Archive for October, 2006
Witching Hour
There’s one in every town. The spooky house on the corner. The haunted graveyard. Mary Hatchet’s house. Long Island has no shortage of ghastly tales and frightening local legends.
Maybe the most famous haunted house story of all time originates here, in the sleepy hamlet of Amityville. The home in which Ronald DFeo brutally murdered his family in 1974 became the site of the Amityville Horror, the subject of numerous books, documentaries and movies.
But when sitting around telling stories, it becomes apparent that LI is a hotbed of paranormal activity. So, in the spirit of Halloween, writers for the Press decided to visit some of LI’s most famously haunted places on both midnights surrounding Friday, October 13. Thankfully, they all came back safe and sound, but all were pretty freaked out by their assignments.
Here are their tales. Rest assured, it will be a long time before they accept such an assignment again.
