Fact1: terrified young girl runs through forest and into house to escape unseen threat, Fact2: mother picks up binder full of old letters, Fact3: story moves into that of Bell Witch, Fact4: offended party is infamous in village due to claims of witchcraft, Fact5: Richard stays in Bell home to observe Betsy 's behavior
Output: A terrified young girl runs through the forest and into her house to escape an unseen threat. She awakens with a scream. Her mother dismisses it as a dream and reminds her that this is her week to visit her father. She picks up an old, broken doll and asks her daughter where she got it. When the girl answers that she found it in the attic, her mother reminds her that the attic is offlimits and not to go up there again. The mother goes to her desk and picks up a binder full of old letters, with a note from someone that says theyre from an ancestor. The letters appear to be written in 19thcentury script. A young girl and boy running through the woods dressed in early 19thcentury garb, and the story moves into that of the Bell Witch. John Bell is taken to church court and found guilty of theft of a womans land. The church releases him with the verdict that his loss of honor is sufficient punishment. The offended party, Kate Batts, is infamous in the village due to claims of witchcraft. Strange events begin to occur and John believes that Batts cursed him. Betsy starts to look very sick and the haunting worsens. She falls asleep in school, her attitude towards others changes and she becomes irritable. Her young teacher, Richard Powell, notices the change in her behavior. The Bell family tells him about the strange occurrences and their fears that the cause is paranormal. Powell attempts to prove to them that this is impossible because spirits dont exist. It is implied that Richard is also in love with Betsy. Determined to convince the family of reality, Richard stays in the Bell home to observe Betsys behavior. He is proven wrong when he witnesses Betsy dangling off the floor, as if someone is holding her up by her hair. Betsy is sexually assaulted by the spirit. John loses his sanity and sees ghosts. He asks Kathe to kill him. She refuses and tells him that he cursed himself. John makes an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Betsy is struck with a revelation that the attacks on her and her father are caused by a supernatural being who was born out of her innocence. She needed to remember that the true cause of her pain is her fathers sexual abuse. Lucy, Betsys mother, has the same revelation because she witnessed the assault. Betsy and Lucy apparently repressed the incident. Betsy poisons her sick, bedridden, father with medicine while her mother watches. Later, Betsy is then seen at her fathers grave, and she never haunted again In present day, the mother is reading the journal. Her daughter comes to her and says her father has come to take her for their weekend stay. She sends her daughter to her exhusband, who is waiting outside. Betsys apparition suddenly appears and cries Help her! The mother realizes Betsy is trying to warn her that something is amiss between her daughter and her exhusband. She runs out of her house and catches a glimpse of her daughters worried face peering out from the window of the car as it drives away. The obvious implication is that the father is sexually abusing her. She runs after her exhusbands car.