With Halloween just around the corner, here's a true American haunting story.The story of the "Bell Witch. The haunting, which took place in the early 1800's on a farm in Tennessee has never been explained, although a lot of theories exist about what might have happened there. The strange activity has captured the minds of many writers over the years, who have gone to write their own fictional ghost stories. One of the best known is " The Blair Witch Project". As is the case with a lot of ghost stories, there are many different versions about who the Bell Witch really was. However, the most popular belief is that she was a rather disagreeable neighbor of the Bell family. Apparently, she felt that she had been cheated when the Bell's purchased a piece of her land. It wasn't a slight that she intended to overlook, so as the story goes, she cursed the Bell family on her deathbed, promising to kill John Bell. The supposed curse earned her by
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