Amityville Horror

Entry in A Dictionary of Ghost Lore
The Amityville Horror is the most notorious Alleged haunting to have been reported recently. A book of the same title was written in 1978 by Jay Anson (Prentince-Hall) became a multimillion best Seller around the world. The film made a year later was an equal sensation. The haunting took place  i a typical suburban American home in the town of Amityville on Long Island, New York, in December 1975, immediately after George and Kathy Lutz moved in with their three children. In the next twenty-eight days, they were assailed by all manner of ghostly phenomena and finally fled the house in terror. The reason for these poltergeist-like happenings was said to be the fact that a previous resident, twenty-four-year-old Ronald De Feo, had murdered his sleeping parents and two brothers and sisters in the house. Despite the impressive documentation of Anson's book, The Amityville Horror, many doubts have been recently expressed by experts in the supernatural about the authenticity of the story.