@gloryboxlock What the hell! I was just curious. I was a little surprised because it was a reminder of how much time has passed and how people who were middle-aged adults during my childhood are now older and some passed on. I just didn't expect them both to already be gone. That doesn't make me such a loser!
There is no Father Delaney. George is going along with that to protect, at the time, the identity of Father Pecoraro, who was the priest who was going to bless their house.
@turbo1993 The Lutzes were the only ones who claimed to have experienced anything supernatural in the house. There have been 3 subsequent owners, each living there around 10 years. Now it's being sold again after Brian Wilson lived in it happily for 13 years.
That might be evidence of the Lutzes' story being BS, but it's not proof of a hoax. Frankly we'll just never know if it was true or not. George & Kathy are dead, but both maintained it was real. The kids said it was real, but exaggerated.
@FriendshipTown Have you seen any interviews with the children or even the original murder that lived in the house, ive only seen brief clips of both, im curious if u know where i can find interviews with these people
I heard those omners only had the house,but not lived there...for some interest,i dont know...but maybe the death energy was too "fresh" when they moved there
@FriendshipTown I rmember of a documentary of a visit of a woman physic to the house...well,maybe she helped the spirits to go away,maybe it is all a lie,well...watherver
@ALL - Listen, friends, brothers, sisters, all alike. We must have someone, anyone, anyone we know or can know, in NY. . we must have someone go to this house, Film with a video camera, inside that house. Night Vision might be a PLUS. We must investigate the Basement, and the top floors of the house. Especially the basement. Truthfully see if we get something back on the recording. -A.Fitz from Lancaster
@turbo1993 I would love to as well...I sent e-mails to all the Ghost Adventures e-mails they have...they should go now...although some people claim some proof they have are real,recent proof,watch:
amityville horror the truth
amityville horror house strange phone calls
this second i dont know,the guy claim it is real,if it is,oh my
this couple made money off the back of a terrible incident.
they claimed a red room was in the basement and un noted on the blue prints. according to george, a 'foul odor' filled this small room.
a man who was neighbours with the de feos when he was 14 was best friends with one of the sons. he himself stated that he was there the day that mr defeo handed him and his son a paint brush and told them they could paint the small room and use it as a toy closet. they are sick and should be ashamed
@littleyellowmonkey Your story of the red room's creation may be correct. Who knows. All the Lutzes knew was they found it strange how it gave off a foul odor at times, how their dog would cower from it, how it wasn't in the house plans, and how it was kinda 'hidden' behind a shelving unit.
But as far as George seeing a ghostly face in there, or there being a pit to Hell - that was fiction added to the Lutzes' story by Hollywood and others...
@FriendshipTown Well i believe that the oder smell that was sensed by George was a sign meaning stay away, because it probably contains possession of some paranormal activity. But when they stated that the daughter had seen a demonic-looking pig with red glowing eyes is complete bullshit and hollywood made up.
@littleyellowmonkey The Lutz's made only $300,000 when they sold there book rights to their story.. They could've made MILLIONS! They have RARELY been in public.. They didn't want fame, noteriety or even money.. They LOVED that home,but were afraid for there lives! They got VERY little for their story!
even if this story is fake. you have to relize that six people were murdered in that house so something has to be going on in the house. even if it isnt extreme as green slime.
this has been proven by ronald defeos lawyer to be a hoax, he admitted concocting the story with the lutz's and he even told them some personal facts from ronald that the public didnt know i.e the fact that ronal called the next door neighbours cat a 'pig' because it was fat and it would frequently appear at the window and its eyes often appear red at night, suddenly the lutz's incorporate that into their story and so on and so on, read "The Amityville Horror Conspiracy" by Stephen Kaplan
@1314WhiteRabbit DeFeo's lawyer made those claims when he sued the Lutzes for a share of the book profits. He did not win that case - he proved nothing.
In one interview he claimed the story of the oozing slime was based on spaghetti thrown on the wall, and in another he claimed it was based on fingerprint powder. He can't keep his own story straight.
And there is no ledge on those upper story windows for a cat to perch on, so that explanation doesn't work.
What a bullshit story. Father Pio ghosts in the house ? I mean he is said to be a saint now. Why a ghost of a man like that who was a good person would hount a house ? that's just not right. The whole shit was made up so that they could make some money out of it because they didn't like the house and wanted to get a refund.
I expect nothing els from a san francisco moron.The city who claims to care for everybody,but if you disagree with thier opinions your a fucking idiot lol.I've never seen or met more hateful,and hypocritical people than those of san francisco.If you agree with san franciscans,and thier views your an idiot.
@jays2474 Accepting this is not a matter of opinion. It is about educated thinking vs. your "stupidity is open-mindedness" philosophy. This BS was devised because they ran out of money. Everyone I knew when being shipped out to a camp on Long Island in the late 70s was aware of this sham. In fact, genius, while there are many hypocritical/mean people here, you have more friends than you think. There are many locals that have the need to buy this crap. Look them up-start a church.
i have read all their books, those poor buggers went through some deep dark shit. it makes you look for a higher good when you are faced with such darkness. i hope it is totally ended for the family. seriously scarey shit!!!
we are our god and our devil ourselves....we do good things ans also bad things... the boy that lived there didn't saw shit... he was abused by his parents and he was drunk and drugged that night when he shoot his parents ... himselve confirmend that... this guy made a lot of money continuing the lie.
DO THEY LOOK LIKE THERE LYING ?i cant see any evidence of this, and for what to lose there house GO bankrupt and lose all you own, and maybe we must just be able too pull off this bullshit and will make 300,000 dollars for anyone with a house right now leave, say and stick with your story lie lie and maybe you mite be OK and make a million i think not ,the bank would repossess the house and fuck you right up in court .Oh but we had ghosts DO WE GET THE POINT HERE?
only someone who hasn't experienced something like that would criticize and make fun of the situation. trust me, things like that does happen because i know personally. they were brave to go public with their story. you don't even wanna hear about mine.
i find it pretty hard to believe because i dont believe in ghosts or spirits. there is a way around everything and even if there are spirits, they do not exist to harm people.
please, will you lot get over yourselves?
and btw, how come nobody heard the door slamming or gun shots or screams or radio sounds or whatever the heck was heard by the lutz family?
any explanation, please?
thankyou and no rude comments, this is just my opinion. :)
Hang on, you tell us to get over ourselves and then you expect no rude comments???
You don't believe in ghosts, but claim that if they exist they can't harm people?
In short, the paranormal is something we know very little about. Why did George hear the front door slam shut at night only to discover the dog laying sound asleep in front of it? Obviously the door couldn't have physically shut - just a noise that only George heard.
How to explain that? I don't know. I think that's the point.
@firefly825 dude i deff believe in ghosts... not saying this was real but trust me... this is coming from someone(me) who was laying in bed and my door slammed open and i saw a silhouette of a figure and then as i got up the door started to close and wen it i opened it nearly 2 seconds later and there was nothing there.... it scared the fuck outa me... i was goin around my house with a bat... i woke my parents up and everything. if it were a person i woulda heard him leave.
Some people are sensitive to hauntings and some people are not. Period point blank. Its like when you live in a roach infested house. You can live for years and barely see any bugs. Then *bam* suddenly you see them everywhere. They were in the house the whole time but you never saw them. Then some kind of shift occured and suddenly they're everywhere. Hauntings are the same way.
i lived in and around haunted houses 6-mile van dyke-right by mt.olivet cemetary.i saw alot of spooky shit,white faces appearing out of the dark,doors slaming,water running but believe me its the fuckeng living you gotta worry about,and that is and always will be a hard area to ajust to with living and the dead!!!!
heres a fun fact, george lutz claimed his sons hand got crushed in the window and they had to take him to the hospital, an investigative team checked the hospital records and his son was never brought in for a crushed a hand, when george was confronted about this, he changed his story and claimed that they patched it up at home, ITS A HOAX, FFS NONE OF THE OWNERS SINCE HAVE EXPERIENCED ANYTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY, why do you think he dodged that question at the beggining of this video?
