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The Amityville Horror

A real family was murdered in their sleep in this house — then the next owners claimed it was haunted, and their own lawyer later admitted the whole thing was invented over wine.

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The Curse of the Crying Boy Painting

A British tabloid ran a real story claiming a mass-produced painting of a crying child was cursed, causing house fires — and, strangely, firefighters kept finding the exact same painting completely undamaged in burnt-out homes.

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