The Bell Witch
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- Опубліковано 5 лис 2024
- A paranormal ghost story set in Tennessee has captured the minds of many for hundreds of years. Does this story have any truth to it or is it some out-of-control game of Chinese whispers?
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Dang it, Simon, I only clicked the Bell icon to never miss any of your videos. I didn't know it came with a witch 🤦
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It’s right in the title.
😂
You got a problem with witches?
Comes with a free Bell insult though! That's a bargin 🤣
As a Tennessean, I am loving hearing you talk about this. Also, 300 acres is normal for the size of the farms back then. Honestly, my family farm is 40 acres and can be considered on the smaller size when compared to some others in my county. 🤷♀️
Back on topic, I’m loving the tangents discussing more of the science things for explanation, but I refuse to mess with some of the spookier things associated with rural areas in Tennessee. The further east you go into Appalachia the more you decide not to mess with these things. With this, I’m so glad you’ve covered the Bell Witch and this Tennessee legend.
We definitely have our legends and lore out here in the smokies
I would hazard a guess that you can thank the homestead acts (and being white) for that kind of land accrual in the region. Don't take this as an attack on you personally though, just that is the general history of the region (and many others).
I'm consider myself reasonably well educated and understand science and the scientific method, but growing up in the South, Texas in my case, I know when not to press my luck. True, most super natural happenings have a logical explanation, but most guns are stored unloaded too, and you still don't point them at people.
Yea, there's some shit going in in those woods between TN and NC. I 100% believe the feral people stories. People go missing in those woods and are never found.
I can plus one the land size thing. My kin's(though split between a few cousins) land equates to just under 450 acres.
We absolutely need a channel that just does reactions to Ancient Aliens from you Simon. That would be the palate cleanser for the Casual Criminalist.
He actually commented on that during this. Well sort of. He briefly said it would be great to react to the Discovery channel nonsense, but he would get claimed. Another words the videos would be copyright claimed. You'll notice they don't show copyrighted stuff during his videos.
Erich von Däniken’s got a criminal record. While writing _Chariots of the Gods?_ he was busted for embezzlement from the hotel he worked at and using the money for “research”. The publisher had a former Nazi Party editor - the guy worked on their official newspaper - rewrite the book and it was published while von Däniken was served three years.
currently they are just waiting for the next clone to complete gestation
Fair Use says he can use their footage as long as he adds content to the video, like commentary, analysis, or critique. It would just have to be written right and they could totally do this as a small aside episode without copyright worries
@@khaightlynn I know, but that doesn't stop the claims and it almost always either end up demonitising (basically the company that claims it gets the money not the UA-camr). Or it gets taken down. You have to go to court to actually fight it some of the time and that is expensive and takes a while. Meanwhile the video is either down or not making you any money.
Simon on Casual Criminalist: If people kill animals, be concerned! Big red flag!
Simon on Decoding the Unknown: Let me tell you a story about some mice.
Concerning
oh the mouse paradise, worth making a script
I just look at this as a side effect of his slow acceptance of the death penalty.
"Hook these mice up to the chair!"
25:12 I love, how Simon throws in the "allegedly", like centuries dead ppl are coming back to haunt him for accusing them of fraud 🤣🤣
Simon i think the movie where the kids are playing cards and smoking cigars and then all turn into donkeys is Pinocchio - i remember it vividly for pretty much the same reason lol in Dumbo, he gets drunk and starts seeing giant pink elephants that were equally terrifying as a very young child ;)
Yass I was thinking pinocchio too. I can visualize the drawing style of the donkey boys to a T and it just doesnt match Dumbo, which was maybe even weirder
It's definitely Pinocchio
You know, those movies in the past were nearly all so crazy dark. Like secret of nimh.
@@adamboise3907 that was a book before it was a movie
I definitely should have read more posts or scrolled down because I just posted the same thing LOL
Simon! The Sea Witch of Billingsgate is an old Cape Cod legend that is actually based on real events. It has pirates, forbidden love, ship wrecks, and even ghosts! It's awesome and worthy of an episode IMHO.
