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On the night of November 13th, 1974, six members of the DeFeo family were shot dead in their beds at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York. The killer was their own son. Thirteen months later, George and Kathy Lutz moved in with their three children, telling themselves that what happened to the DeFeos had nothing to do with them. They lasted 28 days. What they experienced inside that house — the voices, the visions, the figure in the yard with glowing red eyes, the slow unraveling of a man who went to sleep one person and woke up another — became the most famous haunting account in American history. But not everyone believes them. In this episode of The Breeze Files, we walk through the murders, the 28 days, and the question that has followed this story for fifty years: was it a haunting, a hoax, or something in between?

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Built in 1924 in downtown Los Angeles, the Cecil Hotel was meant to be a beacon of luxury. Instead, it became one of the most tragedy-soaked addresses in American history. Suicides began within years of opening. Serial killers Richard Ramirez and Vaughn Greenwood both called it home while carrying out their crimes across the city. Over the decades, deaths stacked up — unsolved murders, mysterious accidents, and over 80 documented fatalities within its walls.
Then in 2013, 21-year-old Elisa Lam checked in and vanished. Her body was found nineteen days later in a rooftop water tank — a case that gripped the entire internet and still has no satisfying answer.
The Cecil is still standing. The history isn’t going anywhere.

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The Black Monk of Pontefract haunting centers on a family living at 30 East Drive in Pontefract during the 1960s, where unexplained activity quickly turned violent. Objects were thrown, furniture moved on its own, and family members—especially a young girl—reported physical attacks. Witnesses even claimed to see a dark, hooded figure believed to be the spirit of a monk. With police and investigators backing the claims, it remains one of the most intense and well-documented hauntings in the UK.

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