The Lutzes never claimed they took their son to the hospital that day. Anson wrote that.
Other things that Anson put into the book (that didn't happen) were the slime oozing from the walls and George seeing the face in the red room.
Anson wrote about the Lutzes' experiences in a novelistic fashion. He included some fiction and switched around events to make the story more exciting. The book company saw fit to label it as non-fiction. It was never meant to be an academic paper on the haunting.
@ckckfkfk how did the lutz family all pass lie detector tests.... look i cant say its true becuz i wasnt in the home during those 28 days, but i cant say its a hoax becuz hate to break it to u theres not enough evidence that makes it a hoax. so dont say things that may not me tru!
With the pics you can't see anything. The boy peering out of the doorway is said to be a double exposure or paredolia with the face pic on the moosehead. Someone today reported seeing Jesus Christ on cheese toast, which is another example of paredolia.
This couple made over 1/2 million dollars on a hoax..Amazing!
Dr. Andrew Nichols who is a professor of parapsychologist in Florida of 30 years who's been to the house. The new people who took over the house from 1979-today reported NO activity ..The Lutzes lived there less than a month..U know something was up! It was a total hoax and has been debunked.
Yeah, its strange that the 4 subsequent families living in the house claimed it wasn't haunted, though I've heard of other cases where a haunting can stop just as suddenly as it started.
The theory that this was all a hoax has NOT been proven.
The pic of the boy in the doorway is not said to be a case of double exposure (though I personally feel it is not a pic of a ghost, either).
How can it NOT be a hoax? And if the boy in the pic isn't double exposure (and the house was being investigated when the pic was taken..please explain on both accounts why it's not a hoax and a possible other explanation about the pic)..Lutz says it's a ghost, I mean it's possible since there were murders in the house..but as stated before there was no activity afte the Lutzs' left.
I disagree with George Lutz about the ghost boy photo. I don't think its a ghost at all. I think its one of the investigators who were roaming around the house that night. Whoever is claiming its a double exposure obviously hasn't seen a good quality copy of that photo.
I don't know if ghosts are real or not. I don't know if the haunting was real or not, but you can't dismiss it as a hoax without proof of a hoax. And even after all these years, no such proof has surfaced.
There are such things as ghosts and poltergeists. I've witnessed on video of an actual poltergeist. There is a house in Archer which is right near where I live has had hotbed activity since 1972 in which Dr. Nichols has been to on many occassions with his students. The people who own the house, The Kawicki's cannot entertain students no longer because of illness.
However as far as Amityville, How can you prove it's not a hoax. I think the Lutz's were outright liars who made a lot of money.
It is one thing to THINK the Lutzes were liars - another altogether to proclaim the haunting was definitely a hoax.
I can not prove the haunting was real. I don't pretend to. All I can do is evaluate the evidence people present. To date, all such evidence of a hoax seems to boil down to guesses, rumors and falsehoods.
I treat hoax evidence the same as I treat haunting evidence. For instance, I don't believe the ghost boy photo shows a ghost. I try and keep an open mind to both sides.
George denies rumors that they had money problems back then. They had just sold his house and Kathy's house, and that money was more than they needed to buy the Amityville home.
They continued making payments on the house for about 5 months after they fled, and were able to buy a new home in Southern California.
True, there was an IRS audit of George's business, but that doesn't mean you're having money problems.
i disagree, neighbors have said that there was a cat that climbed up on the windows pretty often, which would explain the eyes kathy saw, flies are a no brainer, vacant house with no ac=very hot,+very humid + very musty which in turns brings flies, LOTS OF THEM, and flies reproduce very fast, so it makes sense that theyd be there one day and gone the next, and as for the window, investigaters found a counterwait, if you stepped on a certain floorboard it slid the window open and shut
Humidity?It was the dead of winter.How come those who made the claim about the floorboard never showed it?I think it is because the liers are the people yelling hoax not the Lutz's.Who knows why.Some obviously absolutly hate George,and Kathy Lutz.
the house was vacant for a whole year genius, that means through the summer, and cluster flies are not uncommon during the winter in some parts of the world, and if you would be so kind as to look them up, they are found "in upper stories or attics"
There is a whole shit load of stuff that cant be explained and the skeptics cant answer.The flie were there and then they werent.They were consentrated in one room for the most part from what I understand.They BOTH passed lie detector tests.Several gun shots that nobody heard with a high powerd rifle.I believe something went on you dont.You dont have to be an asshole because you disagree with me.
flies reproduce extremely fast, it makes sense that they could be there one day and gone the next, and lie detector tests are not fool proof, there is more than one way to fool it, and btw, people on the base of mt st helens didnt hear it erupt while people miles and miles away heard it clear as day
@ckckfkfk a hundred flies when its below 0 degrees fehreinheit.... listen to what ur saying... in the middle of winter (flies shuld be dead) and i dont think hundreds of flies wuld be in a house period whether winter of any other season
I agree with you for the most part.I believe in God,so I also believe in the devil.I believe evil is here just like good.I dont know what the explanation is for what happend in that house.All I know is something scared the hell out of them.Like I always said if one of them would of failed the lie detector test I would be more willing to say"ok it might be bullshit",but BOTH of them passed it.Something scared them in my opinion.
@fldoughboy72 I have been studying this case and the so-called "Ghost Boy" photo,and the photo isnt that of a little boy with spooky eyes.If you look closely,the "boy" is wearing the same flannel shirt as one of the psycic members,and the "eyes" are nothing more than glasses he was wearing,and you can see he is kneeling down,which puts him as the same height as a boy."Ghost Boy" my ass.
@idahospud741 I made this comment like a year ago..Since I took a class on Paranormal activities. I don't believe anything that's remotely true with Amityville. It's been basically debunked and the Lutz's did all this for publicity. The only thing real were the murders & that's it. Whoever sold them the house learned about the DeFeo's fate & used it to make money. There might been a picture or 2, which also can be debunked by some experts, but 2 my knowledge, there's been no recordings of sound.
@fldoughboy72 I remember hearing about this case years ago,when I was a kid,and now that I'm older,I have become very interested in the facts surrounding this case,not only the DeFeo murders in 1974,but the Lutz case as well,and you're right,the Lutz's story is complete hogwash,but even experts were puzzled by the Ghost Boy photo,and you can clearly see it's not a boy at all.The flannel shirt gives it away.
I know of many cases, both locally and nationally (watch unsolved mysteries) where ghost/demon activity was intense for one or more families living in a house and stopped completely when other families took over the home. This is not unusual at home, in fact this is usually the way it DOES work. This is NOT a reason to disbelieve their experience. We did research on paranormal activity in college and found this to be the norm.
i agree with u completely on this matter..i think that the lutzs experienced all this horror becoz george looked a lot like ronney defeo..no matter what ppl say i blv that this house is haunted
Also id like to point out, after the lutzes left the home things still happened to them, this often happens in hauntingd when there are little girls around. Many times it is a child that manifests these energies, nobody knows why, there are theories. All in all though i think this is a great story, deffinately hoax or not deserved the attention it got. if it was real its cool and if its a hoax its a great mystery that noone figured for sure.
this grey figure was in my perriphiel (sp) when i looked straight at it was still coming and about a second later after staring at this figure coming ever so slowly at me it disappered. i left my game on (for light) and got next to my dad, (hes fearless) who was passed out beside me, i slept soundly. this was if my math is rite, in 2002 and like i said was 9, and it was if i remember correctly in crystal beach, daytona in flordia. i think we lived there for like 6 months. it was a creeepy place.
anyone in that house could have been paid off to say "there is nothing wrong with this house" i believe their story. the lutz got scared. simple. and hell i would of moved out at the first encounter. why would they lie for 30 years? till death even?
