Friday Video: Amityville, Horror or Hoax?
One of the most known and controversial stories in the annals of the paranormal is the “Amityville Horror”. The story has such an elaborate plot, with enough conspiracies to make the writers of any of the CSI shows jealous.
I remember reading the book when I was a teenager, and I have to be honest, it was a very terrifying read. I did not know any better so I assumed that it was all true. Throughout the years the controversies started to surface. Eyewitnesses would claim that they have seen and felt strange occurrences in the home, while officials investigating the case claimed the opposite.
The movie and the book written about the murders and haunting are really well written. As far as it being all true, I think this was all just a hoax. The Warrens were involved with the investigation and right away deemed this to be the “most haunted house in America”.
Although to this day I have not really heard much about the picture of the little boy that seems to be peeking out from a room. The story behind it is that supposedly when the investigators (including a reporter) and psychics were in the home, they had setup a tripod on the second floor, snapping pictures every so often. On one of the pictures you see the clear face of a boy, peering out through the doorway. This is not pareidolia or some trick of light, this is a genuine solid object. The report claims that no children were present during the investigation. So was this one of the DeFeo kids who was murdered? To this day, the photograph creeps me out.
Picture said to have captured one of the murdered boy's spirit
Enjoy this Friday Video presentation of the Amityville Horror documentary
Written by Javier Ortega - javier@ghosttheory.com
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I sent that pic to someone and they were freaked out. Definitely a creepy pic.
I read most of the Warrens’ books and enjoyed them; I personally liked them and did not feel they were bs artists. I’m not Catholic so I do experience a bit of disconnect with all the ritual. I also thought the first Amityville book and quite possibly the second were mostly truthful, or at least had a core that was genuine.
After the original book sold well the publishers likely got it into their heads that they had a gold making franchise on their hands and, with or without the nod of the Lutzes, who probably wanted to recoup some of their lost investment on the house, churned out a bunch of books and movies that WERE complete bs.
Javier, did you know that Alice Cooper and Aerosmith’s Joe Perry roomed together at the house (not the Amityville house) where Jay Anson wrote the book and got spooked by odd occurrences? Both had just left a drug detox program so it COULD have been the dt’s. LOL. I believe it came down to weird sounds in parts of the house when they knew they were alone.
If you zoom in on the photo (about 400%) it becomes obvious that it’s not a boy with glowing eyes, but a women wearing eyeglasses that are reflecting light. It would be interesting to try to locate pictures taken during the same investigation to compare it with any eyeglass-wearing women that were in the house that day.
is this real ???????