George and Kathy Lutz… and their bookshelf. No touch! |
I’m writing about the Amityville Horror– a ‘demonic haunting’ attached to the DeFeo’s old house– because The Smithsonian Institution made a documentary on it. The Smithsonian Institute is a quasi-governmental organization that runs a museum just south of the Capitol building in Washington D.C. They partner with the US government in a number of ways, one of which is ‘educating the public‘ about science, history… and now the paranormal.
The Smithsonian’s documentary, The Real Story: The Amityville Horror, struck me as odd because the topic is very down-market. A 1970s ghost-hoax draws the attention of one of the nation’s premiere philanthropic institutions? Weird.
Well, ‘weird’ is what I thought, right up to the very end of the show, when the narrator said the following:
“Whatever did happen, the Amityville horror struck at the core of the American dream and the sanctity of family life.” (more...)
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