The house asks them to leave for a moment as it chooses what to do. Marge explains that since they are living in the house, the house is going to have to accept this. After harassment by Bart and Lisa, Marge asks Homer if he knew the house was haunted, Homer says no but after calling the real estate agent, h had told told them multiple times the house was haunted. Marge becomes outraged and yells at the house to shut up and show them some manners, and after a few moments, hurt by Marge's words, it complies. Suddenly, the house threatens them that they will perish horribly. The family then finds out there is an ancient Indian burial ground in the cellar. When everyone tries to settle into sleep, the house takes possession of Homer and the children, and the four of them grab various weapons to kill each other, but Marge stops them. Bart is then strangled by a lamp cord as the house threatens the family to leave, hurling Homer up to the ceiling.

Homer throws an orange into the vortex, although the ones who live in the vortex throw it out with a note that asks them not to throw in stuff. Lisa and Marge are scared there is an evil presence lurking in the house, though Homer says there is nothing to worry about, despite there being a vortex in the kitchen. In a parody of The Amityville Horror, the Simpsons move into a new home at a great price. Bart begins telling his own story called: Bad Dream House. He climbs up and eavesdrops while Bart comments on Lisa's first story. When Homer comes back from trick-or-treating, he notices Bart and Lisa are telling ghost stories (while Maggie watches) in Bart's treehouse. In a parody of the original Frankenstein film, Marge warns viewers that the following program ( The Simpsons) may give their children nightmares, so she suggests the adults to 'tuck your children into bed tonight instead of writing us angry letters tomorrow.' The show then begins. In ' The Raven', a poem by Edgar Allan Poe is recited with Homer and Bart as the characters. Her nosiness results in the Simpsons being dropped off at home again. In 'Hungry Are the Damned', the family is abducted by Kang & Kodos, (who make their first appearance) & fattened up to the extent that Lisa questions their motive, & does so in the wrong way. In 'Bad Dream House', the family moves into an old haunted house and are possessed to kill each other by a mysterious voice. The first of the annual Halloween spook-fest.

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