DeFeo House (108 / former 112 Ocean Avenue)

visual · contested

During the March 1976 Warren/ASPR investigation, an infrared photograph taken on the staircase of 112 Ocean Avenue reportedly captured what was interpreted by the Warrens and their associates as a small, glowing-eyed figure on the stairs — subsequently nicknamed 'the boy ghost.' The image was widely published and scrutinised; sceptical analysts including investigator Joe Nickell (writing in 'The Skeptical Inquirer,' 1997) argued it showed a member of the investigation team. This photograph is one of the most cited photographic paranormal claims in American haunting history and is documented as primary evidence by the Warrens in Brittle's 'The Demonologist' (1980) and discussed in depth in the 2021 'Shock Docs' episode. Presented here as a documented photographic claim made by named investigators, with noted sceptical counter-analysis.

Area: Staircase and upper landing, 112 Ocean Avenue — 'Demonic Face' ASPR photograph, 1976

atmospheric · contested

Father Ralph Pecoraro — a close friend of the Lutz family, fictionalised as 'Father Mancuso' in the 1977 Anson book — reportedly told the Lutzes that during his initial blessing visit to 112 Ocean Avenue in December 1975 he heard a powerful male voice tell him to 'Get out!' from an empty room. He reportedly became physically ill after the visit and subsequently suffered repeated maladies attributed, in his own account as relayed by the Lutzes to Anson, to his spiritual engagement with the house. Pecoraro's experience was central to the original case narrative; in later years — as documented by journalist Ric Osuna in 'The Night the DeFeos Died' (Xlibris, 2002) and by the Syfy investigation programme 'Ghost Hunters' S3E09 ('Amityville Horror House,' aired 2006) — investigators debated whether Pecoraro's account was an independently corroborated paranormal datum or derived from conversations with the Lutzes. The 'Get out!' report is distinctive in that it comes from a named third party with no financial stake in the case at the time.

Area: St. Francis of Assisi Church, Amityville, New York — priest's reported experience of paranormal disturbance, 1976

auditory · unverified

The Discovery+ programme 'Shock Docs: The Amityville Horror House,' released in October 2021 and hosted by Steve Shippy, featured an investigation of the property at what is now renumbered 108 Ocean Avenue. Steve Shippy, accompanied by psychic medium Cindy Kaza, reported receiving an anomalous auditory response via a spirit-box device that was interpreted as naming one of the DeFeo victims. Kaza stated she perceived the energy of a commanding, oppressive male presence that she felt was not the DeFeo family members but rather what she described as a darker, attached entity. The episode also revisits the Warren investigation material and interviews locals about lingering neighbourhood unease. Presented here as reported investigator claims in a named, dated television programme.

Area: 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville — Shock Docs 'The Amityville Horror House' (2021), investigation by Steve Shippy

Ocean Avenue area, Amityville (private occupied home — area-level only; renumbered to deter visitors; owners request privacy)

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