[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

*** led to the The Amityville Horror book in 1977***

That hoax sure took in a lot of people who believed it. It was in so many of the tabloid magazines back then. (STAR, National Enquirer and many others.)

[Red Badger]

[twyn1]

Stopped by the house many years ago with hubby & bro-in-law — it’s actually a very nice little neighborhood. Unlike how the house is depicted in the movie; secluded and dark, it is quite close to the neighboring houses, and didn’t exude any “creepy” vibes (can’t say the same for some other supposedly haunted places we’ve visited).

[Tired of Taxes]

I never saw the movie, but I read the book in my teens.

That book taught me something very important: The power of suggestion is strong. One of the characters kept waking up at 3:15 AM (?). Upon finishing the book, I found myself waking up at exactly the same time every night. Same thing happened to another teen I met who’d read the book.

[Beowulf9]

I find the photos of the house to be deceptive. This is the front of the house that faces the road. I took the pic, btw, I lived couple of towns over from there. I did used to see the house as it used to be before the murders. ">

[mass55th]

When I was a new officer at Auburn prison in Auburn, NY between 1980-1983, Ronnie DeFeo was an inmate there. Housed in general pop, he worked the garbage run inside the prison. My first impression of him was what a short twerp he was. Winston Moseley who murdered Kitty Genovese in NY City was there as well. He worked as an Administrative building porter. He was a murderer, a rapist, and had escaped from Attica while at the outside hospital. Why he was given a job in a building where the female civilians worked, I’ll never understand.

[Seruzawa]

LSD. Another drug used for “therapy”. As if going insane for several hours is therapy.

[roving]

I read the book. He was trying to go for an insanity plea. He made the whole thing up.