listener discretion is advised. True crime can be strangely fascinating. This true crime is odd, macabre, and haunted.

I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows. Welcome to

fantasmal crime.

The subject of this fantasmal crime was suggested by listener Joanne. The amityveille

hoor. The ammityville horror caused people to question whether a home could be

possessed and cause a person to kill nearly their entire family, as Ronnie DeFeo did in 1974.

He killed his father and mother and four siblings.

A family who moved in after the massacre claimed to experience some intense haunting activity in the home that paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren judged to be demonic.

Regardless of what one may personally believe about the case, the question of whether someone could be

possessed or influenced into committing murder is real. This theory becomes more complicated

when associated with an entire island.

Is there a curse on the Palmyra Adle?

And did it have anything to do with the murder of Muff and Mac Graham? And the Palmyra Atoll is a territory owned by the United States and is located around a thousand miles south of Hawaii. The tranquil island is beautiful

with blue lagoons and white sand beaches. The island received its name in 1807

from Captain Salley who was sailing the American ship Palmyra.

For years legends have swirled about the evil that seems to imbue the island,

and talk of a curse has been passed on for generations.

To be fair, the Adel was formed from coral growing around the rim of an ancient sunken volcano, and this made some nasty reefs that have caused several shipwrecks.

So completely natural reasons to have that issue. But that

doesn't explain ships disappearing without a trace. One story about a disappearing ship

dates back to 1855. This was a whaling ship that ran a ground on the atoll,

but when rescuers went out, they could find no trace of the wreck or any survivors.

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