The Holloway Well: Shoe on Stone, A Woman Never Found

The Holloway Well: Shoe on Stone, A Woman Never Found

A child's leather shoe sat upright on a granite capstone over a sealed well that appeared on no map, in a county where Vicki Bell vanished 112 years earlier; the shoe was dry while the surrounding ground was wet-how did one small object break a century of silence? What scratched message was hidden under the capstone, and what lay locked eighteen feet down on a limestone shelf?

In this episode, we trace the records, local warnings, and the single physical clue that reawakened a vanished woman's story. You will hear how parish notes, census entries, a lone newspaper notice, and a later surveyor's discovery converge on the same place-so what does the Holloway Well really conceal?

Person: Vicki Bell Date: November 4, 1899 Location: Spit Road, Pelham Township, Vass County Event: Missing person; chickens found dead November 8, 1899 Person: Harlan Voss

- Vicki Bell was recorded as age 31 and employed as a dry-goods clerk in the 1900 federal census. - Bell’s missing-persons notice ran once in the Pelham Courier on November 9, 1899, signed by her sister Edna Marsh. - Bell’s chickens were found dead of thirst on November 8, 1899, four days after she was last seen leaving Fenwick Brothers on November 4. - The Holloway Well’s capstone bore an inscription scratched on its underside discovered when the stone was lifted in November 2011. - The well contains a shelf of limestone approximately 18 feet underground where an object or detail was found locked in place.

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