Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries.

Today we're going to jump into part two of an examination of the real Amityville horror,

which not only includes the murders of the Defeo family in November 1974,

but the subsequent claims of the

claims of the Lutz family that the house was actually haunted.

Of course, they were the people who moved into the infamous home after the murders

and claimed they were terrorized by mysterious unseen forces.

To the extent they finally fled the safety on January 14, 1976.

So if you've seen the original movie, that's essentially based upon the experiences of the Lutz family by way of the novel of the same name.

But its sequel is based upon what happened at the Defeos residence the night they were slaughtered by their son.

So the movies and the events in reality are actually reversed in sequence.

But if we're going to analyze the formation of the ghost panic that's going to arise in the

aftermath of this crime at the Teffayios, then we need to establish its origin.

Of course, in part one we talked about the oddity of Ronald Jr. being able to pull the trigger

on all of his victims indoors without waking anybody.

It seems impossible.

So that notion of impossibility, intertwined with our understanding of reality in the laws of physics,

renders a conflict that can't be reconciled,

this time in the form of nobody being able to hear all of the shots from a rifle.

Not the victims, not the neighbors, nobody. But why? That's something we truly can't answer. And when humans are left without resources to answer their questions,

history shows they will often look to the sky. And immediately that which

can't be comprehended, the science behind the murders is then easily categorized as a paranormal happening.

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