| Table of Contents Dedication ....................................................................................... 3 Acknowledgments............................................................................ 5 Introduction: Who Was the True Bell Witch of Tennessee? ............ 11 Introduction by Cate Williams Batts: The Poltergeist Wasn’t Me! .... 13 Prelude Prelude: Cate and Sol Speak from the Other Side ........................... 17 1818 in Adams, Tennessee 1: The Premonition......................................................................... 31 2: Cate Tells Sol Betsy Bell’s News ................................................. 33 3: Bloody Visions .......................................................................... 36 4: No Reprieve—Another Murder .................................................. 39 1767 to 1804 in North Carolina 5: Cate Finds a Friend .................................................................. 45 6: A Death in the Family .............................................................. 48 7: Cate Finds a Golden Cross ........................................................ 51 8: Life Gets Complicated for Cate and Sol .................................... 54 9: First Love ................................................................................ 56 10: Cate Faces the Music ............................................................. 59 11: The Bad Girl .......................................................................... 62 12: Baby or Witch? ...................................................................... 68 13: A Visit with Grandpa John..................................................... 72 14: Saving Caty’s Life .................................................................. 79 15: Caty Is Exiled from Home ..................................................... 82 16: Cate’s First Nomadic Home.................................................... 85 17: The Last of Cate’s Childhood Review..................................... 87 18: Cate’s Father Speaks Out ...................................................... 93 19: Cate Has a Crush ................................................................... 96 20: John Bell Appears on the Scene ............................................. 99 21: Grandpa John and John Bell in Conflict ............................... 102 22: Blackmail ............................................................................. 104 23: Cate’s Futuristic Dream of the Trail of Tears ........................ 108 24: Never Sell John Bell That Land ............................................. 113 25: John Bell Marries Lucy Williams in 1782 .............................. 118 26: Primary Souls and Alternate Aspects .................................... 121 27: John Bell Wishes to Clear the Air ......................................... 123 28: The Sacred Indian Land ........................................................ 129 29: The Braceys and Cate ........................................................... 133 30: The Secret of Horatio’s Bequest ........................................... 136 31: Sol and Cate Meet at Last .................................................... 140 32: Sol, Cate, and Baby Makes Three ......................................... 143 33: Little Brother ...................................................................... 148 34: A Reminder ......................................................................... 151 35: Cate Makes Contact At Last ................................................. 152 36: Cate’s Cabin ........................................................................ 156 37: What Will Grandpa John Say About Sol? ............................. 159 38: Sol and Cate Reunited ........................................................ 163 39: Meeting Frederick ............................................................... 165 40: Cholle ................................................................................. 170 41: An Arrangement .................................................................. 178 42: A Spirit Battle ..................................................................... 182 43: A Bitter Pill to Swallow......................................................... 185 44: The Unconsummated Honeymoon ....................................... 187 45: A Cosmic Explanation .......................................................... 192 46: The Seduction ..................................................................... 196 47: A Sacred Conference by Moonlight........................................ 199 48: Love on a Summer Morning .................................................. 203 49: Trying to Get Pregnant ........................................................... 205 50: What Happened When Grandpa John Died?............................. 209 51: Two More Losses ................................................................... 212 52: A New Start ........................................................................... 217 53: From West to East and Back Again ........................................ 219 54: Unconsciously Setting the Stage for Murder .......................... 222 55: Victims and Victimizers ......................................................... 230 56: An Imaginary Threat to John Bell’s Marriage ......................... 236 57: The Overseer Is Murdered by John Bell .................................. 240 58: A Second Murder ................................................................... 245 59: Lucy’s Lament ...................................................................... 250 60: Whose Fault Was It?............................................................... 253 61: Tennessee Fever ................................................................... 255 1804 to 1817: Cate’s New Start in Adams, Tennessee 62: Life in Tennessee ................................................................... 259 63: Squeezing the Devil out of Brother Edwards .......................... 263 64: Healing All but the Ones She Loves ....................................... 266 1817 to 1821: The Advent of the “Bell Witch” 65: It All Started in 1817 ............................................................ 273 66: Don’t Tell Anybody About Our Family Trouble ..................... 275 67: Mr. James Johnson Tries to Help ........................................... 279 68: Grandpa John’s Ghostly Intervention Keeps the Land Safe .... 281 69: This Load of Guilt .................................................................. 284 70: The Spirits Learn to Talk ....................................................... 291 71: The First Poltergeist Speaks ................................................... 294 72: The Second Poltergeist’s Tale ................................................. 298 73: A Plan of Attack .................................................................... 302 74: The Truth Hurts .................................................................... 305 75: A Bad Idea ............................................................................ 310 76: How the Poltergeist Came to Be Called ‘Kate’ ....................... 312 77: Assigning Blame ................................................................... 315 78: Why People Gave Cate Batts the Blame ................................ 323 79: A Wasted Trip ...................................................................... 329 80: Two Deaths .......................................................................... 331 81: Betsy Bell and Joshua Gardner ............................................. 338 1821 to 1995: The Final Chapters of the Bell Witch Saga 82: What Happened to the Three Poltergeists? ............................ 345 83: The Spirits of the Partial Light .............................................. 353 84: Cate Batts Dies in 1833 ......................................................... 356 85: Renegade Cate Goes Home at Last ......................................... 363 About the Author—DJ Lyons ....................................................... 365 |
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