The haunting started as unexplained noises around the Bell house beginning as scratching and knocking sounds and soon progressed to the sounds of dogs fighting, chains being dragged around and "beating" sounds on the outside walls of their house. It wasn’t long until the children began complaining of more terrifying things--having their bed covers pulled off, being touched and pinched by a seemingly invisible force. Soon, they heard what sounded like faint, whispering voices--too weak to understand--but sounded like a feeble old woman crying or singing hymns. The encounters escalated, and the Bells’ thirteen-year-old daughter, Betsy, began experiencing brutal physical encounters with the entity. It relentlessly pulled her hair, beat and slapped her, often leaving visible prints on her face and body for days at a time.

Quickly, the entity’s voice strengthened; it carried on intelligent conversations, and answered questions from visitors. Although the Spirit tormented many people, including the Bells’ slaves, she seemed to adore Lucy Bell, John’s wife. Over a four year period, hundreds of people spoke with the Spirit and witnessed its wonderful and horrifying demonstrations; and ever so many detectives, wise men, witch doctors and conjurors came to exercise their skills on the Spirit and tried to rid the Bells of their tormentor; all were brought to grief by the Spirit and left confessing the phenomena was beyond comprehension. Yet, those who witnessed the demonstrations knew that it had a wonderful power of intelligence, possessing great knowledge of men and things; a spirit that could apparently read minds, tell men’s secrets, repeat sermons word for word and sing every song in the hymn book. It often assumed a pious character, enjoying religious discussions and quoting scripture with absolute accuracy.

The Spirit often expressed its dislike for "Ol’ Jack Bell" and vowed to kill him. As John Bell’s health grew worse, the Spirit would torture him more severely by relentlessly beating him while he was experiencing seizures. On the morning of December 20, 1820, John Bell took his last breath; and when the family found a small vial of unidentified liquid, the Spirit suddenly spoke up exclaiming, "I gave Ol’ Jack a big dose of that last night, and that fixed him!" John Bell’s funeral was one of the largest ever seen in Robertson County, hundreds of people attended, including the gloating Spirit, who cheerfully offered mourners a concert of brawny drinking songs.

The city of New York have decided to turn off major and unnecasarry lighting sooner so birds wont crash into them.This new idea for turning lights off at certain times is starting to become active nation wide.The idea was thought of many years ago, but never was really important to anyone until the death of birds became higher.Birds migrate during fall and again in april.the program will most likely only be active during those months.A way people are trying to prevent birds from crashing into glass is giving it a UV coating wich makes is visiblle.
This is important.more than 100 million birds die every year from hitting houses or buildings.this is an effective way to save electricity and lives!

Ismael Escabedo
El Faro Taqueria
5555 Palo Alto(i live next to guitaro center~!)
please visit me anyone.It gets a tad bit boring making me mommy tacos and enchiladas and taquitos and burrrritos so, come over, and i will give you a discount on our quesadillas. later ese

well well well...looks like its a nice sunny day today.i like bacon as you obviously know.im a vegeterian, and a vegan.but i love skittles.taste the rainbow bitch.anywho, dood, dOOOD, d-d-d-d-dood,do you know what they do to KFC chickens dood?! i dont care, but jus checkin. sasmos mom out