![]() "The Amityville Horror" has long since been revealed as a fiction by investigator Ric Osuna and others. They were aware that the Lutz family - of Amityville, New York - profited handsomely from selling the rights to their "true story" of a haunted house. Whether or not the Snedekers actually believed their story, they stood to make money from the book deal. Though the Snedekers stand by their story, it seems there is little or no proof that anything supernatural occurred at the house. Garton, who had accepted the job expecting to have a real "true story" to base the book on, did as he was told: "I used what I could, made up the rest, and tried to make it as scary as I could." 'You've got some of the story - just use what works and make the rest up… Just make it up and make it scary.'" They couldn't keep their stories straight. ![]() He interviewed all the family members about their experiences, and soon realized that there was a problem: "I found that the accounts of the individual Snedekers didn't quite mesh. Garton was hired by Ed and Lorraine Warren to work with the Snedekers and write the true story of their house from hell. The Snedeker's story first came to light in horror novelist Ray Garton's 1992 book "In a Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting." In an interview in "Horror Bound" magazine, Garton discussed how the "true story" behind "The Haunting in Connecticut" came about. She noted that nobody before or since had experienced anything unusual in the house, and that the Snedeker family stayed in the house for more than two years before finally deciding to leave.Īpparently being assaulted and raped by Satan's minions for months at a time wasn't a good enough reason to break the lease. Investigator Joe Nickell reports in the May/June issue of Skeptical Inquirer magazine that the Snedeker's landlady found the whole story ridiculous. The film's poster states in capital letters at the top that the movie is "based on true events." Yet others aren't so sure. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Snedekers have told their story many times, including on national talk shows and in a Discovery Channel TV show. ![]()
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