....I respect that, but I've had a few things happen that allow me to keep an open mind.....
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I hope to come across something like that myself at some point along the path.
Did a re-watch of Carrie
William Katt looks like Robert Plant in that movie!
William Katt looks like Robert Plant in that movie!
It's a great film regardless of controversy. The special edition dvd has a commentary by dr. Hans Holzer, a parapsychologist, which is fun to listen to, because the German accent makes him sound like a typical eccentric doctor that could be a character in a film like that.
I always remember this bit where he says: 'The body of the Indian chief is still in the ground under the house! You can still go dig it up!!!'
There's been puffery at my house.
....Hurricanes don't count......or Wednesday after Taco Tuesday.....
I always though the same thing.
I remember when Katt was starring in that short lived television show 'Greatest American Hero' that he needed to change his hair style. It was too much!
I felt so bad for him when he died same as in the book, at least he died a quick death. He was just so innocent
Thor: Ragnarok (for the third time 
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)3 Billboards never came to theatres around here. Definitely one my husband and I wanted to watch. Now I'm just hoping it comes to a streaming service soon.
I don't know about that house, but, despite my ingrained skepticism and hard-headedness, I know the strange can definitely happen. Our house is older, and it comes with SOMETHING that occasionally throws the food dish at my poor little Yorkie. I have been sitting at the dining room table and seen it happen with my own eyes (much more comfortable than using someone else's eyes- ba-dum-TISH). It's also dropped things on my head before (most notably a bottle of vanilla after I'd searched the spice cupboard for it for half an hour. I jokingly yelled, "Accio vanilla!" and it came flying at me out of the nearly empty cupboard. My kids were there to see that one, too). Hides things. It used to occasionally turn on the radio, before everyone moved to music on phones and the like. I know it sounds like a big story, but I swear it's true. I'm just glad it's not malicious (except to Louie, and it never hurts him--just scares the crap out of him).
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Oh, I'm not discounting poltergeist type activity entirely. Weird things like what you wrote about happen. Reported activity from credible sources is always benign in nature (much like what you described).
However, that house has had two additional owners over the 40+ years since the Lutz's abandoned it. Neither had any issues whatsoever. None of the previous owners ever reported any problems either. The house recently sold again for over a million dollars as that part of NY is tres swanky.
The whole ridiculous mythology around that property stems from the defense Ronnie DeFeo and his lawyer cooked up for his murder trial. They had to come up with something unique if they were to have any chance of getting a not guilty verdict. DeFeo confessed to police within two hours of being brought in for questioning. Gave them specifics of the crime that only someone there would have known and told them where to find the murder weapon. He also left the box for the rifle he used in his bedroom closet. Not a very bright guy.
Motive for those murders was greed. Ronnie had a drug problem and was tired of working for his father and grandfather for what he considered to be chump change. His grandfather and father were connected to the Gambino crime family via the car dealership his grandfather owned. The service department was basically a chop shop and was a front for a stolen car ring. Ronnie thought that there were huge sums of money running through the dealership. He staged (and bungled) a fake robbery of the dealership shortly before he killed his family. When the robbery didn't pan out he thought that his Dad was hiding the money in the house. He decided he'd take the money, kill his family and blame it on robbers. This is all from the non-fiction book High Hopes that was written by the DA that prosecuted the case.
Ronnie has changed his story every time he comes up for parole. During the trial it was the insanity / devil made me do it defense. After that it was the Gambinos whacked my family because Roy DeMeo was getting cheated out of his cut of the chop shop profits. Now it's his sister Dawn killed everyone while he was out and that he had to kill her in self defense when he got home because she tried to kill him too. The whole thing is preposterous.
I would like them to make a serious movie about the events leading up to the DeFeo murders and the subsequent trail. Amityville II sort of did that but it was essentially a hokey demon possession movie at it's core.
Oh yeah, one other fun fact! The setting for Jaws was originally going to be Amityville. Peter Benchley purposely changed the name to Amity so as to distance his novel from the murders that had just happened.
Very strange. I've never experienced something like that myself ever. You'd think it could be some sort of earth tremor, but that can't turn on the radio.
Is it like a presence you can feel? I always imagine with such things that you would probably feel some sort of presence along with things moving. Or does it strictly feel like things flying around, nothing more than that?
I didn't know that, but I always wondered if there was a connection. Basically he could have better changed it entirely, because it's still very clear where Amity comes from.
Margot Kidder was at a convention here, two years ago. I just had to shake her hand. She seems very nice. She had gained quite a bit of weight.
I always see her mainly as Lois Lane, but apart from Amityville she was also in De Palma's Sisters. Even though I love De Palma, Sisters has never become a favourite of mine, because it's almost like the climax is at the start of the movie. Nothing that comes after ever seems to top the shock of that first murder - even though in Psycho the first murder makes the most impact, there are still at least two major shocks later on, but Sisters doesn't really have that.