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For years, the people of this town told lies about me. They locked me away. Called me a monster. Now, they will get the monster they all deserve.
~ Sarah Bellows' most famous line.

Sarah Bellows is the main antagonist of the 2019 film Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, based on the book of the same name. She was locked away by her family, blamed for crimes she didn't commit, and ultimately became an enraged spirit seeking to murder her family for what they had done to her. She later vents her fury on Stella Nicholls and her friends after Stella takes her book from the Bellows house.

She was portrayed by Kathleen Pollard.

Appearance[]

Sarah Bellows is 5' 1/4 with white hair, skin, and pale eyes as a result of her albinism. She wears a white dress with tattered sleeves and chains around the neck, midsection, and wrists.

Biography[]

Past[]

I tried...I tried to save them. I didn't want them hurt, but you wouldn't let me out.
~ Sarah to Ephraim.

Sarah Bellows was the third child born to Delanie and Deodat Bellows, the younger sister to Ephraim and Harold, and the granddaughter of Gertrude Bellows. She was the only one of the Bellows children to be born with albinism, leading to her family locking her away in a small hidden room in the basement. Sarah spent her days writing and telling scary stories through the wall to the local children who came to visit her.

At an undisclosed point in time, children began dying. The Bellows family placed the blame on Sarah, telling the townspeople she was practicing witchcraft taught to her by the family's housekeeper, Sylvie, and her daughter, Lou Lou, and had poisoned the children. In reality, it was the mercury runoff from the family's paper mill that had polluted the river, thus poisoning the children, resulting in their deaths. Sarah discovered this and, refusing to take the blame, was admitted to Pennhurst Asylum under the care of her own brother, Doctor Ephraim Bellows.

Instead of being treated for what her records alleged were "homicidal tendencies", Sarah was tortured by Ephraim, subjected to electroshock therapy and isolation therapy, all in an effort to get her to "confess" to murdering the children in order to cover up the true cause of death to prevent the paper mill from being closed down and the whole Bellows family being liable. Despite all this, Sarah continued to maintain that it was the water that had poisoned the children, not her.

Sarah ultimately took her own life, after which she became an angry spirit, taking the lives of her surviving family members though the stories she wrote in her book.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark[]

Stella...I have another story...just for you...
~ Sarah to Stella.

By the beginning of the film, in 1968, seventy years after her passing, Sarah had become a myth in Mill Valley. The local legend, with variations, given Chuck's remark, "There's no book in the version of the myth I heard," states that Sarah spent her dats telling scary stories to the local children, and that she began poisoning them for unknown reasons, resulting in an unknown number of deaths. A mob hadd purportedly formed in anger, but before they could do anything, Sarah had hanged herself "with her own hair". It was also said that anyone who entered the Bellows house at night and said "Sarah Bellows, tell me a story." would die shortly after.

Her room is discovered by Stella Nicholls and her friends after escaping the local bully, Tommy Milner. Stella finds Sarah's book of scary stories on the bookshelf, and while Chuck insists that Stella put it back, she instead takes it with her before they leave the house, uttering the words, "Sarah Bellows, tell me a story," effectively waking Sarah's enraged spirit.

Sarah first vents her rage on Tommy in the story "Harold", bringing to life the scarecrow perched in the Milner farm cornfield. Tommy is subsequently turned into a scarecrow, replacing Harold. The night after, she writes Auggie's story, "The Big Toe", prompting Stella, Ramon, and Chuck to do some research on her. They discover that Sarah's family had fired the housekeeper after Sarah's death, and that after Deodat's leaving, the mill was left unsold, leaving the fate of the town in the balance.

With the name Deodat sounding familiar, Stella realizes that all the Bellows had not simply left Mill Valley, as the town had originally thought. They all had stories in Sarah's book, having been killed by her seventy years earlier. Their research is cut short as Sarah begins writing Ruth's story, "The Red Spot", and the kids rush to save her.

They learn from an elderly Lou Lou that there was no black magic, only Sarah's rage, and that Sarah had not hanged herself in the house, but in Pennhurst, where Chuck ultimately faces his own story, "The Dream", where he comes across the Pale Lady. Stella and Ramon learn that Sarah was not the monster the myths made her out to be, but a girl who had tried to be a hero, to warn the town of her family's misdeeds after the poisoned water had killed the children.

After saving Ramon from his story, "What Do You Come For?", with The Jangly Man, Sarah's final confrontation with Stella comes after Stella's own story, "The Haunted House", in which Stella is terrorized by the Bellows family, believing her to be Sarah. Stella finally puts an end to Sarah's rampage, promising to tell her story, and that it's okay for her to let go and move on. Sarah does.

Trivia[]

  • Sarah does not appear in the original books as she does in the movie. Rather, she is an entirely new character specific to the film. The appearance of the young woman in the original "The Haunted House" story (corpse-like, empty eye sockets) was used for the monster in "The Big Toe". The only similarities between Sarah and the character in the original story is their want for the truth to be told before they can properly rest.
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