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I dont mean to burst anyones bubble but I've done research on this house an all reports state that the house IS NOT HAUNTED. The reason so called demons attacked the people is because the house was built on an old indians grave and disturbed it, Sending a lot of negative energy out into the house and its tenants.......
Oh, my i want to go to that house, i looked at the pictures very closely and saw the little boy and the old man dude, when my friend saw the pictures she actually screamed, but yeah,
The lawyer (De Feo's defense attorney) claimed it was all fabricated by himself and the Lutz's to secure a book deal and movie rights. It's interesting that he made this claim after he was denied any profits from the story. The author of the book embellished the happenings, as well. This makes for a murky story. However, the Priest involved has always backed uo his experiences in the house, and the Lutz's have never waivered from their account of the events.
Yes, according to the Lutzes, after the haunting, they told Weber of their experiences with the intention of getting Ronnie some psychiatric help. Weber then talked the Lutzes into participating in the book he was planning on the DeFeo case, feeling the Lutzes' story could be told at the end, as a footnote to the murder story.
It seems the Lutzes were thinking about participating, but then Weber bullied them into a press conference and later sent them a very one-sided contract.
The contract had a clause in it stating how the Lutzes would take a polygraph test which, if they failed, would mean they lost all rights & royalties from the book (which right there tells us that Weber did NOT make up the story with the Lutzes, or else this clause wouldn't make sense, as he'd know there'd be no way of the Lutzes passing it).
The contract also gave a portion of the book royalties to Ronnie DeFeo, and forced the Lutzes to go on publicity tours whenever Weber wanted them to.
The Lutzes decided against the deal after seeing the contract.
After being told that story, a friend of the Lutzes got the impression that they were looking for a book deal, and lined them up with Prentice-Hall. After thinking long & hard about it, they decided to go ahead and let Jay Anson write a book about their experiences.
When it made money, Weber filed a breach of promise suit, claiming he helped write the story with the Lutzes, and therefore was entitled to a share of the profits.
I thought of a possibility of what might have caused it. they both passed lie detector tests and have stuck to their stories for 30 years. Obviously something scared them. Ronnie Defeo was a heavy user of hallucenegic (sp) drugs. maybe after the murders, his drugs weren't found or confiscated and it let off fumes which George and Kathy inhaled regularly. maybe they imagined things and when one of them thought something was happening the other would think so too because of power of possession.
But if you factor-in the Lutzes claim that the haunting followed them even after moving away, then you're back to "either the Lutzes are truthful or they're lying."
You want it to be real, but it isn't. No such thing as demons, and why there of all places? Why not Little Big Horn? Plenty of indians died there, yet no demons are reported. And why has there been no reports on the house since?
Whatever entities were present in that house did not introduce themselves to the Lutzes and say, "Hi, we are demons."
Referring to the entities as "demons" or "spirits of dead Indians" or whatever came after-the-fact by different paranormal investigators who each had their own theory as to what may have caused the haunting.
The Lutzes don't know what it was or why it haunted their home. They may have their guesses or opinions, but they don't know. No one does.
The thing that convinces Me something happend weather supernatural or natural is,They both passed lie detector test's.If one of them failed it would be easier for Me to say they were full of shit.They BOTH passed the test.Something scared them in my opinion.I just dont know what it was.
That only means they believe what they're saying is true. It doesn't prove anything besides that. Guys, I'm telling you. I've had friends in that community for close to thirty years. I've spoken with several owners. Nothing at all happened except for the original tragedy. It's nice that you want to believe, but the people leading you to your conclusion simply wanted to profit from a fabrication.
It is all amatter of opinion.I understand what you are saying.If they truly believe what they are saying,then they are'nt dishonest.That meen's it was never a buisness venture like alot of people claim.They feel something happend to them.I feel something did,I just dont know what the phenonenon was.
Sure they didn't. Because there's no such thing. It's extraordinary how this house could be so vibrant with spiritual energy for a grand total of 28 days, and then decide to punch the cosmic clock and call it a millennia.
The Lutz' were liars. Great story tellers, but because they tried to convince people their story was true makes them liars.
Nearly everyone involved in the "chronicling" recanted their claims, until their final story was a vague rendition of the original story.
I'm not going to continue this argument. I enjoyed vids you posted, but this is getting too heated for my taste. If you're asking that question you haven't read or heard enough of the story after the "events".
i believe the house is haunted its the Defeos ghost i wouldn't live there the house looks evil the towns people should of burned the house down after what happend in 74
i realy dont think that it was a good idea because the ghost stay there even if the house its not more afther somebody buy the place and build another house the spirit continue to haunting the place and the new house
I love the 70's & 80's look to the video. Great stuff! Ive been to the actual house and the towns folks are fucking rude! Stay Away From The House!!!!
George always maintained that it was a ghost - up til the day he died.
Personally, I think its an accidental shot of one of the investigators that were roaming around the house that day.
No one has found out anything for sure. It'd be interesting if I could track down the one investigator I think it was and ask him about the photo. I'm sure he'd remember it happening, and I bet he doesn't know the photo had become a big deal...
If anyone wants to see a much more close up and clear version of the first photo George Lutz shows of the boy, watch the documentary "The Real Amityville Horror" which you will find in related videos to your right. It's very insightful.
Explain the boy in the picture? Also explain how the camera photographed by it self? To this day even one of the Lutz's adopted son's admits there was a haunting!
great,this is extremely real,to much evidences and eyewitness to prove the contrary,if were only this 2 saying this we could say something maybe,but is a lot of people,just everyone that put a foot in the house witnessed something clearly spiritual
Snopes is using incidents in the book and movie to try and disprove the case when the Lutzes have always maintained that the book and movie contain fictional elements (out of their control).
If the Lutzes couldn't afford their mortgage, how were they able to let the investigators into their home? This shows they still owned the house after that month was over.
George said his business was going well. I have seen no evidence to the contrary.
DeFeo's lawyer & the Lutzes came up with this story so DeFeo could get another trial & the Lutzes could get out of a mortgage they couldn't afford since George Lutz's business was going bankrupt. This all came out 15 years ago after Ronnie DeFeo died. It's a hoax, people. Other people have lived in that house for years & had no problems whatsoever (outside of harassment from tourists). Go to Snopes dot com & do a search for Amityville Horror if you're still not convinced.
The Lutz's look like decent people. Their details are compelling. Yes, people say it is a hoax, where is the proof? If people keep repeating that it's a hoax, does that make it true? The Lutz's admitted to meditating--who is to say they didn't stir up something?
I don't like liars, either. But from what I've researched, it looks like the Lutzes were telling the truth. You have to get past the fictional elements in the book and movie (which took the Lutzes' story and added stuff of their own, like the slime).
Some parts of the story are real, some are exaggerated. I think there was some type of evil there. If you look at the pic with the kid, no one was else was in the house. That pic cannot be explained. Even Christopher the kid that grew up there said he saw a shadow of a man in the house approaching.
"Greatest hoax of all time"?!? So the Lutzes must have been really really clever to plan this all out and pull off the greatest hoax of all time. But wait - they made hardly any money from it (the real money was made by the book publisher, the writer, and the producers of the movie). The Lutzes made hardly anything. So how could they be clever enough to pull off such a huge hoax but not clever enough to become rich off of it???
YES. HOAX! I totally believed the amityville horror my whole life.. then, when I went to college, I did a research project on "the amityville horror" and the more research I did, the more books I read by TRUE Paranormal investigators (who also call it a hoax.. not skeptics... INVESTIGATORS), the more I was convinced it was a hoax. You gotta have an open mind and check out the facts. These people are liars.
