The Amityville Horror

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The book “The Amityville Horror” is about a newlywed couple, George and Kathy, and their three children. The new family goes looking for a house and finds an insanely cheap house that looks amazing. They later find out that it's so cheap because there was a mass murder that happened there. The family that used to live there was all murdered in their beds by a family member who lived in their basement. Killing the couple and their two sons and two daughters.

After they move in they go to a priest and have him bless their house, but the priest says it's very haunted and the evil spirit makes him blind and sick. The father doesn't care, do with him not having a strong faith but Kathy is terrified. Sadly the priest seems to lose his mind. The

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