The Amityville Haunting: Horror, Hoax or Conspiracy?

With Halloween coming up, just asking myself: this real supernatural and paranormal evergreen "The Amityville Haunting"... Was it a true horror, a true hoax, a conspiracy?




In May 1977 George and Kathy filed a lawsuit against William Weber, Ronald De Feo's defense lawyer, the paranormal writer Paul Hoffman, two alleged clairvoyants who had examined the house, Good Housekeeping magazine and the New York Sunday News which had published articles on thehauntings. In 1979, Weber said in People magazine that he had created "this horror story" together with George and Kathy Lutz "over many bottles of wine". George and Kathy Lutz denied any dishonesty on their part and took a lie detector test, which they both passed.

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