Ghostly Pics: Amityville Ghost Boy

 

The Amityville Horror haunting is still a very popular subject both inside and outside the circle of paranormal researchers and enthusiasts.

It is the story of the Lutz family, who went through a nightmarish twenty-eight days inside the house at 108 Ocean Ave in 1975 has become known worldwide. The house had previously been the residence of the DeFeo family about a year or so before the Lutz's moved in, that is until twenty-three-year-old Ronald DeFeo murdered both his parents in their beds as well as his four siblings: Dawn (eighteen years old), Marc (twelve) and John Matthew (Nine).

Since the Lutz's fled the 'Horror House', the story of what occurred to the family in less than a month's time in Long Island has been turned into a book, made into a movie, and spawned the name of a famous fictional horror movie franchise.

As we have noted on this blog before, the case also has many side trips and legends, some of which you have to read to believe. One of the most popular has to be the Amity 'Ghost Boy' photo, which has sparked debate in the Amityville and paranormal worlds for some time now.

It is also one creepy photo.

The 'Other' Amityville Ghost Photo

 If you read about or investigate the paranormal for a hobby, you probably have come across the story of The Amityville Horror, where a family in Amityville, New York spent twenty-eight horrific days in one of the most infamous haunted houses in the world.

The house, which is located at 108 Ocean Ave (formerly 112 Ocean Ave before the gawkers and tourists became too much to bear after the original film's release in the late seventies and the street number was changed), also was where Ronald Defeo murdered six of his family members while they slept in November 1974.

Later the Warrens would come in to investigate the house in 1976, leading to one of the most chilling and controversial 'real' ghost photographs of all time, The Amityville Ghost Boy.

There is another photograph connected to the ever-growing and confusing Amityville legend that has never really been brought to light.

It is said to have been taken in 1922 in the house that stood on the same property on which the Dutch Colonial the Defeos and Lutzes both lived in later stood.

And the figure within the captured image was claimed to be conjured during a seance no less...