Just found some interesting info on a house near my old one in NY, the house was about a 10 min drive from my home in NY this is what supposedly happ not the movies


Facts surrounding the "Amityville Horror House"

The Amityville Horror has turned from a real suburban American tragedy into a horrific myth. It has become the source of bestselling novels and the subject of several movies.
These are some of the facts as they are known.
On November 13, 1974, in the house at 112 Ocean Ave., Amityville, 24-year-old Ronald DeFeo murdered his family. DeFeo used a high-powered rifle, shot to death his father, mother, two brothers and two sisters. All six members of Ronald DeFeo

 

wow. but why did they stay there for 28 days i wonder. I would have left as soon as i started to hear the voices.

 

oh man, i do not have the patience to read, someone sum it up please

 

that book came out in 1979ish. this is old old old history - why the sudden interest?

Edit: It's also been proven to be a hoax - a fraud...

Amityville Fraud

Fraud 2

plus....

interesting facts:

8) In 1979, a lawyer named William Weber confessed to his part in the hoax; Weber had been the lawyer for the convicted killer Ronald DeFeo and he admitted that he and George Lutz had concocted the whole story of the haunting. Weber

 

oh my god, still too long.

 

LOL - how about this.... it was all a buncha bullshit...

 

i liked the movie...

 

If you liked the movie, the book was even better - I read the book years before the movie came out....

but it doesn't change the fact that it was a buncha bullshit

 

wanna know the real story now?


Theres a bar down the street from the house, the kid went to the bar got trashed told everyone he was going to kill his family. no one believed him he went home killed them blammed it on the house, house was sold new owners claimed the walls were bleeding and this and that. the truth is it was a hot and humid summer and after the murders they just put new wall paper up over the blood. humidity+new wall paper= peeling or bleeding threw..... house is gorgeous in person

 

Regardless of the outcome...it was an awesome book, and a great horror flick...This made for some great reading, I appreciate the posts. I am tired of reading about these CRAP cars and so on!!!!! Friggin' S2000s....

I love history...


Erick