LOVE legends & lore, especially historically based. I live in MA and definitely have to check this out!
The noise level is more about what you’re used to. I grew up in the middle of nowhere so instead of getting scared by noises out in lonely places, I’m more scared in the city surrounded by people and buildings. Even after years, I still often feel like wtf are all these noises, it’s too loud and this place is scary! Sirens at all hours get me the most.
Yes! I'm not phased by much but hearing some teens joke outside is more disturbing to me than hearing some coyotes howl. I do get that people can be surprised by how loud frogs are though. I find it comforting, but I grew up with those noises. Spent almost my entire adult life in a big city, I'd rather hear some loud af frogs than another crappy motorcycle
Totally get you!
@@UnicornsPoopRainbows I don't understand. How are teens joking outside disturbing?
Love the Bell Witch story, regardless of the origin and truth. Also, if this one does well, I recommend you consider doing one on Gef the Mongoose. It's a similar story but EXTRA because it's a witch mongoose.
Same, the Bell Witch story is one of my favorite """""real""""" ghost stories, and Gef the Mongoose is another great one.
As a Tennessean I grew up hearing this story. Love the asides for a story that terrified me as a kid. ❤
1:55 - Chapter 1 - The bell family
3:15 - Chapter 2 - The strange story of the bell witch
16:10 - Chapter 3 - Decoding the witch
22:45 - Chapter 4 - Who was behind the witch
23:05 - Chapter 4.1 - Kate Batts
26:25 - Chapter 4.2 - Betsy Bells
29:15 - Chapter 4.3 - Richard Powell
33:55 - Chapter 5 - John Bells' death
36:45 - Chapter 6 - Other loose ends
PS: Maybe do Bigfoot : *Tall Ape or Tall Tale*
“Tall ape or tall tale” 😂😂😂😂😂 great title
If Betsy's age of engagement seems crazy, I'd like to point out that John Bell Sr. married Lucy when she was 12 and he was 32. So the idea of her being engaged would, in this particular family, probably not be a terribly strange prospect. The past was the worst.
I Believe it was the daughter that killed them because she was being molested by him
Gross. The past was the worst. And today, people will brush it off and try to validate their own grandparents' or great grandparents' problematic age gap grooming as "just how it was back them" when no, it was also problematic then too but ok
@@bobgunter9608 pretty sure that’s the premise of one of the recent films based on this story. I’m not sure if that’s just an original story, or something backed by some evidence. However, if it was the case, what wouldn’t surprise me is if Bestsy and Dick cooked up some shenanigans to get her out of the engagement. Bestsy wouldn’t be the first teenage girl in history to be hot for teacher, even if we consider their relationship highly inappropriate today.
Most states still allow child marriage of some type with 9 states having no minimum age limit, just need parental permission.
@@khaightlynn It wasn't problematic back then because it was relatively common. I have 1 great-great grandma that was about her oldest step child's age. She most likely got introduced to her eventual husband by her father. She was 18 when she married. I also had a great great great grandpa marry a woman that was younger than his oldest child. In both of these marriages children were born. The 2nd one was more fascinating because he fathered his youngest in his early 60s, plus all of his children from his first wife changed their last names (daughters included).
if you're new here the format is Simon receives a script, reads most of it, picks fun at the story, And goes off on wild tangents. welcome to the party.
I wouldn't be here if he didn't 🤣
And the problem is.......?
No problem, I enjoy the content. I can see how my comment could be taken the wrong way though.
Yesssssss. As a local Tennessean I have suggested this one a few times.
As a fellow Tennessean, I have a great need for him to now talk about other Tennessee spooks.
@@_hellojarofdirt Yes! Also, I'm loving all the Tennesseans popping up in the comments.
I saw the title and immediately was like “hey, I’m near that!” I’m from the middle of nowhere in the middle of nowhere TN so when I see things like this that are even remotely related to where I’m from it’s exciting.
