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Photos Top cast Edit. David Ackroyd Narrator as Narrator voice. Joel Martin Self - author and paranormal expert as Self - author and paranormal expert. It's certainly not a hoax. It's real easy to call something a hoax. I wish it was. It's not," Lutz said. If the Lutz family truly does consider their experiences truthful despite massive evidence to the contrary, to what extent can the whole ordeal be dismissed as an elaborate con?
Interviews with Daniel Lutz, the child of Kathleen who survived the alleged phantasmatic onslaught, show a man disturbed by his past. Daniel discusses the abuse he suffered at the hands of his step-father and the patriarch's alleged dabblings in Satanism long before the media began paying attention to the family.
Daniel's attestations are clearly based on foggy recollections of dark tomes George was allegedly seen reading, and the validity of his testimony is questionable, if not moving.
But Daniel continues to maintain the accounts given by his mother and step-father in various books and interviews. The house at Ocean Avenue has been vastly remodeled since the late 70's and no longer resembles the structure depicted in the films. Later that night, he woke to see his wife levitating and moving across the bed, he says. The next morning, just 28 days after they moved in, the Lutz family fled the house, leaving their clothes in the closets and food in the refrigerator.
If the family had not left, Lutz says, he believes something horrible would have happened. As word spread of the Lutzes' experiences, people interested in the paranormal contacted them. Two months after the Lutzes moved out, reporter Laura Didio assembled a group of psychic researchers to evaluate the family's claims. The investigators spent a night in the house, walking from room to room trying to pick up ghostly vibrations.
One of the researchers, Lorraine Warren, remembers an "overwhelming feeling" of "horrible depression" in the house. The team also took a series of time-lapse photos of the upstairs landing. None of the photographs showed anything out of the ordinary except one, which had what Didio describes as "the face of what appeared to be a little boy, peering out from one of the bedrooms.
Things returned to normal for the Lutz family after they left the house, and George Lutz began to wonder if it was the house's horrors that had driven DeFeo to kill his family. At his trial, DeFeo had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, claiming he had heard voices and that on the night of the murders something out of his control made him kill. The jury rejected that defense and sentenced him to six life terms. Lutz contacted DeFeo's attorney, William Weber, who was already fielding book proposals from publishers for his client's story.
The Lutzes' story of a haunted house had the potential to drive up interest in a book, and Weber agreed to meet George and Kathy Lutz to hear their account.
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