Patrick Doyle gives us another good video on hoaxes, as well as some more sound food for thought. Enjoy!

I am surprised at the number of people who still hold to this story as being true, and that the events depicted in the book actually happened.  What really surprises me about this is that with all the information out there on the internet that shows the majority of events had not or could not have taken place, people still hold fast to the fiction portion of the story.  Without too much trouble, I was able to find all sorts of information that shot holes in the story, for instance:
  The cloven footprints in the snow could have never happened because there was no snow, according to weather records from that time period.

  None of the windows and doors were ever blown out or damaged as described.  That would have left evidence behind, but when examined by several people, all report the original hardware and finishes were intact.

  The Lutz’s claim to have called the police several times during their 28 day siege, but there are no records that the Lutz’s called, and there are no reports of any police officers being dispatched to that residence during that time period.

There is a lot of evidence to show that the Warren’s and Lutz’s lied.  Even testimony from Mr. Lutz that events in the book or movie ever happened.  In fact, there’s more evidence to show that the story is fabricated then there is to show that anything ever happened.  And to this day the current homeowner’s report that nothing happens.  Yet people will say that there’s something going on there.  In fact there are people that will do nothing but try to discredit others who have investigated, but will never answer the questions about the fact there was no snow, no records to support the police calling, and never address the issue where Lutz admitted that much was fiction and not fact.

I’ve even seen some people post on message boards that they’ve read the reports from the church that investigated the place, and that those records were only made available to them because of a class project.  I found it very odd that when I questioned them about getting a hold of the church because I was a student and thought that it would make an interesting subject for a Critical Thought class, they disappeared from the message board and haven’t been back yet.  This was a bad example for them if they were trying to lay any credence to what they were saying, and looks very much like cut and run because they were about to be exposed as a liar.

One thing my encounter does tend to show is that there is such an overwhelming desire for something as outlandish as the Amityville Horror to be true that people will say just about anything to try and win the debate, even if that means telling lies. What they seem to fail to realize is that they are doing the paranormal community a huge disservice and only make the paranormal as a whole appear to be nothing more than a complete sham.