When the Bell Turns: The Town That Rings for Wrongful Death
When the Bell Turns: The Town That Rings for Wrongful DeathThe bell at Calder Road Fellowship-four hundred and sixty pounds of bronze, etched with the name JESSICA-rotated three-quarters of a turn at 6:14 a.m. on April 9, 2019, though its rope had been removed six weeks earlier and the scaffolding had been down since March. The town legend says the bell rings when someone will die "wrongly"-but what did that word mean to the people of Calder's Ford, and why did the bell move on a morning when nothing should have reached it?In this episode, we follow a folklorist's months of fieldwork in a…
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