ADAMS, Tenn. – A&E Network presents a new original series following the personal journey of John Ceallach, a direct descendant of the Bell Witch curse; one of the oldest and most legendary ghost stories in America.
Ceallach believes that this curse has befallen several generations of his family and he is on the hunt to reverse it before it reaches his only son. “Cursed: The Bell Witch” premieres this week on A&E.
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Legend has it that in the early 1800s, a Tennessee landowner named John Bell had a child out of wedlock with a local witch named Kate Batts. To cover his tracks, it is believed he murdered her and in turn she cursed his family bloodline from her grave; the first-born male of each generation would either be driven insane or suffer a mysterious, untimely death. Since then, five Bell men are reported to have suffered this fate.
The series follows Ceallach and his best friend Chad Higgenbotham, conduct what series producers call “a haunted investigation.”