The Real Amityville Horror: Unveiling the Terror Behind the Fiction | Documentary
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"The Amityville case affected our personal lives more than any case we ever worked on." - Lorraine Warren
The Paranormal Scholar presents the truth behind the legendary Amityville Horror film franchise. There is more to this tale than meets the eye: the mystifying and chilling details of Ronald DeFeo Jr.'s crimes; the horrifying account of the subsequent haunting of the Lutz family; and new revelations by Daniel Lutz.
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I'd love to see Netflix make a series on Ed and Lorraine Warren.
Kujo Matsumoto would be a great idea! If done right and not rushed
I want this so much
A real series, telling the actual truth and not just their insane and totally fictional stories, would be pretty fun, and might educate a few people on how "psychics" are just a bunch of evil scammers and conmen, taking a whole lot of money, getting rich, on people's grief.
Ed Warren approached guy playfair during the Enfield polterguiest saga and took him to the side and said i can make you a lot of money so they were told to piss off That was the only connection they had with that haunting.
They only do movies. They make more
i would charge that ghost rent. nobody living in my house for free
canadianreserve Especially since I can't live in my house for free
canadianreserve I would ask well..lol
I would as well
The rent I would charge would be way too expensive for a ghost.
Lol for real
The thing that was the weirdest in this entire story is how someone fires a shotgun and no one hears it and gets up....no report of them being drugged
... and also the fact that all victims were lying face down
What people don't think of is that there was a thunderstorm at the time and noise is muffled in rooms. In addition, it wasn't a shotgun, it was a rifle which is said to be a Marlin Model 336
Defeo said in one of his last interviews that he and Dawn shot the Father and the Mother in the mix up got shot too. He said he left and when he got back Dawn and another man had killed the younger siblings so Ronnie killed her. It may have happened something like this. Creepy a.f either way!
cplcabs yes, that type of gun is particularly loud. I have seen a video of them testing one for sound travel. Even on a stormy night you would hear it.
No FBI ask him why they were in the same position? 🤷🏻♀️ did he tell them to face down?!
I love how skeptics pick apart certain things in paranormal stories, but stay quiet on the more interesting parts.
The theory about George "tapping" into something malevolent is actually quite interesting. Would never have thought of that.
A minor correction and a few clarifications: The Lutzes didn't erect the sign "High Hopes". That sign was put there by the Defeos. Also, the garage door was allegedly slamming up and down before their eyes on their very first day upon moving into the house. This freaked the dog out who was leashed in a fenced in pen area alongside and he jumped the fence to escape the noise but the leash wasn't long enough for the dog to land on the ground on the other side and it began to hang itself by accident. The dog wasn't trying to commit suicide. In the 2nd half of the video it's described how the boys' beds were coming off the floor and headboards banging into the walls etc. The parents testified they heard this occurring. The idea that they spoke to the priest first to tell them to leave the house and stay somewhere else is a bit ridiculous. If your beds go flying, you GET OUT, you don't have to call a priest first to make sure. So I find that detail a little bit dubious.
G E T O U T !!..........ooooooooooooooooo..........
“High Hopes” sign was placed by the De Feo’s.
I just scrolled through the comments hoping someone pointed that out.
I thought it was a Pink Floyd tune
Also the first ammity affliction album
@@jumpingman8160 Should be 'Money'...
Also, Ronnie Jnr didn't kill his three youngest siblings. Dawn killed them and so Ronnie killed Dawn. Both Ronnie and Dawn took an interest in Witchcraft.
Unusual house . Those windows always looked like demonic eyes to me
Lol i just looked up the house i hate they changed the windows. Mainly because of traffic jams in front of their home I guess. Id love it.
Previous owners changed the windows so the house wouldn't be as recognizable to all the people coming to look at the house and bothering them.
70s-80s were great times for telling creepy encounters.
Especially the 70's. I was a kid when this story was told. Scared the crap out of me. Now I think it's all a hoax
@blámaðr Loki Kult Yeah, I agree on that part. I still don't know how any of the family members didn't wake up after the first shot(s) were fired. That is a very loud rifle. The Lutz part, if they lied, they were pretty convincing. I just don't know how everyone else who lived there after them, have had no paranormal occurrences at all. Weird.
@@allanb9720 You are right, it is all just a hoax.
just the fact that all those people were murdered in that house is creepy enough!!!
Imagine an Amityville fitness program. "Lose 26 pounds in 28 days by staying in this house!"
The demon diet.
Hahaha, that's good 😀
😆😆😆😂
@Danielle Morcom
Just don't eat
It definitely works
I lost 25 pounds in 2 weeks
I mean it wasn't voluntary, (and I didnt wanna lose it), but defo worked
Haha!!
I would’ve told that ghost “what bills you be paying to slam the doors”
sebastian Cerda hell yeah tell him what I tell my son. don't be slamming my fucking doors.
this comment made me laugh
😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Let's say that there is something paranormal in that house. If it is it's most likely demonic, good look taunting that.
Lol
I met a lady who went to school with the Defeos,she was their neighbor growing up,she said they where weird people in general and the house was very weird, she said she used to hear strange noises come from the boathouse all the time,and she also said her house and a couple other where genuinely haunted,she did know much about the Lutz's because they where reclusive
Aaron Davis makes you wonder is there’s a portal to hell on the land the houses were built on
I’ve heard Ronnie was involved in some dark stuff and drugs as well I believe it was already there for sure
Aaron was the house occupied after the Lutz's? I heard a new family moved in and they did not hear or see anything !