If you live an hour away from your dacha, then adjusting the mouse traps to make sure they die instantly is the most humane option. The springs can be adjusted so that you are more likely to get a quick death for the little critters. We prefer to release mice over a mile away from our rural home, but if it's a dacha, then you won't be there enough to check live traps. Better to reduce suffering.
This. And let's be honest, a quick spring trap is far more humane than poison
Kill them all! Oh I’m so sensitive..
Simon should make a channel where he posts all of his stories and tangents from other videos. 🌸💗🌸
My husband traps the chipmunks that get into his vegetable garden. He actually looked up how far away you have to take them to keep them from finding their way back and apparently it's at least three miles. So he found a nice, forested location that's just over three miles from our house and some days he was taking three plus trips a day to transport chipmunks, lol. Apparently he assured them on the drive that everything will be okay and they'll enjoy their new home. Love that man 🥰
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Chippies are awesome pests. I hate the damage they do but the little creeps are adorable.
A million hearts to him for doing that!! :)
He’s shooting them in the head trust me
Aww! You definitely found a keeper! What a kind man!
I always thought I was doing it wrong paying for UA-cam premium and still often just listening to it like a podcast... Thank you for validating my lifestyle, Simon.
I literally paid for YT Premium so I could turn my screen off and listen like podcasts. The no ads was just a bonus
I don’t think it’s common everywhere in the states, but being from middle Tennessee myself, I grew up hearing these stories from my mom. Always creeped me out.
For any of you clicking on this video curious how long it takes for Simon to make a bell end ref... less than 5 minutes.
Please! would you give that thing some plants! to! consume! eat !
Omg Simon! I love your and have been watching you for 2 years now, this is the town I went to High School in and can't belive you're doing my local tourist attraction!!!
That rhyme is stuck in my head. Nice work ma’am!
Kinda in between the Guy Fawkes rhyme and the Lizzi Borden one.
Perfect!
I predict, with my witch powers, that Simon will have terrible trouble not making bell end jokes in this episode 😂
4:20 lol. Also, hah! My witch powers are obviously real! Bell End joke the first!
Nostrodamus, is that you!?
Absolutely thought this video would be about "Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?"(has Simon done one on that? If not, he should!)
Me too
Ah! oh! no, yes! He hasnt but he should. As far as I remember they've never figured out how she got there right? Lots of interesting questions still need answering in that one
Same. I was confused when he said he didn't know about this but maybe it's famous in America, because I was expecting it to be set in England.
I always confuse these two stories as well. The witch elm one would make a great topic too!
If not on Decoding The Unknown, then definitely on The Casual Criminalist. I agree it would be a better fit here, though.
Hearing Simon's extra emphasis every time he says "Bell" is actually killing me...
9:40 Jen, I’m so disappointed you didn’t put the Monty Python clip “Well, she turned me into a newt!” “A newt?”
“*awkward silence* …I got better” here. Would have been perfect
I immediately thought about this scene as well.
@@ZillahEnoch Right? It was perfect.
I had to pause the video and come searching for a comment such as this.
A golden opportunity slips by. 🤦♂
Right! That’s exactly what came to mind!
That would have been priceless.
Simon - Have I told this story before?
Everyone - YES! More times than we can remember 🤦♂️ fascinating tangent factboi thank you for that
This was a fun change from the real horror stories on your other show, The Casual Criminalist. A nice silly romp into the “supernatural”, perfect for Halloween season.
Aspen is an absolute legend for the editing of these videos
As a local to the area of Adams, TN, it's cool seeing you talk about the Bell Witch. I remember going onto the cave every year and being so scared as a kid.
I thought Simon was exaggerating about the full title of Robinson Crusoe, but apparently not. Is is as follows: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates.
Wowsers.
Wow!!!!
Thanks, I was too lazy to check.
