to be haunted by seven ghosts the most famous and widely reported spirit who resides in the Orpheum is a little girl by the name of Mary she's a 12 year old who was hit by a car 19 though she is known to play Childish pranks such as opening and closing doors laughing out loud playing the pipe organ she is most frequently spotted wearing a white dress and sitting in her favorite balcony seat c5 Mary seems to enjoy musical events in plays many of the cast and crew members of various touring companies have seen her in c5 smiling and laughing at the performances actor yul brenner states that he saw Mary sitting quietly in the balcony during the time that the King and I was playing on stage at the theatre several cast members of Fiddler on the Roof also saw her during their performances these actors even went so far as to hold an after-hours seance where they claimed they could make contact with Mary other theatre goers have witnessed Mary dancing in the lobby and then suddenly vanishing although psychic investigators have documented the presence of seven ghosts very little is known about the other six as a matter of fact the activity from the other six is sometimes blamed on Mary for instance a housekeeper reports that her cleaning tools often disappear only to show up dumped into a toilet workmen have seen the theater doors fly open in an outwardly direction and then shut all by themselves the workmen also speak of feeling a presence during times of paranormal activity described as a cold eerie feeling like getting into a bath tub of cold liver there are a couple of funny stories at the orpheum there were people that come in to work on the world sir organ that plays you know during the different movies at different plays and things like that and you know it's all during requires a lot of maintenance there were a couple of maintenance myths there was there was one guy that was in working on it and apparently I don't know if a lot about organs apparently they've got you know a lot of wires and different things you know that have to be bundled and I guess it's a very tedious process well the guy had a bunch of it bundled up and and he was he looked at his toolbox and realized that if I don't have the binding tool to the hook them all together and it was across the room which meant he was going to have to let go of everything and start all over again which was going to be a big process when he looked down again and the binding tool was at his feet he won't go back inside the or community there was another mechanic that went to work on the organ and he's a little bit more more brave than the other one I guess they had to send someone else and he was working on the the organ and it was taking several hours and several hours and he got hungry and it was time for a break so he decided he was gonna go out grab a bite so he locked everything up went out came back an hour later and found that all this tools that disappeared no one had been in the building paranormal activity like this runs rampant at the orpheum but employees say they have nothing to fear they've accepted their residents ghosts as harmless playful entities who hang around because they enjoy the Arts the [Music] [Music] year 1863 was a triumphant warning for the Union Army led to many victories by General ulysses s grant the Union forces were cocky and confident they had no doubt that they would achieve another great victory in Chattanooga Tennessee located above the bend in the ten see River in the southeastern corner of the state Chattanooga was the junction point of two important railroad lines many considered it to be the Gateway to the Confederacy if the Union could capture this region then they could move south to Georgia and divide the Confederacy the Battle of Chickamauga was brutal lasting two days and claiming more than 35,000 lives the Confederates won the day but it would be one of the last major rebel victories of the war the field where the Battle of Chickamauga was spot is said to be haunted but not just by the casualties accrued by the Civil War you see many years previously the Native Americans of the region named the river chikka Magua because it meant river of death the white armies who waged war against the Indians did their share of contributing to the number of restless souls wandering this piece of land there have been several accounts of paranormal activity at Chickamauga most of them relating to the Civil War but one of the most terrifying actually predates the War Between the States possibly derived from an Indian legend brought to life this manifestation is known simply as old green eyes this mysterious entity was given as nickname by visitors and Rangers of the Chickamauga Park who've encountered him over the years no one really knows who or what old green eyes is reliable witnesses have reported the creature to be a beast which barely even resembles a person we know he existed before the Civil War because some accounts claim that the monster was seen moving among the dead smelling the corpses at a place called Snodgrass Hill after the battle had ended other reports describe the creatures human-like although he has glowing green eyes waist linked light-colored hair and huge misshapen jaws from which fangs protrude it is obviously an entity that you would not want to encounter in a secluded location after dark which is exactly where most people have stumbled upon him one of the first recorded sightings of old green eyes was by a park ranger Edward tinny in the 80s I think it was 1981 and he he talked about how he was wandering through the park and and came across green eyes and had a weird skin long greasy type hair fangs he said