Lutz's made it all up. They cashed in on the murders. The neighborhood may have had problems, but that wasn't part of the Lutz's story. The Warren's were predators. Anything for a buck. If any of it was real, old Zak Baggins would be dead seeing how he touched the real Annabelle doll. It's all fake.
I'm pretty sure there was strange noises coming from the boathouse. Stranger noise Butch, made while getting wasted.
I have seen interviews with the now adult Daniel LUtz. I don't know what happened in that house to him, as I wasn't there, but you can tell he's had a traumatic childhood and life in general. My heart truly went out to him.
AngelFace both him and Christopher have both spoken out but you never hear any thing from Missy. She must have really been traumatized as well. I just found out a few years ago George and Kathy had two daughters together
Nope. He is a liar too trying to make some money off this dead horse.
@@aprilcitygirltocountrywife2595 did not know they had two kids together.
yes one named noel but I can't remember the other ones name. George was suing one of the boys over a documentary they were doing and George claimed he had the rights to the story and one or both of the other sisters were trying to talk to the brother about not doing it.... wish I could find out what happened with missy but you never hear a word from her... can't really blame her.
Damn u look good baby
Everyone is a skeptic, until it happens to them.
Andrew Nguyen
Everyone’s a believer until someone demands proof.
@@kelman727 nice one
@@kelman727 Untrue. You can give scientific evidence of something such as biological sex and people will still believe whatever they want.
These people were never skeptics. They already believed in ghosts, demons and possessions when they moved in. And if you've ever seen their interviews it's obvious they're pretty ignorant as well.
It happened to us
It wasn't Lutz put the HIGH HOPES sign out front, it was the Defeos, the sign can be seen in news footage on the morning of the murders. Also, the guns, rifle and pistol, were thrown into the river, not the family pool.
Thank you. I was wondering if anyone was going to point out the errors in this.
David Dietz yes, correct.
Good catch. Yes.
..yes ...it's like why wouldn't they these facts correct when doing these small documentarys
True!
I live only about 20 minutes away from the Amityville and I've seen the house up close. Scary stuff.
+Akamaholic Fascinating! Thanks for sharing.
Akamaholic man that'd be freaky as.jus to have to drive or go past it.n imagine u gotta go past it like everyday to work n back aye.man i wouldn't even look n keep goin.
i have only seen it on tv thats scary enough
Akamaholic i am close by too...used to cut lawn of house couple of houses down some years back when landscaping in summer
The house looks scary because of all the stories.. Although I still wouldn't go inside it at night.
No matter what you believe the thing no one can deny is the murdered family didn't wake or struggle after the first gunshot so why didn't they? How did they all sleep through the gunshots?! Very strange. Explain that.
It depends. Certain prescribed medications for sleep disturbance can sometimes cause you to sleep very deeply, or having a vivid dream. I am not sure if this was the case for the family, though.
Dead Inside All family members were checked for drugs in the autopsies. None of them had anything in their system, not even alcohol.
Melatonin is the body's natural resources, and a low dosage wouldn't show up in the autopsy reports. It can also be a very dangerous medication if you eat too many. There are also certain drugs that don't show up at all, some syntethic drugs that are not prescription. A rich family in the 70s would have access to just about anything, especially in LA. Toxicology was also not as complete as it is today.
Dead Inside Possible but doubtful, I can't believe all the neighbors were drugged as well. The gunshots should have been heard six blocks away according to investigators.
He used a pillow as a silencer.
What annoys me about this is people almost seem to forget that the family was still killed
"High Hopes " was the title from the Defeos.... The sign was removed before they moved in....
Don't you just hate it when a flying pig visits your window
Nate g the pigeon lord just happened to me last week!
Only if one keeps Kosher.
unless its Pink Floyd
Zero Cool Idiot. You really don't know what you're talking about concerning Pink Floyd and the flying pig, do you?
No Dude. I'm responding to the above comment about a flying pig - just like when Pink Floyd's giant inflatable pig floated away on tour.
Polly Potter:I read an excellent book called Amityville Hoax. All the facts of the case and interviews are in the book! It's written so that the reader can make up their own minds on what happened and it isn't biased at all. My conclusion from reading it?
1. The police did a HORRIBLE job of investigating the case properly.
2. Ronald Defeo was not possessed...he was a greedy, cruel, asshole.
3. Everyone and their dog wanted to make money off of the Lutz family story.
4. The family never claimed that the house was haunted from the murders.
5. George Lutz practiced the dark arts of the occult in the house.
6. The haunting incidents that the entire family does back up are:
a) The marching band sounds.
b) Kathy looking like an old lady.
c) The "pig."
d) Flies where there shouldn't be.
e) Kathy levitating.
f) Stenches throughout the house.
g) Dog trying to hang himself.
h) George always being cold.
7. The Lutz family didn't just leave and never come back. They did come back to get their stuff and have a yard sale.
8. Two of the boys (step sons) of George's blame him completely for the haunting. They say his occult practices caused the haunting, not the Defeo murders.
9. When the Lutz's left, the haunting followed them everywhere they went.
10. There was never an Indian burial ground, the tribe even said they'd never been there and that there's no legend supporting it.