I did just that, and came away with a very different opinion. It would be easier for me to claim it was a hoax, or that ghosts don't exist - but from the research I've done, the various hoax theories of Kaplan, Osuna and the rest just don't add up.
I'm still dubious when people tell me they've had a ghostly experience, but as far as the Lutzes go, I believe them. I think people tend to call it a hoax because others call it a hoax - and they don't want to appear naive.
for one thing, defeos lawyer claimed that they made it up over bottles of wine. But the Warrens claim the Lutz's didn't drink.
People also say they were in it for the money. But in the end all they made was a mear 200,000 dollars. Even less when you minus all the stuff they left behind.
They also took individual lie detector tests and were questioned about the incident. They both passed with "flying colors" Believe what you will, but SOMETHING happened, and it terrified them. That's the truth.
Paranormal investigators have absolutely no basis, none, with which to draw objective conclusions. There is no hard fact or science in paranormal resarch - don't care what anyone tells you. I know. I *am* a paranormal investigator. The best you can get is correlation. It is impossible to get absolute confirmation. Impossible.
There was an entity that befriended the little girl in the Lutz family. It told the little girl that its name was Jodie. There was no real person named Jodie - that was just an invention of the 2005 movie remake.
I don't know if this story is true or not but ghosts or residual energy does exist. I've seen it first hand. I have experienced some of the same things they discussed, slamming doors, footsteps & fully materialized human looking entities. If you have never experienced it I can't expect you to believe however, I have nothing to gain from telling you this & I am not crazy nor am I religious or superstitious.
i have to. i was living in a apartment down in florida (daytona) and it was ghetto to say the least but i lived there with my dad, brother (8 at time) and my sister (16 at time) and i was i think 9. it was haunted no doubt. not like amityville but you know the scrathing, doors opening/slamming. and on several occasions faint grey materiallized figures, and on one unforgetable incedent i was in my living room playing madden when in my periphiel (sp) i saw a grey figure marching toward me.
George and Kathy Lutz are two charlatans who perpetrated a shameless hoax on a gullible public. The Amityville haunting was complete horseshit. Period, end of story.
No one has proven this was a hoax. If it was a hoax, surely someone would have fessed-up by now, or some major loose-end would have come unraveled. Kaplan had spent 20 years trying to disprove the Lutzes' story, but failed. What this case needs is a serious investigator to go through everything, such as trial transcripts and legal documents and such - try and prove something one way or another...
actually george died in 2006 of heart disease at age 58. kathy died in 2004. not sure of her exact age but mid to late 50's.
sniper2000001 5 months ago
@gloryboxlock What the hell! I was just curious. I was a little surprised because it was a reminder of how much time has passed and how people who were middle-aged adults during my childhood are now older and some passed on. I just didn't expect them both to already be gone. That doesn't make me such a loser!
stitchesful 7 months ago
Kathy acts so submissive. What was going on behind the scenes, I wonder...
ccipollini1984 8 months ago
What about the boy in the picture? What do you think that is? Real or Hoax?
JackPlatt 8 months ago
@JackPlatt It is real.
TheStrangedays22 1 week ago
IS THIS A JOKE?!? THE FACE OF SAINT PIO APPEARING IN THE AMITYVILLE HOUSE IN 1979? IF IT'S TRUE, THIS IS AN UNBELIEVABLE SCOOP.
sanctainquisitio 1 year ago
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MennySpike 1 year ago
There is no Father Delaney. George is going along with that to protect, at the time, the identity of Father Pecoraro, who was the priest who was going to bless their house.
suzylux 1 year ago
I love this.
suzylux 1 year ago
she manages to raise her voice when trying to convince merv of the rattle snake...
she also does this on good morning america, and tries to prove herself and becomes a little irate.
littleyellowmonkey 1 year ago
Id like to know if theres still any paranormal cases or wtv goign on now in 2010 dose anyone know ?
turbo1993 1 year ago
@turbo1993 The Lutzes were the only ones who claimed to have experienced anything supernatural in the house. There have been 3 subsequent owners, each living there around 10 years. Now it's being sold again after Brian Wilson lived in it happily for 13 years.
That might be evidence of the Lutzes' story being BS, but it's not proof of a hoax. Frankly we'll just never know if it was true or not. George & Kathy are dead, but both maintained it was real. The kids said it was real, but exaggerated.
FriendshipTown 1 year ago
@FriendshipTown good point thank you for awnsering me , all tho id like to see for myself one day an just investigate
turbo1993 1 year ago
@FriendshipTown Have you seen any interviews with the children or even the original murder that lived in the house, ive only seen brief clips of both, im curious if u know where i can find interviews with these people
DodeHelten 1 year ago
@FriendshipTown They're both dead now? How did you find out about that? How old were they and what did they die from?
stitchesful 9 months ago
@FriendshipTown Brian Wilson from beach boys?
I heard those omners only had the house,but not lived there...for some interest,i dont know...but maybe the death energy was too "fresh" when they moved there
brian wilson from beach boys????
GabrielDhalaman 1 month ago
@FriendshipTown I rmember of a documentary of a visit of a woman physic to the house...well,maybe she helped the spirits to go away,maybe it is all a lie,well...watherver
GabrielDhalaman 1 month ago
@ALL - Listen, friends, brothers, sisters, all alike. We must have someone, anyone, anyone we know or can know, in NY. . we must have someone go to this house, Film with a video camera, inside that house. Night Vision might be a PLUS. We must investigate the Basement, and the top floors of the house. Especially the basement. Truthfully see if we get something back on the recording. -A.Fitz from Lancaster
AFitz1174 2 months ago
@ALL We must find Solid Evidence of the After Life
AFitz1174 2 months ago
@turbo1993 I would love to as well...I sent e-mails to all the Ghost Adventures e-mails they have...they should go now...although some people claim some proof they have are real,recent proof,watch:
amityville horror the truth
amityville horror house strange phone calls
this second i dont know,the guy claim it is real,if it is,oh my
GabrielDhalaman 1 month ago
Pople are so stupid. It's so so scary!!!!!!!
778899Tammy13 1 year ago
And there is no ledge on those upper story windows for a cat to perch on, so that explanation doesn't work.
my cat very easily makes it to the upper floor window and qwe have no 'perch' what-so-ever.
littleyellowmonkey 1 year ago
@littleyellowmonkey I'm not saying there was no perch, but there was nothing for a cat to stand on at all, according to George Lutz.
FriendshipTown 1 year ago
this couple made money off the back of a terrible incident.
they claimed a red room was in the basement and un noted on the blue prints. according to george, a 'foul odor' filled this small room.
a man who was neighbours with the de feos when he was 14 was best friends with one of the sons. he himself stated that he was there the day that mr defeo handed him and his son a paint brush and told them they could paint the small room and use it as a toy closet. they are sick and should be ashamed
littleyellowmonkey 1 year ago
@littleyellowmonkey Your story of the red room's creation may be correct. Who knows. All the Lutzes knew was they found it strange how it gave off a foul odor at times, how their dog would cower from it, how it wasn't in the house plans, and how it was kinda 'hidden' behind a shelving unit.
But as far as George seeing a ghostly face in there, or there being a pit to Hell - that was fiction added to the Lutzes' story by Hollywood and others...
FriendshipTown 1 year ago
@FriendshipTown Well i believe that the oder smell that was sensed by George was a sign meaning stay away, because it probably contains possession of some paranormal activity. But when they stated that the daughter had seen a demonic-looking pig with red glowing eyes is complete bullshit and hollywood made up.
CommandoX11 10 months ago
@CommandoX11 or it could just be cat shit......
mexicanmansam 5 months ago
@littleyellowmonkey The Lutz's made only $300,000 when they sold there book rights to their story.. They could've made MILLIONS! They have RARELY been in public.. They didn't want fame, noteriety or even money.. They LOVED that home,but were afraid for there lives! They got VERY little for their story!
trufflesrheaven 9 months ago
if this was fake, why the hell would they leave all of their possessions behind?
iMrballer 1 year ago
These idiots would have cut a deal for a realty TV show had they existed in 1979.
bleekblock 1 year ago
Can someone bring the ouija board there and try their luck?
