Everyone knows about the large, beautiful house that sets right on the shore on Ocean Ave. in Amityville, New York. Was it real or a hoax? Most people seem to think that it was just a hoax, but most famous paranormal investigators still maintain the house is haunted by an evil presence.

In November 1974, Ronald DeFeo murdered his entire family, shooting them all with a .35 Marlin Rifle. According to DeFeo he was being controlled by evil spirits and heard voices. He was sentenced to six life sentences. A year later Kathy and George Lutz moved in. They moved out after a month. They made incredible claims of black ooze coming from toilets, doors blown off hinges, unexplained teeth marks, a pit to hell in the basement, and of course the bleeding walls. It was a little too sensational for most people to believe.

But there were some remarkable things that did have some truth. Goerge Lutz did look very much like Ronald DeFeo. So much it is literally scary. The stories that the Lutz’s told sounded like previous cases of demonic possession, but many claimed they were just rumors.

The stories spawned numerous books, movies, and a cult following. There are stories about the property being built on Indian Burial grounds, an Indian sanitarium, or even a supposed witch living on the property from Salem Massachusetts. None of the claims have been proven.

Recently the house has been occupied by new owners, they have reported nothing unusual.

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You shouldn’t play with dead things.

A group of kids decided to spend a night inside a fun house so after the fair closes and everybody leaves, they break inside. It’s full of the usual thrills and chills and things designed to terrify the children and adults who venture inside. The macabre maze makes it difficult for the group of kids to get around and eventually among the startling surprises they come across a hanging corpse.

Suddenly, a prankster int he group shoves one of his friends to scare him and they accidentally bump into the dead hanging man, knocking it’s hand off. The kids pick the hand up off the floor and shake it at each other jokingly, but soon realize the hand is very old and very real. The hanging man isn’t a prop at all, but a real dead body. All the kids run in terror out of the house of horrors.

Afterward they notified the police and when detectives came upon the corpse, they knew then that it was real. The skin was stretched tight across its face as though the person had starved to death. The corpse was taken to a morgue for an autopsy. The autopsy results aided the investigation and it was soon discovered that the cadaver was an early nineteenth century train robber who was caught in the act and killed in a shoot out with the local town sheriff. Since no one claimed the body, it was taken to a mortician who then used it to advertise his business. He embalmed and preserved the corpse and stood it as a statue in a corner of his work place for public display.

When people started coming by just to see the dead man, he began to charge admission. Some showmen from a freak show attraction got word of the mummy, and convinced the mortician that they were relatives of the dead man. He reluctantly released the corpse to them, who then began to display the corpse in their own show. It traveled the country as the REAL DEAD OUTLAW, but after the freak show disbanded it was traded to a pawn shop dealer who then sold it to a props collector. The props collector offered it to an associate who used it to decorate the fun house.

Jason Qualls from Elkhart, Indiana

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