“I’ve been portrayed in two movies, and I’ve been portrayed in a book. I think it’s time to tell you what really happened.”

The words from Christopher Lutz, as he explains to FOX news about his childhood. Christopher grew up in what many people refer to as “the most haunted house in America.” After years of speculation and claims of hoaxes and big-time Hollywood studios dipping their hands in the mix, Christopher is out to set the facts straight. The most haunted house in America, might not be as haunted as many make it out to be. After several books and films were made about the Amityville incident, the house quickly became known as “the most commercialized haunted house in America.”

Christopher speaks out about the fabrication in the book and popular film. Yes, strange things occurred in that Amityville house. Things like Christopher’s father, George, dabbling in the occult and reciting the names of demons. Christopher claims that most of the events that the house is known for is all made up. Ghostly apparitions were reported by the family members, but as far as the apparition of a demon that took form of a giant pig goes, I think we can thank the writers for that.

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PHOENIX – A valley man spent decades trying to escape the ghosts of his past. He lived in one of America’s most famous haunted houses — in Amityville, New York.

Now, the man who lived in the real home from “The Amityville Horror” is separating fact from fiction.

Christopher Lutz changed his last name years ago to escape his past.

To this day — he’s haunted by chilling events that broke out in his home in 1975. And he’s just as haunted by the way Hollywood is spinning the story out of control.

“What the public was sold is not what happened. What really happened in that house is quite different from what people have been told all these years,” Lutz said.

“I’ve been portrayed in two movies, and I’ve been portrayed in a book. I think it’s time to tell you what really happened.”

Lutz said the book — billed as a true story — exaggerated the facts. By the time Hollywood had the story, it became pure fabrication.

“This is something that happened to me as a kid that I’d rather forgotten about. Unfortunately, the way this was made public, I haven’t had the opportunity to leave it behind me,” Lutz said.

Lutz said the haunting was genuine, but it was nothing like the Hollywood version.

He said unexplained phenomena in the house terrified him.

“An apparition manifested just outside my bedroom door. It scared the crap out of me as a little kid,” Lutz said.

Some blame the haunting on a mass murder in that home before his family moved there.

But Lutz said his stepfather, George Lutz, was dabbling in the occult — reciting the names of demons after the family moved into the home.

“Had he done that in any other house — that wouldn’t have been an issue. But to do it in that house, to me, is what triggered events there,” Lutz said.

Now a religious man, Lutz is debunking the myth and says he’s giving the facts.

“There’s a lot of people that deal with the paranormal in their own homes.I believe this maybe answers for them as they search to find out what’s on the other side,” Lutz said.

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