Talk:An American Haunting

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Contents 1 the 'plot' section in the article.. 2 Inconsistencies with legend 3 Citation for the "validation"? 4 Plot

[edit] the 'plot' section in the article..

The 'Plot' section describes the actual legend of the Bell Witch, not the plot of the movie, which defers slightly.

Yeah, I noticed that myself, but since I haven't seen the movie I didn't want to touch it. --The Kevin 08:39, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

I was about to comment on that. Maybe later tonight I'll try to write something up for it. Though I don't like my writing so much... so I'm not sure about it. I was wondering why seeminly 70% of what I read didn't happen in the movie.... or at least wasn't mentioned.-- MaxDuo (talk) 12:05, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inconsistencies with legend

It is mentioned that the movie ignores the spirit's transition from a poltergeist to an unmanifested spirit. Having just finished the movie, I distinctly recall the spirit speaking to the family, which seems to disprove the claim of inconsistency. Dan (talk) 19:23, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Citation for the "validation"?

The second paragraph makes mention of the case this was based on being the only "validated" by the state as an authentic death caused by a spirit. (I'm mis-quoting, I know.) Though there is no citation referencing the validation. Does anyone have a citation for this, or did I miss it at the bottom somewhere?

Bagheera 03:25, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

I ended up adding the citation needed tag. The external website referenced has a fair amount on the legend, but no specifics on the validation. Though there is a reference to Andrew Jackson himself probably not contributing any validation himself.

Bagheera 17:49, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Plot

Having just seen the movie, the plot section seems to have a lot of original research regarding conclusions that were at best implied in the movie. CAVincent (talk) 15:26, 22 November 2007 (UTC)