11. There was never a black magician who lived in the house.
12. A priest did visit the house to bless it. He did have car trouble driving home but that was it, no sores or sickness.
So...what I get from the whole story?
I don't think the house was ever haunted, I think George Lutz was. Which would explain why nothing happened in the house after they left but it did continue to happen to them wherever they moved to.
Two points I should correct you on which are known to have been confused with the book as well as disinformation from hoax advocates: The Lutz family never returned to get their belongings but rather they sent some trusted friends on a Sunday (a Holy day) and only during daylight hours. Also the yard sale you mentioned was held by auctioneers hired by the bank the Lutz's gave the house back to - neither George or Kathy were there.. Although there is no one source of speculation towards causing the haunting I am of the opinion it was a 'perfect paranormal storm' of events which culminated in any paranormal activity contributed to the 28 days the Lutz family resided there.
Bryleena that's the book
Bryleena so the dog wanted to get rich? makes sense
Queen Heidi yeah, that was a dead giveaway, 😂
I agree with everything but 12. The priest did in fact claim to have marks on his hand, and that he felt being slapped in the face by something unseen and hear voices in the house.
The current owner never reported anything unusual except for annoying thrill seekers continually coming to the house
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Calm down Elliot Rodger.
@@Parnell07 Calm down Crumps.
Simp
@@dislike_button33 calm down cossette bagetti
You know..... I keep hearing about how creepy or scary the movie was. The truth is, you dont know the story if you dont read the book(s) (there were 2). The movie just isnt the same as the story in the book. It's missing things and de-emphasizes the frequency and impact of the encounters with Jody. This story as told in the books will freeze your blood and you WILL sleep with the lights on for a while after you read it. Skip the movie. Get the books.
I love that first movie but I, still haven't read most of the books... I've read Amityville the final chapter I think it's called but also, murder in Amityville... I want to read the book that started it all...
I read the book in my teens. Remember being told that I should stop because I was so into the book and it scared me but I couldn't put it down.
Omg! Yes!!! I read one of the versions that FREAKED me the hell out!! I bought another copy a while back but it doesnt sound like the one I read back in the 90s
@Peter Scott I saw Hereditary a few days after reading this comment and i was actually quite surprised that it creeped me out! Reminded me a bit of Rosemary's Baby....another fantastic dark horror film 😬
@@texastea5686 yes actually a really good flick. Definitely did not seeing it taking the dark turns it did 🤯
The reason George kept the DeFeo furniture was that they were available on the cheap from the DeFeo estate. Buying new furniture would have been very expensive.
I don't care how cheap it was I'm not buying a bed that someone was murdered in
Dave S.
Well you're just not very frugal are you, remember a penny saved is a penny earned.
Dave S. they didn't buy it, it was part of the sale. Ya get what ya pay for, geez...!
Yes, part of the sale.They did buy it.I wouldn;t have bought the bed frames myself.
Acharged my granny say be4 u move in a house u must pray then move in I'm sorry all of that happen ..this make me not want to buy or bill a house help...
I know a few people who were up top with him, and DeFeo admittedly tells everyone the demon crap was told because he had absolutely no other defense. He was drinking pretty hard, and he dropped some tabs and was tripping balls when he shot them. Yes, his story changes all the time, but he never brings up the ghostly demon crap anymore. He tried it, it didn't work, and it was such a ridiculous story that even he was embarrassed to originally tell it.
*That was a great video with alot of information. ✅🙂*
AcidGlow didn’t think I’d see you here
@@ssherrierable definitely
@@ssherrierable What wrong information? Not arguing just asking.
Anybody can give alot of information, when much of it is wrong. There's several wrong facts they put in this video. If someone is going to take the time to make a video like this, in order to teach people about a subject, the least they can do is dig in and do the proper research first! This is why so much of the world history people think they know today is completely wrong. Its from years and years of false stories, being told over and over again. Changing more and more everytime it gets re-told.
The Amityville Diet.. George lost 26 pounds in 28 days Now why the hell not write a book about that! lol
Ha - we did have a similar thought!
LOL IKR have a lovely day,evening from OZ :D
***** Many thanks, you too!
This man lost 26 pounds in just 28 And doctors HATE him.
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I dunno what happened
Bryleena win at comments sir or maam
The High hopes sign was originally put there by the DeFeos not The Lutzs
i went to the house like two months ago. They drive a nice Cadillac Escalade and a little cute boy came out with his mom for groceries! I was disappointed because I didn't get the same thrill as watching it. But happy that everyone is ok!
Lol
@@pinkgal206 Spirits if they choose or can, will come to people but people cannot go to them. There may be rules and laws in the other dimension that allows spirits to come or not. One family can move into a horrible haunted home and never have an incident but others can move in and all hell breaks loose. I live in a house that has had moments but lately its quiet. I think they like me. I live alone and have several cats. I do get the gibbys when i go into the hall and upstairs at night. I beleive that is their realm because I can feel and sense it.
Ron Delby ooooh I wanna hear more please! Always fascinated to hear stories from people who live/lived in haunted houses
@@queenemma5823 same, I want to hear more!!
I would like to hear more also...
The house was named "High Hopes" by the de Feos--not the Lutzes.
The 35 Marlin rifle was not found in the swimming pool. It was found in the back of the house in the creek. Plus the photo at :45 seconds is not from this crime scene. The news media made a mistake on that one. It is a crime scene photo from a little girl that was nurdered around the same time. It sometimes relates to as the Amityville Seventh body.
