But that’s where the story gets a little murky.

A new film in the franchise,Amityville: The Awakening, will hit theaters next year.

But in subsequent interviews, Garton has claimed that hemade up some of the details.

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No other family who has lived in the house has come forward with any ghost stories.

During the 1970s, she was believed to have been possessed by six or more demons.

Prosecutors charged Michel’s parents and the two priests who performed the exorcism with negligent homicide.

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The case has actually inspired two other movies as well, the German dramaRequimandAnneliese: The Exorcist Tapes.

The popular franchise has spawned four sequels, a remake, and a prequel.

He similarly served as the inspiration for Norman Bates inPsychoand Buffalo Bill inThe Silence of the Lambs.

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The resulting tale, a warning against blindly following authority, is downright chilling.

As a kid, I lived in a house on a street in the middle of nowhere.

At the door were some people asking for somebody that didn’t live there.

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Ball owned a bar in a very small Texas town with an alligator pit in the back.

When authorities approached Ball about the women who had disappeared, he shot himself with a handgun.

But the hikers' thankfulness is short lived when they wake up bound, gagged, and drugged.

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But it’s success in theaters earned ita sequelin 2012.

However, it was actually based on a combination of murders from around Australia.

The court in the Northern Territory actually enjoined the film’s release to prevent it from influencing the jury.

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She approached some parapsychologists after what she believed herself to be the victim of a “spectral rape.”

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The Girl Next Door

Compliance

Robert Englund is eaten by a crocodile in Eaten Alive

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The Entity

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