Amityville Horror Re-remake

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Originally Posted by fatediesel

It has pretty much been proven that the events were fake and were a ruse by George Lutz who could not afford the home and whose business faltered. William Weber, who was the lawyer of Ronald Defeo, who killed his family in the home, admitted he conspired with the Lutzes to make up the story in an effort to get Defeo a new trial. In addition, most of Lutzes claims have been proven impossible due to factual errors and inconsistencies.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/amityville.asp

Unfortunately, the snopes.com article is based largely on the writings of Rick Moran and Steven Kaplan, neither of whom are particularly trustworthy individuals. (For example, Rick Moran is pretty much the king of contradicting himself and disregarding police evidence, not to mention his "list of inconsistencies" was never published and "lost in a fire", and his eyewitnesses are all either dead or nameless. As for the priest, he gave an on-camera interview where he said things DID happen in the house.)

Furthermore, the fact the Willaim Weber said it was fake is pointless. He's lying either way - he's the one who wanted the Lutzes to take a lie detector test (which they eventually did, and passed) and later hired Hans Holzer to investigate the house for paranormal activity on his behalf.

As for the money object and the statement that they could not afford the house, George Lutz continued making mortgage payments on the house for six months after he left the property behind.

Most of the "factual errors" (like dates not matching up with weather records) were in fact errors made by Jay Anson's book (which the Lutzes had no final say on the content of, and Anson admitted to embellishing) rather than the actual claims made by the Lutz family.

http://www.amityvillefaq.com/
http://www.amityvillefiles.com/2009/...dead-source/1/
http://www.amityvillefiles.com/2009/...or-conspiracy/

I love Snopes too, but it's far from the be-all end-all