But whether this is a haunted house is also one of the biggest doubts in the hearts of many Americans: is it really supernatural or is it fabricated by the parties with ulterior motives?
Chinese name: new york Ocean Avenue 1 12 mbth: new york Ocean Avenue 1 12 Nature: one of the most famous haunted houses in the United States, belonging to Amityville District. Related books: Amityville horror murder scene, mysterious events, movie legends, movie novels, it is difficult to distinguish between true and false, murder scene new york Ocean Avenue 1 12,1974165438+1October 65438+. Defoe rushed into the pub and shouted that someone had shot his parents. He persuaded the bar regulars to go home with him. When they arrived at 1 12 Ocean Avenue, the drinkers saw a terrible scene: six people were lying on the bed with their heads resting on their arms, and they were all shot. After identification, these six people belong to Ronald Defoe: father and mother-two younger brothers of Ronald and Louis Defoe-nine-year-old John and two younger sisters of Mark 12-year-old Alison13-year-old and Dawn 18-year-old. After several hours of interrogation by Amityville police, Ronald Defoe finally gave up the lie about murdering mafia members. But in this murder trial, Defoe argued that on the night of the murder, he heard a voice, and it was this voice that ordered him to kill. In court, Defoe argued: "I looked around, but there was no one in the house at all, so it must be God's will." In the end, the court convicted Defoe of serial killing of six people and detained him in Greenhaven Prison, new york. Defoe's request for parole in 1999 was later rejected. The front photo of Ocean Avenue 1 12 before the mysterious murder (selected from Geraldine Defoe's personal photo album)1975 65438+February 18 More than a year after Defoe's murder, George Lutz and Kathy Lutz decided to have a look at the house and finally bought it. George often uses the word "abnormal" when describing the strange things that happened at Ocean Avenue 1 12. He later recalled: "As soon as I walked into this room, Kathy's face immediately smiled. Kathy has never shown this attitude towards all the houses we have seen before. Her smile told me that this is our dream house. " But soon after moving here, a series of strange things happened. When they asked their pastor friend Father Ralph Paju to pray for their new house, the first strange thing happened to them. Ralph Paju was looking at the house when he heard a loud man's voice calling him. From then on, he found that his car began to get weird-the hood automatically fell off and broke the windshield, the door on the right suddenly opened, the wiper automatically turned, and finally, the car broke down. Since then, all kinds of strange things have happened repeatedly in the house: doors and windows are inexplicably opened and closed, the toilet turns dark black, the cross is upside down, a large number of flies appear in the sewing room for no reason, green mud seeps and drips from the ceiling and the door, and George also finds a mysterious room in the basement that cannot be found in architectural design. The room was painted red and smelled of blood and corruption. George claimed to see a face on the wall and later recognized it as Ronald Defoe Jr. Kathy also said that after moving into the house, she felt a pair of invisible hands touching her. One morning, she woke up and found that she had scars on her body, as if she had been burned by a burning poker. Mr. and Mrs. Lutz both said that since they moved into this house, the behavior of the whole family has become strange. In addition, they claimed to have seen various visions in the house: a white figure with a gunshot wound and a headscarf appeared in the living room, and a big red-eyed pig peeped into the house from the window. Missy told her family that this was her friend Jody. Later, all the strange things that Lutz and his wife experienced were labeled as "fabrication" by the late supernatural researcher Dr. Stephen Kaplan. Kaplan said that George's ghost story was too bizarre and unconvincing, and claimed that the haunted house might stem from his obsession with supernatural phenomena, which had existed in his mind before moving into the so-called haunted house. One of the legends in the film is that there once lived an Indian tribe, and later this place became Amityville. It is said that the place where Ocean Avenue 1 12 is located used to be an isolation room. The tribe left sick and crazy people here to die. According to this legend, the ghosts floating here are the uneven souls of Indians. Another legend is that during the wizard's trial, a man named John Kachem escaped from Salem and built a house where the haunted house was located. This legend implies that Kaqim used this house to continue the evil activities of "worshipping Satan" and sacrificed many pigs and dogs. According to this legend, Kaqim opened a never-closing "hell gate", and the "terrorist incident" that followed was the result of the arrival of the devil. Naturally, there are many other legends among the people. Some people say that the house was built on an abandoned cemetery, while others say that the house was cursed by an early ghost town resident who was killed. After the movie novel Leaving the Haunted House, the Lutz family signed a contract with a writer named Jay Anson, who recorded the Lutz family's experience in the haunted house in words. 