The Amityville Horror: Newsday Photograph

In Dallas, Texas, while attending HauntCon2005, Mr. John Clontz of the Deadly Shoals Haunted Trail, N.C. was reviewing few historic photographs that I had with me. Our discussion included various aspects of an upcoming lecture and presentation that was scheduled to be made later that weekend with the assistance of the crew from Deadly Shoals.

Something caught John's eye or senses or both and he asked to have another look at the photograph that we are now licensed to present here. We have discovered that there is much more here than just a picture of the "notorious" house and we ask you to examine it for yourself.

This picture of the Amityville house was taken immediately after the murders in November, 1974. It has been used in various articles and programs now for over the last 30+ years. If the "newly" discovered entities within this photograph had ever been found prior to this, it is safe to say this has never been made public and never made available for public examination and dissemination of any and all findings.

We are grateful to Newsday for providing us with their original photograph and allowing us to present it in it's original state to you here. No alterations of any kind have been made to this picture. We have segmented parts of the picture so that you can examine them easier and we have made a place on our forum for you to post your comments and findings if you wish.

Not everyone sees the same things in this picture and we can suggest one way to help you do your search... if you have a picture viewer that allows you to move in and out with magnification... you will sometimes notice that something may also catch your eye for some reason, and you may wish to look closer at that area. We have also found that the picture changes from day to day and not all people will notice or see this so it is a matter of perception and also individual observation. We can tell you that if you concentrate on one particular area or "find" and rotate the image you will see more.

The question may occur to you why we would do this... and the answer is many faceted and creates more questions than answers. It is my own personal belief that the use of the word "haunting" in this case has always been inadequate. I believe this because so many events occurred here that "haunted" and /or "haunting" ... while accurate, can sometimes be grouped in a way that leaves out so much other very pertinent information. We have concluded that because the images we have found now total in the hundreds, any description of what was occurring here must also include the idea that this was an infestation... something so serious and unique, that all previously documented case studies fail in their use as a fair comparison.

George Lutz, February, 2006

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