Geenahgee04 It was found in the sewer along with bloody clothes. There are evidence photos of the gun in the sewer.
Missy Cabic u arw correct!! Ive seen ALL the photos related to this case. And an hr long CREDIBLE doc. w the police officers and investigators that WORKED THIS CASE.
All that was found in the sewer was Butch’s blood clothes. Along with 2 gun holsters and shell casings. That is what the pictures are of. Not the 35 marlin that killed his family. The 35 marlin was found in the creek in the back of the house. Go look at the photos again. Look up the info where the gun was found again.
You are correct about the rifle!!! I'd never heard about the murdered girl before...
The DeFeo murders (R.I.P. to all of them) and the Amityville haunting have intrigued me since I was a kid. Great video.
+jum hitty Yes, it is such an intriguing case. Thanks for watching.
When someone says something outside the "normal" happens people say that they're crazy. There are things out there and if they don't wanna be seen they won't be.
Facts
Exactly!
GET OUT !!
Here's a theory: He shot the mother and the father first, the kids just stayed in their beds because they were scared.
Fight or flight.... Human nature...At least one of them would have run or screamed.....
The mother, Allison and Dawn were all awake and upright when shot.
@@Rick_Cleland thought they were all on their stomach, or did Defeo turn them after he shot them all
@@michellebattersby3243, Allison was sitting slightly upright facing the door when she was shot in the face and slumped forward onto her stomach. She had gunpowder in her eyes, so they were open when she was shot. The blood splatter and bullet trajectory showed the mother was shot in the side indicating that she was also upright. Dawn apparently struggled with Butch and he overpowered her, threw her onto her stomach and shot her in the back of the head at point blank range.
@@michellebattersby3243 Or froze, unable to move. I've been there.
The current owner didn't report any troubles , they just complained about tourists.
It's because it's all fake. One of them admitted they made the whole story up over a bottle of wine.
There is a documentary on RUclips in which DeFeo's lawyer speaks of the wine story.
That house is truly cursed. You are right in stating that they complain of tourists. Most people don't realize that it is just a house and nothing more.
yes,, everyting was by money,,,money,,the second men who buy the house,,he's a fuking liar..
@@Captain-Sum.Ting-WongWong the only one who said the whole thing was made up over several bottles of wine was the Attorney for Defeo now is he reliable to you really? and if you had that much wine how can you make up such a detailed story and remember it 30 years later or whatever it was before the Lutzes passed on and untill the day they died they told the same story no changes whatever Jay Anson wrote its a book and the Holywood movies thats Hollywood George Lutz even sued the makers of the 2005 movie over the killing of the dog which never happened that goes to show you studios do anything for shock factor sometimes the book and the movie being fabricated slightly does not mean the experiences of the Lutz Family is a lie or Hoax
The main question I had about the DeFeo murders was hit on right away; how did he fire, reload and fire again, for a total eight shots, and NO ONE WOKE UP?!?! Even if he used a "silencer," which only drops the sound level from a gun shot to that of a jack hammer, people should still have woken up. No one was drugged, how did this happen?
sagefoole Good question! I wonder if we will ever find out!🤔
Not only that, but the neighbors didn't report any gunshots during the night of the murders. The only sound they claim to have heard was the dog barking.
And was that dog having a fit, like he was barking at an intruder or an assailant with a gun? Just gets weirder and weirder...
Some spooky shit. Maybe there were multiple killers.
Not true! It's been determined both the mother Louise and her daughter Alison were awake (although briefly) before their deaths.
3 AM. The Witching Hour.
I usually had nightmare at this hour
@@johnnyorlando6980 my brother and dad used too! My brother would scream so loudly and when woken he told my mom that a woman was standing right behind his door and that she tried to strangle him...
This was very well researched and put together. Thank you for making excellent documentaries like this one.
+jamesbond007hot Thanks for watching!
Nice profile pic,who is she?
She jenny from the block
jamesbond007hot Not really! Especially when photo’s are used from other crime scenes!
Your voice truly sets the feel of the video
+Darhyus Henderson Thank you kindly!
11:30 My Daddy used to do "Exorcisms" with a sword he found in the dirt one day when he was playing by himself around the age of 8... he told me many MANY stories about how he would help people exorcise demons from their homes, he would "Sweep the house" with that sword, and one night after sweeping a home for friends of a friend, he saw 3 Pig men running away from the house, he said he looked like Bebop from Ninja turtles.. he never allowed me to have the figure of Bebop because of what he said he saw that night.. and he told me about the story LONG before Ninja Turtles was even a thing. later i showed him the "Pig Cop" from Duke Nukem and he said it too was the spitting Image of the Demons he saw running away from that house... my dad lived to the age of 70 and he while being an incredibly funny man when he wanted too be, he was never given to lying or making stories up.. he came out of a time when your word was your code. so i know he didn't lie to me. he really did see those..... things.... and now listening to this guy, it makes me wonder even more.
ive still got my Daddies sword. ive kept it and ill never get rid of it... i want to have someone tell me what/where exactly it came from one day though. its quite beat up, but its still pretty awesome to look at even now.
What type of sword is it?
Yea you should look more into the sword and sounds like u had a great dad. He knew how much words meant. Dont ever forget that.
How did ur father learn the exorcist ritual?.
