Amityville Horror - Merv Griffin Show, 1979 - 4 of 5

George and Kathy Lutz talk about their real life experiences while living in the world's most notorious haunted house in segment 4 of this 1979 episode of the Merv Griffin Show. Segments 1-3 include Rod Steiger; segments 4-5 include George & Kathy Lutz. Discuss this case at www.amityvillefaq.com/truthboard/

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[smallbird5]

I'm ready this book right now. And to be completely honest I don't think it's scary as of page 188. :/ also their daughter Missy describes Jodie as a pig. Also she says Jodie is a boy. If Jodie can alternate between human and pig that would explain it but right now the movie trailer is way off.

[FriendshipTown]

@smallbird5 Jodie was said to be an entity which could take the shape of anything it wanted. Jodie was not a real pig or a real boy.

[littleyellowmonkey]

the only person shes 'afraid of' is her husband....it just is so obvious to me. she also seems VERY guilty, staring at her feet often whilst he speaks. bizarre.

[FriendshipTown]

@littleyellowmonkey Yeah? To me it looks like someone who lived through a very traumatic experience and who would rather forget about it rather than talking about it.

[VoiceInBlackness]

Its really sad folks believe crap like this....i haven't done research....but who built the house,were there problems when they built it,saying its on a indian burial grounds,and even if it is on burial ground how does that jump to demons getting even with the living.Just cause some wacked out crazed idiot murders his family in the house,and granted that is creepy scary,but it has nothing to do with spirits as when u die u are dead.

[FriendshipTown]

@VoiceInBlackness All the talk of Indian burial grounds & curses & demons are just people trying to figure out why the Lutzes experienced what they did.

The Warrens believe it was due to demons while Hans Holzer claims it was due to an Indian curse.

Holzer has given two completely different stories (told not as theories but as "the truth") about how the curse started, so I think we can safely discount his stuff as fantasy.

The Lutzes don't know why this happened, they can only guess like us.

[Dupe16118]

Wait wait wait - in the documentary, George said that on the first night and even within minutes of moving in they experienced bad things so why does he say in this interview that it was fine for the first few weeks.

[goldberg7633]

i love how people who never xperienced anything of the paranormal world always have to run theyre mouth..who are u people to question any of us who experinced things.its offensive to have people say we hallucinate or its mind tricks..first u forget how many of us in this world have experinced something real.its not a mass conspiracy..or wait ,we all must b on drugs that xplains all the reported incidents.or wait its our minds playing tricks on us.what am i now luke skywalker.,skeptics r dumb

[MrSweet38455]

it does not matter wether weird things started within right after a entry or after a few weeks but the thing is the strange things happend in there acc to book and based on there documentry........the reason y george give diff answers at diff occassions is i think he was still in trauma of that bizzare events

[Andromeda1741]

In this interview he says everything was ok in the house for the first few weeks, in another documentary he said things started happening in the first few hours. There is alot of evidence that these people are lying or at least exaggerating alot.

[BloatedSensations]

@littleyellowmonkey Keep in mind that years after this, the Lutz's went through a very messy and viscous divorce. Kathy could have, at the time, come clean with a confession of hoax perpetuated by George and damaged him considerably for personal gain. She never did. Both Kathy and George went to their graves adamant that while the movie had been sensationalized, and, to a much lesser extent, even the book - the story that they told was absolutely true.

[Tanner1940]

@smallbird5 Are you referring to the trailer of the 2005 remake of "The Amityville Horror"? That film bears little resemblance to the real story.

[smallbird5]

@FriendshipTown why is the trailer jody of a little girl then?

[drummerkid71]

@goldberg7633 I agree with you. I didn't see a "ghost" until I was 37.....but before that I never payed much attention to this kind of genre. I know it wasn't my imagination. Now I investigate the paranormal. Most people are afraid to think outside of their comfort level when it comes to this stuff. Most people have to see it to believe it...otherwise they poke fun at it or pass it off as imagination....but when they DO see it....it's a different story.

[puppyloveforu]

On all the shows that they've been interviewed, Kathy Lutz speaks so damn quiet. She needed to speak up because it makes her sound like she's afraid to be heard....like covering up some sort of guilt.

[stitchesful]

What is he talking about when he says that "the first two weeks were alot of fun." ? According to the movie and book, they were in the house only 18 days, and stuff started happening right away. Isn't he contradicting himself just by saying that?