He claimed that he would mysteriously wake up at a. At times, his wife was physically transformed into an old woman and once levitated, George said. The family moved out after 28 days, reportedly leaving their possessions behind, including clothes in their closets and food in the fridge.
The psychics agreed that there was some kind of demonic force present in the house. The Lutzes later collaborated with author Jay Anson for his best-selling book.
His son Daniel Lutz, who was 10 at the time, has said that George invited mysterious and dangerous forces into their lives due to his interest in the occult. Quaratino also said that George was obsessed with the occult and had exaggerated some paranormal incidents he believes did occur when he was a child.
The notorious house has passed through the hands of several owners since the Lutzes lived there — and no one else has reported any spooky happenings. The film version, released three years later, was a huge box-office success. Lutz admits that some of the scenes in the book and the movie — such as the green slime — were an embellishment. But he insists the book and the movie are based on events that actually happened during the family's day stay in the house.
He denies making anything up, saying that if they had, they would have come up with a better story and would not have fled their house, leaving their belongings behind. But he says people are entitled to call his story a hoax if that's what they think. I can just say what I experienced. Weber continued to pursue his book project, enlisting Hans Holzer, a professor of paranormal psychology, self-styled ghost catcher, and author of dozens of books on the occult.
In , Holzer visited the Ocean Avenue house with a medium who claimed to be able to talk to the dead. According to Holzer's account, the medium went into a trance and said there was an Indian chief on the warpath in the house because it had been built on the site of a sacred burial ground. Holzer believes Ronnie DeFeo was possessed by the angry spirit of the Indian chief, and that the chief will not leave the house until it burns down and leaves the land bare.
But members of the Montauket tribe of Long Island are skeptical of Holzer's theory, saying there are no records of a burial ground in Amityville. Even if there were, "that doesn't mean we will go into somebody's body and capture their soul and control in a very negative way Joe Nickell, a professional skeptic who has made a career out of challenging claims of paranormal activity, believes there is no scientific basis for any of the claims, from Holzer, the Lutzes or anyone else: "The bottom line is that And that's not very good for America's most famous haunted house.
As for DeFeo, he told Primetime he lied when he said he heard voices commanding him to kill, and was only trying to create a better insanity plea.
He is still serving six life sentences in an upstate New York prison. So in the end, who is telling the truth? After nearly three decades, there is very little proof either way — though no one who has lived in the house on Ocean Avenue since the Lutzes has reported any strange activity. We'll notify you here with news about. In , ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren, famous now for being the main characters in "The Conjuring" franchise, even investigated the house. The story of the horrific misadventures that befell the Lutz family was turned into the book "The Amityville Horror" by writer Jay Anson, published in That film would spawn a slew of sequels, spin-offs, knock-offs, and even a remake in —- a film that's probably best remembered today for featuring Ryan Reynolds' impressive abs.
As you might expect, the Lutzes' story was met with a lot of criticism. And, like Ronald DeFeo's claims, it was loaded with inconsistencies. For example: the book includes a scene where the Lutz family calls the police after someone —- or something —- rips their front door open and right off the hinges. But records show that there were no calls from the Lutz house to the police during the 28 days they lived there.
Another example: the book claims the Lutz family found cloven hoofprints in the snow outside their house, but there hadn't been any snowfall during the time they lived there. You get the idea: things weren't adding up. Things got further complicated when William Weber, Ronald DeFeo's lawyer, told People magazine that he, George, and Kathy cooked up the entire story to make money.
We created this horror story over many bottles of wine," said Weber. George and Kathy maintained they were telling the truth, however.
They even took a polygraph test, and the test indicated they weren't lying. It probably didn't matter: to this day, many people assume "The Amityville Horror" was a true story.
After all, it said so on the cover. So did anything scary actually happen in the house while the Lutz family lived there? Probably, but it most likely did not involve the supernatural.
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