The Amityville Horror - Wikipedia. The Amityville Horror is a book by American author Jay Anson, published in September 1.

It is also the basis of a series of films released from 1. The book is claimed to be based on the paranormal experiences of the Lutz family, but has led to controversy and lawsuits over its truthfulness.[1]Historical basis[edit]On November 1. Ronald De. Feo, Jr.

Ocean Avenue, a large Dutch Colonial house situated in a suburban neighborhood in Amityville, on the south shore of Long Island, New York. Watch Beneath Hill 60 Online on this page. He was convicted of second- degree murder in November 1.

In December 1. 97. George and Kathy Lutz and their three children moved into the house. After 2. 8 days, the Lutzes left the house, claiming to have been terrorized by paranormal phenomena while living there.[2]The book, purportedly based on a true story, describes the house at 1.

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Ocean Avenue as remaining empty for 1. De. Feo murders. In December 1. George and Kathleen Lutz bought the house for what was considered to be a bargain price of $8. The five- bedroom house was built in Dutch Colonial style and had a distinctive gambrel roof. It also had a swimming pool and a boathouse, as it was located on a canal. George and Kathy married in July 1.

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Kathy had three children from a previous marriage: Daniel, 9, Christopher, 7, and Melissa (Missy), 5. They also owned a crossbreed Malamute/Labrador dog named Harry. During their first inspection of the house, the real estate broker told them about the De.

Feo murders and asked if this would affect their decision. After discussing the matter, they decided that it was not a problem. The Lutz family moved in December 1. Much of the De. Feo family's furniture was still in the house, because it was included for $4. A friend of George Lutz learned about the history of the house, and insisted on having it blessed. At the time, George was a non- practicing Methodist and had no experience of what this would entail. Kathy was a non- practicing Catholic and explained the process.

George knew a Catholic priest named Father Ray who agreed to carry out the house blessing (in Anson's book, real- life priest Father Ralph J. Watch A Busy Day Online Iflix there. Pecoraro is referred to as Father Mancuso for privacy reasons).[4]Father Mancuso was a lawyer, judge of the Catholic Court and psychotherapist who lived at the local Sacred Heart Rectory. He arrived to perform the blessing while George and Kathy were unpacking their belongings on the afternoon of December 1. When he flicked the first holy water and began to pray, he heard a masculine voice demand that he "get out." When leaving the house, Father Mancuso did not mention this incident to either George or Kathy. On December 2. 4, 1. Father Mancuso called George Lutz and advised him to stay out of the second floor room where he had heard the mysterious voice, the former bedroom of Marc and John Matthew De.

Feo that Kathy planned to use as a sewing room, but the call was cut short by static. Following his visit to the house, Father Mancuso allegedly developed a high fever and blisters on his hands similar to stigmata. At first George and Kathy 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 are described in the book as follows: George would wake up around 3: 1. Later he would learn that this was the estimated time of the De.

Feo killings. The house was plagued by swarms of flies despite the winter weather. Kathy had vivid nightmares about the murders and discovered the order in which they occurred and the rooms where they took place. The Lutz children also began sleeping on their stomachs, in the same way that the dead bodies in the De. Feo murders had been found. Kathy would feel a sensation as if "being embraced" in a loving manner, by an unseen force. George discovered a small hidden room (around four feet by five feet) behind shelving in the basement.

The walls were painted red and the room did not appear in the blueprints of the house. The room came to be known 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 ominous. 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. While tending to the fire, George and Kathy saw the image of a demon with half his head blown out. It was burned into the soot in the back of the fireplace. The Lutzes' 5- year- old daughter, Missy, developed an imaginary friend named "Jodie," a demonic pig- like creature with glowing red eyes.

In the early morning hours of Christmas Day 1. George looked up at the house after checking on the boathouse and saw the pig standing behind Missy at her bedroom window. When he ran up to her room he found her fast asleep with her small rocking chair slowly rocking back and forth.

George would wake up to the sound of the front door slamming. Watch Her Best Move Online Facebook. 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 "marching band tuning up" or what sounded like a clock radio playing not quite on frequency. When he went downstairs the noise would cease. George realized that he bore a strong resemblance to Ronald De. Feo, Jr., and began drinking at The Witches' Brew, the bar where De.

Feo was once a regular customer. When closing Missy's window, which Missy said Jodie climbed out of, Kathy saw red eyes glowing at her. While in bed, Kathy received red welts on her chest caused by an unseen force and was levitated two feet in the air. Locks, doors and windows in the house were damaged by an unseen force.

Cloven hoof prints attributed to an enormous pig appeared in the snow outside the house January 1, 1. Green gelatin- like slime oozed from walls in the hall, and also from the keyhole of the playroom door in the attic.

A 1. 2- inch (3. 0 cm) crucifix, hung in the living room by Kathy, revolved until it was upside down and gave off a sour smell. George tripped over a 4- foot- high (1. China lion ornament in the living room and found bite marks on one of his ankles. Later this lion would reappear in the living room after George had moved it back upstairs into the sewing room. George saw Kathy transform into an old woman of 9. Missy would sing constantly while in her room.

Whenever she left the room, she would stop singing, and upon returning, she would resume singing where she left off. On one occasion Kathy heard what sounded like a window being opened and closed through the sewing room door even though she was sure no one was in there. After deciding that something was wrong with their house they could not explain rationally, George and Kathy Lutz carried out a blessing of their own on January 8, 1. George held a silver crucifix while they both recited the Lord's Prayer and, while in the living room, George allegedly heard a chorus of voices asking them "Will you stop?!"By mid- January 1.

George and Kathy, they experienced what would turn out to be their final night in the house. The Lutzes declined to give a full account of the events that took place on this occasion, describing them as "too frightening."After getting in touch with Father Mancuso, the Lutzes decided to take some belongings and stay at Kathy's mother's house in nearby Deer Park, New York, until they had sorted out the problems with the house. They claimed that the phenomena followed them there, with the final scene of Anson's book describing "greenish- black slime" coming up the staircase towards them.

On January 1. 4, 1. George and Kathy Lutz, with their three children and their dog Harry, left 1. Ocean Avenue, leaving all of their possessions behind. The next day, a mover came in to remove the possessions to send to the Lutzes.