This is interesting

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/amityville.asp

Good find. After seeing the movie(the remake), I thought that many parts of the story were a bit outlandish. But, as the writer of the article said, the truth never stands in the way of a good story.

Good find!

I only truly learned about the Amityville Horror yesterday on the forums, and while it's a good story, I find it hard to belive it.

But hey, I may be wrong!

the amityville horror is 100%pure crapola!it was a story made up by the late jay anson and george and kathy lutz who made boatloads of cash from it.

i liked the original movie so much better---there were a lot of things in the latest movie that didn't follow the book that closely...a disappointment...

I read the book when I was younger, it was to silliest "horror" novel I had ever read. When I finished it I had a major 'WTF?!' moment. Though it was tied together very well, and it was well written, it was just...silly. Reading a few Stephen King books before this showed me how easily those people got scared out of their house. A swarm of flies, who in themselves are harmless; noises (ohtehnoes!); a moving "lion" statue, how did he know one of the kids didn't do it?; and to top it off, a shadowy figure walked down the stairs. If everyone who's seen a shadowy figure moved out of their house and made a book, we would probably dismiss the slightest thought of ghosts. =\

when that cat jumped up in the window in the original amityville horror,that scared the sh** out of me.that was the scariest part of the movie i thought.