Can you send me a picture of it?
That is a nice story mang, u got a good dad
Unintentional ASMR from intro + very well done video = RUclips perfection in my book.
I think Danny had it right when he said George experimented with the Occult and he unleased something that attached itself to the family. Makes sense as no one else has ever reported having any paranormal activity that lived there after the Lutz's.
I agree,that George did release something into their home because of that Occult he was into.That explains a lot of the mysterious and strange events that happened. Maybe,the paranormal activity stopped because,the next set of people who moved there made renovations to the house.
True with one VERY important omission!!! The Defeo family... Read Dr Hans Holzer's "Murder in Amityville"... You'll see what I mean...
What was attached to them was superstition. I'm not surprised that a family, which makes a priest bless their house also ends up seeing ghosts.
id say many priests are not really that religious these days. its more of the want to help others and they can do it that way. so if an atheist priest went and blessed the home and started to see shit. would that just mean that his faith wasnt strong enough to drive away the evil in there. as he would just assume it not to exist either.
either way even if the priest was religious, its not really that normal for them to experience the same as the family when they are not in the same space. how would he know if he is not told what they experienced.
Or he is a liar... Makes more sense.
The fact that nothing else has happened in the house since adds to the idea that the family had issues, and having lived in multiple haunted homes myself I know that it's connected to who lives there. Hard to know what happened.
Not true. There was a news crew that went in the house and had a paranormal experience of their own in the basement and ran out. Google it if you don't believe me.
I read the book the year it came out. Once I started reading it I became obsessed with it.
I couldn’t put it down until I finished it. My wife wanted to read it but got sick the 2 times she started it. She became so scared of the book we had to throw it away.
Now do I believe the story?, you bet I do. I’ve never been scared of a book before.
Damn
You’re scared of a proven hoax?
kelman727 wow you are posting everywhere! You need a break from RUclips.
@@kelman727 You're scared of proving that it's a hoax?
@@kelman727 Honestly!
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So many ppl point out the "the spirit of the boy at top of the stairs", however I've often wondered if any other than myself has noticed all the "other unexplained" faces ect, that are very visible inside the open bathroom door & all around the top of the stairs!!! Truly hair raising!
and we know for the fact that the picture of the "ghost boy" is staged. but it does take away attention from the rest of them.
The photo of the little boy is not fake
It was debunked. He was a young looking assistant
Despite being interested in Ed and Lorraine Warren's work, the Amityville case and the Enfield Poltergeist are two cases which I remain highly doubtful about. However, this is a video that even an Amityville-specific skeptic like me can enjoy, as it appears to be extremely well-researched and unbiased. Keep up the good work.
+Ludovica B. Many thanks, I am pleased you enjoyed.
Ludovica B. Apparently the two girls in the Enfield poltergeist admitted they did it for fame
Butters:
"Ludovica B. Apparently the two girls in the Enfield poltergeist admitted they did it for fame"
Didn't the Lutz claim the same?
Lance Lust What we do know as fact is that a family was murdered in the house.
Richard Barker:
"Lance Lust What we do know as fact is that a family was murdered in the house."
Indeed.
When I was in my teens, (I'm 30 now btw), I was very naive & messed with tarot cards & stuff like that. When I started to use them, everything they said was real! THEN bad stuff started to happen so I threw them in a dumpster never to mess w\that type of supernatural again becuz it is very much real. Also, my mom fell ALL the way down sum cement stairs at the apt complex we were staying @ the time. Luckily she was ok which was unbelievable! I witnessed my mom fall many times on cement grounds & has never broken a single bone! Just very very bad bruising. Idk y but just felt like sharing! Thanks!!
"Lever action rifle"
Visualizations with a pump action 12 gauge shotgun. Firing sounds from the MW2 Intervention.
Flyin' Japman that’d what I dnt get those guns are loud how the hell did nobody move? And all on their stomachs when killed? Really? Unless they all were in sync sleeping that makes no sense atall. Whether he was told to by whatever or not that part is weird
Lmao I heard that too, like wtf why did I just have flashes of Rust
Also 3-4 is devil's hour
(12 through 1 a.m. is Witching hour)
Very astute!!! But what about 1-3???!!!😮
@@WAVP371 1 to 3 is bitchin hour
I believe 3 am is Devil's hour. It is the opposite of when Jesus died at 3 p.m. thus Devil's hour
@@WAVP371 the shaggy shag hour
That crazy you said that because my cuz passed a year ago between 3 and 4 same with my aunt a year later and my dad just passed between 3 and 4
Wow you've got some quality videos here. Thank you!! So happy I found you!!
+x0xtran9x0x Thanks for watching! I am pleased you enjoy.
your channel has way less subs than i thought it would’ve had. your content is amazing. keep it up. 👍🏻
This is probably the most accurate documentary i ve watched so far keep it up
fuck off except for the fact the Lutz admittedly lied about everything 👍🏼
Your channel is absolutely amazing. Keep up the amazing work!
+austin walls Thank you very much!
This is the best video on Amityville that I have seen. This case is often used by skeptics to disprove the Warrens, but I personally believe that their work on this case is some of their best.
Clairvoyant; thank you for asking this
That and, the conjuring case... Annabelle was, a good mention here as well...
