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The Suburban Horror of the Indian Burial Ground In the 1970s and 1980s, homeowners were terrified by the idea that they didn't own the land they'd just bought.
No matter that the patently bogus Amityville story is riddled with historical inaccuracies and that the very concept of the “sacred Indian burial ground” is largely a racist myth.
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 ...
To the night when Ronald J. DeFeo Jr. killed his family? To the day when the Ocean Avenue house was built on what the Amityville film franchise claims was "Indian burial ground"?
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 ...
Cartoon short asks Stephen King a simple question: What's with all the "Indian burial grounds?" Comedian and writer Joey Clift makes a case for ditching a stereotypical horror setting found in ...
An "Indian Burial Ground," a troubled family and secrets of the past come together in "Sisters of the Lost Nation" writer Nick Medina's new novel.
“My father believed that DeFeo Jr. may have been possessed by an old American Indian chief and that unscrupulous property developers had built the house on a sacred Indian burial site ...
More than 30 volunteers gathered at the historic Green-Bunn burial grounds in Copiague, where headstones mark the resting place of Native American families and Civil War veterans.
‘Amityville Horror’ 50 years later — a look at the ‘most haunted house in the world’ decades after grisly killings ...