PirateKing1256 1 year ago 4
even if this story is fake. you have to relize that six people were murdered in that house so something has to be going on in the house. even if it isnt extreme as green slime.
usethecell 1 year ago
this has been proven by ronald defeos lawyer to be a hoax, he admitted concocting the story with the lutz's and he even told them some personal facts from ronald that the public didnt know i.e the fact that ronal called the next door neighbours cat a 'pig' because it was fat and it would frequently appear at the window and its eyes often appear red at night, suddenly the lutz's incorporate that into their story and so on and so on, read "The Amityville Horror Conspiracy" by Stephen Kaplan
1314WhiteRabbit 1 year ago
@1314WhiteRabbit DeFeo's lawyer made those claims when he sued the Lutzes for a share of the book profits. He did not win that case - he proved nothing.
In one interview he claimed the story of the oozing slime was based on spaghetti thrown on the wall, and in another he claimed it was based on fingerprint powder. He can't keep his own story straight.
And there is no ledge on those upper story windows for a cat to perch on, so that explanation doesn't work.
This has NOT been proven a hoax.
FriendshipTown 1 year ago 6
Rod Steiger was GREAT in Amittyville Horror! Great upload!
ShaytanBozorg 1 year ago
What a bullshit story. Father Pio ghosts in the house ? I mean he is said to be a saint now. Why a ghost of a man like that who was a good person would hount a house ? that's just not right. The whole shit was made up so that they could make some money out of it because they didn't like the house and wanted to get a refund.
slh86 1 year ago
@slh86 there is an obvious answer to that... for protection. There have been all sorts of wierd occurances and healings associated with Padre Pio.
soccerdogg007 1 year ago
the best witness
koldothos 1 year ago
A complete sham. If you think anything different you are a complete idiot!
sanfrancisco89 2 years ago
I expect nothing els from a san francisco moron.The city who claims to care for everybody,but if you disagree with thier opinions your a fucking idiot lol.I've never seen or met more hateful,and hypocritical people than those of san francisco.If you agree with san franciscans,and thier views your an idiot.
jays2474 1 year ago
@jays2474 Accepting this is not a matter of opinion. It is about educated thinking vs. your "stupidity is open-mindedness" philosophy. This BS was devised because they ran out of money. Everyone I knew when being shipped out to a camp on Long Island in the late 70s was aware of this sham. In fact, genius, while there are many hypocritical/mean people here, you have more friends than you think. There are many locals that have the need to buy this crap. Look them up-start a church.
sanfrancisco89 1 year ago
i have read all their books, those poor buggers went through some deep dark shit. it makes you look for a higher good when you are faced with such darkness. i hope it is totally ended for the family. seriously scarey shit!!!
Nomzification 2 years ago
we are our god and our devil ourselves....we do good things ans also bad things... the boy that lived there didn't saw shit... he was abused by his parents and he was drunk and drugged that night when he shoot his parents ... himselve confirmend that... this guy made a lot of money continuing the lie.
feiticeiral 2 years ago
that was the youngest defeo boy
APRIL62318 2 years ago
transcendental meditation
APRIL62318 2 years ago
DO THEY LOOK LIKE THERE LYING ?i cant see any evidence of this, and for what to lose there house GO bankrupt and lose all you own, and maybe we must just be able too pull off this bullshit and will make 300,000 dollars for anyone with a house right now leave, say and stick with your story lie lie and maybe you mite be OK and make a million i think not ,the bank would repossess the house and fuck you right up in court .Oh but we had ghosts DO WE GET THE POINT HERE?
darksith36 2 years ago
dude......you are sooo fucking right
holdupsway 2 years ago
No, it doesnt look like they're lying at all. Weird...
BillyBoysing 2 years ago
only someone who hasn't experienced something like that would criticize and make fun of the situation. trust me, things like that does happen because i know personally. they were brave to go public with their story. you don't even wanna hear about mine.
mzqueenbee71 2 years ago
its a freaky time we live in, not everyone understands every cornerstone. some do not see, others .... unfortunately see too much
Nomzification 2 years ago
Consumate snowball artists!
43stdeluge 2 years ago
2:11.LOL,look how old that Subaru is.
jays2474 2 years ago
Rubbish I say! Never believed in this story at all! Crazy stuff!
MrsHenryVIII 2 years ago
what the hell? is this story even true?
i find it pretty hard to believe because i dont believe in ghosts or spirits. there is a way around everything and even if there are spirits, they do not exist to harm people.
please, will you lot get over yourselves?
and btw, how come nobody heard the door slamming or gun shots or screams or radio sounds or whatever the heck was heard by the lutz family?
any explanation, please?
thankyou and no rude comments, this is just my opinion. :)
firefly825 2 years ago
Hang on, you tell us to get over ourselves and then you expect no rude comments???
You don't believe in ghosts, but claim that if they exist they can't harm people?
In short, the paranormal is something we know very little about. Why did George hear the front door slam shut at night only to discover the dog laying sound asleep in front of it? Obviously the door couldn't have physically shut - just a noise that only George heard.
How to explain that? I don't know. I think that's the point.
FriendshipTown 2 years ago
@firefly825 i think it was demons, it hink tats what the book said.
brooksboy78 2 years ago
@firefly825 dude i deff believe in ghosts... not saying this was real but trust me... this is coming from someone(me) who was laying in bed and my door slammed open and i saw a silhouette of a figure and then as i got up the door started to close and wen it i opened it nearly 2 seconds later and there was nothing there.... it scared the fuck outa me... i was goin around my house with a bat... i woke my parents up and everything. if it were a person i woulda heard him leave.
ER1C772 1 year ago
a face in the moose? please.
sergiost 2 years ago
Some people are sensitive to hauntings and some people are not. Period point blank. Its like when you live in a roach infested house. You can live for years and barely see any bugs. Then *bam* suddenly you see them everywhere. They were in the house the whole time but you never saw them. Then some kind of shift occured and suddenly they're everywhere. Hauntings are the same way.
Silvertrine 2 years ago
make her voice stop!
jennyrgar 2 years ago
i lived in and around haunted houses 6-mile van dyke-right by mt.olivet cemetary.i saw alot of spooky shit,white faces appearing out of the dark,doors slaming,water running but believe me its the fuckeng living you gotta worry about,and that is and always will be a hard area to ajust to with living and the dead!!!!
skullfuck1000 2 years ago
So was this interview before he killed his family?
kid76kid991 2 years ago
no, the one that killed his family is in prison. the Lutz family are the ones that moved into the house and ran from there home weeks later.
37406tweetybird 2 years ago
heres a fun fact, george lutz claimed his sons hand got crushed in the window and they had to take him to the hospital, an investigative team checked the hospital records and his son was never brought in for a crushed a hand, when george was confronted about this, he changed his story and claimed that they patched it up at home, ITS A HOAX, FFS NONE OF THE OWNERS SINCE HAVE EXPERIENCED ANYTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY, why do you think he dodged that question at the beggining of this video?
ckckfkfk 2 years ago
The Lutzes never claimed they took their son to the hospital that day. Anson wrote that.
Other things that Anson put into the book (that didn't happen) were the slime oozing from the walls and George seeing the face in the red room.
Anson wrote about the Lutzes' experiences in a novelistic fashion. He included some fiction and switched around events to make the story more exciting. The book company saw fit to label it as non-fiction. It was never meant to be an academic paper on the haunting.
