The house still stands today, although recent owners say it is not haunted. Ed Warren said he was pushed to the floor of the basement by an unknown force. Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren were called in to investigate, and they also reported encountering paranormal phenomena. During that time, voices were heard around the house, their daughter developed an imaginary friendship with a red-eyed pig called Jodie, the house attracted swarms of flies, there was banging on the walls and the furniture was said to move on its own, according to reports from the family. In 1975, a new family, the Lutzes, moved into the Amityville home, having bought it at a discounted price. Reports indicate that the gun Ronald used didn't have a silencer, and there was no sign of a struggle inside the house - facts that left investigators puzzled. was convicted for the 1974 killing of his mother, father and four of their children at their home in Amityville, New York. The Amityville haunting is perhaps the most famous ghost story in America. (Image credit: Courtesy Wikimedia, released into public domain) (Translation from Loeb Classical Library, 1914.) The Tower of London "And because, for a long while thereafter, certain phantoms appeared in the place, and groans were heard there, as our Fathers tell us, the door of the vapour-bath was walled up, and to this present time, the neighbours think it the source of alarming sights and sounds," Plutarch wrote. Eventually, the townspeople allowed Damon to return, but he was killed shortly afterward in the local bathhouse. After that proclamation, Damon, who had not been killed, had the council members killed.ĭamon and his friends then took to the countryside, plundering it. The city council of Chaeronea condemned Damon and his friends to death. Knowing that he would be killed if he did nothing, Damon got a group of friends together, ambushed the Roman commander (and several other Roman soldiers), killing them. Damon refused the commander's advances, enraging him. In the city of Chaeronea, Greece, there was a boy named Damon who attracted the attention of a Roman military commander, who apparently loved him, historical records suggest. 45 to 120, tells a ghost story that has a much sadder ending than the one from Athens. (Image credit: Photo by Philipp Pilhofer, CC Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported) (Translation from Pliny the Younger, The Harvard Classics, 1909-1914.) Boarded-up bathhouse " After being given a proper burial, the ghost departed, and the house was haunted no more, according to Pliny's tale. "This was accordingly done, and the skeleton of a man in chains was found there, for the body, having lain a considerable time in the ground was putrefied and mouldered away from the (chains). Athenodorus calmly marked the spot where the ghost vanished and, in the morning, ordered that the spot be dug up, the story goes. The ghost appeared, and rattled around before vanishing. When a philosopher named Athenodorus heard the story, he reportedly rented the house and confronted the ghost. Needless to say, the house was abandoned and had to be rented out for a cheap price. In the dead of the night, a noise - resembling the clashing of iron - was frequently heard, which, if you listened more attentively, sounded like the rattling of chains," disturbances that led to the appearance of a specter "form of an old man, of extremely emaciated and squalid appearance, with a long beard and dishevelled, hair, rattling the chains on his feet and hands." "There was at Athens a large and roomy house, which had a bad name, so that no one could live there. 113, told a ghost tale so haunting that it survives to this day. Roman senator Pliny the Younger, who died in A.D.
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