We spend a significant amount of our lives inside some sort of dwelling.

Maybe it's that bedroom in the home you're growing up in, or your apartment, or the

house you and your spouse bought last year.

People have a place to stay, and they call that place their home.

A lot can happen in a home.

Some of it can be wonderful, but I'm fully aware that for many, home can also be the

epicenter for tragedy and pain.

It's a tricky location, where we have the potential to feel comfortable and safe, and

yet none of that is guaranteed.

In December of 1975, the Lutz family purchased a home on Long Island, and learned right

away that home isn't always the safe haven we imagined it to be.

In fact, events in the house became so dark and unbearable that the family packed up

and left just four weeks later.

The reason?

They claimed to have been assaulted by unexplainable forces almost from the moment they moved

in.

Disembodied voices, moving objects, even physical violence, all from an unknown, unseen source.

It was enough to drive them away for good.

It turns out their idyllic suburban home had been the setting for a grisly scene just one

year before.

Six members of the Defeo family, murdered while they slept.

Like any of us, they assumed they were safe inside their home, but the brutal reality

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