Haunted Indian burial grounds have appeared since in Poltergeist II, in Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining, and in countless lesser-known films, novels, and TV shows.

Despite Amityville being falsely infamous for a house "built on Indian burial ground," as recently as 2021, Newsday reports, a developer was attempting to start a condominium project in North ...

Atlas Obscura’s Dan Nosowitz has, though, and he has collected his findings into a useful little article entitled “Why Every Horror Film Of The 1980s Was Built On ‘Indian Burial Grounds.’” ...

Through narration voiced by Ghosts’ Román Zaragoza, Clift addresses why the burial ground trope, usually dated back to the publication of The Amityville Horror and featured in King’s Pet ...

Everything you thought you knew about the haunted Amityville Horror house in New York is wrong. The story goes much deeper. This is the twisted truth.

A spate of 1980s horror flicks — "Pet Sematary," for one — generated scares by disturbing the sacred space of Indian burial grounds, a trope generally applied with no Indigenous input.

A spate of 1980s horror flicks — “Pet Sematary,” for one — generated scares by disturbing the sacred space of Indian burial grounds, a trope generally applied with no Indigenous input. By ...

Some neighbors put up Halloween decorations playfully referencing the “horror.” J.C. Rice. In 2000 The Amityville Record revisited the house, describing life on Ocean Avenue as “fairly ...