No. There was an auction of their belongings, but the Lutzes did not attend. Looking back on it, George believes they netted around $1,600 (the low amount was mainly due to repairs that had to be made to their boat, the fact that they still owed over $10,000 on it and that the auctioneer had a 10% take on the auction).

The leftover food was donated to the Salvation Army. They gave one of their last office cars to a person at the JFK ticket counter. They got rid of the van due to mechanical problems. They left another car at Father Ray's rectory and were able to salvage one of their motorcycles.

Initially, the Lutzes left the house hoping to get it fixed. Their leaving was meant to be temporary. When it became clear that the house couldn't be fixed, they gave it back to the bank.

Later, when Lutzes realized they wouldn't be moving back to Amityville, they were told that it would not be healthy for them to take their possessions with them, with the exception of two cedar chests made by George's grandfather. These contained a lot of precious family photos.

After fleeing the house, they were trying to piece together what had been happening to them over the past month. They recorded their thoughts and remembrances onto tape as a sort of self-help therapy, in the hopes of un-doing the effects of the house.

It was during these "sessions" that they really began to see for the first time everything that went on around them during the past month. This is when they realized how everyone was experiencing different things in the house — different events in different rooms at the same time.

These tapes were strictly made for themselves, and were never intended to be heard by anyone else. This enabled the Lutzes to speak freely — unafraid of what others might think. Sometimes a bit too freely, as the tapes reportedly contain some very choice language.

Later these tapes were given to Jay Anson and formed the basis of his book. Apparently they were given back to the Lutzes at one point, but have since been lost.

According to Kathy, William Weber phoned the Lutzes, saying he wanted them to do a press conference. Kathy didn't feel like doing it, and Weber stated if they failed to do this, he would send the reporters to the local school to get the story directly from the kids. The Lutzes felt they didn't have a choice but to do the event.

The press conference took place at the offices of William Weber on February 16, 1976.

Apparently the contract Weber wanted the Lutzes to sign contained clauses which would have given the house to Weber along with all the rights to the story if the Lutzes failed a lie detector test. Also Ronnie DeFeo was to get a percentage of the profits, which the Lutzes felt was wrong.

During some of the meetings between Weber and the Lutzes, Paul Hoffman was brought along, described to the Lutzes as a criminologist. It turned out Paul was a writer, and he wrote an unauthorized article on the haunting for a local paper, which irked the Lutzes. It seemed all Weber was interested in was to do books and movies about Ronnie's crime — not to get his client the kind of help the Lutzes felt he needed.
Paul Hoffman's article later appeared in Good Housekeeping's April 1977 issue, as Jay Anson's book was nearing completion (causing serious concerns from the book publisher).

In a 1977 interview, Mr. Anson described a couple of events connected to people he had given copies of "The Amityville Horror" manuscript to.

Jay's editor took one copy to bring back to the offices of Prentice-Hall, and his car caught on fire.
Jay gave a copy of the manuscript to a friend. During a rain storm, his friend accidentally drove into a giant pothole which wrecked his car. The only dry thing in the car, reportedly, was the manuscript.
Jay gave the first two chapters of the book to another friend, who took it home with her. That night she was killed in a fire with her two daughters.

Jay Anson died at the age of 59 from a heart attack on March 12, 1980 — shortly after completing his next novel "666."

After fleeing the house, the Lutzes stayed at the home of Kathy's mother. While there, the Lutzes experienced another incident where they both levitated from their bed. They felt this was a pleasant experience — it did not terrify them.

Jodie followed the family to California. According to George, "the only person that could get rid of Jodie was Missy, telling Jodie to go away. That was a drama all on its own, and it had effects that lasted a long time. It's not something that I talk about very often..."

They still felt the forces were following them until they got help from the exorcist for the Archbishop of Canterbury, who performed a separation or "release" from the effects of the house. He noticed Kathy was still affected at the time.

