Haunted houses: Purchasing a home is work – a lot of work. Besides considering your budget when searching for a home one must consider neighborhoods, safety, the quality of nearby schools, commute time to work, and of course the actual house. Searching for a home is an emotional process whether you are searching for a place for just yourself or for your entire family.
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Sometimes you view a house that is already inhabited, you walk quietly through furnished rooms imagining your life and your things within those walls. You may also look at homes that are uninhabited, new developments or properties that have stood empty for some time. You walk through the living room, kitchen and bathrooms thinking of filling the space with your own things. Maybe you even wonder what is the story of those who live there, or lived there before?
Some of us see many homes across several months or even years, placing bids, sometimes being outbid, and yes for many of us it will finally happen – finding the perfect home. Although, what if after moving in you learned that the home you thought was perfect wasn’t quite so? Would you leave the house if there were major structural issues? What if there were unexplained noises, voices, or apparitions? Would you leave then? How far into stress, fear and madness would you need to be pushed in order to leave ? The following ten homes are houses that were believed so haunted that its residents left because they could just no longer live with the dead.
10. Amityville House
The horror that occurred at Amityville became a best selling book and a popular horror film franchise that never seems to end. What occurred at Amityville has been clouded by fiction, various conflicting accounts, and even lawsuits.
The events that are facts in this case are as follows: George and Kathy Lutz and their three children moved into a large Dutch Colonial house at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, a village in New York. The home was purchased at a price the Lutz’s found to be quite low and when they inquired why the home was so cheap they were told of a series of murders that had taken place 13 months prior by Ronald DeFeo, the previous owner’s son. DeFeo shot and killed his parents and siblings as they slept in the home. He was eventually tried and convicted.
The Lutz family moved in and lived in the house for only 28 days. The events that are up for debate are the Lutz’ experiences in the home that caused them to flee, leaving all of their belongings behind to be recovered by a moving crew. Some of the things they claimed they experienced in the house include; George Lutz waking up every morning around 3:15 a.m., around the time the DeFeo family was murdered, George beginning to resemble Ronald DeFeo and even frequenting DeFeo’s favorite bar and ordering DeFeo’s favorite beer. Kathy claimed to have vivid dreams of the murders, and it was even reported that the family began to sleep on their stomachs in similar positions that the bodies of the DeFeo’s were found.
Kathy said she felt the embrace of an unseen entity, heard loud noises, doors banging and spotted two red eyes outside of her daughter’s window. The Lutz’s young daughter also developed an imaginary friend in the home. To this day, some people question the Lutz’s account as no other family has experienced a haunting in the home. Regardless of whether you believe the Lutz’s were mad or not, they ultimately fled their home.
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