Q:Build a movie plot around this: who is stealing a woman's land? John Bell
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It is modern day and a young girl is running through the forest and runs into her house, trying to get away from something. It turns out it was just a dream that the young girl was having. Her mother comes in to remind her that she is going to go and stay with her father for the weekend.Later, the divorced mother finds an old binder of letters from the 19th century. The letters are from a previous occupant of the house. The film switches to the early 19th century, focusing on a village that used to stand around the house, and the story of the Bell Witch is told.John Bell is taken to church court, guilty of stealing a woman's land. The church lets him go because the loss of his honor is good enough. The offended woman, Kate Batts, who is infamous in the village over claims of witchcraft, hints that she means ill to him and his daughter, Betsy.Soon, strange things start happening and John believes that Batts has cursed him. Betsy starts to look very sick and the haunting gets worse. She falls asleep in school, and her attitude towards people changes and she becomes very irritable. Her young teacher, Richard Powell notices the changes in her behavior. When the Bell family tells him of the events going on and that they are being caused by a spirit, he goes on to try to prove to them that that cannot be the case, as spirits are not real. Richard stays in the Bell's home, observing Betsy's behavior to try to prove to them that it is not supernatural. He is proved wrong, when he witnesses Betsy dangling off of the floor, as if someone is holding her up by her hair. Through the movie, it is implied that Richard is in love with Betsy.Later, Betsy is raped by the spirit. John begins to get sick and sees ghosts as well. He goes insane and asks Batts to kill him but she refuses, telling him he cursed himself. John attempts suicide unsuccessfully.Betsy finally has a revelation: the attacks on her and her father are caused by a supernatural being who was born out of her innocence and the reason for them are so she can...