FriendshipTown 2 years ago
@ckckfkfk how did the lutz family all pass lie detector tests.... look i cant say its true becuz i wasnt in the home during those 28 days, but i cant say its a hoax becuz hate to break it to u theres not enough evidence that makes it a hoax. so dont say things that may not me tru!
brooksboy78 2 years ago
On the moose head picture I thought he was going to say that there isnt an actual moose head in the room. Its a ghost moose.
It's as plausible as a little boy ghost! Moose die too!
lol. What a crock of shit.
Buffalowdown 2 years ago
With the pics you can't see anything. The boy peering out of the doorway is said to be a double exposure or paredolia with the face pic on the moosehead. Someone today reported seeing Jesus Christ on cheese toast, which is another example of paredolia.
This couple made over 1/2 million dollars on a hoax..Amazing!
fldoughboy72 2 years ago
who said its a hoax?
MichelleLF40 2 years ago
Dr. Andrew Nichols who is a professor of parapsychologist in Florida of 30 years who's been to the house. The new people who took over the house from 1979-today reported NO activity ..The Lutzes lived there less than a month..U know something was up! It was a total hoax and has been debunked.
fldoughboy72 2 years ago
Yeah, its strange that the 4 subsequent families living in the house claimed it wasn't haunted, though I've heard of other cases where a haunting can stop just as suddenly as it started.
The theory that this was all a hoax has NOT been proven.
The pic of the boy in the doorway is not said to be a case of double exposure (though I personally feel it is not a pic of a ghost, either).
I agree with your view on the moose head pic.
FriendshipTown 2 years ago
How can it NOT be a hoax? And if the boy in the pic isn't double exposure (and the house was being investigated when the pic was taken..please explain on both accounts why it's not a hoax and a possible other explanation about the pic)..Lutz says it's a ghost, I mean it's possible since there were murders in the house..but as stated before there was no activity afte the Lutzs' left.
fldoughboy72 2 years ago
I disagree with George Lutz about the ghost boy photo. I don't think its a ghost at all. I think its one of the investigators who were roaming around the house that night. Whoever is claiming its a double exposure obviously hasn't seen a good quality copy of that photo.
I don't know if ghosts are real or not. I don't know if the haunting was real or not, but you can't dismiss it as a hoax without proof of a hoax. And even after all these years, no such proof has surfaced.
FriendshipTown 2 years ago
There are such things as ghosts and poltergeists. I've witnessed on video of an actual poltergeist. There is a house in Archer which is right near where I live has had hotbed activity since 1972 in which Dr. Nichols has been to on many occassions with his students. The people who own the house, The Kawicki's cannot entertain students no longer because of illness.
However as far as Amityville, How can you prove it's not a hoax. I think the Lutz's were outright liars who made a lot of money.
fldoughboy72 2 years ago
It is one thing to THINK the Lutzes were liars - another altogether to proclaim the haunting was definitely a hoax.
I can not prove the haunting was real. I don't pretend to. All I can do is evaluate the evidence people present. To date, all such evidence of a hoax seems to boil down to guesses, rumors and falsehoods.
I treat hoax evidence the same as I treat haunting evidence. For instance, I don't believe the ghost boy photo shows a ghost. I try and keep an open mind to both sides.
FriendshipTown 2 years ago
Well, it should be taken into consideration that George Lutz was in a bad financial position at the time he reported the story.
martiallaw09 2 years ago
George denies rumors that they had money problems back then. They had just sold his house and Kathy's house, and that money was more than they needed to buy the Amityville home.
They continued making payments on the house for about 5 months after they fled, and were able to buy a new home in Southern California.
True, there was an IRS audit of George's business, but that doesn't mean you're having money problems.
FriendshipTown 2 years ago
i disagree, neighbors have said that there was a cat that climbed up on the windows pretty often, which would explain the eyes kathy saw, flies are a no brainer, vacant house with no ac=very hot,+very humid + very musty which in turns brings flies, LOTS OF THEM, and flies reproduce very fast, so it makes sense that theyd be there one day and gone the next, and as for the window, investigaters found a counterwait, if you stepped on a certain floorboard it slid the window open and shut
ckckfkfk 2 years ago
Humidity?It was the dead of winter.How come those who made the claim about the floorboard never showed it?I think it is because the liers are the people yelling hoax not the Lutz's.Who knows why.Some obviously absolutly hate George,and Kathy Lutz.
jays2474 2 years ago
the house was vacant for a whole year genius, that means through the summer, and cluster flies are not uncommon during the winter in some parts of the world, and if you would be so kind as to look them up, they are found "in upper stories or attics"
ckckfkfk 2 years ago
There is a whole shit load of stuff that cant be explained and the skeptics cant answer.The flie were there and then they werent.They were consentrated in one room for the most part from what I understand.They BOTH passed lie detector tests.Several gun shots that nobody heard with a high powerd rifle.I believe something went on you dont.You dont have to be an asshole because you disagree with me.
jays2474 2 years ago 2
flies reproduce extremely fast, it makes sense that they could be there one day and gone the next, and lie detector tests are not fool proof, there is more than one way to fool it, and btw, people on the base of mt st helens didnt hear it erupt while people miles and miles away heard it clear as day
ckckfkfk 2 years ago
it was in the middle of the winter when the happenings took place retard!
MachinmaMaker 2 years ago
your point? the attic in my house is hot and sticky all year round, including throughout the winter
ckckfkfk 2 years ago
@ckckfkfk a hundred flies when its below 0 degrees fehreinheit.... listen to what ur saying... in the middle of winter (flies shuld be dead) and i dont think hundreds of flies wuld be in a house period whether winter of any other season
brooksboy78 2 years ago
I agree with you for the most part.I believe in God,so I also believe in the devil.I believe evil is here just like good.I dont know what the explanation is for what happend in that house.All I know is something scared the hell out of them.Like I always said if one of them would of failed the lie detector test I would be more willing to say"ok it might be bullshit",but BOTH of them passed it.Something scared them in my opinion.
jays2474 2 years ago
@fldoughboy72 I have been studying this case and the so-called "Ghost Boy" photo,and the photo isnt that of a little boy with spooky eyes.If you look closely,the "boy" is wearing the same flannel shirt as one of the psycic members,and the "eyes" are nothing more than glasses he was wearing,and you can see he is kneeling down,which puts him as the same height as a boy."Ghost Boy" my ass.
idahospud741 1 year ago
@idahospud741 I made this comment like a year ago..Since I took a class on Paranormal activities. I don't believe anything that's remotely true with Amityville. It's been basically debunked and the Lutz's did all this for publicity. The only thing real were the murders & that's it. Whoever sold them the house learned about the DeFeo's fate & used it to make money. There might been a picture or 2, which also can be debunked by some experts, but 2 my knowledge, there's been no recordings of sound.
fldoughboy72 1 year ago
@fldoughboy72 I remember hearing about this case years ago,when I was a kid,and now that I'm older,I have become very interested in the facts surrounding this case,not only the DeFeo murders in 1974,but the Lutz case as well,and you're right,the Lutz's story is complete hogwash,but even experts were puzzled by the Ghost Boy photo,and you can clearly see it's not a boy at all.The flannel shirt gives it away.
idahospud741 1 year ago
I know of many cases, both locally and nationally (watch unsolved mysteries) where ghost/demon activity was intense for one or more families living in a house and stopped completely when other families took over the home. This is not unusual at home, in fact this is usually the way it DOES work. This is NOT a reason to disbelieve their experience. We did research on paranormal activity in college and found this to be the norm.
martiebaby 2 years ago
i agree with u completely on this matter..i think that the lutzs experienced all this horror becoz george looked a lot like ronney defeo..no matter what ppl say i blv that this house is haunted
chanugaya 2 years ago 7
I cannot stand how the colors were in the 70's, everything was just so dark and ugly back then. I'm glad it got alot better since then :)
archer6749 2 years ago
Also id like to point out, after the lutzes left the home things still happened to them, this often happens in hauntingd when there are little girls around. Many times it is a child that manifests these energies, nobody knows why, there are theories. All in all though i think this is a great story, deffinately hoax or not deserved the attention it got. if it was real its cool and if its a hoax its a great mystery that noone figured for sure.
