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While son Christopher Quaratino claimed to the Seattle Times that although the book was not a hoax, it was extremely amplified. However, Daniel Lutz appeared in the 2013 documentary My Amityville Horror and remained adamant that the hauntings happened. Their children have tended to shy away from the horror spotlight, specifically daughter Missy. Kathy died of emphysema in 2004 and George died of heart disease in 2006. Kathy and George divorced in 1980, and both have since passed away. Photo by Paul Hawthorne/Getty Images Where are the Lutz family now? George Lutz remained adamant in his story of what happened, but admitted that some features of the story, including the famous green slime, were added as embellishments. While the very priest depicted in the book r eportedly claimed he didnвЂ™t experience any of the paranormal effects the book said he did. The later owners of the house have previously attempted to debunk the story, claiming some of it didnвЂ™t add up to what they found when they moved in. George and Kathy Lutz were met with their fair-share of disbelievers, and those who labelled it all a commercial hoax. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images Claims of a hoaxДЄs with most paranormal claims, there exists believers and non-believers. Years on, the LutzвЂ™ worked with author Jay Anson to create The Amityville Horror, using 45 hours of tape recordings from the couple. The alleged happenings only got stranger-they claim to have found strange gelatinous drops on the carpet, Kathy Lutz allegedly transformed into an old woman, and George even claims to have seen her levitating.Д®ventually, the family fled, leaving behind all their belongings still in the house.

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The front door would slam shut in the middle of the nightвЂ¦I couldnвЂ™t get warm in the house for many days,вЂќ said George to ABC News. He's a perpetrator and an instigator.вЂњThere wereвЂ¦odors in the house that came and went. 'Fingers should be pointed at what he had done. 'He points his finger at the house and says there's something evil there,' he said. Quaratino said he wants to set the record straight from Lutz's version.

Some of the alleged incidents detailed in 'The Amityville Horror' book - such as unseen forces ripping the front door from its hinges - never occurred, Quaratino said.Д«ut he insists he did have run-ins with the paranormal, including the time he saw a presence 'as definite as a shadow' in the shape of a man that moved toward him and then dissipated. 'I don't know that I'd call it black magic, but it was. His sister, Melissa, could not be located.ДЄccording to Quaratino, when the family moved into the house in 1975, George Lutz was 'extremely curious of everything paranormal' and tried to summon supernatural beings by chanting. Quaratino's brother, Daniel Lutz, did not return a call seeking comment. He and Kathy Lutz, who died last year, divorced in 1988. Lutz, 58, who lives in Las Vegas, did not return calls seeking comment. The case is open a counterclaim filed by Quaratino was dismissed in January.

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Lutz sued his former stepson in Nevada district court in 2003 over what Quaratino said are allegations of trademark infringement and fraud relating to a future Amityville movie planned by Lutz. 'I just feel as though we're being exploited.'

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'He's a professional showman, in my opinion,' Quaratino said of Lutz, whom he said he clashed with many times before leaving home at 16.

But he insists his stepfather at the time, George Lutz, brought the troubles on himself by dabbling in the occult and then amplified what paranormal incidents did occur to profit off books and movies about the house. Now 37 and living in Scottsdale, Ariz., Quaratino maintains the haunting was not a hoax. Quaratino was 7 when his mother, Kathy Lutz, and her new husband moved the family into the Amityville, N.Y., house where Ronald DeFeo had killed six family members with a rifle the previous fall. 'And not one of them' - not the book, not the movie, nor a remake released last month - 'is accurate.' 'So far there's been three representations of what happened in that house,' Quaratino said. As a child living in the house made famous by 'The Amityville Horror,' he saw a menacing, shadowy figure approach him, and he remembers the night his bedroom window kept banging open and shut.Д«ut forget the green slime dripping from the walls: Many of the events in 'The Amityville Horror' books and movies were exaggerated to the point of fiction, said Christopher Quaratino, the only one of three children who lived in the allegedly haunted house to speak publicly about it.

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