Name: Leanne Morgan's Hometown Had a Witch??
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Leanne Morgan's Hometown Had a Witch??' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-12-05. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Leanne Morgan's Hometown Had a Witch??' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-12-05. Transcript available.

What was your town like?
Like, was there any like lore in your town?
Like any famous people that came to visit or did anything like,
was there any like, I'm trying to think of something interesting that happened.
Honey, there was a demon.
Of course.
The bell witch.
The bell witches from your town?
Yes.
Oh my gosh.
You've heard of the bell witch?
We had some ghost hunter children,
and I don't know if something happened to them through the church or something.
They didn't tell me everything that happened to them.
We had two young fellows who were touched by the spirit and out there hunting.
The bell witch.
They went to the bell witch.
That is the only time that the government got involved in a...
And investigated.
Investigated a witchcraft situation.
Right, honey.
That's where I'm from.
Oh, those little boys.
They look like they love a ghost.
Sam and Colby.
Yeah, Sam and Colby.
Sam and Colby.
Great guys.
But, yeah, so that was your area.
That's where I'm from, and I was raised, yes, with a demon.
They talked about it all the time.
If there was a Fourth of July picnic, they'd put a dummy in a coffin and said,
that's the witch, that's Kate Batts.
So that was big lore around y'all.
Oh, yeah.
And the Vanderbilt football team fraternities would come down, torment each
other,
beat the windows out of our church.
Everybody had to pass money around to put more windows in the church.
Graveyard dogs that had bullet holes that couldn't explain why they're still
walking.
Crows.
She comes in the form of a black dog, a black crow.
Crazy mess.
Chris Robinson.
And I was raised in it.
Yeah, she just showed up dressed like Chris Robinson.
Yeah.
It was great.
And people come from all over.
They still come.
And during October is the Bell Witch play, and it sold out.
And I went, my sister got me tickets a couple of years ago,
and I sat by a guy that works at Warner Brothers on the pit.
Wow.
And shrinking.
He came to see it.
He was shrinking?
Shrinking with Harrison Ford, that television show.
Oh, got it.
Shrinking on Apple.
Does he...
A Warner Brothers executive.
I'm sorry.
Is it worth going to see that?
Yeah.
I think if you...
Do you want to be around a demon?
I don't.
But do you want to go...
Do you like scary mess?
I would like...
I know you've got the Holy Spirit, and that probably bumps you.
I think it doesn't make me feel great, but I do like to go over there and just
every now
and then make sure that the devil's still out and about so I know that the path
I'm on is
what I'm supposed to be doing.
Right.
I get that.
I get that, because the devil is at work.
Okay.
There's a cave.
You can go in the cave, and there's Native American bones.
There's animal bones.
The witch is in there.
People come from all over to go through that cave.
I've never been through it.
I didn't want to go.
Oh, my God.
And my daddy didn't want me to go in it.
Oh, my God.
And what town is that in?
That's over in Adams?
That's in Adams, Tennessee, on the Kentucky-Tennessee border in Robertson
County.
Wow.
There's been movies written about it, books.
See, children that grew up in Tennessee used to have to do a book report on it,
but now
nobody, I don't think they make them do it.
The Bell Witch Cave story is one of America's most famous mysterious events
experienced by
the Bell family in Adams, Tennessee between 1817 and 1821.
The haunting began when John Bell, the family patriarch, encountered a bizarre
creature resembling
a dog with a rabbit's head on the property.
A dog with a rabbit's head?
Yeah.
I haven't heard that one.
It sounds like a hormone issue, but I don't know a lot.
See, Betsy must have been beautiful.
And then John, there was some-
Because what does it say?
Betsy?
Let me see.
Oh, disturbances escalated to eerie-
Sorry to interrupt you.
No, that's all right, Angel.
Disturbances escalated to eerie noises, objects moved by unseen forces, bedsheets
pulled away,
and this could have just been a pervert, and violence towards the family,
especially daughter
Betsy Bell, who experienced beatings and fainting spells.
I know the real story.
You do know the real story?
I do.
Then set us straight.
Okay.
First of all, let me say that before Nashville became the capital of Tennessee,
it was going
to be Adams because of our rich, dark-fired tobacco crops that grow.
We grow tobacco for Copenhagen and Skull, but because it was so rich in the
land for tobacco,
it was going to be the capital, but then for some reason they made it in
Nashville.
John Bell ran for president at one time with the Whig Party, so they were a
very prominent
family.
Lucy must have been a beauty.
A man came through town, was in love with her.
Lucy or Betsy?
Lucy.
Okay.
Wait.
Lucy, wait.
Leah, Lucy's the daughter.
Betsy was the mom.
Okay.
John's, okay.
So Lucy, she did not want that man, and so to torment her, he could throw his
voice.
They said he was a ventriloquist.
I know what you're going to do with that.
I got like Frank Caliendo.
Hey, I'm John Gruden.
You need an exorcism, Betsy.
Go on.
Hey, Lucy.
But they like blamed it on a slave.
God love him, and it wasn't him.
It was this man that came through.
It was never the slave.
Every time the slave was like, what did I do?
This was a man that could throw his voice.
He was a mathematician, a ventriloquist, and he fooled them all.
And then poisoned John Bell and killed him.
And then Lucy didn't know it, and I think Lucy ended up marrying him.
That's how it works.
That's how it works.
Hey, they say shooters shoot.
That's what I'm saying.
And women are attracted to twisted.
Are they?
Yeah.
So, and trauma.
So, and you know, you want to fix people because we're nurturing.
So, anyway, and that is the Bell Witch and the whole thing.
And people come, and it's always on the front of USA Today.
It's one of the oldest ghost stories.
And it's part of Tennessee history, like you said.
But that's what I was raised, and that's what we're known for.
Now, maybe they're known kind of for me.
Maybe.
Oh, yeah.
I think so.
Me and a witch.
I think she's beaten me.
I think it depends.
How many tickets do they sell every year to that event?
I sell more.
Let's go.
Let's just say I sell a few more tickets than the Bell Witch.
They sell quite a few tickets.
I ain't bragging.
But not, but I'm, you know.
Yes, I know you do.
I did some small arenas this year.
Hell, yeah, you did.
And I'm just joking.
You know that.
I know.
But that is popular.
And, you know, people that love ghosts love ghosts.
Oh, yeah.
And people are speaking and, you know, channeling the Beatles and all that kind
of crap down there.
But I don't like all that.
I believe in demons.
I don't like all that.
Well, you know, this is one thing that we just did talk about when Sam and Colby
were here,
these ghost hunter children.
Well, I'm not saying we're victims of sexual crime.
I have no idea.
I don't know what their lives were like.
Some of that's alleged.
I'm not saying that.
I read that somewhere.
What I am saying is that, yeah, they said, well, we talked about how it's just
like if
you summon something, it'll show up.
It's like having faith, asking God to show up in your life.
If you sit out there and ask for it to come, it'll be there.
And that's sometimes why I think the devil's winning because you have people
that are spending
more time summoning the devil than you have people that are sitting here asking
God
to show up.
See, and there's the thing about the bellwitch, and growing up, my cousins
would do it, and
it would scare me to death that they'd go, say her name three times, turn
around, and she'll
appear.