kyzer200 3 years ago 2
this grey figure was in my perriphiel (sp) when i looked straight at it was still coming and about a second later after staring at this figure coming ever so slowly at me it disappered. i left my game on (for light) and got next to my dad, (hes fearless) who was passed out beside me, i slept soundly. this was if my math is rite, in 2002 and like i said was 9, and it was if i remember correctly in crystal beach, daytona in flordia. i think we lived there for like 6 months. it was a creeepy place.
obliterator93 3 years ago
anyone in that house could have been paid off to say "there is nothing wrong with this house" i believe their story. the lutz got scared. simple. and hell i would of moved out at the first encounter. why would they lie for 30 years? till death even?
obliterator93 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
I dont mean to burst anyones bubble but I've done research on this house an all reports state that the house IS NOT HAUNTED. The reason so called demons attacked the people is because the house was built on an old indians grave and disturbed it, Sending a lot of negative energy out into the house and its tenants.......
MeMz6433 3 years ago
oh oh ok thank u
earlazcarol123 3 years ago
Can someone tell me where can i buy the amytiville horror by jay anson please? i can't find it nowhere
earlazcarol123 3 years ago
You can buy it from Amazon
FriendshipTown 3 years ago
Oh, my i want to go to that house, i looked at the pictures very closely and saw the little boy and the old man dude, when my friend saw the pictures she actually screamed, but yeah,
DownloadingMiranda 3 years ago
Ufo's,haunted houses,texas chainsaw massacre,Government Conspiricies.Whats next?howcome shit hits the fan only in America?
AcidBurnx2x 3 years ago
The lawyer (De Feo's defense attorney) claimed it was all fabricated by himself and the Lutz's to secure a book deal and movie rights. It's interesting that he made this claim after he was denied any profits from the story. The author of the book embellished the happenings, as well. This makes for a murky story. However, the Priest involved has always backed uo his experiences in the house, and the Lutz's have never waivered from their account of the events.
boardskins 3 years ago
Yes, according to the Lutzes, after the haunting, they told Weber of their experiences with the intention of getting Ronnie some psychiatric help. Weber then talked the Lutzes into participating in the book he was planning on the DeFeo case, feeling the Lutzes' story could be told at the end, as a footnote to the murder story.
It seems the Lutzes were thinking about participating, but then Weber bullied them into a press conference and later sent them a very one-sided contract.
FriendshipTown 3 years ago
The contract had a clause in it stating how the Lutzes would take a polygraph test which, if they failed, would mean they lost all rights & royalties from the book (which right there tells us that Weber did NOT make up the story with the Lutzes, or else this clause wouldn't make sense, as he'd know there'd be no way of the Lutzes passing it).
The contract also gave a portion of the book royalties to Ronnie DeFeo, and forced the Lutzes to go on publicity tours whenever Weber wanted them to.
FriendshipTown 3 years ago
The Lutzes decided against the deal after seeing the contract.
After being told that story, a friend of the Lutzes got the impression that they were looking for a book deal, and lined them up with Prentice-Hall. After thinking long & hard about it, they decided to go ahead and let Jay Anson write a book about their experiences.
When it made money, Weber filed a breach of promise suit, claiming he helped write the story with the Lutzes, and therefore was entitled to a share of the profits.
FriendshipTown 3 years ago
basically I'm saying that nothing happened but they thought something did
costerluver 3 years ago
I thought of a possibility of what might have caused it. they both passed lie detector tests and have stuck to their stories for 30 years. Obviously something scared them. Ronnie Defeo was a heavy user of hallucenegic (sp) drugs. maybe after the murders, his drugs weren't found or confiscated and it let off fumes which George and Kathy inhaled regularly. maybe they imagined things and when one of them thought something was happening the other would think so too because of power of possession.
costerluver 3 years ago
But if you factor-in the Lutzes claim that the haunting followed them even after moving away, then you're back to "either the Lutzes are truthful or they're lying."
FriendshipTown 3 years ago
their 6 minutes missing in this inteview you found it this way or editing mistake
luvstrongbabes89 3 years ago
You want it to be real, but it isn't. No such thing as demons, and why there of all places? Why not Little Big Horn? Plenty of indians died there, yet no demons are reported. And why has there been no reports on the house since?
dankind80 3 years ago
Whatever entities were present in that house did not introduce themselves to the Lutzes and say, "Hi, we are demons."
Referring to the entities as "demons" or "spirits of dead Indians" or whatever came after-the-fact by different paranormal investigators who each had their own theory as to what may have caused the haunting.
The Lutzes don't know what it was or why it haunted their home. They may have their guesses or opinions, but they don't know. No one does.
FriendshipTown 3 years ago
The thing that convinces Me something happend weather supernatural or natural is,They both passed lie detector test's.If one of them failed it would be easier for Me to say they were full of shit.They BOTH passed the test.Something scared them in my opinion.I just dont know what it was.
jays2474 3 years ago
That only means they believe what they're saying is true. It doesn't prove anything besides that. Guys, I'm telling you. I've had friends in that community for close to thirty years. I've spoken with several owners. Nothing at all happened except for the original tragedy. It's nice that you want to believe, but the people leading you to your conclusion simply wanted to profit from a fabrication.
dankind80 3 years ago
It is all amatter of opinion.I understand what you are saying.If they truly believe what they are saying,then they are'nt dishonest.That meen's it was never a buisness venture like alot of people claim.They feel something happend to them.I feel something did,I just dont know what the phenonenon was.
jays2474 3 years ago
Sure they didn't. Because there's no such thing. It's extraordinary how this house could be so vibrant with spiritual energy for a grand total of 28 days, and then decide to punch the cosmic clock and call it a millennia.
The Lutz' were liars. Great story tellers, but because they tried to convince people their story was true makes them liars.
Nearly everyone involved in the "chronicling" recanted their claims, until their final story was a vague rendition of the original story.
dankind80 3 years ago
Not true. Who "recanted"?
FriendshipTown 3 years ago
I'm not going to continue this argument. I enjoyed vids you posted, but this is getting too heated for my taste. If you're asking that question you haven't read or heard enough of the story after the "events".
Ghosts aren't real. Haunted houses aren't real.
dankind80 3 years ago
how can say that they are or are'nt you were not there when they were and neither was i but i dont thinks its for us to say its fake or its real.
batproductions155 3 years ago
i am living in one
luvstrongbabes89 3 years ago
How do you know?
turtleyto 3 years ago
i have to know what they said at the beginning its cut off
luvstrongbabes89 3 years ago
i believe the house is haunted its the Defeos ghost i wouldn't live there the house looks evil the towns people should of burned the house down after what happend in 74
Lilbrtsrs2 3 years ago
i realy dont think that it was a good idea because the ghost stay there even if the house its not more afther somebody buy the place and build another house the spirit continue to haunting the place and the new house
alexandrapinkranger 3 years ago
I love the 70's & 80's look to the video. Great stuff! Ive been to the actual house and the towns folks are fucking rude! Stay Away From The House!!!!
HORRORSHOWINC 3 years ago 5
lol after 30 years of being bothered by tourists, i can't imagine why LOL
DanIN72 3 years ago 3
is theory that he's a drowning victim, or something else?
poolofmushygoo 3 years ago
does anybody know: did they ever find out DEFINITELY who or what was the mysterious boy in the photo??
poolofmushygoo 3 years ago
George always maintained that it was a ghost - up til the day he died.
Personally, I think its an accidental shot of one of the investigators that were roaming around the house that day.
