Fifty years after the true-life tragedy that inspired “The Amityville Horror” book and movies, the Long Island house may still harbor “dormant” demonic forces, neighbors and a parapsychologist familiar with the case say. Fran Walters, who has lived next to the infamous house for 28 years, said: “When I first came here, I saw a girl playing in the yard and I couldn’t believe that a family with young children would buy this house.” As the nypost reports, the story begins in 1974, when 23-year-old Ronald “Butch” DeFeo got up early in the morning, armed with a gun and killed his parents and four siblings while they slept. Despite later claiming to have heard “voices” prompting him to do so, DeFeo was sentenced to life in prison and died in prison. The house in Amityville became famous not only for the carnage but also for the horror story developed by George and Kathy Lutz, […]
Source: News Beast
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