by Marlon Wallace, The M Report
When I spoke with filmmaker Eric Walter by phone on April 26, I believe I compared him to Fox Mulder, Fox Mulder being a fictional TV character who studied cases that had paranormal connections. Eric Walter doesn’t have X-Files, but he does have Amityville Files, or rather AmityvilleFiles.com, an Internet site Walter created, which has become the largest web-based archive of Amityville-related research.
His Amityville-related research isn’t just general research on the New York village located on eastern Long Island. The research is specific to the murder case that occurred there back in 1974 at 112 Ocean Ave. It was then and there that Ronald DeFeo, Jr. shot and killed six of his family members: his mother, father, two sisters and two brothers.
This would be horrible enough, but about a year after those murders, another family, the Lutz family, moved into that same house and according to them experienced very scary, unexplained and paranormal incidents, lasting 28 days. The scary stuff got so intense that on that 28th day the Lutz family were forced to flee from the house, abandoning all their possessions. This ultimately became the basis for a book and a subsequent movie called The Amityville Horror.