The thing that bugs me about the Amityville movies, is that they ALL showed the basement as some creepy and scary dungeon like cavern, when in fact the basement in that house was finished and was used as a rec room. It had a pool table, TV sets, and shelving with board games. The other half was used as a laundry room and storage area .
Thank you for the information.
But it had the mysterious red room behind the walls with a bottomless pit in the center from which the demons would fly out of and infest the house. Muhuhu hahaha. You forgot about that!
@@hoibsh21 The 'mysterious red room' was nothing more than a room the size of a cupboard simply painted red, apparently it was used by owners before the Defeos as a toy room.
I jumped out of my body when the child laughed 😏 damn earbuds lol
Candy AppleD ha ha...same here.....
some say the reason for the hauntings also could be because George Lutz resembled Ronnie De'feo.
That is an interesting theory. Thanks for sharing!
The Paranormal Scholar
No problem mate
Shelley Wayne that's exactly why? silly
That house is not haunted and never was
Koakoa45 I agree !!!!!
I knew a family that were friends with the Lutz's. After they left Amityville my friends parents stayed a weekend with them in their new home. Her Mom said they were woken up at 3:15 am by scratching at their door, nothing was there but there were scrape marks on their door that hadn't been there before. They were convinced the evil of that house followed the Lutz's. When the movie was first being released a Boston talk show had James Brolin on as a guest and also my friends parents where they described their experience. They weren't nuts or irresponsible people. Very nice level headed regular people. Whether they imagined it who knows. They didn't stay the weekend none the less, they were too frightened. Until I heard them on the talk show I had no idea they'd spent a weekend with them.
Cindy WH-Witter thank you so much for sharing.
No you didn't and no they didn't. I grew up close enough to the town to know that everyone who has a story about the place just wants to feel special. Y'know, the idiots in town who have nothing to offer locals so they lie to tourists.
Jody, followed the Lutz's for seven years I understand...
I just subscribed. I've always been fascinated with the occult and you have a beautiful voice that I could listen to all night long!
Thank you for the upload! Very interesting video!
Very well done and quite fascinating... great work! Im subbed and looking forward to the next video. 😊
+Mr. Underdog Thank you and welcome to our channel!
Defeo family had the sign high hopes
Thank you for sharing.
They sure did.
Several errors in the film. The Lutz's did not flee in their bed clothes. They packed up and left in the afternoon.
@Deborah Mccarthy That's what I thought, too!! The Lutz' did NOT erect that sign as stated in this video...
The sign along with the various religions statuary were part of the DeFeo 'estate'. The Lutz's requested these statues be removed. The furniture left in the house came as part of the deal.
Congratulations to your channel...just became your 200,000th subscriber
Thank you and welcome!
I hooked your videos.....you've got amazing and soothing voice
The Lutz story has always been so frightening to me because it feels believable.
Vicki Noeske I've always felt it was true.
Except its not. They admitted it was a lie cooked up by them and their lawyer over many bottles of wine.
So this is my theory. Its not entirely a hoax. Rather, it was false memories and hyteric paranoia brought on by the uncomfortable feeling regarding who had previously lived there and what had happened, plus what the priest said to the family shortly after moving in caused the family to believe there would be something there, and so there was, based more on assumptions and fear induced hallucinations. The belief that something is there and therefore it seems really there. As for the seemimgly unexplainable Black goo, that stuff... Is more common than y'all might think. Its decomposed organic material as well as a shit ton of bacteria, usually a dead animal in the pipes of a house. Its super disgusting and potentially deadly
@@blackbird7781 Squidward: "The walls will ooze green slime?! Oh, wait, they always do that."
@@ALu-nq8rf 🤣🤣 Its the slash slinging, hash slinging slasher
The movie is still creepy as hell.
Back in those days horror movies had that dark and gritty quality about them. Today's horror movies are so polished, often almost beautiful in their aesthetics. The don't feel as real. Maybe that's why some of the older horror classics are way more terrifying.
Hellchen777 yup think Texas chainsaw massacres 1973
The 80s one is creepy af also
young lover Have you watched The Changelling (1980)? It’s on RUclips for free.
Which one ?
Loving this channel
The “ghostly boy “ was a technician kneeling down to connect wires and the flash was the glare off his glasses. He has long since admitted this.
he was looking at the camera it was a automatic shot 🤔
Back in those days 300 Thousand dollars is like a million dollars now. Remember the cost of living was a lot cheaper back then compared to today's high cost of living. Hell cigarettes were like 89 cents a pack lol And Hollywood would make a movie about anything if they feel they could make money off it. So doing a movie about a Haunted House would not be a problem. So wether the house was haunted or if it was a hoax I'll leave that for you to decide.
Shadow Knight thank you very much for that incredibly enlightening comment, oh King of the painfully obvious. OMG?!! are you for real??? amazing!!!
Cory Britton Your Welcome and I'll leave it at that. Which now makes you look stupid lol.
Shadow Knight Hey Shadow.... Careful who you’re calling stupid, you misspelled “which.”
Shadow Knight which*
Sad that I'm probably younger than you too.
Cheyenne Chavis Big deal, I made a mistake it happens to all of us. After All I'm only human and we all make mistakes.
awesome video thank you keep up the great work
Thank you - we are glad you enjoyed it!
I like how the narrator describes things. She’s a believer. Very well done my friend.
