Is the story about amityville horror true?????
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Supposedly it is.  To this day Kathy and George Lutz still swear that what they said is true. The famous Ed and Lorane Warren investigated it and said it was but others said it was a hoax.  The families that have lived there since the Lutzs' swear they never saw or heard anything in the realm of the abnormal.  So, this one is up for grabs..
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That is absolutely AWESOME!  I hope it's a true story because that guy rocked the house - it took guts to go through that but in the end, definitely PRICELESS!  Love it!!!!
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The DeFeo story, spooky. In fact, I live about two miles away from the Amityville Horror House on Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York. I drove past that house a million times. Also the gangstar Al Capone lived around the block from that house before he moved to Chicago to rule the mob there.
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This actually happened to me.  True story.  I was coming back from the 7-11 after buying a hostess twinkie when this rather disheveled man approached me.  He kept trying to touch me.  I kept pushing him but the more I pushed, the more aggressive he got.\n\nthat's when it hit me.  there was no more room in hell.\n\nI immediatly sprang into action.  I shoved the twinkie in his mouth and kicked him...in a very awkward place.  I ran screaming down Ventura Blvd (in LA) that the zombies were attacking.  Much to my horror, every face that looked at me was that of another zombie.  I was surrounded.  They were everywhere.\n\nNow I am a BIg fan of the (original) film Dawn of the Dead, but I saw what happened to those people...both times.  So I, screw the mall, I'm going to Universal City.  There has to be some safe haven there (hell, Spielberg had his offices there for the longest time).  Sure enough, I make the journey.\n\nSure enough, I was wrong...again.  Nothing but blank stares, lumbering bodies and mob mentality.  When I tried to explain my position to the woman in the booth that she shouldn't charge me three day's salary (hey, I'm underpaid) just to get in, she just looked at me like I was lunch and there was no way for her to crawl through the glass.\n\nI lost it.  I started screaming for asylum and broke through the gates.  I was like Andrew McCarthy in Invasion of the Body Snatchers scremaing, "They're here!  They're Here!"\n\nThey let me out of jail this morning.  Apparently...and I know this is becoming a recurring theme...I was wrong.\n\nIn fact, I think the guy who I stuffed the Twinkie in the mouth was trying to say, "thank you" through all that sponge cake.
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You have heard of the New Jersey Devils Hockey Team right? Well what few people outside of the state of NJ know is that the name of the team is based on an old myth some 200 or so years ago. Something about the deformed then abandoned 13th child of some preacher's wife in Southern New Jersey. He was cursed and became this horrible devil-like creature that haunts the Pine Barrens of South Jersey to this day. \nThis link can probably shed more light on the subject than I could. \nhttp://theshadowlands.net/jd.htm
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I like www.ghosts.org/stories/n.html for ghost stories, it is a ohio page, but its got some good ones on it, and for crime stories(serial killers) try crimelibrary.com, for true ones that is, its very interesting atcually, they got all sorts of weird crime stories. including the amityville horror story, with orignal pictures of the house.
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Live near there, never heard of the story of the flood.  I would be interested to know myself.  I know Keystone Lake has flooded many times and I've seen Feyodi Creek Campground completely under water many times years ago.\n\nI've always heard rumors that the town of Mannford was flooded and completely submerged at one time, then they rebuilt the town on higher ground.  If it's true or not, I don't know.  Just what I've always heard.  That's why they have boat docks and New Mannford Ramp and Old Mannford Ramp.\n\nLike I said, I will keep watching your question, I'm curious about the flood of Cleveland, OK also.
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in january 2005, i went to sepnd the night at the lizzie borden house in fall river, RI. (look up lizzie borden on google if you dont know who she is, its a very interesting story) anyway, i couldnt sleep at all, i was so creeped out. so at like 3 in the morning, i hear this music coming from outside the room. so i open the door thinking its my brother playing a prank, so i went into the other room he was staying in, and there was this music box playing all by itself. well anyone could have done that, doi, but when i went to wake up my bro, whom i thought was faking sleep, the lights started flashing on and off, the switch moving by itself. i practically rean from the room screaming.
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I like the movie as a movie.  However the real fact of the situation are so different - the film can only be said to be very loosely based on fact.\nAnneliese Michel (September 21, 1952 – July 1, 1976) was a Catholic woman from Germany who believed she was possessed by six or more demons and subsequently underwent an exorcism.Anneliese experienced severe psychiatric disturbances from the age of 16 to her death at age 23. Although the faith-based treatment was performed at her own request, the hospitalization and intravenous feeding could have saved her life. Both the priests who performed the exorcism and her parents were convicted of manslaughter. The Catholic Church, which had authorized the exorcism, reversed itself and declared it a case of mental illness; however, many people believe she was genuinely possessed by demons, and her gravesite is a destination for pilgrims to this day.\nThe film significantly deviates from the real-world events (for example, the film is set in the United States and Anneliese was renamed Emily Rose and the court case was shown with a substantially different outcome). The German-language film Requiem (2006) by Hans-Christian Schmid holds a much truer account of the real-life events.\nAs to how 'true' this case was as opposed to being a mental illness, I don't know.  However even 'The Ammityville Horror' a well known hoax had a germ of truth behind it and the house still has been the scene of some disturbances, admittedly not as dramatic as the book and subsequent film.  I know it sounds strange, but I think there may well be some truth in this case, as well.