Did books have blurbs on the back at the time? My theory is that the paragraph of spoilers got moved to the back of the book, while the 1-3 words people ever actually remember stayed on the front and became modern, short titles.
@@generatoralignmentdevalue not really. That was why they had such descriptive titles.
🎶 Bell, bell, bell, beeelleend. 🎶 All that was going through my head all episode. #OGBB
Same 😅
Please give Simon more ghost stories to sh*t on in future videos. This was hilariously entertaining. ❤
Simon: “nOboDy wants to hear about your dREAmS”
Also Simon: talks extensively about excruciating mouse deaths that no one wants to hear about.
As a person who also regularly lay awake to excruciating mouse deaths as a kid, it makes him more relatable to me. If you aren't interested, that's fine, but that doesn't mean everyone else agrees with you.
But they weren't dreams though
nah, that was the funniest part of the episode
I have pet snakes, so I find mouse deaths useful if nothing else.
We just recently discovered we've 1 mouse, maybe more, in our house. We're a multigenerational home & in the 40+yrs family has owned it, there's never been even evidence that a mouse has been inside. The little bugger keeps scaring the bejeezuz outta my poor MIL! The smart little shit keeps evading the traps so my HB & MIL keep buying more & more, increasingly more insane traps. I'm jealous Simon caught all of his!
Two minutes in and Simon is in a smashing mood
28:30 surround sound legitimately works with both direct and reflected sound. It's brilliant. My husband builds speakers. When he built a Subwoofer for our living room, we had LOTS of fun carrying it around to see where the silent nodes were in order to find the best spot for it in the space.
I love when diagrams for suggested speaker placement suggests one to be in the middle of the room, halfway between the TV and the sofa. Unless you are mounting it on the ceiling, NO ONE is going to do that
Good stuff Simon been watching forever now 6 + years and I live within 20mins of Adams cool to see you reporting on it!
There's gonna be a music festival there Oct 7th-9th. Kinda Spoopy presents Party With the Bell Witch!
Hi Simon love the show. Would love to see an episode on all the Mr Shasta disappearances and general weirdness.
I have always thought this story was ludicrous. Sadly, I have seen too many shows and paranormal channels who take it seriously. I'm like, how??? Hysteria and folie a deux are incredibly interesting, and a fun experiment you can try in your very own home! Seriously, in how many slumber parties have the kids convinced themselves there's a monster in the mirror or a ghost in the corner? Paranoia spreads, too. Our brains do crazy stuff. Fun!
I never knew I needed to hear Simon say “check yourself, before you wreck yourself,” until now… 🤣🤣🤣
Pinocchio! That WAS such a scary scene as a child! Now they’ve remade it, with real people. 😳
Liked at 0:17 for Simon's completely correct take on PDFs.
Gotta love Simon's emphasis on "Bell" throughout the episode. 🤣
Haha loved that
Its like if some American got to cover a story about someone with the last name "Prick" or "Cooch" and were known as like the "Prick wizard" or "Cooch warlock" or some shit like that.
They'd have fun with that. A lot of fun.
It's a good job it wasn't Sam from Brain Blaze editing this, or there'd be 20mins of the "Bell, Bell Bell" semi-meme thrown in there.
@@Beany2007FTW Honestly, that was ringing through my head a couple of times 🤣 I think 1 would've been a fun cross over reference. Lol.
Love the tangent about the mice 😂 and yes, lots of "humane" animal traps become worse than a quick death if not checked 1-2 times per day. It's a big time commitment
They are vermin, just kill the damn things. Releasing them 'far away' just makes them someone else's problem.
I’m watching this lying down and at an angle. Unless I close my left eye, Simon has a mysterious purple circle placed perfectly on his forehead. The bell witch strikes again 🟣
Now I'm squinting and tilting trying to find the angle 😂
Omg! You're talking about something from where I live!! I learned about this in school in like 5th grade...and I got totally obsessed with it since my family were around the area at the exact time of this "happening"
Hi Simon, i would like to ask for a decoding on Spring Heeled Jack. No one on youtube has covered it
I'm afraid they have.
