I guess I owe another one.

I was clicking around and I only counted 4 blogs of mine, and we are supposed to have 5. So, in the spirit of Halloween, I chose a story from The New York Times about the haunted house of Harry and Lesli Zamora in Houston, Texas. Since buying the house in 2003, a year after the former owner died there, the Zamoras say that they have have been tormented by mysterious presences. They have seen ghostly visions including a fluffy white dog and moving orbs of light, and have encountered a door that locks itself, and appliances, lights and water faucets that turn themselves on. They believe that the former owner is haunting their home. So when your house is haunted, who ya gonna call? GhostBusters! No, really. There is a ghostbusters squad of veteran Houston police officers who are known as Phenomena Police. Videos and photographs taken by the ghostbusters have yielded images of a unexplained white lights and skeleton like apparitions in the Zamoras' household, but no explanation to their origin.

This story reminded me of a famous controversial haunting in American history that Hollywood has recently embraced, known as the Amityville Murders. On November 13, 1974, police discovered six members of the DeFeo family -- father, mother and four of their five children -- shot and killed execution style at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York. By 1977, the DeFeo home would be the center of a haunted house story that experts label a hoax.
The Amityville property was originally used as a sort of insane asylum for Native Americans who were sick and dying. These dark souls from the asylum were believed to have never left the land, and were believed to have contributed to the Ronald DeFeo murders. Mr. DeFeo hated his father and had plotted to kill him, and ended up killing his entire family. Later he said that there was a shadow ghost alongside him who had haunted their home and compelled the shootings which occured during the early morning hours. Over the years, rumors have surfaced which claim to prove the Amityville case a fraud, but paranormal experts disagree. These "ghostbusters" say that the home was definetely haunted. Descriptions of the paranormal activity in the home were very accurate for a case of demonic possession.