![]() ![]() The character he purports to be studying is Danny Lutz, the oldest and possibly most tormented of the Lutz children. Their account of having been terrified by High Hopes’ eerie personality disorders - door wrenchings, window slammings, demon infestations - was chronicled in Jay Anson’s 1977 book “The Amityville Horror: A True Story.” ![]() The Lutzes later claimed that poltergeists had settled into the rooms like uninvited relatives. A little more than a year later the newlyweds George and Kathy Lutz bought the place - named High Hopes - at the knockdown price of $80,000 and moved in, along with her three children by a previous marriage. ![]() 13, 1974, when Ronald DeFeo Jr., then 23, murdered his parents and his four siblings with a rifle as they slept in their beds there. During the ensuing decades the three-story dwelling has been renumbered, and the distinctive quarter-moon windows - suggesting the malevolent eyes of a jack-o’-lantern - have been changed to discourage rubbernecking. Thirty-seven years have passed since the last reported haunting in this quiet Long Island village. A thin mist rises like a mourner’s veil above the gambrel roof, and low-slung clouds bathe the grounds in perpetual gloom. It’s a splendid day for a stroll past a haunted house: dark, damp, forbidding. ![]()
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