This page is designed to help answer many of the email questions I receive each day in regards to
The Amityville Horror.  All questions on this F.A.Q are answered by George Lutz himself.

	"Is the house still standing today?  Does anybody live there... can I visit it?" The house does still stand on the same property, and is currently occupied by tenants who value their privacy intensely.  Mr. Lutz and this website do NOT condone visits to the house or property, and ask everyone to please respect the privacy of the current owners.  The Amityville Police Department also patrols the neighborhood, and discourages visitors to the quiet community. "I heard that The Amityville Horror was a Hoax!" Yeah.... I heard that too. "Please explain the significance of the flies in the movie." They were an "adaptation" in the screenplay from the original book... the amount or numbers of flies you saw in the movie were far in excess of what we experienced in the house... to say the movie was an exaggeration is being kind. In the house, when we were there... the flies were almost always present in the second floor rear bedroom... we would kill them all and they would yet return and be there the next day or the next time we were in the room.  This was a room we had set up as a sewing room for Kathy... I should add this was December / January. There has been some talk about this "Red Room" in the house located in the basement.  They say that it is not located in the blueprints of the house?  Why is it there?  What was or is it?  What was or is it used for?  I've done some research, but have not come up with the answer.  It seems no one has told the truth about it.  Can anyone ask the former owners of the house?  It just sounds a little creepy to me.   The "red room" as it referred to, was found under the staircase alcove in the basement. The area was found to be painted red and very small. There were times when strong foul odors would came from the space without any apparent source. There were no pipe accesses to be found in the room or immediately adjacent to it......... that betrayed this odors' source. Rotten eggs was one description of the smell. We did locate a plot plan that showed the existence of previous drywells and septic areas that had long been covered over. These would have had to have been when the pool was installed in the back yard, years earlier. There were no pipes found in the basement that connected to these, or went through the walls heading in those directions or also had any odor sources that we could find. The "room" did not show up on the construction blueprints and the as-built drawings so it is believed to probably have been built after the current structure was finished. Its purpose is unknown and its usage is speculation at best. There is one psychic that visited the house that had impressions about the room but these are impressions formed after her visit to the house and were not part of her physical visit to the basement. (She had looked down the stairs and "knew" she did not want or need to go further.......this is from an interview I did with her last year regarding her memories of her part of the investigation done 25 years ago.) The movie "The Amityville Horror" has a "pit from hell sequence" that takes place in this area and is the movies own creation. That sequence bears no relationship to anything we knew or experienced about this house. Ed warren experienced sensations just outside the "room" on his first visit to the house in early 1976. The sensations were described as incapacitating and being in the presence of a very strong "force" or "power." He felt strongly enough about there being a connection to this experience, that he then organized a full day and night investigation with a team that returned with him on March 6, 1976. Our black lab, Harry refused to go near the room. He came down to the basement rather unwillingly and had to be coaxed with his leash on. He was a lively, inquisitive dog that tried hard to please and trusted everyone until he grew older, yet that day....nighttime as I remember it,....he pulled away as we got closer to the opening. I had never seen him react this way before, and I do not recall that he ever appeared frightened anywhere else in the basement or on the property in the same way........or for that fact......for any of the years we had him later.....in both California and Arizona. Additional information from one of the producers of the History Channel Documentary: In 1999, during my research trip to Amityville, I met a woman named Nancy who worked at the town hall. She told me that her brother, George, built the "red room" in the basement of 112 Ocean Avenue for Mrs. Riley as a "plant room". The Riley's owned the house between the years of 1960 - 1965, before selling it to the DeFeos. Nancy had given us contact information for her brother, but due to the limited amount of time on our trip, we never did get the opportunity to get in touch with him for an interview. When we called him, we got his answering machine. Coincidentally, his wife's name is Kathy. Nancy was a very attractive, friendly and informative person. She was the only person at the town hall whom had remained friendly and informative, after they all found out who we were, and what we were doing there. During the course of obtaining copies of past deeds to the house, she offered the information about the "red room", and her brother's phone number, without even having to be asked. When we returned to Amityville the following year to shoot the documentary, she was no longer an employee at the town hall.   The Amityville Horror Truth Forum          The Amityville Horror Truth Website      © 2004 www.amityvillehorror.com all rights reserved. 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