#Amityville

[halloween-sweets]

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Property would benefit from renovation, and the lifting of an 18th Century curse.

[morbidology]

In the early morning hours of 13 November, 1974, 23-year-old Ronald DeFeo Jr. systematically shot and killed his father, mother, and his four siblings, as they slept in their beds of their Amityville, Long Island, New York home.

During his trial, he claimed that he had killed his family in self-defence because he had heard their voices plotting to kill him. But the story doesn’t end there: In December 1975, the Lutz family purchased the house and over the course of 28 days, they claimed they were plagued and terrorized by paranormal phenomena while living there, before fleeing the property.

Some of the claims included green slime running from the walls, hidden rooms, images of half headed demons, a demonic pig, as well as mysterious welts and wounds appearing out of nowhere.

After the family fled the macabre home, they called in paranormal investigators who snapped the above photograph. They claimed that the photo was genuine, and that it clearly depicted a little boy peering out from behind the door. According to some, it's the ghost of 9-year-old John Matthew DeFeo.

Whether the truth in this haunting case was stretched or even a hoax all together, it still remains one of the most sensationalized ghost stories worldwide, inspiring multiple books and movies.

[videoreligion]

Amityville 3-D (1983)

[holycatsandrabbits]

Want to write about a haunting? There are six haunted places on my Weird Wednesday blog, with writing prompts!

The Flannan Isles Vanishing: The Mysterious Disappearance of Three Lighthouse Keepers

Phantom Islands: The Isle of Demons, Fata Morgana Land, and of course, Atlantis

The Deadly Dyatlov Pass: What happened to nine hikers on a snowy night in 1959?

The Amityville Horror: Infamous American Haunted House

The Villisca Axe Murders: 1912 Tragedy 

The Crossroads: Metaphysical Meeting Place

A prompt:

Putting the phantom in phantom island. Perhaps a certain island is a gathering place for phantoms of all kinds: ghosts of the drowned from vessels lost in the area, sea monsters, wormholes through space/time, zombies, or demons. Perhaps someone has literally cursed the place, or maybe it’s the site of an evil relic or graveyard of the damned. It could even be the home port of the ghost ship Flying Dutchman.

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[yavannah]

Romantic moments. :D And those little twins are Cassandra and Jay.

Oh and they live in this house. Yes I'm already waiting Halloween. :D

[quixsilver]

[caleod]

20-9-22

[b-oovies]

Amityville: O Despertar, 2017.

aqui apenas dublado.

[we-will-swallow-your-soul]

[going-getting-got-ghost]

Yep this sums it up.

[morbidology]

In the early morning hours of 13 November, 1974, 23-year-old Ronald DeFeo Jr. systematically shot and killed his father, mother, and his four siblings, as they slept in their beds of their Amityville, Long Island, New York home.

During his trial, he claimed that he had killed his family in self-defense because he had heard their voices plotting to kill him. But the story doesn’t end there... In December 1975, the Lutz family purchased the house where the murders had taken place, and over the course of 28 days, they claimed they were plagued and terrorized by paranormal phenomena  before fleeing the property. 

Some such claims included green slime running from the walls, hidden rooms, images of half headed demons, a demonic pig, as well as mysterious welts and wounds appearing out of nowhere.

After the family fled the macabre home, they called in investigators. This was when the photograph above was snapped. It allegedly shows a ghost of a little boy peering out from behind the door; many believe it to be the ghost of 9-year-old John Matthew DeFeo. 

Whether the truth in this haunting case was stretched or even a hoax all together, it still remains one of the most sensationalized ghost stories worldwide, even inspiring multiple books and movies.

[videoreligion]

Amityville 3-D (1983)

[holycatsandrabbits]

Hey, y’all, it’s Weird Wednesday! Where on some Wednesdays, I blog about weird stuff and give writing prompts.

Today: The Amityville Horror: Infamous American Haunted House

Welcome! Today we’re spending our Weird Wednesday on Long Island! Before the movies, before the book, before the revelation that it was all a hoax, the house at 112 Ocean Ave, Amityville, Long Island, New York, was the scene of a real horror: the murder of six people.

Ronald DeFeo, Jr., 23, killed his parents, two brothers, and two sisters with a rifle on Nov 13, 1974. If you’re familiar with the Amityville Horror story, you know of claims DeFeo was hearing voices that told him to kill his family. This part is surprisingly real— at least, according to his defense. The jury was unmoved, however, and DeFeo was convicted of mass murder. He died in prison in 2021. It is also true that motive remains elusive: DeFeo might have been after life insurance, and there was tension between him and his father. But nothing was ever said about evil spirits before the murders. 

Of course, living in a house where six people were murdered by someone they loved has got to be a little freaky. But one family claimed there was a lot more horror going on. George and Kathy Lutz and their three children lived 28 days in the house at 112 Ocean Ave, starting in Dec, 1975. Interviews and a 1977 book by Jay Anson told the story of a terrified family who barely escaped with their lives. However, later fact-checkers found, well, no facts at all.

So we’re left with an odd contradiction: a false tale that got a lot of publicity for being “true,” but which remains, at its heart, a really good ghost story (which is why it led to many more books and movies). And here on Weird Wednesday, writing good ghost stories is our aim, so let’s see how horrifying the tale really gets.

Check out the blog post for the whole story and some haunted writing prompts, such as:

Maybe haunted houses/places also exist in another world, invisible to the mortal eye, where a character can go traveling. Maybe if you die in the Amityville house, you get a visitor’s pass for the Lincoln bedroom or Borley Rectory. Are there demons pursuing these travelers? Do the newly departed make friends with other ghosts? Can they ever pass back into the world of the living?

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[esqueletosgays]

THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (2005)

Director: Andrew Douglas Cinematography: Peter Lyons Collister

[thenefilim]

Review - Amityville Ripper (2023)

Amityville Ripper is a legitimately funny film that obviously had a good deal of thought put into it.

https://www.voicesfromthebalcony.com/2024/03/02/amityville-ripper-2023-review/