The Amityville House Of Horror For Sale

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The infamous Amityville House of Horror in New York State has gone up for sale, at a reasonable $1.15 million.

The house at 112 Ocean Avenue was the scene of a grisly mass murder in 1974 and is rumoured to be haunted, the story of the killings and subsequent haunting have spawned many books and movies.

In November 1974 Ronald DeFeo, Jr. shot six members of his family dead as they slept in their beds. Both DeFeo’s parents, two sisters and two brothers were killed using a .35 caliber rifle, all the victims were found lying on their stomachs in bed and not one of them appeared to have been woken by the gunfire as DeFeo walked from room to room killing his relatives. DeFeo was found guilty of all six murders and is incarcerated at the Green Haven Correctional Facility in New York.

In December 1975 George and Kathy Lutz moved into 112 Ocean Avenue along with their three children. The Lutzes spent a total of 28 days at the house before fleeing the property claiming they had been terrorised by paranormal phenomena and forced out. The Lutzes experiences were used as a basis for Jay Anson’s novel The Amityville Horror, which was published in 1977 and made into a film in 1979.

Since the Lutzes fled 112 Ocean Avenue there have been three other owners, who the estate agent is quick to point out have all loved living in the spacious Dutch Colonial house and have never had any kind of paranormal experiences there such as demonic possession or blood bleeding from the walls in any of the five bedrooms or three bathrooms.