Wednesday, May 26, 2010

The haunted house from The Amityville Horror goes on sale...again.

The house made famous in the 1979 film The Amityville Horror is up for sale in New York - ghosts not included.  The five-bedroom Dutch Colonial went on the market yesterday for $1.15 million.
In 1974, six members of the DeFeo family were shot dead as they slept in the house. The eldest son, Ronald DeFeo, called police to report the slayings. He was convicted of the murders aged 23.
When he confessed, he told detectives: 'Once I started, I just couldn’t stop. It went so fast.'

Full article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1281233/Amityville-Horror-house-sale.html


Ghostly image captured on CCTV camera at New Lanark Mill Hotel, Scotland

A number of sightings have been reported over the years at the New Lanark World Heritage site in the Clyde Valley, but there has so far been no evidence to back up witnesses' claims.  But CCTV footage of the hotel’s rear car park captures an image that staff are convinced is in fact a ghost.  General Manager John Stirrat said: "We were routinely reviewing CCTV footage taken in the early hours of May 12 in our rear car park, an area that was formerly stables. Between 0130 and 0300 in the morning, we were startled to see, quite clearly, a mysterious ghostly shape in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen which came and went.

Full article: http://news.stv.tv/scotland/west-central/179806-new-lanark-ghost-captured-on-cctv/


Database of 'religious dissenters' goes online

Daniel Defoe (1659-1731), the author of Robinson Crusoe who was the son of Presbyterian nonconformists.

The first tranche of the “Non Conformist Registers” has been put online detailing the hundreds of thousands of people who shook up the established order with alternative ideas over the past 225 years.  The database, which goes live on Wednesday, discloses those who refused to conform to the doctrine of the established Anglican Church including Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists and Quakers.

Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7764708/Online-record-of-religious-dissenters-published-for-first-time.html