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Time to return to normal!

Catholic Germany
04-11-2004, 05:33
Well its time to return to normal. Kerry did a great job and I am not ashame for have voted for him. I hope that Bush will TRY to be a little less arrogrant and who knows maybe one day he'll actually admit he screwed up. Now that I have said that. I would like to begain a trend called "Fact or Fiction" Basically you present a case like a haunting, or story, urban legend whatever. And you'd let the people decide whetheter its fact or fiction. I will start off with my favorite case of all time.

Fact or Fiction: Amityville


If you don't know what Amityville is, then maybe this picture will ring a bell.

http://www.netholist.net/rajatiede/images/amityville.jpg

Thats right, its America most famous haunted house! Now here are the known facts:

A Family named the DeFeo did live in the house, 6 members including Ronald DeFeo Jr. (Butch)
Ronald DeFeo Jr. did murder 6 members of his family on the night of November 13, 1974

The Lutzes did purchase the house for $80,000 a year later.
They did abandoned the house 28 days after moving in.

However the facts ends there. So what is the argument? The Lutzes claims to have been driven out by evil spirits and ghost. However people like Dr. Kaplan have come out stating that the Lutzes story is a Hoax. People like The Warrens has claim the Lutzes story is true. I will post links from the Warrens website. I will also post The Lutzes story. So let the fun begin! (Dr. Kaplan does not have a website but I have read his book, "The Amityville Horror Conspiracy".

The Warrens
http://www.warrens.net/amityvill.htm

Lutzes story
http://www.amityvillehorrortruth.com/articles/lutzinterview1.html

The summary of Dr. Kaplan role in this is that soon after the Lutzes has fled the house, they first contacted Dr. Kaplan to invesigate the house. However George Lutzes cancels the appoitment. The reason for cancelling varies. Soon after Dr. Kaplan did go on a show on TV claiming that the Lutzes story was a Hoax and written the book "The Amityville Horror Conspiracy". Since then and until his death. Dr. Kaplan has always came out agaisnt the Lutzes claiming that their story was false and the whole thing was a Hoax.

So, now its time for YOU to decide, was The Amityville Horror a true haunting or was it a money making scheme by the Lutzes?