A Home For Evil | The Amityville Horror

On January 14th, 1976, the Lutz family fled their home at 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, New York, in horror. They told reporters a tale of ghostly apparitions, levitation, strange noises, and even physical harm. But what else could yo expect from a home where just 14 months prior, an entire family had been murdered in their beds? Part true crime and part haunting, this is the true story of the the Amityville Horror. Welcome back to The Lore Lodge...

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[binaryghosts]

"The younger daughter appears to have been alive when she was killed"

[mikegibb]

“She was alive when she was killed”

*drops glasses* impossible! ❤

[hollyjollyxmas]

Crying because the most unlikely thing in this video to exist is not a ghost or demon but the fact that a one income family could afford such a house

[Steve_V]

It's kind of sad because the Lutz story always takes top billing, but the Defeo killing seemed to be the most interesting one to me. To go from room to room with a fairly large caliber rifle, shooting one family member after another, yet no one seemed to wake up? That's creepy.

[nessie]

I love It when ghost hunters and people like the Warrens go into any given place and assure people it’s like super haunted they promise and then literally anybody else goes in there and it’s. It’s fine. Nothing happens at all

[jonintheredZ]

I said this on Wendigoon's video about the Warrens as well.
Background on me; as I know this is a person on the internet: I was a firearms instructor and range safety officer for a state agency in Florida for 10 years. We did a study at our ranges on sound propagation from gunshots. We did this to select an insulation to put on the ranges to reduce the sound signature.
It is not at all strange that people outside may not have noticed the gunshots from inside the house.
Walls are flat, hard surfaces. When sound waves hit a wall, the majority of the energy is reflected away from the wall. This is because sound waves have a low kinetic energy, being tiny particles vibrated to produce sound. The study found that using a soft surface that could absorb energy from the soundwaves (in our case, I forget the trade name for it but we used basically shredded cardboard mixed with glue, a mix often used in parking garages according to the contractor) and we did see a sound reduction of over 10 dB (I believe it was 12dB) just from putting that on the roof. So there's the interior wall, insulation, the outer wall, that is a lot of stuff for sound to penetrate.
Further, and this is not me calling 35 Remington weak or quiet, but as a handloader myself with 10+ years experience and probably over a hundred thousand rounds loaded, different calibers use different powders, which burn at different rates, which create different pressures. The amount of pressure released has different effects on the soundwave propagation. Higher pressures push the soundwaves harder, so to speak.
According to the Lee Modern Reloading Manual, Second Edition by Richard Lee, which I have for loading my own ammunition, the pressures range from 25, 000psi to around 34, 000psi. By comparison, a 9x19 NATO round ranges generally between 30 and 35k psi. A 5.56x45 NATO round is loaded to 45-55, 000 psi. A 7.62 NATO ranges from 47-62, 000psi. The round is effective and a nice brush round with a heavy and slow bullet but the pressure it is loaded to would mean the soundwaves would be less able to reach the exterior of the house, because it is, much like 30-30 WCF, loaded to a relatively low chamber pressure because it relies on bullet mass for energy instead of speed.
And yes, if you shoot one in open air the sound... propagates...
Referring back to what I recall of the study, it found that sound had a longer range in forest areas actually because the air and hard surfaces for the sound to reflect from allowed the soundwaves to travel farther.
Think like throwing a rock at a pond. If you throw it and it hits and skips 10 times, it travels farther than if you throw it and it hits square and sinks straight. A gunshot inside a house is like throwing a rock at a pond from inside your car with the window rolled up. According to the laws of physics, it isn't that strange for the sound to not propagate to the exterior and be noticed by other people, especially as the rifle used was a relatively low-pressure round with a pressure similar to 9mm NATO/Luger.
Edit: to clarify, I'm not saying you couldn't hear the gunshot from outside, just that the way it transferred the sound to the exterior would have reduced it to maybe the volume of a high dB shout, especially with a lower pressure cartridge. Given that the population of the US was lower when the shooting happened, and it took place at night, I think people who may have noticed the report may not have realized what it was, just heard a relatively vague noise. There are numerous cases of people getting injured and shouting in apartment complexes and not being heard, again not because the sound couldn't get past the wall at all, just that it might have been muffled enough that the average person hearing it might not have recognized it as a gunshot.

[ryanjones_rheios]

I love it when Lore Lodge is skeptical, because he's usually way too open minded (by my cynical, close-minded, measure), so when he's skeptical you know it'll be a fun time.

[NFaltz]

You can see the smile creeping across his face after saying that opening line and I'm here for it!

[harley]

8:17
"...And the walls will ooze *Green SLIME?!*
...
oh wait, it always does that..."

[Idaho-Cowboy]

Don't have a haunted house, but would love to see you investigating them. Who you gonna call becomes who you gonna email.

[Poisoneaterr]

"Alive when she was killed" yeah that seems to be how that works

[brohansolo]

The man escorting Dafeao around the 5 minute marker was my Grandfather Detective George Harrison. He was heavily involved in this case and was one of the original arresting officers

[sidneysmyer]

This is literally the first time I've heard of the mob angle. And I've heard this story multiple times. Dude.

[ryoung]

The reason they were able to afford the huge house on long Island, his inlaws paid the mortgage. Before his inlaws started helping out, they all lived in a 2bedroom apt. Thx for another great episode ♥️

[baphomette]

When he said "Our beloved Warrens" in that specific voice I did indeed do a lol

[p.k.]

I love that you actually are realistic in your approach to these things. The fact that you separate out the facts from the exaggerated or outright rumor is exceptional. I believe that there might have been some spiritual activity, BUT that it was totally overblown with cinematic ADDITIONS to the story to make it sell. I also dont believe it was the house itself, but more likely an attachment to the family which explains how it did NOT continue to be an issue with the next residents! My opinion, and I approve this message...lol

[cordeliabuffy]

Ed and Lorainne Warren are both dead, so calling them to do an investigation would be kind of impossible.
I don't think Amityville was a case of an actual haunting, but perhaps a case of psychological issues. The Lutzes were recently married, adoption of the 3 kids from his wife's first marriage (a long drawn out court proceedure), he was struggling with his business then buy this big house. So yeah, I think some of the stresses they were facing manifested into some randomness being construed as spoopy happenings.
As for the Defoe family not waking up that night, I heard they may have been drugged. IDK, that was a theory put out about it, and it does make sense.

[Joe___R]

One thing you need to understand is that it was much easier to afford to buy a house in 1965 than it is today. The average house only costs around 2-4 times the average yearly salary. So it was much easier to save up for one as well as finance one. Unfortunately, the buying power of the average salary has greatly decreased over the decades. This is a major reason if you live anywhere besides a big city your grandparents likely own their own home and every generation after the baby boomers the likelihood of home ownership in your 20s has decreased.

[CaitlinCostello]

So... my fuse box decided to blow half way through this video. Lights out. If I didn't already think this place was haunted I deffo do now... Them ghosts messing with me jesus christ

[iancorrado]

My friends and I have a tradition of going past the house every year on Halloween, weird to think about being so close to it