I was waiting for Simon to emphasise the word Bell, and he did not disappoint!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Having stayed in a number of 16th and 17th century houses over the years, I can confirm the amount of weird noises you hear in the night. Everything creaks, everything taps, the floorboards make thumping noises as they cool down. Victorian houses are worse, with all that dodgy plumbing and antique wiring. Its little wonder people believed in ghosts. Modern houses with all their stupid building regulations and modern materials are so much less entertaining in the dead of night.
Omggg shout out to graphics! I would totally watch an episode where whenever Simon is voicing a character in the story and graphics puts Simon's mouth on everyone she speaks for 💯😆
Yer name 😆
@@chaosdweller 😁
@@quackaddict2203 😏
My grandmother was a Bell and a descendent of John Bell. I grew up hearing stories about the Bell Witch. The speculation that we were told was that the witch was a native woman who John Bell had killed by the Red River which was supposedly haunted. I can't say I believed any of them though.
Too bad we ( Bell descendants) have to endure disrespectful videos like this one. Although the producer doesn’t believe the legend, he chooses to make money off the story.
@@kathleenmcclellan3380 bruh it happened 200 years ago 😂 My ancestors were killed and imprisonned by the Salem Witch Trials, should I complain about people being "disrespectful" for talking about them? Lmao idiot
@@userequaltoNull Your dialect speaks loudly. Name calling isn’t necessary.
@@kathleenmcclellan3380oh shut it 😂😂😂
Grow up 🤡@@mikeximenez5285
Any other Americans here that have never heard anything about this before?
2005’s “An American Haunting” was my introduction to the Bell Witch legend. It’s an ok movie, but the audio editing is absolutely garbage
I've heard this story soo many times...
Only each time it's based on some different random old house in every rundown old town I've been through.
Yeah lol
Nope...I mean vaguely but no specifics just the name. I studied American history and was stationed all over the country and believe this is more well-known on the east side of the country.
Never heard of it but I'm from Texas
I would just love to see Simon decoding every episode of Supernatural....
I stopped the moment they depicted Richardson TX as a backwater. That rich ass suburb?!
Great story, like some gothic drama.
The team of Katy and The Whistler are hard to beat!
Thank you for the video.
Please do a video on the Bijlmermeer disaster. A story of a plane that flew into a flat in Amsterdam and the shady 'claunup' by mysterious men in white suits.
I love it when Simon tells his story about catching mice. He's seems so proud of himself. It makes me happy.
Since he brought it up, the full title of Robinson Crusoe is
" The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of Tork, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself. With an account how he was at last as strangely delivered by pyrates. Written by Himself."
So no need for book summaries?
The thing I love about Decoding the Unknown is that it's kinda half way between Brain Blaze and Simon's other, more serious channels...
The daughter “maybe” made it up as a way for her to deal with being sexually abused by her father John Bell. The Last Podcast On The Left does a pretty good series on The Bell Witch.
“Maybe” accusations of a man whose been dead over 200 years aren’t necessary.
As a Tennessean who has grown up with the Legend of the Bell Witch I’d challenge you to visit the area and take a tour of the property and the cave associated with the story and just for kicks take a rock out of the cave if you like.
I myself too, am from Tennessee. I've been to the Bell property and the Bell Witch cave several times. The whole place is just eerie. And I've never been a superstitious person... Simon is why we Southerners came up with the saying.."he doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground!" Let him stay on the other side of the pond! Like Ronnie Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd so aptly put it... " A Southern Man don't need him around anyhow!"
Simon is so comically skeptical about paranormal stuff that he's like one of those skeptics in horror movies.
That would be the character who either
A) Is the first one to be horribly, brutally, mysteriously killed
Or
B) Is the last one, constantly denying the supernatural nature of the other incidents, until he's the last one left and finally confronts the monster, at which point he admits "Oh. I suppose it was true, after all..." and THEN gets horribly brutally, mysteriously killed.
