Explore published stories from Amityville, Nova York, Estados Unidos and nearby.
In 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. killed six relatives in Amityville. A year later, George and Kathy Lutz reported strange events in the same house and left after 28 days. The murders are documented; the haunting remains a disputed claim.
50 km · Nova York
For nearly a century, freight trains shared Manhattan streets with pedestrians. The nickname “Death Avenue” grew from real accidents and fueled protests, legislation and the High Line. This dossier traces the route, the West Side Cowboys, Seth Low Hascamp’s death, conflicting casualty figures and the railroad’s transformation into a park.
82 km · New Haven
Held at Yale as MS 408, the codex contains hard-to-identify plants, celestial diagrams, bathing figures and a script still without an accepted reading. This dossier follows the object, its ownership, the dating of its parchment and the actual limits of linguistic analysis.
246 km · Centralia
A fire first reported in 1962 spread through coal seams and old mine workings below Centralia, Pennsylvania. Before it became a “ghost town,” the place saw containment attempts, gas measurements, arguments over risk and the painful relocation of families. This dossier follows the records, residents’ voices and the fire that persists.
293 km · Salem
Between 1692 and 1693, the Massachusetts witchcraft crisis spread from a minister's home through several communities and left 25 people dead. Examination records, petitions and later reversals show how untestable evidence gained force, and how survivors fought to undo the judgments.