Ikr. I really love her narration. She explains everyrhing so well, without unnecessary details and I like the fact that she tries to stay objective and tell both sides of the story. Personally, I always believed the Lutz. Just like she said: " they had absolute no reason to fabricate such a story"
It was a proven hoax...
kelman727 it’s very real
antonela bakavic they didn’t even make their first mortgage payment.
Robert Cullen
It was a proven hoax, Robert.
The narrator has a wonderfully melodious and sonorous voice. Very pleasant to live with.
One of my favorites thank you
Our pleasure - enjoy!
Awesome narration! 👌🏼👏🏼 Very impressive!
+Hue Mann Thank you, I'm pleased you enjoyed!
This case has always fascinated me since the movie came out in my youth. Sometimes I think George Lutz caused poltergeist activity possibly demonically based whether he realised it or not. Therefore releasing these horrific forces upon his family either knowingly or unknowingly. This is a very interesting case that’s for sure. If only he was still alive we could all learn far more about the truth of this haunting. It certainly is a baffling case.
BTW I’ve just subscribed to your channel. Greetings from Australia.😀🇦🇺
Wow..!!.. very awesome documentary..👍👍
Thank you Manny!
The crime scene photo shown at 0:47 was from another crime scene which got mixed up with the DeFeo crime scene photos. The aforementioned was another case the Suffolk County PD were investigating around the same time. During 2002-03 period a book titled The Night the DeFeo's Died was released and the author asserted it was a 7th victim but later dis-proved to be when it was established the actual case it related to. The author was issued hard copies of the DeFeo crime scene pics and the one on 0:47 was thrown into the mix accidentally.
Brendan Lawrence yes you are correct
@Brendan Lawrence Wow, nice catch. You've certainly done your homework. You must really dig this kind of stuff, huh...?
lucy girl it was an 11 year old girl named Karen DeGennero who was stabbed to death in her house in Ronkonkoma about a week after the Amityville night
@Robert Bermudez I seem to recall in High Hopes that the man arrested for that murder, I think his name was 'Jimmy' DeVito, shared a cell with DeFeo
Robert Bermudez thanks robert...guess I'll google her story now...
Saw an interview with a the growup child of lutz,he still to this day stands on the truth,exactly as lutzs described.this man still is shook up from the event and watching him you come to beleive he witnessed events that overwhelm him and still freaks him out,can not fake that
True I, saw the interview... Daniel, still believes!!! And Christopher (Dan's younger brother) corroborates his brother... I still want to hear from their sister she, was the one Jody latched onto!!! Her insights would be priceless...
cynthia Erickson I agree. Any dispute has to be over whether they correctly interpreted the activity they experienced. Not whether they experienced it at all.
I also heard both the sons speak. I believe them
@@WAVP371 Missy has remained silent other than making a statement that she believed that Jody was real. I would love to hear Missys side of the story.
@@dsmith9964 Me too... I've heard both Daniel and Christopher's side of the story...
Subbed, this was so good!! Such calm, informed narrative, thank you!!
Great little documentary. But for some reason I absolutely cracked up laughing at the recording at the beginning of the way the guy said ‘in conversation’ I couldn’t help it. 😂😂😂But fantastic little documentary though.
I'm afraid that we will never know the truth behind what really happened. There are so many versions of the story from the people closest to it. I would love to actually be invited in to do a Ghost Box session there to get to the truth.
+Psychic Medium Chris Moon Indeed. Unfortunately, as with many cases of the supposed paranormal, reliance on eye-witness testimony will always leave room for doubt and inconsistencies. Thanks for commenting.
We are actually going to do a Ghost Box session on my radio show Box Talk this Thursday night with this as the subject.
Why don't you sneak in when the house is empty and do it
Lol. Such nonsense. Intelligent people certainly do know the truth. You're either refusing to accept it, or you have an agenda.
I think the house has been torn down.
I once saw an interview with George Lutz! He seems like an honest, trust worthy person! He said everything that happend in the movie was true! Except the ending which he said was greatly exaggerated by Hollywood!
At some point prior to his death, he admitted it was a hoax. So did his wife. However, I have seen the picture of the child peeking out of the doorway...that gave me chills up and down my spine...although, it might have been photoshopped.
Photoshop didn't exist back then,
Also, watch the Documentary -- _My Amityville Horror (2012)_
What a load of bollox!
That is simply NOT true. he maintained his story was true until his dying breath. I myself don't know whether or not he was telling the truth. But I do know that he never ONCE came out and admitted he lied.
'Photoshop' is 𝘰𝘣𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 being used as a term meaning edited, which was most definitely possible and prevalent during this time. This was during the golden age of horror movies.
When self-interest and outstanding circumstances collide, you are silly and naive to believe it to be anything but planned.
I just subscribed. You all do excellent work.
Thank you and welcome!
I have the original movies of the Amityville Horror. So watching this helps me with alot of my questions about this story. Thank you the Paranormal Scholar!
Actually, if I am not mistaken, the sign was erected by the DeFeo family. The photo used when talking about the sign was taken just after the discovery of the DeFeo bodies.
This is also correct!!! The high hopes sign was, seen in the crime scene photo outside the house after the Defeo murders... Good find!!!
The rabbit is correct!
Yes, you are correct. The gun wasn't found near the pool either; it was near the pier.
THANK YOU.
BlakeHunter Ronald DeFeo Sr named the house high hopes in 1965 when he and his family bought it and moved in. He also installed the pool
This was so well done and included great dialog, history and overall flow . Thank you for your hard work!