@@willmfrank C. "Now lets see who this monster really is"
Well, this story was written under the same circumstances as the first writings of the Bible :)
I have lived in the U.S. my whole life and have never heard of this story. I'm with you, a convenient story to cover up a crime.
Okay, I’m not saying I believe in Witch craft or the supernatural or anything like that but I think if someone genuinely believes in those things and someone says they cursed them on their death bed I could see where it would drive people over the edge of sanity and cause hysterical hallucinations.
Oh ya...its the same process as a "placebo effect". These are facts. You can make yourself sick too. Our brains are very maliable it seems.
And that's why it's called 'irrational'....
I'm watching this video at the beginning of October. A great way to usher in the "Spooky Season". 🎃👻🧙
These are the only acceptable emojis.
We had some mice at one point and my wife put out glue traps , I thought it sounded horrible then made the mistake of looking it up online. Needless to say I put cooking oil all over the traps she couldn’t figure out why we never caught them haha .I never told her and we never used those terrible things again .
@@Sienisota I can’t believe they are not illegal everywhere! How is that not considered cruelty to animals when it’s literally torture? I work in peoples homes everyday and when I see those traps I always them just how gruesome they are .
I worked at a zoo and they used those traps. I would make a daily habit of tossing out any traps I found, and if they had a live mouse stuck inside I would use some WD40 (use the teeny straw!) to spray around the stuck-on bits. It removes it quickly, but you MUST wash the WD40 off immediately as it's horribly poisonous if ingested - and the mice will clean themselves. I cleaned off as many mice as I could find and would tell the administrative offices that I hated the traps and would actively release any mice I found. The traps were discontinued quickly, as I assume the keepers, grounds personnel and janitors complained as well.
Omg we called an exterminator after dealing with rats and their horrible property damage for several years every spring. They put out glue traps. After waking up once to blood spattered all over my cabinets and the rat still struggling to escape, while ripping itself apart in the process, I will never allow that again. I do NOT want rats in my kitchen, but I also can’t see that horrific sight again. I sobbed that day.
Regular old mouse traps it is!
@@jacquelinekenknight9280 yea ,I don’t understand how professional companies can use what’s ultimately torture till death traps .. I heard from some people commenting on this that the glue traps are illegal in their countries. As they should be !!
Haha Simon, that's Pinocchio, and that "Pleasure Island" part scared me too!!
-Shawn
You should have a Whistler con where you invite all of your writers editor sound louder staff to a fancy hotel etc. located where it is most convenient for everyone of course I think like it would be a blast for you guys
And that's how Pazuzu Whistler gets them all in the Blazement! Danny and Sam would finally get some company, so yeah silver lining found....
@@johnc.2876 I think they've been cleaning their moldy bread crumb corner out for Kevin recently
I'd go!
@@seanmorgan2356 Same here, I'd even contribute to get Simon some cages to transport "big dogs" from the conference location.
Guys in the basement, mice in the attic.... Simon should just pack them all..... wife, kids, wasps too
Can't wait for Simon to say "Bell" less times than the average Brain Blaze episode.
_"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story."_
The movie you're thinking of is Pinocchio, not Dumbo.
Came down here to make this comment. That scene freaked me out as well... those old Disney movies were hard core.
I was going to comment that, but checked to see if someone already had. 😊
And what the hell was Fantasia? I still have nightmares about that now!!!!!!
@@piperjaycie Chernabog, the OG Balrog! Terrorizing humans15 years before The Mines of Moria were even heard of!
Every time Simon tells the Mouse Genocide story we learn more details 😂
Simon I’m sure somebody probably mentioned it but the movie you were referring to with kids smoking cigars and getting turned into donkeys is Pinocchio. Love ur shows man keep ‘em coming :)
The movie where the kids smoke cigars and turn into donkeys is the old version of Disney's Pinnochio. I haven't seen the new live action version yet and have no idea if they repeat that sequence of the movie.
