George Lee Lutz, who bought the infamous house in Amityville and fled it in 28 days passed away on Monday. Now all the spookaholics are going to descend on the poor town of Amityville again and pester the townspeople again. I won't say much about the haunting except to say: it would take a lot of effort on a ghost's part to animate a stone lion and make it bite someone's ankle.
I used to live near Burkittsville, Maryland and after the Blair Witch's Project the town suffered through a lot of publicity. Sure, it was a dreary, spooky looking town, but the movie didn't even take place there. The house in the movie The Amityville Horror wasn't the real house. Instead it looked like a typical Stephen King Gothic style house, for Stephen King was really, really, really popular in the 1970's. I guess The Amityville Horror had to compete with The Omen, Carrie, The Exorcist and the first Alien movie, so it had to include features such as green slime crawling down the walls, black stuff in toilets, moving walls, floating heads and the like.
I believe in ghosts. I have seen and heard the unexplained. But ghosts are mostly mundane, ordinary, disembodied versions of living people.

All I'm saying is: calm down, people. Logic applies to the otherworld too.