http://www.reallyscary.com/2006/05/amity...z-dies.asp
[INDENT]The New York Times reports George Lee Lutz, whose brief stay in a home in Amityville, N.Y., spawned one of the most famous haunted house stories, the basis for the Amityville Horror novel and movies, died May 8. He was 59.
The cause was heart disease, according to NY's Clark County coroner.
Mr. Lutz, a former land surveyor, moved his new bride and three children into a three-story home on Long Island in 1975, about a year after six members of the DeFeo family had been shot and killed there. Ronald DeFeo Jr., the eldest son, was convicted of the murders.
According to Mr. Lutz's account, his family lived in the home for 28 days before being driven out by the spirits of the DeFeos.
Mr. Lutz's story has been challenged by some who accused him of intentionally moving into the home to profit from the DeFeo murders, but he stuck by his version.
The family's tales of eerie feelings and the waking dead became the source for Jay Anson's 1977 book, The Amityville Horror, a 1979 film of the same title and a 2005 remake of the movie.[/INDENT]
Believe the story or not, it was damn entertaining. I always liked the movie (the original - I never saw the remake).
[INDENT]The New York Times reports George Lee Lutz, whose brief stay in a home in Amityville, N.Y., spawned one of the most famous haunted house stories, the basis for the Amityville Horror novel and movies, died May 8. He was 59.
The cause was heart disease, according to NY's Clark County coroner.
Mr. Lutz, a former land surveyor, moved his new bride and three children into a three-story home on Long Island in 1975, about a year after six members of the DeFeo family had been shot and killed there. Ronald DeFeo Jr., the eldest son, was convicted of the murders.
According to Mr. Lutz's account, his family lived in the home for 28 days before being driven out by the spirits of the DeFeos.
Mr. Lutz's story has been challenged by some who accused him of intentionally moving into the home to profit from the DeFeo murders, but he stuck by his version.
The family's tales of eerie feelings and the waking dead became the source for Jay Anson's 1977 book, The Amityville Horror, a 1979 film of the same title and a 2005 remake of the movie.[/INDENT]
Believe the story or not, it was damn entertaining. I always liked the movie (the original - I never saw the remake).
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Oh, no. No nonono!!
George. I visited his site for a while. Even posted a bit with him. Real nice guy. I liked him alot.
Damn. I've got to go back to the site now.
I'm really upset about this.
George. I visited his site for a while. Even posted a bit with him. Real nice guy. I liked him alot.
Damn. I've got to go back to the site now.
I'm really upset about this.