Also, while Simon says there is no such thing as witches, there are modern pagans that identify themselves as witches. They're not monsters, but they do exist.
They don’t do magic spells. Witches are not real. I can call myself a gargoyle. That doesn’t make it real
@@richardtherichard26
If you want to self-identity as a gargoyle, then I will defend your rights as a gargoyle. Go ahead and perch on that building.
*REQUEST or SUGGESTION for an episode:* Could you cover the 1974 case of Doris Bither, a woman who claimed to have been repeatedly sexually assaulted by an invisible entity, and who was observed by doctoral students at the University of California, Los Angeles? This case was written about in a book and made into a movie both of which were titled "The Entity". Thanks if you ever do cover it.
I get the impression Simon was Brain Blazing prior to this based on the level of sass 😂
Indeed, here in the Dakota's a farmer usually farms a couple sections or more. A section is 240 acres DAD had 2 sections and his farm was considered small. Never heard of the Bell Witch, perhaps I am to old, or maybe to young to have picked up on it, after all I am only 71 now.
I inherited a gopher trap that uses 12 gauge shotgun shells. I've never used it (I don't have isues with gophers where I live), but I know my dad did (although I don't recall them being used growing up).
That sounds way more humane than spring traps
I love the atmosphere of the videos on "Into the Shadows" because you can really feel the weight of the important events, or the gravity of what people were feeling at the time. But for this...or does feel like Simon is just making fun of it, in a way. Regardless of being open minded or opinion, for the people at the time this was very real and scary for them. I think if we've learned anything from 2020 and beyond it's that what a mass of people think as a whole can be very powerful and prevailing, whether true or not.
I’m sure the several hundred year old corpses of the people involved aren’t losing sleep over this. And I don’t particularly care if someone makes fun of a dead slave owner who married a 12 year old. Plus, if you actually believe the account of an at-the-time six year old child who didn’t retell the story for several decades, with the book only being published nearly a century later, I have a bridge to sell you
OFF TOPIC: I had my sister and an aunt visiting a few months back and they asked what had happened to my little toe which I had to have removed due to the pain it was causing. I simply told them that I accidently sliced my toe off while playing with a samurai sword. They believed me. I quickly told them I was joking but I could've left them with that story and they would've gone back to their state, telling their families how crazy I am because I cut a toe off. LOL. I mean...I had it cut off for medical reasons but it surprised me how easily they took my story in without question.
I worked with a server who told a customer we kept a cot for her in the back and they believed her.
It was a "resort" casino with a half decent hotel attached.
Yeah, I got called a liar a few times for gullible repeating the tall tales my grandfather and uncles would tell me. 😆
Lmao for a second I thought Simon said “and rats snoring on their bed posts”
Im an American and never heard of the Bell witch either.
I didn't until I moved to Nashville. Then there were some movies or shows about it. But I don't think it was commonly told to kids outside the Tennessee area. I heard other ghost stories as a kid.
John Bell is my 4th great grandfather on my mom's side of the family. I don't have any stories from the family concerning the Bell Witch other than we are related. I cannot attest to the truth of the story other than having some spooky things occur to me over the years.
I live 30 minutes from the bell witch cave in Adams
Simon, I don’t know what you use for a bait for your mice problem but crunchy peanut butter is fantastic. Also place them along walls where you think they’re most active because mice move along walls when possible.
My stupid ass thought the title was “ the bitch well” lmao
To quote Simon, "The past was the worst."
Just saying Simon... Going on a tangent about what you do to mice... Casual Criminalist rules. Simon says, "I only kills pests... Like the locals who make too much noise... There's a difference between that and being psycho." I also know that bees nests are taken down free by the fire department where you are. That's how many tangents you go on on your Channels. ;)
Never heard anyone pronounce "Bell" quite like Simon. Wonder how tempted he was to call this episode The Bell-End Witch. 😁
Simon you should do an episode on the Count of St. Germain
He appears to be some guy who died in 18th century but was an “accomplished alchemist” who on the surface appears to be a gentleman bullshitter. But if you dig deeper it appears you might be dealing with an immortal time lord. He shows up in several places throughout history and is often cited as the “real doctor who” by several articles and UA-camrs.
