Bella Goth

Bella Goth was one of the pre-made Sims shipped with the original "The Sims" game, in which she lived with her husband Mortimer and her daughter Cassandra. In The Sims 2, Bella no longer actually exists (as in, the Bella married to Mortimer doesn't technically exist, from a program point of view); however, her essence lives on in two ways.

Bella's disappearance from the game is a major component to the background story of Pleasantview, the neighborhood where her family lives. The story does not explicitly state what happened to Bella, although her husband, her children and Don Lothario have memories of her being abducted by aliens. Many of Mortimer's memories involve Bella, as do Cassandra and Alexander's. On the family tree panel, Bella's face isn't greyed out. This indicates that the game does not consider her to be dead.

Although the actual Bella is gone, Maxis created a likeness of Bella and used it as a townie in another neighborhood, Strangetown. This version is a little different to the actual Pleasantview Bella Goth, but is acknowledged by Maxis as the same Bella. The only way to send Bella to Strangetown (without messing up the game code) was to create a new Bella, so that's what they did! The fact that the Strangetown Bella has no memories of her loved ones or past life is simply blamed on alien experiments during her abduction.

Spoilers
A few people around the internet have suggested many ways in order to get the original Bella back. Here are a few suggestions (None of them are bullet proof):


 * In order to do it without downloads, first go into a residential lot with a family in it. Then, type in 'boolprop testingcheatsenabled true'. After you do this press shift and click on your sim simultaneously. A menu will appear. Select spawn the tombstone of L & D (Life and Death). When it spawns click the tombstone and choose the option 'Add Neighbor to Family'. Select Bella and she will appear in the family as well as be related to Mortimer, Cassandra, and Alexander. She will have all her memories. However in order to allow the game to save Bella must have a baby. After she has a child, it will save and she will not disappear.
 * First go into the Strangetown neighborhood and make a new family or CAS, but there has to be at least one adult male in the family. Wait till Bella visits the lot, talk to her, and get her to fall in love with the male sim so that her relationship meters are both full. Propose to Bella to move in, then move her out of the house alone. Move her into the catalog and then move her into her own house. She must not meet any of the Goths. Allow her to meet Don Lothario and become best friends with him. Make sure both relationship meters with Don Lothario are full. Then invite Don Lothario to visit and look through the telescope. The real Bella will then be back.

Mucking about with the programming and using the boolprop feature is generally not advised. If your computer isn't powerful enough moving Bella out of Strangetown can give it the equivalent of a migraine. Nothing special happens either - no tearful re-union, she is not acknowledged as Cassandra's mother nor Mortimer's wife. In the Official Guide the townie of Strangetown is also said to be a fake.