I’m your host Kate and today’s story is about what is quite possibly the most famous haunted house in America. The story of the house at 112 Ocean Avenue (now 108) in Amityville, NY starts with a brutal murder and then spirals into an intense haunting that sparked a lot of controversy.

Thank you to my sources:

• https://www.foxnews.com/us/illegal-immigrant-charged-alabama-kidnapping-murder-case-girls-escape-leads-decomposing-bodies 
• https://horrorobsessive.com/2021/04/02/the-defeo-murders-the-story-behind-the-amityville-horror/ 
• https://theunredacted.com/the-defeo-family-massacre-amityville-horrors/ 
• https://medium.com/serial-napper/a-hoax-or-demonic-possession-what-did-the-lutz-family-really-experience-at-the-amityville-house-dda7dea1bf27 
• https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/amityvillehorror1979.php 
• https://www.biography.com/news/the-real-amityville-horror-facts 
• History’s Greatest Mysteries Season 3 Episode 5 “The Amityville Horror”
• “Amityville Horror House” Season 1 (Documentary) 
• “My Amityville Horror” (Documentary)