My article...For 28 days, the Lutze family from the town Amityville in America were terrorized in their own home by paranormal beings with evil in mind...

Well, that is what I was brought up to believe. But how far did my heart sink when after years of telling everyone who would listen that the dreadful story was true, I found that I seemingly had to eat my words after all. Of course I didn't tell everyone else that, I sort of just let the topic drop.

I obviously am a huge horror fan, from films to books and to doing my own amateur ghost investigations, with a few heart stopping results I might proudly add!! When I was about 15, joy of joy I fell on the good fortune to find the Amityville Story book at a car boot sale. An object I had desired for a long time after watching the films at an early age. So when even later in life I read a damning article, actually on the internet about the story being fiction and not real I was naturally very interested.

I must say that the whole affair really has done a huge disservice to the whole array of Paranormal investigations going on all over the world. How are we as believers to convince non-believers, if hoaxers are constantly ruining the attempts of experts.

Of course the story, if people don't know, is that before the Lutze family moved into their dream house, another family, the Defao's, came to an untimely end, namely the end of a shot gun. The trigger was pulled by the eldest son of the family and when he subsequently went to trial he claimed his body had been taken over by evil spirits who were roaming the house. He was possessed, no less.

In fact it is more true to say that when the Lutze family hit on financial difficulty, (their business was not doing well, the mortgage on the house was too big for them and the boiler broke down in their first week there) it was suggested to them to cash in on the terrible history of the house whilst drawing on typical fantasy haunting, which we could all make up.

Even though I know now that the story really is fiction, I can watch the second Amityville film, (about the Defao family) time and time again and it still scares the hell out of me. What is it? The windows in the shape of eyes? The music which is provided by children? (That always gets me going!!) The whole house is a potential nightmare for any sane human being - I mean a cellar with a secret room that were not on the original blue prints of the house!! -Aaagghh!!

I think however that after discovering that I like millions of others (I hope) had been taken in by the lies of the Lutzes, I watched the film again and discovered that one of the shots shows the name of the house as 'High Hopes' I'm sure I should have known then that a house with such a happy and endearing name could never be filled with the evil spirits of dead (ugly - I should add) Indians. But wouldn't it be exciting if it did?

So even though I have been told time and time again that I'm wrong I can't help but think - What if something did happen in that house? What if things like that do really happen to people?

With no real evidence from the Amityville case I suppose it should be time for me to turn my attention to something with more substance than something with no proof, and so forth I will head down to my local video store where I'm sure there was a horror film which said true life story, oh wait, so did The Amityville House Horror....