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    I had never watched a film where I was too scared to be alone in my room, too terrified to sleep without the lights on, and too frightened to even go to bed, until, I made the mistake of putting on Amityville of Horror and began to watch the horror film by myself late at night with no one home. Amityville of Horror still gives me nightmares when I think about it lying in bed. I’m not one to get scared easily, especially scared of a film. When I was around 10 years old or so, my parents did not allow my siblings or myself to watch any horror or scary films based on the rating of the film. So one day when no one was home, I took it upon myself to do what I had been dying to do, watch the specific horror film; Amityville of Horror. At first…

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    Lots of books usually start with everyday life's story. However, The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson starts with the murdered case happened to the house. In this book, Reverend John Nicola makes two claims that there is not enough evidence to prove the story is true, and the house is haunted by the ghost or demon. With the SEARCH strategy, there was not enough evidence to prove these claims. It signifies the authors would be able to lie to make this book and the house is not haunted, they just…

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    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…

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    Amityville Horror

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    Kari McCartney Mrs. Jennings ELA 7. Houses with paranormal activity are very common. Activities that can take place in haunted houses are slamming doors, temperature fluctuations in different rooms, things falling, possessions, things going missing, and showing up in odd places and apparitions of entities. There have been a variety of reports of hauntings. Dolls, cabinets, pieces of clothing, or even houses in general, have all been reported. Some believe in entities from the other side that…

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    Hell House Gothic Analysis

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    Gothic Literature is a genre which has many other smaller genres branching out from it. For example, there is traditional gothic, weird fiction, southern gothic, contemporary gothic, etc. Each one of these partial genres has different characteristics which vary from story to story. However, some stories which fall into a specific genre, also have many characteristics from other genres. For example, a contemporary gothic literature work may be in written in a sense that seems like traditional…

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    Haunted Stories In my culture the fear of hauntings is very strong, the idea of a spirit lingering, cursed in this world, is evident in the common epitaph RIP, or Rest in Peace. The idea of ghosts and haunted houses can be found in many books and movies. One in particular, The Amityville Horror, a book by Jay Anson, and later made into a movie, is a particularly frightening story because it is reported to be true. The story I chose to read for this week’s assignment is, Letter to Sura, by…

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    Jigsaw Research Paper

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    a frantic entrance into a nearby bar. “You have to help me! I think my mother and father have been shot!” A group went to investigate, his parents were indeed dead. Police searched the house and found the rest of his family face down in their beds, shot and killed. Under protective custody, he was interviewed about the murders. He explained that it was a hitman, he even gave a name. His story didn’t fall through, when the alleged hitman had an alibi, Ronald confessed to all six murders.…

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    The Amityville Horror Is the Amityville Horror House actually haunted or is it just a hoax? The origins of the Amityville horror house can be traced back to November 13, 1974, when Ronald Defeo Jr. murdered six members of his family in the house. Defeo claimed that he was compelled to commit the murders by malevolent forces within the house. Although his defense was ultimately rejected, he was convicted of all crimes. Despite this tragic event, the house remains standing at 112 Ocean Avenue on…

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    The Conjuring 2" opens with famous ghostbusters Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) researching the outcome of the murders that got to be known as "The Amityville Horror." Lorraine has a one of a kind capacity to speak with extraordinary creatures and has been requested that affirm that what happened at Amityville was evil in nature and not only a maniacal patriarch. While lounging around a table in the DeFeo lounge area, Lorraine has an out-of-body experience that permits her…

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    The existence of ghosts is a concept often disputed. When found in the situation where there is no rational explanation to something that happened, it is easy for us to create our own rational explanation in our minds. Perhaps the true rational explanation is right in front of us but we just cannot see it, much less explain it; because we do not understand it. This was the case for for the families living in a house in Amityville. Their stories lead to the labeling of the commonly heard Haunting…

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