While it didn't entirely stop after the Lutzes fled Amityville, George feels like it had a half life — as time went on it got less and less. According to George, "Over those years, there were many, many times that we thought the activity had stopped. But just as many times, we came to believe otherwise."

When the Lutzes fled their house, they wanted to get the house "fixed." They wanted whatever evil force that was in there to be gone so they could move back in and continue their lives. They still loved their house.

The psychics and paranormal researchers were called in to try and accomplish this task — to rid the house of the evil and make it habitable once again.

Stephen Kaplan referred to himself as a parapsychologist. He was one of the first people George contacted, hoping he could help them in their efforts to rid the house of whatever was there.

Kaplan apparently told the media that he was to become involved with the Amityville case. The Lutzes were angered about the unwanted publicity, were leery about him referring to himself as a "vampirologist" (as that didn't sound like someone who could help "cleanse" their house) and were suspicious when Kaplans credentials didn't seem to check out. Because of all this, the Lutzes decided to pass on Kaplan's offer to help.

Kaplan, on the other hand, said the Lutzes were afraid of his claim that he would expose them if he found out their story was a hoax.

Immediately after being turned down by the Lutzes, Kaplan told a Long Island newspaper that he believes the haunting was a hoax. He released a book some 20 years later titled "The Amityville Horror Conspiracy." Unfortunately he suffered a heart attack and passed away shortly before the book's release.

Lorraine described an overwhelming sense of sadness and depression soon after she entered the house, and continued to receive nonstop "clairvisual and clairaudial messages." Ed felt a powerful presence in the basement area, as if he was standing under a powerful waterfall, and saw strange shadows and pinpoints of light.

Two seances were held — one of them at 3:15am in the sewing room.

Yes and no. No one knows for sure who or what the figure is. Some say it looks like a little boy with glowing eyes — others say it looks like a woman with glasses.

During the March 6th investigation, an automatic infrared camera was set up on the 2nd floor landing area by Gene Campbell, a friend of the Warrens who ran his own camera store in Connecticut. The camera took random pictures during the night, including a few shots of some of the investigators.

The picture in question shows a figure peering out from the doorway of Missy's bedroom. It wasn't noticed at first, but was eventually found a few years later by George's secretary, as she went through the photos looking for ones to include in a book they were preparing. The secretary was pregnant at the time, and each time she picked up this one particular picture, her baby would jump. She took the picture to George and asked who this person was. George didn't know, but Missy said it looked like the little boy she used to play with in the house.

Low-resolution copies of this photo have appeared here and there on the Internet, and was shown on the Merv Griffin show and on the History Channel documentary. A high quality copy of this image should be included in the upcoming Amityville Horror Picture Book that George is currently working on.

Ed Warren has stated that the face appears as the face of a child, and admits the "luminescent eyes" could be eyeglasses. Lorraine adds that a demonic spirit can appear as anything it wants.

Hans was the first person the Lutzes wanted to bring in, but was unavailable at the time.

A few years later, Hans Holzer was brought in by William Weber, Ronnie DeFeo's attorney. Hans claims that he was brought in to support a possible appeal of the DeFeo case, based on Holzer's findings. Mr. Weber seems to deny this.

Hans Holzer investigated the house on January 13, 1977. He brought with him Ethel Myers, a deep trance medium who sensed that the house was built on a sacred Indian burial ground. In addition, Hans claims photos taken during that investigation show evidence of paranormal activity, including a white cloud of "ectoplasm" which Hans says clearly looks like a man on a horse.

Upon visiting the Amityville Historical Society, Holzer claims he was told the skeleton of an Indian Chief was unearthed on Ocean Ave. in the early part of the 20th century.

Hans believes that Ronnie DeFeo was "under the power and the influence of the Indian" during the murders.

Yes. George went back with a psychic named Dr. Hefferin, who claimed the house was now cleared. He went into a trance and said they would smell violets as a sign that the house was cleared. George didn't smell any violets and wasn't convinced. He never returned.

Reportedly both Dan and Christopher have visited the property in later years.