it even wore a cape and the cape was blowing in the wind yet there wasn't a wind and he went on to talk about how how you know when he's out there that that you know that green eyes is always watching and there have been actually recorded sightings of him throughout history or things like it throughout history even before that the civil war but I think Edward tinnies was one of the first ones recorded in the press and it definitely sounded like something you wouldn't want to come across in the woods putting old green eyes aside there are plenty other paranormal events that repeat themselves on the battlefields related to those who died during the Civil War a lot of soldiers went missing in this area during the war not only is the terrain rough and very dangerous for fighting but the woods are extremely thick men became lost in the forest and separated from their units messages sent by commanders to their troops vanished without a trace and much of the fighting turned chaotic after darkness fell on a last day of battle women were seen searching the field by lantern light who lost or fallen soldiers many tourists to the area believed that the women are still searching to this very day it's reported common to see an eerie light sweeping the shadows among the trees followed by the voices and the cries of women the search party of women were not the only spirits reported to be walking the grounds at Chickamauga Rangers and visitors mentioned many odd noises on the grounds including the sounds of men moaning and crying in pain shouts and screams when no one is present and the sounds of horses galloping some people even report seeing the underbrush move inexplicably as if squads of invisible soldiers are passing by one Ranger in fact even witnessed a ghostly man on horseback passing him but the rider had no head another of the popular sightings across the battlefield has been of the lady in white she has been seen by a variety of different people at random locations around the park but no one really knows who she is the best guessed is that she was the wife or lover of a soldier who was killed in the battle and that she is still searching for a spirit it is very common across the battlefield to come in contact with a soldier who's as real as someone you would encounter walking down the streets when in fact he's a restless spirit still fighting the Civil War hundreds of people every year report talking to soldiers in the park who vanished right before their eyes some of the soldiers even talk back to the tourists actually answering questions about the war before fading away into thin air photos unfortunately have not been able to document these encounters and many tourists have reported that their camera batteries suddenly died before they can take a shot of the soldiers others get their photo but upon viewing the image later the soldier is missing from the frame even though he was standing there when the shutter snapped so I had heard a lot of stories about ghost soldiers on the battlefield that you would come across with kind of disappear and I had to go experience it for myself and and I was there with my son and we we actually saw a soldier it was kind of looking out over the battlefield and it's really really focused all in a period garb and barefoot and the rifle and everything and and it was just he was like eerily focused on the battlefield and there were tourists and stuff around and we thought okay well this is cool this is a civil war re-enactor that's here but you know we started thinking about it when you go well if he's a civil war re-enactor there for the tourist why isn't he interacting with tourists why is he just watching over the battlefield and why aren't any of the tourists going up and speaking to him we couldn't figure it out so we said well let's get a picture with this guy because the the garb and everything was cool so we we go to the guy and I interrupt him you know to excuse me and he kind of comes out of this trance that he's you know focused on the battlefield and I said can we can we get a picture and so he doesn't say a word he just sort of slowly gets up and he's just real eerie and and you know my son stands stands with him and I get a picture and say thank you very much and we walk away and as we returned to look back he's gone and there's absolutely nowhere he could have gone we wandered around we in that split second he couldn't have left of that area of the battlefield there was nowhere to go so who knows could have been one of the one of the civil war and ghost that everybody talks about there are many more paranormal experiences to witness at Chickamauga these were just some of the more common one thing is for certain if you stay at the park long enough you are sure to witness something ghosts run wild through the entertainment industry in Music City USA almost every location in Nashville that has a long-term connection with country music has its share of hauntings one of the most famous hockey chunks in the city is Tootsie's orchid lounge located right next to the Ryman it is filled with memorabilia and always features some of the best musical acts in Nashville originally called mom's tootsie Beth bought the bar in 1960 and after it was mistakenly painted in orchid color the name was changed to Tootsie's orchid lounge many of her first customers were Willie Nelson Mel Tillis Waylon Jennings and Patsy Cline in fact Willie Nelson got his first songwriting job after singing it Tootsie's touches was actually the back room you may say for the Grand Ole Opry because backstage at the Opera wasn't very big so a lot of the entertainers would come through the back door of touches and