The True Horror of Amityville
by A brief article explaining the events that surround the idea of Amityville being one of the most haunted places in the world…
On the 13th November, 1974, the usual tranquillity and serenity of Ocean Avenue, Amityville, was shattered, and the sleepy town changed forever.
At around 6:30pm, Ronald Defeo Junior, known as Butch, barged into his local pub, and announced that his parents had been shot. In a state of shock and apprehension, Butch begged for assistance. He led a group of men back to the house on Ocean Avenue, and it was there that Bob Kelske found the dead bodies of Ronald and Louise Defeo, face down on their beds. He ventured into a second bedroom, where he found two more dead bodies, this time Butch’s two younger brothers, John and Marc.
The police arrived on the scene, were they found a total of six dead bodies inside the Amityville house.
The Amityville House
The first body was Ronald Defeo, who lay in his boxer shorts, face down upon the bed. Two bullet holes had ripped through his body, tearing into his kidneys. It appeared that his wife, Louise, had awoken and started to rise when she was shot twice, also in the back. Her lungs were punctured and had collapsed upon impact.
In the second bedroom, 9 year old John Defeo had suffered a single bullet shot to his back. His 12 year old brother Marc had also been shot, his spinal cord severed by the bullet. Both lay face down, covered in blood.
In the third room, Alison Defeo was found dead, apparently shot in the face as she rose and looked her attacker in the eye. Dawn Defeo, her face partially missing from the gunshot wound to her face, was also found in the third room.
Removing the bodies
Amityville was stunned. In just one awful night, six innocent people, four of them children, had been murdered in their beds while the rest of Amityville slept. The only survivor of the terrible tragedy was Butch Defeo.
The Defeo Family
Butch had a history of violence and corruption, and was known to have a heated, sometimes physical relationship with his father. Suspicion quickly fell upon him, and it was not long until he tripped over his own network of lies, and caved in to admit that he had shot his family. He claimed that the Devil had ordered him to commit such crimes, although the rest of Amityville suspected that his drugs and alcohol abuse probably had more to do with it.
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Post CommentRask Balavoine
On October 17, 2008 at 7:54 am
Watched the movie again a few months ago – still undecided.
Lauren
On October 17, 2008 at 9:16 am
Great piece Emily. Amityville has always been fascinating to me. Of course the movie version was very sensationalized.
BC Doan
On October 18, 2008 at 7:21 am
I’m not brave when it comes to thing like this, but it’s fascinating to wonder about!
ebazaar
On October 19, 2008 at 4:14 am
I watched the movie too. I got a little confused here…was the fact that revealed in the movie real facts or just something that the producer add on? about the cult and stuff…
p/s: interesting article *wink*
Rumi
On October 19, 2008 at 5:17 am
This is an interesting article.It is pity that nobody can tell where the truth is. On the same time it is very sad all that happened.
Emily James
On October 19, 2008 at 11:09 am
Think the cult stuff was one of the exagerated parts, but then who knows? the movie blew so many things out of proportion…
Thanks for your comments guys, your feedback and thoughts are enjoyed…
Emily James
Leo Reyes
On October 23, 2008 at 7:17 am
Great article but scary.
Amit Goyal
On October 31, 2008 at 5:04 pm
It was way too exaggerated..
Excellently written though!
dan
On November 3, 2008 at 8:45 pm
i watched a show on discovery and showed the picture of the “demon boy”. it looks to me like an adult on their knees in a plaid shirt with glasses on. the reflection of the bulb on the lenss explains why it appears not to have eyes.
Will Gray
On November 8, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Great article! I am not sure if I am a believer. I tend to think DeFoe did it on his own.
IspellBad
On November 19, 2008 at 7:14 pm
I am currently mentioning this event as well in my Ghost posts I find this story very interesting. But as for some of the details a bit skeptical. i have read the book as well as watched all the movies and spin offs on it. I find the demon part or possession very credible.
