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While The Amityville Horror films focus on the hauntings and dark spirits that exist in the house,🧲 what caused those paranormal symptoms was the mass murders that Ronald Joseph DeFeo Jr. committed against his family inside the🧲 house on November 13, 1974. At the time, DeFeo Jr. was just 23 years old.
The family's house was🧲 later said to be haunted and served as the inspiration for the Amityville Horror book and movies. On the evening🧲 of November 13, 1974, Ronald Butch DeFeo Jr. entered an Amityville bar and told people his parents had🧲 been shot inside their home.