The Internet Horror

Internet tripe

I have been drafted to see the upcoming remake of The Amityville Horror with the Almighty Twinkie; I have been nominated, and I choose to serve. Expect a full report in the next few weeks.

At any rate, in knocking around the Internet, I found this site, which I find far more disturbing than any film adaptation of an alleged haunting. These guys have way too much time on their hands, and they’ve decided to devote it to dissecting every aspect of the Long Island home where the DeFeos family was brutally murdered and where flies allegedly gave a meddling priest the diabolic business.

Here, you get a dissection of photos of baseboards and shoes. There’s also a forum and a weekly chat. You can marvel in an in-depth interview of the father who’s sticking to his story of a levitating wife, and revel in some harsh words for an author who “flip-flopped” in his support for the veracity of the whole business. And there’s a freakish pig photo, for good measure.

Springsteen was right: People find some reason to believe.