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 George Lutz, 1975 |
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 George Lutz, 2002 |
| On December 18 of 1975, George and Kathy Lutz, along with Kathy's three children, moved in to 112 Ocean Avenue in the small suburb of Amityville, Long Island. For the next 28 days, they would experience a reign of terror that to this day has gone unparalleled. The sheer fright they had to endure will forever be known as The Amityville Horror. A year prior to their purchase of the home, a terrible tragedy had taken place when Ronald DeFeo Jr. methodically massacred his entire family in their sleep. Throughout the month that the Lutz family lived at 112 Ocean Avenue, they claimed to have experienced a plethora of paranormal activity, including Kathy Lutz levitating in her sleep, a giant pig's head with glowing red eyes seen in an upstairs bedroom window, hooveprints found in the snow, nauseating odors, ghostly contact with unseen hands, and clairvoyant dreams, just to name a few. Over the years, subsequent to the Lutz family fleeing their new home and leaving all of their belongings behind, many have come forward to claim the Amityville experience as a hoax. Famed parapsychologist Dr. Stephen Kaplan was the first to claim the haunting a hoax, authoring a book entitled The Amityville Horror Conspiracy, detailing why he believed the case to be a fraud, shortly before his death. It must be dually noted, however, that Dr. Kaplan was obviously embittered towards Mr. Lutz after he had initially been hired to investigate the case, only to be thrown off the property by George himself when he showed up with a news crew and a coven of witches. Though it has become quite a trend in the parapsychological community to label the Amityville case a lie, none have been able to offer any substantial proof as to their claim that the Lutz family were indeed perpetrating a massive publicity scheme. Such outrageous claims as the Lutz family operating in cahoots with Ronald DeFeo Jr's lawyer in order to free DeFeo on an insanity plea have been made but have also been laughably dismissed. Should the Amityville haunting indeed be a hoax, it would have to be the greatest case of such in recent memory. Many facets of the typical, and not so typical, haunting were so prevalent in the Amityville case that one would be hard pressed to dismiss the entire event as a hoax so easily. World reknowned psychic Lorraine Warren and her partner in both life and ghost hunting, Ed Warren, were two of the first investigators to enter the house in search of the truth. According to Lorraine Warren, 112 Ocean Avenue was "as close to Hell as she ever hopes to get." To this day, through all of the would-be debunkers and hoax-hearsay, George Lutz maintains that he and his family's experiences are indeed true. For More Information On the Amityville Horror: The Truth About the Amityville Horror |
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but a dream within a dream..."
- Edgar Allen Poe