This is the most interesting and comprehensive video on this case I have seen yet. Great work, love your videos very much :-) much love from Australia
Many thanks! It is lovely to hear from someone who enjoys our work. Best wishes from France!
Too bad the video says that the Putz’s named the house “High Hopes”!!!! Wrong. And no reason to concoct the story ??????? How about $$$$$$$$$ !!!!!!!
WOW~great work~
I was in that house when they left in 1974, and me and my friends heard a door slam we all went out the back window. The lower floor was all boarded up, so we went over fences to get to the back, pried the plywood off, and in we went 4 of us, Doug one of my friends was heading up stairs,and me and two girls were going to head down stairs to the basement, then the door opened , and closed, we all looked at each other,nothing needed to be said, all went out the window we came in at. A few friends that were outside , said what happened, as the light upstairs came on and went off, and the police came in the front door,was not them slamming the door as would of seen us, and us them, until this day that place creeps me out, they left everything , food on the table all was there. Spooky indeed, Doug was killed in a car accident years latter. I lived about 5 miles from it ,and went out with a girl that lived right across from it.
You should write a book.
Yes you should write your story,I wouldn't have been brave enough to go in
@Great Lakes Who cares whether you do or don't?
Didn’t happen.
😆😆
An interesting thing about the Amityville situation which may explain why the Lutzs felt that there was something going on in their house for those 28 days maybe the fact that they lived with all the DeFeo's furnishings. They sat on their chairs, at their table, slept in their beds, etc. I would like to know what happened to the original audio tapes of their interviews. I do think Jay Anson took artistic licenses as has Hollywood with their story. The instances described could have been flourished by the author and not the Lutzs for the book as they did not have final approval on the finished product.
Since they had departed, all the furnishings were removed (furniture, etc) when the new owners moved in which may also have something to do with no disturbances remaining.
Of course, if I lived in the house and was sleeping on the beds that the previous owners died in, my imagination or subconscious maybe going in overload.
I really do not think that the Lutz's intentions were to make alot of money off their experiences before moving in or after they left. There was no way to know that this would have become the phenomenon that it became. There were other true haunting stories that were before and after which did not receive the popularity as this story. Such as the Entity, The Enfield Poltergeist, the Perron Family to name a few.
Saying this, I'm not saying the house is haunted or not, but looking at the possibility that they may have felt or seen something is plausible but due to the fact of moving into a house with all the furnishings in place and sleeping in the beds, may have something more to do with what they experienced than an actual haunting.
As for Ed Warren, I don't think that man has never been in a house that wasn't haunted. I imagine even when he went to a McDonald's he probably felt that was haunted.
Ed Warren's job, was to document hauntings dude...
Thank you for the content.
+dunnin785 You're welcome!
If you haven't already, you should do a video on the Villisca (Iowa) Axe Murders of 1912. In the middle of the night, someone crept into a small home in the farming community and killed all 8 people sleeping inside with an axe, the entire Moore family of six plus two friends of the children invited to spend the night. The house was modernized over the years but has been reverted back to 1912 style and is museum on the Iowa and National Registry of Historic Places. It's one of the most popular supposedly haunted houses to visit for paranormal investigators and is said to be haunted by the victims of the unsolved crime. A lot of eerie similarities to Amityville.
Great video👍🏽
@The Paranormal Scholar You've really presented a well-researched and neutral/open- minded documentary. I also like the fact that you take criticism/correction very well (as evidenced by the comments below.) Glad I subscribed (now I just have to catch up on your older stuff...!!)
+lucy girl Thank you, I am pleased you enjoy our research. No one is infallible and we are always learning, it is all part of the, enjoyable, process. Thanks again!
Interesting video. Personally, I've always been doubtful of the events in Amityville - the lack of reported activity in the decades since the Lutz's occupation, the involvement of the Warrens and Holzer, assorted shifts in various editions of the books and commentary on- and off-record by others potentially involved has done that - though I still find it fascinating.
That being said, your video brought up a possibility that I'd not heard before (at least not to this degree), and one that is actually almost plausible; that George (or possibly someone else in the house) was deliberately attempting to "tap in," so to speak, and things got out of hand. From my thinking, that's probably the most sensible explanation (if one assumes the events recorded since then are at least somewhat truthful), and would explain the lack of further hauntings at 112 Ocean Avenue.
Thanks for the video, and the interesting little ideas it's planted in my head! XD
We are glad that our video got you thinking. If the events reported to have occurred at the house are true, it does seem like George Lutz was the key. It is intriguing how several cases of hauntings can be linked back to someone dabbling with the occult (especially if they do not know what they are doing). Thanks for commenting!
There's a documentary by one of the children, and they claim that Lutz himself(their step-father) did dabble in the occult.
Edit: Oops! If I'd watched a little further, I'd have seen the mention!
The case was real. The book was written as a novel and embellished, and the movies even more so. The Amityville case stood out because it was so over the top, but as we pick it apart now, it was really no different than similar cases we hear of today. I also believe the lack of activity since the Lutz departure is a lie, most likely to keep onlookers away.
Kaine Andrews ed and lorraine warren are frauds m.ranker.com/list/ed-lorraine-frauds/christopher-shultz
Aphrodite Starr no their not
My God, I"m coming apaaaarrrrt !! Love that line!
5:00 The sign was put there by the Defeos.