George Lee Lutz, whose brief stay in an Amityville, Long Island, N.Y., home spawned one of the most famous haunted house stories ever, died May 8 2006 of natural causes. He was 59 years old. Mr. Lutz, a former land surveyor, became famous after moving his new bride and three children into a three-story Dutch colonial on Long Island in 1975. About a year earlier, six members of the DeFeo family had been fatally shot in the home. Ronald DeFeo Jr., the eldest son, was convicted of the murders. The Lutz family lived in the home for 28 days before being driven out -- by the spirits in the Colonial house, according to Mr. Lutz's account. The family's eerie stay became the source for Jay Anson's 1977 popular book, "The Amityville Horror," The book spawned a 1979 film of the same title and a 2005 movie remake. Both the book and movies chronicled the horrors the Lutz family went through, including visions of walls oozing slime, moving furniture, a visit from a demonic pig named Jodie, an invisible band playing music and spontaneous levitation. The franchise made a cult figure of Mr. Lutz, who some claimed bore a creepy resemblance to Ronald DeFeo.