"The Amityville Horror". No I haven't seen the movie but, I do know the story. A typical family moves into a house when suddenly strange occurances start to happen and it seems something is either tormenting or trying to kill this innocent family.
Now I'm only 14 but ever since I was a little boy I have been facinated with the supernatual, paranormal, ect, and have learned a lot from my research of the sort, so I have several conclusions of what may have been tormenting this poor family.

1. Spirits and Poltergeist
Hauntings, are usually asociated with ghost or spirits. Hauntings may be scary but they are usually not left in a place to torment people, but are left on earth for unfinished buisness, mabe waiting for a long lost love, or revenge on the person that may have killed them. But in The Amityville Horrors' case it sounds like we may be dealing with a Poltergeist, a spirit with a harmful nature, as in the movie "Poltergeist". In this movie a family and other related characters are tormrnted and killed by an angry ghost or in other words a Poltergeist.

2. Indian Burrial Ground
In this conclision I believe the foundation of the house may have been built on an Indian Burrial Ground. In such cases the house and the people living in it may have awakened restful spirts and the spirits or should I say poltergeist won't go to R.I.P. untill the family moves so the start tormenting tha family.

3. Deamons
This may be one of the scariest cases this family may have dealt with, if they dealt with anything. In this case they may have been dealing with the devil himself. Maybe him and his deamons wanted to torment the family first until they got to the point of claiming the familie's soul, trust me this is a very real situation

4. A HOAX
This if real is the most disapointing result I have come up with. Think about it a new family moving into a new town start making up stories of spirits tormenting them and hurting them. They may have just wanted attention from a large audiance, the're names in books, and famous movie stars playing as them in large box offices movies. It is to me as I said a very disapointing conclusion, but is the most likely.

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