Amityville House
November 14, 1974, at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, New York, Ronald DeFeo (24) takes his Marlin rifle and heads to his parents' bedroom where they are soundly sleeping. He pointed the rifle toward his father, shot him the kidney and again in his side. His mother, Loise, begged him to stop. He ignored her, aimed his gun, and shot her twice in the right lung. Then he entered the bedroom where his two younger brothers, Mark and John, were sleeping. Defeo stood between their beds and shot each of the boys in the head. He then headed towards the room where his two sisters, Dawn and Allison, were sleeping. Allison awoke just in time to see her brother pointing the rifle towards her head. He shot her in the head, then aimed the gun at Dawn. He shot her in the head, blowing off the left half of her face. Later, Defeo went to a nearby bar and announced that 'it' had just killed his family. The next evening, the owner of the bar, Joe Yeswit, called the Suffolk County Police and informed them of the murders at the Defeo house. He told the police that "some kid" came to the bar and started screaming that he'd just murdered his whole family. Ronald "Butch" Defeo later stated at his trial that he killed them because voices told him to do it. "It was God who spoke to me", he claimed. December 18, 1975, a family of 5 moved into the old Defeo house. George and Katy Lutz, their children, Daniel, 9, Christopher, 7, and Missy, 5.
The Lutz family lived only 28 days in the house, claiming it was haunted. The priest that blessed the Lutzes new house claimed that a very strange, male voice told him "Get out!" Upon fleeing from the house, the hood of his car opened abruptly and fell on the windshield. One of the hinges was torn off, the front right door opened, and the car stalled. Windows were constantly opening by themselves, then slamming closed. Doors were often torn off their hinges. Kathy Lutz levitated about 30 centimetres above her bed on several occassions. One on such occassion, she levitated and floated toward an open window. When her husband attempted to pull her down, her face became that of a 90-year-old toothless woman.
Hundreds of flies invaded the first floor of the house. A crucifix that Kathy had hung on a wall was found turned upside down, and leaking a strange black liquid. The liquid had a horrible stench. The black substance was also often found in toilets and sinks, as if painted. It returned after numerous cleanings. A small secret room was discovered in the cellar. It was not in the plans of the house. Its walls were painted red. On one of the walls, George Lutz saw a face of a man. He later recognized the face as Ronald Defeo. Bloody blisters appeared on the hands of the family's priest when he would attempt to help them. The phone calls between the Lutz family and their priest were stopped or cut by sinister noises. George saw the face of a pig with red eyes at the window of his daughter's bedroom. When his daughter would speak about her "imaginary" friend Jodie, she would tell them that Jodie "was the biggest pig you ever saw." One night, Missy pointed toward the window at two red eyes. She told her mother that it was Jodie, and he wanted to come inside. Mrs. Lutz then threw a chair through the window. "There was a cry like that of a wounded animal, a long squealing."
The eyes appeared later by the window near the staircase. When George Lutz ran outside, he noticed tracks in the snow in front of the window. "No man nor woman can make such a mark. The prints were made by something like a giant pig ."
A man who worked in the house for a while when the DeFeo family lived there claimed to have found the secret room in the basement. He stated that he had nightmares about it for years. In his nightmares, people would sacrifice dogs and pigs in a ceremony. Mrs. Lutz would often feel invisible hands grabbing her. She once found red marks where the hands had been. A sticky substance often oozed from the ceiling and the door edges. A white face, half of it missing, appeared on the wall near the fireplace as if ingraved there.
The ground on which the house was built is said to be either an old Indian cemetery, or the place where the Montaketts kept the mentally disturbed members of their tribe. However, there are no records of either. Another legend is that the house is built on the tomb of a warlock named John Ketchman, who cursed the ground. Kathy and George Lutz finally divorced. August 17, 2004, Kathy died after having spent her last years in a wheelchair. She had difficulty breathing and died the week that the remake of the 1979 film begin shooting. Ronald Defeo was behind bars (25 years) in a high security prison and was up for parole in September 2006.
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Buried Alive
My friend's great-great grandmother, who had been ill for some time now, finally passed away. His great-great grandfather was devastated beyond belief. She was his one true love and they had been married for over 50 years. They had been married so long it was if they knew each others thoughts. Even after the doctor pronounced her dead, he still insisted that she was not. He had to literally be pried away from his wife's body so they could prepare her for a burial. Back in those days they had simple backyard burial plots, without the body going through any preservation. The body was simply committed to the coffin and buried. Throughout this process, his great-great grandfather protested so much that he had to be sedated and put to bed. His wife was buried, and that was that. That night, he woke to a horrific vision of his wife hysterically trying to scratch her way out of the coffin. He phoned the doctor immediately and begged to have his wife's body taken out. The doctor refused. He continued to have this nightmare every night that week, and each day after begged the doctor to remove his wife from the grave. Finally, the doctor gave in, and with the local authorities had the coffin removed from the ground and pried open. To everyone's horror and amazement, his great great grandmother's nails were bent back, and there were obvious scratches on the inside of the coffin.
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Check the Children
A teenage girl decided to bring her best friend along on her babysitting job for the night. After helping the kids with their homework and putting them to bed, one of the girls decided to make popcorn while the other settled at the TV. When the girl returned from the kitchen, she noticed the phone was laying on the floor, off the hook. She asked her friend why she'd take the phone off the hook, and her friend replied "we got a couple obscene phone calls, he's still on the line." She picked up the phone, and heard the heavy breathing of their caller, then a creepy male voice said "go upstairs and check on the kids."
The girl holding the phone told her friend to go check on the kids while she called the operator. The operator told her that when he called back, they could trace the call. The girl hung up, and after a few minutes had passed she realized her friend sure was taking her time checking the kids. She'd been up there almost ten minutes. She called for her, and got no answer. The phone rang, it was the the scratchy, heavy breathing of their prankster. He asked her if she'd checked on the kids yet. She said that she had checked on the kids, and yelled at him to stop calling. The operator immediately called back, and said that the calls were coming from an upstairs extention. The girl said it was impossible, her friend was upstairs. The girl then dropped the phone in terror as she saw her friend stagger, then fall down the stairs, covered in her own blood. "The children are dead! Run!!"