Schaller
On November 22, 2008 at 7:08 am
Every time I see a house with those unique windows I get goosebumps.
gaby101amtvlle
On December 12, 2008 at 9:38 pm
i think the whole thing was based on past curses. it is logical that if someone were to get tortured in a home and witchcraft/or any type of spirit magnet had occured that the spirits that stayed there would have fury. People need to start using common sense!
Matt H
On December 22, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Scary
I enjoyed it!
~Matt
MassterGee
On December 30, 2008 at 3:08 pm
You have a few things wrong. The priest didn’t immediatley leave. After he heard the ‘Get Out’, he continued blessing the house, and nothing interesting happened afterwards. He simply mentioned to the Lutzs not to use that room as their bedroom.
Her ‘invisible friend’ was a pig with red eyes, and it wasn’t so invisible. The rest of the family, on numerous occassions, commented about seeing it.
The priest also didn’t tell them to leave. They did that of their own accord. He simply refused to do an exorcism for them when the asked. And there is no evidence of a call being cut off by static between the Lutzs and the priest.
Did you just watch the movie, or make up things after reading an Uncyclopedia article?
Lorna Dykstra
On January 22, 2009 at 9:22 am
An interesting article. In cases such as these, the truth is never plain and simple. I am sure possession can occur but as regards the truth on the Amityville story, I think it will remain a mystery.
Elizabeth Abbott
On March 25, 2009 at 12:39 am
Interesting. E
savannah
On April 19, 2009 at 6:41 pm
your article is very wrong!!!
Ruby Rose
On May 23, 2009 at 9:51 am
I found this article most interesting. I’ve seen the movie many a time although I believe no-one will ever know what really happened there. But, this tale no doubt will make for a viable urban legend and the myth surrounding Amityville will never be forgotten, it is no doubt good for business too!
jacob
On July 8, 2009 at 9:16 pm
my cousins grandmother was a maid wo cleaned up at the amity ville horror house and she said there was blood in the toilet and ooze in the locks…. true story!
Janet Meyer
On August 18, 2009 at 8:20 pm
I saw this movie a long time ago. It is a real scary story, and mostly believable. There are some real crazies out there.
Janet
Cathy
On September 17, 2009 at 4:06 am
Living in South Africa, we see this kind of brutality all the time. Sometimes its even worse than what occured at Amityville. So does that mean the criminals here are possessed? I think Butch just used this as an excuse after he got off of his trip. He may also have been having hillucinations from the drugs, and thought he was seeing demons etc. All in all, I think he needed a shrink. I also think that the mind is powerful to see things, when you truelly believe there should be something there.
jasmine
On October 31, 2009 at 9:35 am
really it is not true
Angela
On October 31, 2009 at 9:05 pm
The photo of George and Kathy Lutz is from the movie! It’s actually James Brolin and Margo Kidder!
J
On November 12, 2009 at 10:37 pm
There is this house down the road, which looks just like the Amityville house and get this, a man hung himself in the backyard.
nipplet.
On December 3, 2009 at 8:10 am
wow jese thats pure off the hook mental craic serious wow i cant sleep omg omg omg
qasimdharamsy
On December 12, 2009 at 2:54 am
Scary!! But Good !!
Shawnee
On February 21, 2010 at 6:18 pm
You did get some things wrong but how ever i do beleive that satan was telling him to do it im Shawnee Bates and im 15 and i beleive it becouse i have a gift that not many people have and it freeks me out but i do believe that satan told him to do it as far as the deman pig gose i dont believe that maby it was a little girl or something that happed in the house or on the propperty befor they moved in and it was a pearing to the little girl as something to get her to trust it so it could tell the family about what happed in the past or in this case a worning in witch they did not listen befor the past of what happed befor they moved in cought up to them or just repeated i heared that befor they lived there and befor it was a town had a horrific past that there was a man that killed people and indeans in ways u could not imagine and that the land on witch the house was bilt was were it all took place but the hole land its self has a course but the house is the center of it more the the heart but thats just my oppin and it makes a little more sents to me then what thees people are telling you