nearly every day - around the same time the DeFeo murders were believed to have happened. He claimed that he would mysteriously wake up at 3:15 a.m. I couldn’t get warm in the house for many days.”

The front door would slam shut in the middle of the night….

“There were … odors in the house that came and went,” George told ABC News in 2006. Ronald DeFeo died in his prison cell on March 12, 2021. Soon after, the couple said they began noticing odd things around the house, such as doors being ripped from hinges, cabinets slamming shut and slime oozing from the ceilings. The day they moved, the couple had a priest bless the house. But George claimed the holy man felt an unseen hand slap him in the sewing room and heard a voice say “Get out.” Two members of the Suffolk County Coroner’s Office remove one of six bodies that were found shot in Amityville on Nov. In December 1975, a month after DeFeo was convicted of the murders, the Lutz couple and their three young kids moved into the house, which they had reportedly snatched for $80,000. The notorious killer died behind bars on March 12 at 69. Ronald DeFeo Jr. then 23, gunned down his parents and four siblings there on November 13, 1974. but was changed to 108 to deter tourists - was the site of a brutal slaughter. The three-story colonial - its original address was 112 Ocean Ave. Though their story is now widely thought of as a hoax, the Lutz’s so-called horror house continues to fascinate the public. The couple’s terrifying tale of demonic possession inspired the 1977 book “ The Amityville Horror,” a hit 1979 movie of the same name and several sequels, including a 2005 remake. It’s been more than 45 years since George and Kathy Lutz fled their house in Amityville, Long Island, claiming it was haunted by evil spirits. ‘Amityville Horror’ home sells for $1.46 million Would you buy this skeleton-filled Texas home for $125K? I own a ‘haunted’ pub - watch as this ghost shatters a pint glass Tommy Lee’s hillside Calabasas mansion finally sells at a loss

The amityville horror by jay anson