Amityville horror house

Lutz family

In December 1975 the Lutz family moved in to 112 Ocean Avenue and in next month they experienced several strange phenomena in the house that would later lead to writing the book "The Amityville Horror" and creating several films based on that story.





Before buying the house the Lutz family was informed about the DeFeo family story, but nevertheless they decided to move in. Since all the DeFeo furniture were still in the house one of their friends insisted that they have the interior blessed. While performing the blessing Father Mancuso he heard a masculine voice demand that he "get out". When leaving the house he did not mention this incident to either George or Kathy, but few days later he called George Lutz and advised him to stay out of the second floor room where he had heard the mysterious voice, but the call was cut short by static.

Nothing unusual happened until January 1976 when, f.e.:
- George would wake up around 3:15 every morning and would go out to check the boathouse. Later he would learn that this was the estimated time of the DeFeo 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 DeFeo murders had been found.
- Kathy would feel a sensation as if "being embraced" in a loving manner, by an unseen force.
- 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.
- George would wake up to 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.
- 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.
- Green gelatin-like slime oozed from walls in the hall, and also from the keyhole of the playroom door in the attic.
- A 12-inch (30 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 (1.2 m) China lion ornament in the living room and found bite marks on one of his ankles.
- George saw Kathy transform into an old woman of 90, "the hair wild, a shocking white, the face a mass of wrinkles and ugly lines, and saliva dripping from the toothless mouth."
- 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.

All of those things were described in "The Amityville Horror: A True Story" by Jay Anson in 1977.

mystery games mystery books online detective games darmowe ebooki best browser games