relax and wait for their turn to go on stage used to be a radio up there where they knew who they followed so when they heard that person's name called they would finish up whatever they were drinking and go over there some baited back some didn't so I'm just stay here you know play it up to evening right here tits tits II loved music so much she helped struggling artists whenever she could often slipping money in their pockets and feeding them for free she kept an IOU box stuck behind the counter so that the artist didn't feel as if there were charity cases each year members of the Grand Old Opry would pull money together and pay off all the io use so that Tutsi would not lose any money with such a strong connection to the country celebrities of the past is it any wonder that Tootsie's has had its share of ghost stories and Spectre encounters they say that the ghosts of many past artists can still be seen visiting Tootsie's from time to time some visitors have even reported coming face-to-face with Hank Williams in the alley between Tootsie's and the Ryman used to be called mom's place but dirty but in 1969 this was the only honky tonk per se on this side of the street back in that and that day when they offer used to be right behind us here so it was a lot of entertainers came prior to such as a rumor had it Hank Williams had been in here because you know he died in 53 I think but prior to touching on it it was a bar and rumor had it he'd been in here and people still see me here feel his presence you know we're saying there's a picture of Hank senior right over the stage looking at us all night and I swear it from time to time I can see him give me the mean out when I miss one of his songs up it's a true story happens every night at the back door here it's 37 steps from the back door touches to the back door of the Ryman Auditorium and the entertainers like I said would come out of the back door of the Ryman to come to the back world touches and come in and occasion I've caught myself walking in that alley out back and up by myself and I feel as though somebody's with me you can almost feel a hand on your shoulder and it you know kind of kind of funny feeling but there has been times I get partial away down the alley here and you think somebody's watching me or somebody whispered that turn around be nobody nothing spooky about tutsies Church he used to have a hat finish used to keep everybody in line with a hat fan on a locomotive a deputy we never had security guards or police come in here she took care of business herself she would somebody was sitting at the bar got a little unruly or what she just woke up poking but his hat me and from time to time when I'm down here you can see somebody's been in here had a few drinks in their booth you know feeling that somebody's already in would that been there's times when there's a song that I do from George Jones called he was going to fill their shoes and it's talking about some of the greats it's it's already gone and you know some of the people who paved the way for guys like me and and he's asking the question who's next you know is there anybody that can fill those shoes sometimes I sing that song and all those pictures of the artist that's come and gone and some of them made it big and some of them you never heard of and times of here'll stand upon my arms and stuffs it's it's definitely it's there the spirits are there a lot of people still believe still hear their voices but once it's passed on you know like your your Johnny Cash's your Waylon Jennings your Johnny paychecks the fairing Jung's of the day of those guys you just you might want to say that if this was their office well in Nashville stuff by Tootsie's you may experience some contemporary music mixed with some mysterious entertainers from the past [Music] they say that truth is stranger than fiction in no case is this more apparent than the Bell which a spirit by the name of Kate haunted the Bell family from 1817 to 1821 this most famous of all Tennessee paranormal cases has already been popularized by many television specials films and books but we can't leave it out here because the uniqueness of the case and what makes this especially unique in American history it is the only documented case in which a spirit has been solely responsible for the death of a human being even today over 150 years after she first appeared in Robertson County Kate continues to hold some people in the town of Adams in a state of intimidation officially the Bell Witch haunting is over but considering all of the eerie things that happen in and around Adams there is a strong reason to believe that Kate is still afoot and that she continues to torment the living when the Bell Witch first entered the lives of John Bell and his family Robertson County was still a wilderness log-cabin farmhouses rivers and mysterious limestone caverns were abundant some believed that all of a subterranean cave forming activity is responsible for most of the puzzling incidents above-ground but some of cannot be explained away so easily in 1804 when John Bell was 54 years old he his wife and his five children arrived in Robertson County from North Carolina John settled 1,000 acres of land erecting a double one and a half story log cabin for his family cabins for his slaves and various outbuildings he would farm peacefully over a dozen years fathering three more children and growing prosperous in 1817 his contentment would come to an end when Kate came to call neither the Bell family or Robertson County would ever be the same again some would say that John Bell and his family had made up the spirit fantasy in their minds but that was very