Talk:An American Haunting

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)

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)
 * I'm no spiritualist, but it perhaps "speaking to" the family and "communicating with" the family are meant to be two different concepts. While the entity definitely spoke to the family, calling out their names; it never responded to their questions like, "Why are you here?"  Powell specifically said it never replied.  Hoof Hearted (talk) 16:48, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

What is the point of a reference to "inconsistencies with the legend", when the legend isn't even mentioned. Was there a legend, or was that just a part of the publicity for the film?

The wording of this section has to be re-written, it makes little sense.124.197.15.138 (talk) 00:54, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Right now nothing in the section is cited and it isn't specified if the inconsistencies are from the book or from the movie. I think the section should be removed until we have an actual source that discusses this issue, otherwise it is original research. Kaldari (talk) 18:44, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

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)

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)

"The attacks she suffers from are caused by a being who was born out of her innocence –i.e. herself– and the reason for them was for her to "remember"." ... What? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.198.170.251 (talk) 01:30, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Book Author
Someone put in that the book the film was based on, which has no entry of its own, was written by "cd". The book was written by Brent Monahan, who also has no entry of his own. I don't know if putting down "cd" was a joke or something, but of course "cd" links to the page for Compact Discs, and even under the disambiguation list for "cd" there is no author under there, so clearly it was "vandalism" of some sort, though I don't really understand it. If it was a joke, I definitely don't get it. Then again, I only first watched the film tonight, and I have never read the book or heard of the legend prior. I corrected the error and put in the real author's name, though, after checking on Amazon.com and on the page for the legend of the Bell Witch. Fermentor (talk) 10:50, 12 April 2009 (UTC)