
An American Haunting
(0.00 / 0 votes)(panting)
(rattling)
(clock ticking)
(screaming)
- Jane! Jane! It's Momma.
(screaming)
Look at me!
J-Jane. Jane.
- No! No!
(panting)
- Oh, thank God.
D'you have another nightmare,
honey?
Let's get you
into a nice hot bath, huh?
- Can I do it later? Please?
- All right.
But you have to get ready
for your father.
It's his weekend with you.
- I know. I know.
- What's this?
- I found it in the attic.
- Honey, you know
the attic's off-limits.
- Sorry.
- Just don't do it again, okay?
I know how you feel.
- November 1848.
I hoped that no one
would ever find cause
to open this letter.
If you have,
I must assume
that unexplained...
or even supernatural events
have begun to occur.
The story of the Bell witch
had always been considered
to be a tall tale.
(laughter)
This is not so.
Please, read this journal
with great care...
... for its contents
may save your life.
Just one kiss.
- No, Joshua.
- Leave that young lady alone.
(laughter)
Did he try to kiss you again?
- Isn't there something
you should be doing, Miss Bell?
- Oh, I'm sorry, Mother.
I was thinking about something else...
- Probably about torturing poor Joshua.
You really should be nicer to him,
Betsy.
- A woman must keep a man
on his toes at all times.
Isn't that what you taught me?
- I taught you no such thing,
Betsy Bell.
- I'm gonna make Joshua
love me forever.
- Well, then you better
stop mistreating him.
- You think I was too hard on him?
- Just a little bit.
- What would I do without you?
- Oh, you'd just shrivel up
and blow away.
Now, don't forget your schoolwork.
- I won't!
(children laughing)
- Good evening, sir.
- My hat, thank you.
Ah.
(jig music playing)
- ... then James Johnson grabbed it,
swallowed a swig of it,
wiped his mouth,
then he took hold of the wheel
at the axle
and in an instant, that carriage
was up and and out of that snowbank
as if 10 men had had a hold of it.
Ten! Ten!
- Speak of the devil!
- I'm not stewed
that I can't find
the fob next door.
- I was telling them about you
and that carriage last winter.
- Ha-ha! I did...
- Not yet!
- ... that carriage!
- With the help
of a good swig of horse liniment.
- Who has the drink?
- You're three sheets to the wind
already.
(children giggling)
- I'm so sorry, Professor Powell.
- It's all right.
They're just having fun.
(laughter)
- Theny!
- Is there not a... tradition
connected to mistletoe,
Professor Powell?
- Well...
(John laughing)
- Yes, but...
- Elizabeth Bell,
it's not appropriate
for a student to place a teacher
in such a compromising situation.
You know better than that, precious.
- Well...
it is Christmas, Father.
And I am simply attempting
to learn the traditions.
than one's teacher?
to have a ready answer
for everything, John.
Would you settle
for a dance, Betsy?
- Oh, John,
let them have their dance.
- May I steal this Bell
for a dance?
(Mrs. Bell laughing)
I promise not to step on your toes.
(sobbing)
- John!
(rapid thumping)
(moaning sound)
(quick sobbing sound)
(child crying)
(rapid thumping)
(gasping)
John...
- It's coming from the attic.
(pattering)
- Squirrels?
- No, it's too loud for squirrels.
(running footsteps )
It's the third time I've heard it
in as many nights.
- I hadn't heard it.
- You sleep so sound,
you don't even feel me
get out of bed.
- Yes, I do.
(wind blowing softly)
Listen.
It stopped.
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