![]() There were haunted houses before Amityville, of course, but no one place has made as deep an impression on American pop culture in the past half century or so as the notorious Long Island home, the site of a terrible murder and then the basis of scores of books and movies. Because at least two of them clearly believes that there was a haunting. ![]() ![]() And sometimes, as the family told Newsday in 1978, they were just odd: “I think one of the funniest things was when we woke up at three o'clock and heard this guy with a bugle playing 'Taps’ on the front lawn. Disturbing phenomena follow, including (as reported in the first book on the case, written by a man named Jay Anson with the paid cooperation of the Lutzes, and later in the screenplay Anson wrote for the 1979 film version) green slime leaking from the house’s keyholes, a spirit yelling “Get out!” to a visiting priest, a child beginning to speak to an imaginary friend named Jodie. Exploring an infamous crime from the 1970's and how it was portrayed between the best-selling book and the big screen.MERCH: We've got it! He was later convicted of shooting his parents, two brothers and two sisters to death in their sleep. Still, Danny Lutz insists there was a force larger than George Lutz at work in the house too. ![]()
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