Most Haunted House in America: The Amityville Horror

After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

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Myths, Folklore, Mystery, History, Ghosts, Society & Culture, Murder, Ufos, True Crime, Paranormal, Supernatural, Serial Killers

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville (Long Island) is arguably the most haunted house in America. Inside its walls demonic forces were, allegedly, unleashed. It's a story that is a troubling mixture of real murders and deliberate myth-making. It's also a story that owes a lot to a movie that shaped America in the 1970s in profound ways...The Exorcist.

Anthony and Maddy's guest to explore this incredible piece of paranormal history is Professor Joseph Laycock, associate professor of Religious Studies at Texas State University. He's the author of The Exorcist Effect: Horror, Religion, and Demonic Belief and The Penguin Book of Exorcisms.

Edited by Freddy Chick and Tomos Delargy. Produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.

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1:39.0	Hi, After Dark. My name is Sarah. I'm a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago,
1:51.0	and I study history, which is why I love After Dark so, so, so much. I love how Maddie and Antony take these really scary, spooky, supernatural stories that we've all heard about and ground them historically.
1:54.3	And I think that's just such an interesting part of the pod.
1:57.3	And I really, I just love you guys so much.
2:00.2	So I submitted an idea about the Amityville
2:04.0	Horror House. I watched Amityville Horror as a young kid, too young to be watching it. And I just
2:09.7	want to hear you guys dig into what happened and historicize this whole story. Thank you so much.
2:22.3	Music this whole story. Thank you so much. On the 18th of December, 1975, Kathy and George Lutz, with Kathy's three children from a previous
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