conscious of his place in the community and he was proud of the respectability he could command from his family and his friends John Bell would do nothing that would make him appear foolish in the eyes of others and that included making any claim that his home was haunted the haunting burst began while John was hunting on the North section of his land he noticed something that looked like a wild stray dog but not like any canine he had ever seen before Belle took aim and fired when the smoke cleared away the dog had mysteriously disappeared about the same time his daughter Betsy and son Drury were walking through the family orchard when they noticed a strange woman suddenly walking beside them when Betsy turned to speak to her the woman disappeared into thin air that night strange sounds echoed through the Bell House knocking on doors and windows wings flapping on the roof scratching from inside the walls and the vicious sounds of animals fighting these sounds would continue night after night increasing in intensity for a year John Bell at first thought the disturbances might be caused by minor earthquakes our cabin forming activity but bells soon grew suspicious that it might be vandals up to mischief trying to harass the family you see John Bell was no angel in the community he was a hard-nosed businessman who turned a profit whenever he could he had been accused by his own church of user in a slave deal with a local planter benjamin batts and his wife kate the church had acquitted him of the charge for the state of tennessee had proven itself not so open-minded in august of 1817 a jury in Robertson County Circuit Court convicted Bell of the same charge the conviction led the church's hierarchy to reconsider their decision in John Bell was expelled all attempts by John to capture the possible culprits and vandals failed and the noise increased to such an intensity that it shook the sturdy log house most of the time the noises seemed to center around Betsy who was about 12 years old at the time the sounds would even follow her from place to place it was not only the noises that tortured Betsy though the spirit on many occasions would pull Betsy out of the bed by her hair dragging her through the house and slapping her violently leaving bruises and red welts where the invisible hands had struck her so it was about a year after the noises started at the Bell farm that John Bell became afflicted by by something it was some type of nervous disorder it affected the way that he swallowed the way that he talked his jaw would locked up and the doctors couldn't quite figure out what it was so they kind of attributed the the affliction to to the witch or the spirit ghosts whatever happened to be that was there things got so bad and so crazy around there that John decided he needed some help so he asked a friend James Johnson and his wife to come over and they came over in stayed the night and while they were there they experienced that the sounds of lip smacking and chairs overturning and scratches on the on the roof and across the walls and that night father were sleeping James Johnson actually fought over the covers the covers were ripped from his bed and he fought over the covers with whatever spirit was there so the next morning of course James Johnson is wife wanted to to get out it had no idea how to help John Bell and his family so it left him to find other ways to to get help before long a new wrinkle was added the spirit found - voiced the first intelligible sound from the spirit other than hysterical laughter was the repeating of a prayer that had been recited by John Johnson a family friend during his first night in the Bell house it was repeated in Johnson's own voice apparently the witch was quite taken with Johnson's theological eloquence because after that night she referred to him affectionately as old sugar lips after that the witch never shut her mouth again she liked to argue theology with all comers no preacher in the vicinity ever had a chance in a debate against her one mistaken sermon or one misquote in Scripture would result in a severe dressing-down the spirit attended church regularly and proved it by repeating the sermons prayers and even the hymns word for word the bell which was eventually asked to identify herself she claimed that she was the spirit of an Indian whose grave had been disturbed stating I am a spirit of a person who was buried in the woods nearby my bones have been scattered and I am made unhappy one time she identified herself as a spirit conjured up by Kate batts the woman who had previously accused John Bell abuser II in order to get revenge prompting the Bell family to name the witch Boldak 8 another time she answered I am the spirit of an early immigrant who brought a large sum of money I buried my treasure for safekeeping until needed I have returned because I want Betsy Bell to have them she gave a precise description of where the treasure was buried and after several sweaty hours of digging up nothing but dirt and rock by Drewry Bell and James Johnson Kate had a great laugh and gleefully chided the men for being so gullible as to believe her the witch had a large playful streak but she had made it clear from the very beginning that her evil intentions were to kill John Bell Kate even admitted to being the cause of John bells physical disorder that affected him earlier on whenever John's name was mentioned in the presence of the which she erupted with a volley of verbal abuse against him calling him every vile name in the book periodically Bell was seized by body contortions and facial twitching which lasted one or two days this caused him to take to his bed unable to