AMITYVILLE HORROR HOUSE House — Amityville, New York Status: Operating · Access: Private property · est. 1927 Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/amityville-horror-house-amityville-new-york/ 112 Ocean Avenue—site of the DeFeo murders and a contested haunting. Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his six family members here on November 13, 1974. Thirteen months later the Lutz family fled after 28 days, claiming demonic torment—the basis of the 1977 book and film franchise. Subsequent owners report nothing; researchers widely regard the haunting as a hoax the Lutzes helped invent. On November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his parents and four siblings in the Dutch Colonial at 112 Ocean Avenue — six people in their beds, a crime the file can date to the day. It is the most documented horror in the archive: a massacre with police records, a trial, and a verdict. Thirteen months later the Lutz family bought the house for a price only a murder explains, moved in during December 1975, and left after twenty-eight days — abandoning their belongings and telling a story of flies, cold spots, a demonic pig they called Jodie, and a house that wanted them gone. In 1977 Jay Anson's book sold their account to the world, and 'The Amityville Horror' became the most famous haunting in America. TWENTY-EIGHT DAYS The file's discipline is essential here, because Amityville is where the atlas's two layers collide hardest. The DeFeo murders are documented fact. The Lutzes' twenty-eight days are a bestseller — a story they told, profited from, and defended in court, but which investigators, subsequent owners, and DeFeo's own circle have contradicted for decades. No later resident has ever reported the phenomena. The legend won anyway. The house's eye windows became a genre's logo; 'Jodie' entered the entity list; a dozen films followed. The file's verdict is structural: whatever happened in those twenty-eight days, the story outperformed the evidence so completely that the evidence stopped mattering to the market. WHY THIS FILE MATTERS Amityville is the archive's load-bearing cautionary tale: a real massacre underneath a probably-manufactured haunting, and the most commercially successful ghost story ever told. It is why this dossier format exists — to hold 'six documented murders' and 'twenty-eight days of claimed phenomena' in the same file without letting one borrow the other's credibility. The house still stands on Ocean Avenue, privately owned, quietly occupied. Whatever the neighbors think of the legend, they have had fifty years to stop asking about it. The file suggests the legend was always the louder tenant. FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified · [Disputed] haunting legend: The Lutzes described swarming flies, cold spots, a red-eyed figure and an invisible "pig" named Jodie. Amityville Horror House in Amityville, New York is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. The claim is disputed by the sources that preserve it. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents. source: The Amityville Horror (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amityville_Horror) · [Internet rumor] reported anomalies: The DeFeo defense attorney claimed supernatural involvement in the murders—later admitted to be a publicity story. A house with Amityville's history behind it gives the reports a setting that needs no exaggeration. Internet-era retellings built most of the file; the underlying report is thin. The report is preserved in sources like 'The Amityville Horror'. Small phenomena, steadily reported: the file's most honest kind of haunting. source: The Amityville Horror (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amityville_Horror) HISTORY — 2 documented facts · [1974-11-13] Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his parents and four siblings in the house on November 13, 1974. The documented date is 1974-11-13. The house's past is on record — this entry belongs to the verified layer of the site's file. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears in 'The Amityville Horror'. The record keeps it — history, not lore. · The Lutz family moved in December 1975 and left after 28 days; The Amityville Horror (1977) sold their story. A house in Amityville, New York with this much documented history gives the dossier substance underneath the lore. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The detail is preserved in 'The Amityville Horror'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry. SOURCES — 1 cited · The Amityville Horror — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amityville_Horror — HauntHunt is a research archive. Claims are filed as reported — documented where sources exist, marked as folklore or unverified where they do not. Methodology: https://haunthunt.com/methodology/ · Corrections: https://haunthunt.com/report/