The Bell Witch
In Adams, Tennessee, a woman by the name of Kate Batts was executed on suspicion of witchcraft. Of course, in a somewhat ironic twist, executing someone for witchcraft is pretty much the world’s quickest way to make a ghost. The Bell family, years later, would start experiencing all sorts of strange phenomena in their farmhouse, including disembodied assaults on family members, as well as scratching and knocking sounds from their walls and doors. In fact, the patriarch, John Bell, after his unexplained death, was the only person in the United States to ever be officially recorded as “death by ghost.”