![]() ![]() ![]() But leave it to Hollywood to not let something like the truth get in the way of telling a great story. As were their claims of seeing cloven hoofprints in the snow around their property-because, at the time they made their report, there was no snow on the ground. All of their reports of seeing black ooze and ectoplasm in their home were, yup, false. But, in the years since their story made headlines, the Lutz’s infamous claims have been debunked. ![]() The unexplained events built in intensity and frequency, forcing the family to flee from their supposedly haunted house. In 1975, four years before Amityville’s release, the real-life Lutz family claimed to have suffered a fate similar to that of their fictional counterparts.Īfter moving into their home-one year after its previous occupant, Ronald DeFeo Jr., murdered six of his family members there-the Lutz family reported hearing strange sounds and seeing even stranger sights. Arguably the most famous horror film based on allegedly real events, The Amityville Horror has spent more than four decades giving audiences a permanent case of night terrors with its story of a young couple terrorized by violent spirts at their house in Amityville, New York. ![]()
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