Even if you don’t recall the precise details, somewhere in the dark recesses of your memory you’ll remember the name of the Long Island N.Y. town called Amityville, where something ‘spooky’ supposedly happened in a family home that spawned articles, books and several films.

Closer to home – in fact just a stone’s throw from my place, which explains all my broken windows – something that defies rational explanation apparently occurred in Ammanford.

But let’s go back to the house at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, where just before Christmas 1974, Mr & Mrs Lutz and their three children moved in, aware that a horrendous crime had been committed in the house 18 months before.

But because the price was so reasonable they went ahead with the purchase.  28 days later they moved out and never went back.

In 1977 Jay Anson wrote a book called “The Amityville Horror” about the apparently bizarre experiences the Lutz family endured during those 28 days.  Then came the film, followed by numerous sequels, prequels and threequels.

In 2017, a Mr and Mrs Tait bought a house in Ammanford accessed through a narrow alleyway, which they intended to turn into a B&B.  Nothing ‘strange’ happened in the house until a year later when Mrs Tait says she heard unsettling sounds of women and children screaming coming from the basement.

Mr Tait made recordings of these screams and other odd sounds including men talking in an unidentifiable foreign language, a printing press and police sirens, which all emanated from a hole in the basement.

The Tait’s have never claimed these sounds were of supernatural origin and to this day are completely perplexed as to where they came from. However, you won’t be surprised to learn they moved out in 2018, bought a camper van and have travelled around the UK since.  The house has recently been bought at auction for £90,000.

Does anyone out there have a rational explanation regarding the source of these weird sounds?  Because if no-one has, when I get time I’d like to write a book called the “Ammanford-ville Horror” and sell the film rights for a couple of million…