The local schoolteacher, Richard Powell, witnessed the strange events and recorded them for his daughter. Individuals from the Bell family have recently given data on this captivating case, yet this book retells the story with novelistic energy and verve. The book starts off with our author getting a call from an old college friend about a sealed manuscript found in an attic. As a peruser, it was a convincing story as a believer. the sky is the limit with the right inspiration. Scary at the start. Then it drags on. I like the very last sentence: There is much that can and should be learned from here. This is a horror story with a heart. Not like the usual horror movie with scaring-the-hell-out-of-you as the only intent. The occasion descriped in the book evidently happened int around 1871-1821. The book doesn’t say whether it is male or female, so it doesn’t have an orientation, and his/her motivation. The horrendous consummation destroyed any interest in this book I had. This fictionalized story is told in the first person by Richard Powell. The writer, Brent Monahan, adopts a first individual account strategy by having Richard Powell address a letter to his girl to be perused after his passing. Richard Powell address a letter to his girl to be perused after his passing and provided that his significant other, her mom, Betsy Bell Powell appears to turn into "distressed." All of the characters in this book existed. Richard Powell is heartsick over their age distinction with Betsey and the reality she was infatuated with a neighborhood kid more her age. I wound up perusing a site today that discussions about The Bell Witch so I had the option to uncover specific pieces of the story that were fictionalized. Certain things have been invalidated(General Andrew Jackson didn’t go to visit the Bell home) and I can’t help thinking about why the creator left them in. The ending made me sigh and roll my eyes. Monahan�s keeps you guessing as to which part is historical and which parts are invented. When Betsy’s father dies it leaves open the option of marrying the narrator and allowing the story to be told. This is one of those reality blended in with fiction books. There is a lot of mystery around the "Bell witch" and many many people who witnessed the attacks that had come from all over to try and prove them as hoaxes.