It would be nice if you made a video delving into the several historical records like how Napoleon iii opened a department dedicated to investigating the guy and how that department mysteriously burned down.
it would be interesting to know how this profesional bullshitter managed to get such a legend that people thought he was still around long after he died
I'd love to hear that.
I had never heard the full account, before. That one is kind of charming, colorful and quaint!
Also, the nickname for "Richard." Plus "Bell."
In the states I've never heard of Chinese whispers game. We call it telephone game.
Or Grapevine. I heard the Telephone Game most often in Indiana
I think the movie you’re thinking of that terrorized you as a kid was Pinocchio.
As a Tennessean from this area, I can tell you members of the Bell family actually still do experience weird things happening if they live in that area. Most of them sort of accept it as normal and really seem to ignore things like strange voices talking to their kids and things being moved around their homes by unseen forces.
That movie that scared you as a child was actually Pinocchio. That boys turn to donkeys scene was terrifying
They weigh the same as a duck, are made of wood, and can be made into a bridge. Also they float, along with small rocks.
There’s a version of this where Bell enters a cave and that’s why the witch haunts him. In fact, there is a Bell Cave in Tennessee
I love how Simon does his best to be respectful to cultures, victims and peoples life choices but still doesn't stop from definitely giving his opinions on being himself and his beliefs. I feel like so many UA-camrs nowadays try to be so very sensitive to the point where they're extremely vanilla and don't seem like they have any opinions whatsoever towards anything which we know is not authentic in any way. Plus he's hilarious
The 2005 film "An American Haunting" was based on this story, if you're interested. Donald Sutherland played John Bell.
That movie was terrible.
We used to have mice in the house that would fight with each other or whatever in the attic at night too, I lost my fear of them with time as a kid - it just became normal.
Interestingly, mice will only eat cheese if they can't reach anything else. My mom had to put our flour, sugar, cookies, bread etc in plastic tubs to protect them. Also filled the mouse traps with flour.
The mouse traps Simon shows, sometimes they break the neck, sometimes they break the skull. Sometimes the mouse gets unlucky and survives the initial snap, so then we had to throw them in a bucket of water, trap and all. But yes, that's still more humane than leaving them in a no-kill mouse trap and then leaving them to starve to death.
Eventually we got a cat. Problem solved almost immediately. And less humanely, but then if there's one 'person' who doesn't care about making the deaths of animals humane, it's Mother Nature... Pretty sure the mice prefer the instant-kill traps.
Ugh. So true about nature. Definitely NOT humane. Amazing how many predators play with prey like cats sometimes do, or start eating prey while it's still alive. One of the "humane" traps used at the school where I used to work was the sticky trap. How ANYONE can see those as humane is beside me. The mice stayed on them until they starved to death, or two got trapped at the same time and one ate the other. Live catch traps are only humane if you can immediately take the critter WAY away from its current territory to release it (and chances are good that "nature" will take its course and it'll die in short order from either starvation or a predator, since it's being released in a territory it doesn't know).
@@dawnt6791 Oh, and that's only looking at mammals, too. Once you go down to the invertebrate level, you come across parasitoids (eat the host from the inside out) and tongue-eating lice... and cordyceps.
Nature doesn't give one hoot about being humane. I guess that's why it's called 'humane' in the first place - no other animal cares. We shouldn't lose sight of what we're trying to accomplish. If the point is to reduce an animal's suffering, I definitely believe the insta-kill is better than live-catch traps.
when I was visiting my grandparents, I would wake up at 4am hearing an old lady's voice chant and echo throughout the room I'm sleeping in. Creepy, but after a few days I found out the neighbor just likes to pray feverishly at 4am.