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The Amityville Horror is the title of a best-selling book by the author
Jay Anson which was published in 1977. The book has also formed the basis of a series of cinema films made between 1979 and 2005.
The book and film adaptations deal with
the story the Lutz family, who move into a Dutch Colonial home in the village of Amityville, a suburban neighborhood located on the south shore of Long Island, New York in Suffolk County.
Thirteen months earlier the house at 112 Ocean Avenue had been the scene of a brutal mass murder. After living in the house for 28 days the Lutz family flee the house, claiming to have been terrorized by
paranormal phenomena.
The Lutz family moved in on December 18, 1975. When a friend of George Lutz learned of the house's history he insisted on having the house blessed. George knew only one Catholic priest named Father Ray and he agreed to carry out the house blessing. (In Jay Anson's book the priest is referred to as Father Mancuso. This was done for reasons of privacy and the priest's real name was Father Ralph J. Pecoraro, who is now dead.)
Father Ray arrived to perform the house blessing on the day the Lutzes were moving in and as they busily unpacked outside he went in and performed the house blessing. George and Kathy later learned from Father Ray that while blessing a particular room on the second storey which was formerly the bedroom of Mark and John DeFeo (the younger brothers of Ronald DeFeo), he experienced an unnatural coldness in the room and heard an unearthly voice telling him to “Get out!” Startled by this, Father Ray was subsequently slapped by an unseen force. When leaving the house, Father Ray did not mention this incident to either George or Kathy, possibly because he did not wish to cause them unnecessary concern. Instead he told them that he felt uncomfortable in the room and would prefer it if nobody spent too much time there.
At first George and Kathy Lutz experienced nothing unusual in the house. Talking about their experiences subsequently,
they reported that it was as if they
"were each living in a different house".
Some of the experiences of the Lutz family at the house have been described as follows:
-George would wake up around 3:15 every morning and would go out to check the boathouse. Later it would be learned that
this was the estimated time of the DeFeo killings.
-Kathy would have
vivid nightmares about the murders, and discovered in which order the murders occurred and who was shot where. These details were later confirmed when they met with Ronald DeFeo’s defense lawyer.
-Kathy would feel a sensation as if
“being embraced” in a loving manner, by an unseen force.
-Kathy discovered a small hidden crawling space behind shelving in the basement, where the walls were painted red. This did not appear in the blueprints of the house. The room was referred to as
“The Red Room”. This room had a
profound effect on their dog Harry, who refused to go near it and cowered as if sensing something negative.
-There were cold spots and odors of perfume and excrement in areas of the house where
no wind drafts or piping would explain the source.
The Lutzes' youngest daughter Missy developed an imaginary friend named
“Jodie” who it was later learned could change form from a little boy to a demonic pig-like creature.
-George would be awoken by the sound of the
front door slamming. He would race downstairs to find the dog sleeping soundly at the front door. Nobody else heard the sound although it was loud enough to wake the house.
-George would hear what was described as a “German marching band tuning up” or what sounded like a clock radio playing not quite on frequency. When he went downstairs the noise would cease.
-While checking the boathouse one night, George saw
a pair of red eyes looking at him from Missy’s bedroom window. When he went upstairs and to her room there was nothing to be found. Later it was suggested that it could have been “Jodie”.
-Locks and doors in the house were damaged by an unseen force.
-Cloven hoofprints appeared in the snow outside the house.
-Green slime dripped from the walls and ceilings of the house.
When the
Lutzes decided that something was
wrong with their house that they could not explain rationally, it was suggested by a friend of George’s that he and Kathy carry out a blessing of their own and open all the windows in the rooms, telling whatever was there to leave in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. While taking his advice and walking around the house reciting the Lord’s Prayer in each of the rooms, George and Kathy allegedly heard a chorus of voices telling them “Will you please stop!”
By mid January of 1976 and after another attempt at a house blessing by George and Kathy, they experienced what would turn out to be their
final night in the house.
To this day events of this night have not been disclosed fully by the Lutz family as they have described them as "too frightening".
btw... some of the events described in Anson's book have aroused
suspicion.
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