Beware the Bell Witch by Thomas Kingsley Troupe

Author:Thomas Kingsley Troupe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUVENILE FICTION / Ghost Stories / Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural / Historical / United States / General
Publisher: North Star Editions
Published: 2019-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

On the screen in front of him was almost exactly what he’d seen. At first, he thought it was an actual photograph of the creature, but then quickly realized it was an artist’s rendering of the half dog/half rabbit creature.

It was almost exactly what Miles had seen. The only major difference was the creature’s ears and teeth. In the picture on the internet, none of the monster’s ears were bent. He also couldn’t see the broken, awful-looking teeth. It looked like it was standing in a field. The artist made the eyes even redder than they’d appeared in real life.

Even so, it didn’t look nearly as scary as Miles remembered it. He wondered if that was because the picture wasn’t trying to take a bite out of him.

“That thing?” Ryder asked.

“Yeah,” Miles said. “Pretty much like that.”

“It’s . . .” his little brother began. “Really kind of stupid looking.”

Miles groaned and held off punching Ryder in the nose.

“I didn’t say it was cool or anything, man,” he said. “But it was much scarier when it was coming after me.”

Ryder leaned in for a closer look. “We should read where that thing came from.”

Miles moved the cursor around the screen as if not sure where to go.

“It’s like you’ve never used the internet before,” Ryder muttered. He edged Miles out of the way and clicked the link to VIEW PAGE. It opened the website where the image lived.

Almost immediately, the Watley brothers said “whoa” in unison.

“It’s talking about John Bell and his family,” Miles whispered. “It’s the guy that old dude at the cave was talking about.”

The two of them read on together. The article talked about how John Bell had moved onto the farm with his wife and kids to start a new life. A short time after they’d settled in, strange things started happening around the farmhouse.

“They heard voices in the night,” Miles said, reading the passage while he traced the words with his finger. “It sounded like a feeble old woman reciting hymns.”

Ryder turned to his brother, his eyes wide with worry. “Is that what you heard?”

Miles tried to recall what it sounded like. “I’m not sure. I was just a lady’s voice, you know? I couldn’t really understand anything she was saying.”

They read on.

“John Bell’s youngest daughter, Betsy, was brutally attacked by the invisible entity,” Miles read. “It would pull her hair and slap her.”

Both boys were quiet for a moment.

“A ghost can attack people?” Ryder asked. “I didn’t think that was possible.”

“I don’t know,” Miles replied. “But you sound like you really believe in ghosts.”

“Don’t you?”

Miles paused for a second to think. He’d always been told there were no such things as ghosts. But he also knew there were tons of TV shows, movies, and stories about ghost sightings and paranormal activity. There were haunted hotels and pictures of what people thought were ghosts.

And there was the girl he thought he saw in the Bell Witch Cave.

Real or not, Miles just never thought they’d have to deal with a ghost of their own.

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