I found a horror movie sticker pack while at The Gas Station. Not A gas station, THE gas station. Here in TX, right near where I live, theres a Bbq selling gas station filled with things from horror movies. Its supposed to be after the movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre! It might be one of a kind, I haven't seen it anywhere else, but it isn't even a gas station, it sells BBQ and horror movie items as well as T-shirts! Its and exact replica of the one from the movie, but the one in the movie. . .the Bbq is made out of humans. ANYWAY! I bought these;
Lovely, right guys?
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Fright-Rags has restocked five long-sleeve shirts: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Jaws, The Amityville Horror, The Evil Dead, and Army of Darkness. Designed by Kyle Crawford and Cody Brown, they cost $40.
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It is here, in the bedroom, that we are at our most vulnerable. Each night we shed our senses, trusting in the house to keep us safe until next we wake. In this state of extreme vulnerability we will spend up to 20% of our lives. Watch us. Keep us company until dawn. And we would never perceive it, we can only pray that the house will not let such things carry on as we sleep. In this way, during these hours, the bedroom seems less like a mind and more like a mouth. For it is here that the house is most likely to betray us. It is here that we place ourselves most at the house’s mercy and spend each night hoping that it will not bite down.
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In the early morning hours of 13 November, 1974, 23-year-old Ronald DeFeo Jr. systematically shot and killed his father, mother, and his four siblings, as they slept in their beds of their Amityville, Long Island, New York home.
During his trial, he claimed that he had killed his family in self-defense because he had heard their voices plotting to kill him. But the story doesn’t end there...
In December 1975, the Lutz family purchased the house where the murders had taken place, and over the course of 28 days, they claimed they were plagued and terrorized by paranormal phenomena before fleeing the property.
Some such claims included green slime running from the walls, hidden rooms, images of half headed demons, a demonic pig, as well as mysterious welts and wounds appearing out of nowhere.
After the family fled the macabre home, they called in investigators. This was when the photograph above was snapped. It allegedly shows a ghost of a little boy peering out from behind the door; many believe it to be the ghost of 9-year-old John Matthew DeFeo.
Whether the truth in this haunting case was stretched or even a hoax all together, it still remains one of the most sensationalized ghost stories worldwide, even inspiring multiple books and movies.
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Hey, y’all, it’s Weird Wednesday! Where on some Wednesdays, I blog about weird stuff and give writing prompts.
Today: The Amityville Horror: Infamous American Haunted House
Welcome! Today we’re spending our Weird Wednesday on Long Island! Before the movies, before the book, before the revelation that it was all a hoax, the house at 112 Ocean Ave, Amityville, Long Island, New York, was the scene of a real horror: the murder of six people.
Ronald DeFeo, Jr., 23, killed his parents, two brothers, and two sisters with a rifle on Nov 13, 1974. If you’re familiar with the Amityville Horror story, you know of claims DeFeo was hearing voices that told him to kill his family. This part is surprisingly real— at least, according to his defense. The jury was unmoved, however, and DeFeo was convicted of mass murder. He died in prison in 2021. It is also true that motive remains elusive: DeFeo might have been after life insurance, and there was tension between him and his father. But nothing was ever said about evil spirits before the murders.
Of course, living in a house where six people were murdered by someone they loved has got to be a little freaky. But one family claimed there was a lot more horror going on. George and Kathy Lutz and their three children lived 28 days in the house at 112 Ocean Ave, starting in Dec, 1975. Interviews and a 1977 book by Jay Anson told the story of a terrified family who barely escaped with their lives. However, later fact-checkers found, well, no facts at all.
So we’re left with an odd contradiction: a false tale that got a lot of publicity for being “true,” but which remains, at its heart, a really good ghost story (which is why it led to many more books and movies). And here on Weird Wednesday, writing good ghost stories is our aim, so let’s see how horrifying the tale really gets.
Check out the blog post for the whole story and some haunted writing prompts, such as:
Maybe haunted houses/places also exist in another world, invisible to the mortal eye, where a character can go traveling. Maybe if you die in the Amityville house, you get a visitor’s pass for the Lincoln bedroom or Borley Rectory. Are there demons pursuing these travelers? Do the newly departed make friends with other ghosts? Can they ever pass back into the world of the living?
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