The Deranged Story of the Nettles (1888, Appalachia) — They Fed the Cellar Before Themselves

🔔 Subscribe now and hit the notification bell — we post true Appalachian horror and dark history every week and you do NOT want to miss what's coming next! @liannacarrion7412 The Nettle family documentary record — the 1891 cellar sealing by eleven men, the 1892 found twins, the shadow photograph, the 1910 census disappearance, the 1933 coffins opened from below — gains a chapter from 1888 that precedes the cellar sealing and that the assembled record has been missing: the account of what the Nettle family was doing in the years before the eleven men determined that sealing was necessary. The 1888 circuit court proceeding against the Nettle family was not initiated by the eleven men who would seal the cellar three years later. It was initiated by a county tax assessor whose routine property inspection in the spring of 1888 produced the observation that became the complaint that became the proceeding. The observation was about the provisioning. The Nettle household's food consumption, by the assessor's estimate from what he could observe on the inspection visit, was significantly in excess of the household's documented occupancy — significantly in the specific direction that the Sowell family's three-year provisioning pattern had exhibited: more food going in than the documented household could account for consuming. The Sowell family had been feeding someone who never left. The Nettles were feeding something below. The circuit court proceedings cover the investigation's findings, the family's explanation, and the circuit judge's disposition — a disposition the judge describes in his closing remarks as the most unusual property matter the court had been asked to address in his tenure and whose resolution the available legal framework made the most difficult disposition decision of his career. The family's explanation of who they were feeding and why they had been feeding it before themselves — consistently, across the years the assessor could establish from the provisioning record — is in the circuit court file across three sessions of family testimony. 😨 The family was not feeding a person. They were feeding the cellar because the cellar required feeding — that is the family's account, given across three testimony sessions with the cooperative tone that this channel has documented across the Vardell face-down burial explanation and the Weeper chair practice explanation: the tone of people describing something they had always done to someone who had never needed to know the reason. The cellar's requirements, and the consequences the family described for not meeting them, are in the second testimony session. This video examines the second testimony session, the cellar's requirements, the judge's disposition, and the three-year gap between the 1888 proceeding and the 1891 sealing — connecting the Nettle family's cellar feeding practice to the assembled Nettle record and building the account of what was in the cellar before the eleven men sealed it. If you are drawn to true Appalachian horror, dark history, and the testimony sessions that describe what a cellar required and what happened when those requirements were not met — this video reads the second session and the disposition. 1888 proceeding. 1891 sealing. Three years between them. The family fed the cellar before themselves. The second testimony session describes what the cellar required. The disposition is the most difficult of the judge's career. 👇 Comment below — with the Nettle record now including the 1888 feeding practice, what does the account of what the cellar required — and the consequences for not meeting those requirements — tell us about what the eleven men sealed in 1891, and how does the Nettle cellar feeding practice connect to the Sowell family's feeding of something that never left and the Weeper family's nightly chair placement? We read every single reply.