TAMPA — Peering out from its waterside perch less than a block away, the most notorious haunted house in America keeps watch over the students and faculty of Amityville Memorial High School. For a year, Buccaneers rookie left tackle Donovan Smith was among the students who felt he had become the focus of the Long Island home’s hair-raising glare.
“It’s a beautiful house,’’ Smith said of the white, two-story Dutch Colonial made infamous by the “Amityville Horror’’ books and movies. “But it’s a little creepy, too. Especially on Halloween.’’
Whether it’s the work of the home’s owner or the spirits still residing there, Smith can’t say for sure.