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No, it is yet another urban legend nicely disclaimed by Snopes.com, in my opinion the best site on the net to debunk such things.  Check out the details:
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yes once I stayed in a house that had a strange tale that a child ghost appeared and enticed a member of the family to a deep pit and hence drowned...this had happened once only in the late 1800s. The inquest into the death was inclonclusive as to whether it was suicide or accidental death - due to sleepwalking. The story gained added credence because another member of the family 20 years later was nearly enticed by the same apparition but came to his senses before walking into the pit. The pit is actually an open well at the end of the estate.\n\nI was alone in this house one weekend, because I was planning to stay a week studying in the house by myself. I need solitude to study. Well the first night I heard a noise in the corridor and whilst trying to investigate it I managed to lock myself out in the dark corridor\n\nit was quite spooky but I kept telling myself that this is so funny and tried to see the humour in this, and tried to find the proverbial black cat in the dark corridor. \n\nThe light switches are on the other side of the corridor...so in the darkness I finally broke a side door and got out of the corridor and by doing that I bruised my shoulder quite badly. \n\nI guess the noise and locking myself out separately can be excluded as mundane events, but in that corridor I just felt so confined and at the same time it was quite chilly despite it being such a warm evening.\n\nThree years later, a priest visiting this house announced that there was a spirit and said he would exorcise it. He moved about the house and starting digging at a place in the garden. The strangest thing is this was the first time he had come to the house, well he found deep (about a feet deep) a doll with steel pins in it and also a small vial of what looked like ash and blood.\n\nIt was quite old - so maybe the voodoo doll was buried by an enemy against someone living in the house decades ago. Anyway, the place they found it was near the corridor...so it was quite freaky...\n\nand I was completely lucid the whole time, that is I hadn't taken any substance...\n\nLast year I visited another house, and felt a lot of disquiet or evil whenever I passed one particular room in the house. Apparently this was the room where the gentleman of the house kept his videos and entertained his friends. Who knows what else he did in that room...\n\nNow, I never disregard these feelings and act on it.\n\nI even feel it sometimes from people...
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The stories say it is haunted.  I have been there several times and  I took lots of photos.  Nothing showed up on the photos (no orbs, mists, lights, etc.) and nothing unusual happened while I was there.  They do give special flashlight tours every Friday the 13th and at Halloween.  Sometimes they have ghost hunters come in a group.  No one has come up with anything definitive or all that unusual.  But, hey, you might get to the be the  lucky one!
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I shouldn't even be answering this, because technically it is in violation of the Community Guidelines.  But I must admit it is an intriguing concept.  I don't like horror stories, but the other categories you mentioned appeal to me.  \n\nI should tell you I am not much of a fiction writer.  Non-fiction is my forte.  But perhaps with your detailed outlines of the story, or even paragraphs and so on, my editing skills might be of use.  It's something we can discuss.  I will send you an email when I get a chance if you select my answer as best.  (Is that another violation of the Community Guidelines?)
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I have seen the movie The Haunted and read some articles abou the Smurl case, but outside of that I haven't really studied the case in depth.  My reasons for this are varied, but it is largely because I personally do not believe in demons (some members of BCPR may think differently).  I am actually immediately skeptical of any demonology case because of this.  I do believe that ghosts (whatever they are) can be "bad" or evil, though.\n\nBut to the point, I honestly can't say whether the haunting was real or not.\n\nThere are several issues that make it hard for me to determine if the validity of the Smurl's case:\n\n1.  I have never been able to talk one on one with someone involved with the case.\n\n2.  Once the media becomes involved in a case things get out of hand very quickly.  Unfortunately, the media and movie industry has a tendency to take a story and run with it.  Sometimes the finished product can differ widely from the actual course of events.\n\n3.  Eyewitness testimony is notoriously fickle.  Psychological studies have suggested that people can be lead into believing they saw or experienced something they didn't.  I am not suggesting that this happened in the Smurl case, but it can't be removed from the list of possibilities.\n\n4.  Based upon my limited knowledge, the approach to the case did not seem to be largely scientific.  This could be because the Smurl's belief of what was going on was probably based largely on their religious beliefs.  Often in these types of cases faith trumps science.\n\n5.  I don't know if other causes outside of an actual haunting or demon were considered.  There are several "natural" causes for ghost and haunting activity that should be systematically ruled out.\n\n\nJaime\nPresident, BCPR
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ripley`s BELIEVE IT OR NOT...!!!!
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Redeemer lol how true.\nThat is really something how they turned this creepy ghost story complete with hideous torture into a huge religion.\n\nAlso Jeffrey Dahmer was the most horrible monster ever.\nAlso, the way they transplant corneas (and other organs)from dead people into living people's eyes-that's creepy when you think about it.\nThe Exorsist was creepy and a true story.\nI had a true thing happen in my house--a poltergeist--making loud noises all night outside my bedroom door for about 6 months. The noises woke me up all night, always after midnight.
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I have to agree with Emily ...I have followed this as well since I was younger and all the coincidences some say that surround the Amityville house...lets just stop and think are they really coincidences or is this just something so powerfull than us that we just can not explain it ...Edward K submitted the 911 call when the Defeos were killed , what does that prove about the house...absolutely nothing ....just because the current owners claim they dont experience anything does not mean a damn thig ...maybe this entity is dormant in other words I pity the person that lives there when this thing decides to reveal itself again...All I am saying is maybe you non-believers need to take a step back and examine all the evidence before you decide to pass judgement on the Lutz family