Ep 140 - The Amityville Horror, by Jay Anson

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2015

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Spooktober rolls on this week with Jay Anson’s The Amityville Horror, a “true story” from the mid 1970s about a family that buys a haunted house and then gets chased out of it. Its spookiness rating is… pretty low.

We talk a bit about the real-life history of 112 Ocean Avenue, pig monsters, falling off of bikes, spaghetti, and ending chapters with exclamation points.

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0:00.0	This is a headgun podcast.
0:06.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.3	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.5	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	Andrew Rome is the last time you wrote a bike.
0:44.8	It's been a very, very long time.
0:48.9	Were you a bike kid growing up?
0:51.6	I mean I wrote a bike sometimes.
0:53.1	What's a bike kid?
0:54.1	Is it like a box card child?
0:56.0	No, it's just live my life on a bike.
0:57.8	Is that what you're asking?
0:58.8	Sort of like I grew up in a neighborhood where I did not ride bikes anywhere.
1:04.7	Like I wasn't like, oh just ride my bike to your house.
1:07.0	Well hang out and eat potato chips and then I'll go home.
1:10.4	Like that's not.
1:12.1	It was like my mom will drive me to your house and your mom will supply the potato chips
1:16.7	and then my mom will come back and get me after we have eaten all of the potato chips.
1:21.6	Why?
1:22.6	Who are these people who ride bikes everywhere?
1:24.7	It's like kids on TV I guess.
1:27.0	Maybe.
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