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Welcome to the Amityville FAQ!

The story of "The Amityville Horror" has been exaggerated and fictionalized since the very beginning. The true facts of the murders and haunting have been buried under years of myths, misconceptions and outright lies. And these falsehoods don't seem to go away -- they simply get copied from one article to another, from one website to the next, leaving people to assume the lies & myths must be true, because that's all they hear.

Our goal is to strip away as many of the falsehoods as possible in order to reveal the facts related to the 1974 murder of the DeFeo family in Amityville, New York, as well as the subsequent haunting reported by the Lutz family in 1976. This is an ongoing project. The information presented on this site has been culled from various books, interviews, articles and documentaries, but they are not necessarily the definitive final word. There still may be errors and/or omissions.

To discuss the Amityville case, we invite you to visit The Amityville Truth Forum -- a free & open message board which itself contains much valuable information. To suggest edits to this FAQ (or problems with the site) please contact us at the address below.


 

 

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