John G. Jones: Back from the Shadows

Over thirty years ago, John G. Jones met the Lutzes — the family forced to flee their infamous Amityville home and the Horror that terrorized them there – and found himself in the middle of their mystery. His world has never been the same.

Before that life-changing moment, Jones was a rock musician in Australia and later Europe. After the event, he went on to be an internationally successful best-selling author, a music and film producer, and a screenwriter. And since the fatal day he met the Lutzes, he’s had another, far more unusual and perilous career as well: paranormal investigator.

For a number of very good reasons, Jones has stayed out of public view. Now, after years of silence, he has chosen to step out of the shadows – a little, anyway – to begin telling at least some of the truth of the strange and supernatural events he’s experienced since coming face to face with The Amityville Horror.  His latest book The Amityville Journals, Inspired by his ongoing exploits – and giving us a first glimpse of the extraordinary people he’s gathered together as friends, allies, and fellow warriors – is the first volume in a planned series he’s calling The Light Warriors.

But John G. Jones’ extraordinary life began long before he met the Lutz family. In the late 60s and 70s he was a rock star – lead singer with a hugely popular Australian heavy metal band, and a number of other bands that toured both the United Kingdom and the European continent. He initially came to the U.S. to further pursue his musical success, but fate had other plans: he met George and Kathy Lutz at a cocktail party held by mutual friends, and there was an immediate connection. Within months, at the Lutz’ insistence, he was working with them on The Amityville Horror II, the first sequel to the original bestseller, The Amityville Horror. It went on to sell millions of copies, worldwide, bringing John great success, as did his subsequent books: Amityville: The Evil Escapes, Amityville: The Final Chapter and Amityville: The Horror Returns and Amityville Horror Christmas.

During this time Jones became a celebrity in his own right. He was involved in a wide range of successful projects related to the Amityville story and found himself responding – often against his will – to the constant barrage of misinformation and false “debunkings” that the story generated. He served as producer on the movie projects Amityville: The Evil Escapes, Amityville: It’s about time, Amityville: A new generation and Amityville: The Legacy 3D; and he worked behind the scenes to develop a number of other projects.

Throughout this period, while engaged in these projects, John G. Jones reluctantly found himself drawn into a series of uncanny experiences: totally unexpectedly, the original book and all that happened after it had made him a magnet for the supernatural. Families from all over the world, with encounters of their own, came to him for help; the Force that escaped from Amityville returned to confront him directly over and over, and repercussions of the events in Amityville and the growing manifestations of the dark power that was released there continued to affect his life and lives of the people he loved. Along the way, he met and worked with a wide range of extraordinary people, and bore witness to a stunning array of extraordinary events.

The Amityville Journal is the first book in a projected series, inspired by his true experiences, where John himself begins to reveal what has happened to him – and to the world – since the terrifying events in Amityville almost forty years ago. The stories he will tell, and the secrets he will reveal, will startle, amaze, and horrify the world.

To protect himself and his loved ones, John G. Jones stayed out of public view for decades. Even now, he is only half-emerging from the self-imposed shadows. The book itself, in a newly revised form, will be available soon. A recent fictionalized novella, Amityville Horror Christmas, is available now and can be purchased on Amazon here, And he is in serious ongoing discussions with major studios to bring both Amityville Horror Christmas and The Amityville Journals  to theaters and television.

John G. Jones can be contacted here.