My Amityville Horror

there are stories about this that haven't been told

me for be is my prayer that everyone in this room never goes

by you know someone that

that does the Hardison for those people

who this whose Lawson do you communicate

lawsuit being able to

fine you collagen help

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arguing it's not

its non-interest

it happens and monitors you

you will become millions

you know what my therapist's not too long ago

asked to me if

I could in less than a sentence

destroyed

what

board described were label these experiences

all I can come up with in the first thing that came up with and have been

able to find anything better than

and is in unfortunate gift in my life

cited tone

this not something I asked for achieved our

or anything like that so when this was

when I'm going through experiences that I am now going to coach

priest at church and he's looking at me like boy what is wrong with you

you know I knew my life was

was turned into something that I had no control I became

change it's it's not easy to do

tell somebody how you got thrown up that staircase

it's not easy to tell somebody that you're dead

was bouncing off the ceilings because the headboard posts or

jammed into the sheep weekend

stage we've got black toilets and we've got thousands of lives

this is just like you like a fucking karnal

I'm getting a little time

right now

this is not something I'm sorry discuss

I don't look forward because once I start talking about it even just to

bring you

back to a moment for a moment I B common stock with

in

Hey

you know my mom used to tell me that good things happen to good people and

bad things happen to bad people

and sometimes bad things happen to good people too

the Amityville house appears to be quite peaceful now

is that no evidence that any strange occurrences here

since the lights family fled more than twenty years ago

house is not wanted it never was appointed

it was a money making good it is

definitely not folks back home has been exercised

was it really ahora was a hoax perpetrated

on the world which still remains mystified by the tales a bizarre

happenings

in a quiet house in a comparable Long Island community I've never introduced

myself as that person

the guy from an okay ever you had to be something completely different

I was somebody completely different then went for the most part I still am

what who were you before Amityville

who were you I was

analyst wriggle idk you know went to school

I told mom I was going to when I

was I was enrolled in school okay and what did you do instead

before revealing get intellectual

happy stuff you okay I don't know you okay go ahead on your right

and I kinda need to know a couple things about you that because I'm not want to

just sit in

down and start sharing stories okay i'd I thought I respect that

alright so good I kinda need to know like what's the most dramatic thing

that's ever happened to you

the most romantic thing that's ever happened to me arm

I think the most romantic thing that's ever happened to me was moving

when I was 13 from one country to another okay I think that was

for me and I was pretty scary an overwhelming I moved here

United States i right on

but to for me to sit here knowing that the most dramatic thing from view was

moved from one comes

to another and readjusting and you want me to sit here and I'm gonna start

talking about

possessions annexes and bouncing off his feelings

is not gonna be these thing for me to do because I know you're only gonna be able

to connect with me

that in in well let me say this to you

and you're absolutely right I'm not going to ever be able to know what you

did when three that some possibly understand right are

I'm in what I do for a living as a psychologist

I have connects with many people in so many different situations that I'm

much much many enter and I never okay always respectful

what people's life experiences have been is there someone that you're hoping to

benefit from

from doing most I would have to say my children

ok I want you can't 1917 hard tough

have a spoken to you at all about it yes

have and and and they are concerned

that's you know someday I get past

you feel like you have you haven't I'm ready to

not something that I asked for I didn't achieve this

it's not an accomplishment in my life so

wish to be associated have anything

this has been following

my entire life I've been running away from

and it finally caught up to me and I couldn't hide

ok

i sat down with my mom and I told her I said I I have to go

I left and

went to go find my own place in the world I didn't want to

you know be the Amityville Horror kid everywhere that I know people have

preconceived notions

me I didn't want to deal with it

so I would just Wanderley find places where nobody you mean

tryin work my way into a community

alright well

I was born Daniel Edward quarantine on in 1965

in West Balam Long Island New York

my father and my mother were high school sweethearts

on like one of those from

back see incidences they were married very young

very family oriented you know the the family's only lived a couple blocks away

from each other

it was my world and which

what I know and my mom and dad

got divorced I don't know I guess I was

7 and a halfish when

the divorce was actually final and

dad moved out on with his life and and we're not gonna Grandma and Grandpa's on

Sunday anymore there was this period of time where I really didn't know where I

fit in anymore

what to do with myself it helped me get

closer with my mother did actually strengthened our relationship

I had assumed a lot of no responsibilities

you know I was watchin my brother and my sister

and was responsible for the house and then

george was introduced into this yeah I which

a a there was maybe year

for some you know my mom went out with a couple guys burnt

she like George george was an ex-marine

recently divorced on a house

had a carry permit had shoppers

and family business and bolts

Corvettes and you know you was very well to do guy

somewhere along the line after my mother had met George

between georgian my father there was in agreements

you would met only marry my mother if you get it legally adopted three kids

with the name change in the Social Security and birth certificates and

yeah he was gonna put his name in label on something that wasn't

ultimately his you know that's when I

just started destroying disguise world

every opportunity that I walked into

just do anything

to get him that we could go back all

let's put it this way

I don't think it was the Brady Bunch I was somebody

that at the time for a couple of years they became familiar with

but I actually saw these kids and interacted with them

in their home I was just I was sorta a presence

when I was there I certainly wasn't harmful to them so I don't really think

that they were relating to me as a reporter they certainly knew

how I came to know caffeine George

I i think that there was some natural tension there

because this was us it was stepfather Danny

was was naturally more taciturn more self-contained

but he was always watching he was always very very aware of what was going on

just as I was putting together a series

on different aspects of psychic phenomenon for the station

Channel 5 News the story about the Lutz's

and their experience in 112 Ocean Avenue

word the Amityville Horror houses it's now come to be known

broke in New York Newsday everyone was trying to get in touch with them

and it took me a couple of weeks nobody knew where they were once they had done

a press conference they basically went underground

I finally managed to leave messages for them in track them down and

George Lutz called me and asked me if I would come and meet with them because I

told them I have good contacts

in the field parapsychology so I did

go out and meet with George Lutz and his

family on surveying firm at the time we had a nice conversation he took me back

to his mother in laws house

to meet cathy his wife and the three kids that's where they were staying

and over the course of a five-hour conversation where they told me about

their story they decided

that I was someone that they could trust in that they would allow channel 5 tap

the exclusive on the story

so that's how it all started

on November 13th 1974

the house at 112 Ocean Avenue Amityville

became the site of a notorious mass murder

23-year-old Ronald to fail junior shot to death his father

mother two brothers and two sisters with a 35 caliber Marlin rifle

all six victims were discovered by police face-down in their beds

apparently unmoved and each murdered while sleeping

good

toxicology reports approved the family was not

thread no silencer had been used on the weapon

lingering questions surrounding these murders have remained for nearly forty

years

giving way to wild conspiracy theories on whether or not to fail could have

committed these crimes alone

well at first just moving into the house was fine it's a lovely house

and we enjoyed moving within a week