No one has found out anything for sure. It'd be interesting if I could track down the one investigator I think it was and ask him about the photo. I'm sure he'd remember it happening, and I bet he doesn't know the photo had become a big deal...
FriendshipTown 3 years ago
say wat u want & believe wat u want but i believe it and it scares the feckn shit outa me. i think its fascinating.
MoeRedArmy 3 years ago 2
The Lutzes are not telling the truth. This was all about getting a movie and book deal. I have spoken to a few of the friends and they said that.
nesnman 4 years ago
If anyone wants to see a much more close up and clear version of the first photo George Lutz shows of the boy, watch the documentary "The Real Amityville Horror" which you will find in related videos to your right. It's very insightful.
lizzylane54 4 years ago
Explain the boy in the picture that was dreeky i seen that picture
jimmyk00 4 years ago
Explain the boy in the picture? Also explain how the camera photographed by it self? To this day even one of the Lutz's adopted son's admits there was a haunting!
lokimotorsports 4 years ago 2
You can set forensic cameras to take photographs on a roll.
lizzylane54 4 years ago
great,this is extremely real,to much evidences and eyewitness to prove the contrary,if were only this 2 saying this we could say something maybe,but is a lot of people,just everyone that put a foot in the house witnessed something clearly spiritual
japidon87 4 years ago
Ronnie DeFeo is still alive.
Snopes is using incidents in the book and movie to try and disprove the case when the Lutzes have always maintained that the book and movie contain fictional elements (out of their control).
If the Lutzes couldn't afford their mortgage, how were they able to let the investigators into their home? This shows they still owned the house after that month was over.
George said his business was going well. I have seen no evidence to the contrary.
FriendshipTown 4 years ago
DeFeo's lawyer & the Lutzes came up with this story so DeFeo could get another trial & the Lutzes could get out of a mortgage they couldn't afford since George Lutz's business was going bankrupt. This all came out 15 years ago after Ronnie DeFeo died. It's a hoax, people. Other people have lived in that house for years & had no problems whatsoever (outside of harassment from tourists). Go to Snopes dot com & do a search for Amityville Horror if you're still not convinced.
johnbohl 4 years ago
The Lutz's look like decent people. Their details are compelling. Yes, people say it is a hoax, where is the proof? If people keep repeating that it's a hoax, does that make it true? The Lutz's admitted to meditating--who is to say they didn't stir up something?
jmarq4 4 years ago
Exactly!
People need to be more open-minded. Just because something sounds extraordinary doesn't automatically make it untrue.
whamkait 4 years ago 2
I'm very open minded. I've seen ghosts.. I believe in everything.. I just don't like liars.
mungbean4u 4 years ago
I don't like liars, either. But from what I've researched, it looks like the Lutzes were telling the truth. You have to get past the fictional elements in the book and movie (which took the Lutzes' story and added stuff of their own, like the slime).
FriendshipTown 4 years ago
Some parts of the story are real, some are exaggerated. I think there was some type of evil there. If you look at the pic with the kid, no one was else was in the house. That pic cannot be explained. Even Christopher the kid that grew up there said he saw a shadow of a man in the house approaching.
calferath 4 years ago
greatest hoax of all time
whompus02 4 years ago
"Greatest hoax of all time"?!? So the Lutzes must have been really really clever to plan this all out and pull off the greatest hoax of all time. But wait - they made hardly any money from it (the real money was made by the book publisher, the writer, and the producers of the movie). The Lutzes made hardly anything. So how could they be clever enough to pull off such a huge hoax but not clever enough to become rich off of it???
FriendshipTown 4 years ago
YES. HOAX! I totally believed the amityville horror my whole life.. then, when I went to college, I did a research project on "the amityville horror" and the more research I did, the more books I read by TRUE Paranormal investigators (who also call it a hoax.. not skeptics... INVESTIGATORS), the more I was convinced it was a hoax. You gotta have an open mind and check out the facts. These people are liars.
mungbean4u 4 years ago
I did just that, and came away with a very different opinion. It would be easier for me to claim it was a hoax, or that ghosts don't exist - but from the research I've done, the various hoax theories of Kaplan, Osuna and the rest just don't add up.
I'm still dubious when people tell me they've had a ghostly experience, but as far as the Lutzes go, I believe them. I think people tend to call it a hoax because others call it a hoax - and they don't want to appear naive.
FriendshipTown 4 years ago
for one thing, defeos lawyer claimed that they made it up over bottles of wine. But the Warrens claim the Lutz's didn't drink.
People also say they were in it for the money. But in the end all they made was a mear 200,000 dollars. Even less when you minus all the stuff they left behind.
ITOMIC85 4 years ago
They also took individual lie detector tests and were questioned about the incident. They both passed with "flying colors" Believe what you will, but SOMETHING happened, and it terrified them. That's the truth.
ITOMIC85 4 years ago 5
Paranormal investigators have absolutely no basis, none, with which to draw objective conclusions. There is no hard fact or science in paranormal resarch - don't care what anyone tells you. I know. I *am* a paranormal investigator. The best you can get is correlation. It is impossible to get absolute confirmation. Impossible.
MiklosRosa 4 years ago
This gave me chills!
lordshadow69 4 years ago
there was a picture of ghost boy what the little girl identified to be jody that she had been playing with
jewls56 4 years ago
watt???? but but i thought there was a gril upstairs on top floor called jody??? are they nice?
DEDKILLA492 4 years ago
There was an entity that befriended the little girl in the Lutz family. It told the little girl that its name was Jodie. There was no real person named Jodie - that was just an invention of the 2005 movie remake.
FriendshipTown 4 years ago
I thought Jodie was the neighbors cat? Allegedly Butch called him a pig because he was always coming in their yard.
maricm0208 3 years ago
That was a claim made by Ronnie's lawyer. Not sure if Ronnie backed up that claim or not.
George's response to this was that there was no way for the cat to peer into the 2nd story windows - no ledge for a cat to hang onto.
FriendshipTown 3 years ago
The cat's name was Evinrude
dyonker 2 years ago
thanx a lot for this interview!!!!
cjwm1981 4 years ago
I was in that house and I heard voices! Oh, I'm quoting the film.
Arthur5041975 4 years ago
sucks that merv died =[
himsk8r 4 years ago
Ya it does
jays2472 4 years ago
Let's applaud with the audience!
richardbyt1 4 years ago
I don't know if this story is true or not but ghosts or residual energy does exist. I've seen it first hand. I have experienced some of the same things they discussed, slamming doors, footsteps & fully materialized human looking entities. If you have never experienced it I can't expect you to believe however, I have nothing to gain from telling you this & I am not crazy nor am I religious or superstitious.
Ghosts or energy imprints do exist.
bluetigerlily 4 years ago
i have to. i was living in a apartment down in florida (daytona) and it was ghetto to say the least but i lived there with my dad, brother (8 at time) and my sister (16 at time) and i was i think 9. it was haunted no doubt. not like amityville but you know the scrathing, doors opening/slamming. and on several occasions faint grey materiallized figures, and on one unforgetable incedent i was in my living room playing madden when in my periphiel (sp) i saw a grey figure marching toward me.
obliterator93 3 years ago 2
George and Kathy Lutz are two charlatans who perpetrated a shameless hoax on a gullible public. The Amityville haunting was complete horseshit. Period, end of story.
lighthouse44 4 years ago
No one has proven this was a hoax. If it was a hoax, surely someone would have fessed-up by now, or some major loose-end would have come unraveled. Kaplan had spent 20 years trying to disprove the Lutzes' story, but failed. What this case needs is a serious investigator to go through everything, such as trial transcripts and legal documents and such - try and prove something one way or another...
FriendshipTown 4 years ago
Noooooooooooooo! What happened to the Griffin logo?
ShaDeed329 4 years ago
moose head photo ? never seen this photo, or heard of it, anyone share any light on this photo?
madhobbit 4 years ago