Christopher does say that he saw a shadow figure in the house. He claims his father tried to summon spirits, and that’s what caused the haunting. He said that his father played around in the occult and that he was obsessed with the paranormal. He also said that it wasn’t because of the DeFeo murders. He claims that there was definitely something supernatural in the house, but not the way his parents tell it. The Lutz’ son Christopher Quaratino (he changed his name) now says that much of what his parents say isn’t true. The Lutzes sued Weber and Holzer, and their book was never published. He sued the Lutzes for “stealing his ideas” The lawsuit was for $60,000, but they settled on only $2,500. He claimed that they all used the DeFeo murders to make the story sound worse than it was. Weber went to the press and said that he and the Lutzes had got together to embellish their story. According to Straight Arrow Copper, the Chief of the local Montaukett tribe, there are no records of any burial ground. Holzer claimed that DeFeo was possessed by the Indian Chief. The Chief was angry because the house had been built on a sacred burial ground. He claimed that he went into a trance and encountered an angry Indian Chief. Holzer went to the Amityville house to investigate. Weber joined forces with Hans Holzer, a ghost hunter and professor of paranormal psychology. That’s when they started speaking with Jay Anson and The Amityville Horror was written. They found out he was going to split the profits with DeFeo so they backed out. He spoke with the Lutzes about doing a book deal. Ron DeFeo’s lawyer, William Weber, tried to use the story of the haunting to DeFeo’s advantage. Ed Warren even said, “This was no ordinary haunted house. No one has any evidence of a haunting, though there is supposedly a picture of a little boy looking out from one of the rooms. Lorraine said she felt an overwhelming feeling of horrible depression as soon as she walked into the house. She said it was like a “psychic slumber party” at the Amityville House. The Lutzes both passed lie detector tests.Ī reporter named Laura Didio got a group of psychic researchers, including Ed and Lorraine Warren, together to investigate the house. Reporters started digging to find things in the Lutzes’ past that would give them a reason to lie. (Click here if you haven’t read Part 1, and here for Part 2) Who could pass up the story of a house that was the site of six murders and was now supposedly haunted? The public certainly couldn’t (and neither would I). JThe Amityville Horror Part 3 – The AftermathĪfter the Lutz family fled from the Amityville house, word of the haunting spread, and the media pounced.
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