1977, prentiss Hall published a novel called Amityville Terror, which was widely publicized with the selling points of "true story" and "not a fictional magician". The copyright page of the novel reads: In order to protect the privacy of the parties, the real name is hidden in the book. However, all the facts and events are absolutely true, and we have verified them. In the novel, the Lutz family described many supernatural phenomena they encountered during their stay in the haunted house. Their stories immediately became American bestsellers, selling more than 3 million copies. As they toured all over the country and promoted the book in newspapers, TV and radio, the Lutz family became a household name. With the success of this book, Hollywood soon noticed the haunted house. 1979, james brolin and margot kidder played George and Kathy respectively in the Hollywood blockbuster Amityville Horror. Although there are rumors that the film crew are afraid to shoot on the real Ocean Avenue 1 12 (in fact, new york refused to grant permission), due to the success of the novel, the film still won 80 million US dollars in the first round of domestic release. Due to its continuous success, the film has also spawned three sequels-Armiteville 2: Enchanted, Armiteville 3-D and Armiteville 4: Curse on TV. Recently, michael bay (Armageddon) and his partner in Platinum Dune (the film production company that remaked texas chainsaw massacre, Texas in 2003) announced that they planned to remake the original Armitage Horror for MGM and Dimension. The movie stars Ryan Reynolds (Van Wilder) and melissa george (Dark City and Alias) play the Lutz couple respectively, and the film will be directed by andrew douglas. The film is scheduled to be released on April 15, 2005. Different from previous films, the plot of the new film will pay more attention to Jay Anson's original works, and at the same time, it will appropriately adopt what happened in this famous haunted house in the last 30 years. It's hard to say whether it's true or not. Many people regard the mysterious events of Ocean Avenue 1 12 as facts, but there are still many people who insist that these ghost events are just clever scams. There is a contradiction about the residence time of the Luz family in this house (28 days in the novel, but less than 10 days in the neighbor's name). In addition, atheists claim that the Lutz family gave up their house because their business failed and they were eager to get rid of bad mortgages. As for the mysterious force that led Defoe to kill his family, this matter has been clarified by Defoe's defense lawyer wilhelm weber, who persuaded Defoe to admit that he just wanted to create an excuse of insanity to escape the severe punishment of the law. Defoe initially refused to take any sanity test, but after wilhelm weber promised him that he would publish a best-selling novel later, he agreed. In fact, it was wilhelm weber's team that first contacted the Lutz family to discuss writing a novel. When the Lutz family stopped working with Weber's team in order to seek greater benefits, Weber declared: "I know this book is a complete scam. We created this horror story after drinking many bottles of wine. " Since such remarks may be regarded as revenge words from a former partner of a victim, perhaps the biggest weapon in the hands of opponents is the credibility of Father Ralph Pajura (called Father Mackosso in the novel) and his participation in this matter. There are many contradictions between Anson's novels and George Lutz's criticism of wilhelm weber at home. (After William Weber published a novel about the Lutz family's experience, the Lutz family tried to accuse the former of invasion of privacy. In the court records, Father Marcuso admitted that he didn't know the Lutz family before they moved to the haunted house, and he didn't actually go to their house, just talked on the phone. In 2002, in a letter to writer Rick Ossuna (the night Defoe died), the Catholic diocese wrote: "The diocese insists that this story is a false scam. In the month of 1977, 1 1, the private lawyer of the diocese prepared a detailed list and submitted it to the horrible publisher in Amityville. The publisher pointed out that there were many inaccuracies in the story, as well as false references and false statements about events, characters and plots that never happened or appeared. " Regardless of whether Father Marcuso was involved in the biggest "supernatural" scam from beginning to end, or whether it was just a Catholic cover-up, George Lutz always insisted that there had been a ghost incident. Moreover, books and movies related to Amityville's horror have been successful one after another, which shows that many people are willing to believe his story.