work all the time he lay there the witch raved and ranted around the house giving him little peace not one time did the witch mention a specific reason why she had it in for him no one could understand why such violent attacks continued on young Betsy Bell either although there have been a few controversial theories based on the family writings Kate repeatedly slapped struck and pinched her with such force that Betsy would scream in agony Betsy could not escape vism use if any attempt was made to stop the torture the would-be hero would receive a beating from Kate too so a lot of people wonder why the attacks were directed towards Betsy so much why she was the one that got slapped around and beat and pulled out of the bed that kind of thing and there are a lot of a lot of theories one of the more controversial theories that the Bell family is not very happy about is that it's believed that people can use psychokinetic energy if they've experienced a traumatic event of some type to manifest spirits or call spirits or even create spirits and it's believed that John Bell was possibly sexually abusing his daughter Betsy and pulling her out of the bed slapping her around that kind of thing and this spirit was there to do the same things to Betsy while other people were watching in hopes that people would would notice that this was going on it's also believed that that's why a lot of the afflictions and things directed towards John the bad things that happened to John a lot of people think that that's why they happened is that the spirit or entity or whatever it was could not get anyone's attention enough so it went ahead and turned his focus on him more and more word of the strange events spread newspapers printed accounts and it soon seemed that everyone in America wanted to experience the haunting including the soon-to-be President General Andrew Jackson when Jackson and his party of friends visited the Bell home he was so unnerved by the experience that on his return to Nashville he remarked to all who would listen I'd rather fight the entire British Army than to deal with this torment they called the Bell which by the beginning of the fourth year of the haunting nearly everyone in Tennessee Kentucky and Beyond knew about the strange occurrences at the Bell residence people would come from miles around to set up camp on the bells long waiting for the arrival of the witch at these times kate acted like both an enlightened philosopher an extremely cruel child alternately frightening and friendly katie was proving to be a very complex entity displaying intensely human moves desires thoughts even as she terrorized the visitors in the Bell family she showed desire to receive love acceptance tackiness by 1820 John was suffering more and more at the hands of the witch his twitching tics contortions and stiffness of the tongue became more frequent and severe while periods of recovery became more infrequent on December 19th John Jr and Drury found their father unconscious after all efforts to arouse and failed dr. George Hopson arrived asking what kind of Medicine have you been giving him John Jr replied that his father had actually been taking three medicines he went to the cupboard to get them but when he opened the door he found nothing three familiar medicine bottles but a single container holding a strange brown liquid roaring with laughter the witch replied he will never get up I the dose to him now he will die John Bell never regained consciousness all day long he lay in a stupor why the witch taunted him laughing hysterically and seeing derisive songs at the top of her voice the next morning John Bell died and old Kate mysteriously stopped talking today Adams Tennessee lies about 10 miles northwest of Springfield on highway 41 when the i-20 for interstate was built several years ago Adams was cut off from the rest of the world leaving only a few stores and gas stations open for business locals believe that old Kate is still active in Robertson County in fact many are able to point to specific instances that substantiate their case including cars being flipped over on the road failed electronic devices important items mysteriously disappearing strange ghostly lights in the sky ghostly figures appearing in the photographs and even accidents and fires they also claim that bad luck always falls on visitors or residents who say there's no such thing as the Bell which I went up there the old schoolhouse and they were putting on the plate of the Bell Witch cave play and we were sitting there watching it and then to climax to the play the lights just go out I mean they're gone not a cloud in the sky you know so I mean who knows it might have been a power outage but it still makes people go like wow that's a little creepy you know right here in Tennessee we had the history of the Bell Witch and that's up Anne Adams Tennessee and I've always been told you don't mess with that and if you say you don't believe in the Bell which something bad will happen to you but when I was a little girl my dad went I don't believe in the Bell Witch and I was scared to death that something bad was gonna happen to my dad he broke out and pityriasis all the next day so it's true you better believe in the Bell which do you believe in we hope you've enjoyed our brief visit to some of Tennessee's more paranormal hotspots from entertainment industry tragedies to brutal civil war skirmishes to simple old-fashioned hauntings Tennessee covers the gamut thanks for joining us on our journey from Deborah Shawn and Sabrina Siegel stay spooky [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] you

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