Would YOU live in the 'haunted' Amityville Horror house?

The Lengthy Island, New York, residence that served because the inspiration for the guide The Amityville Horror and the next movies of the identical identify is being purchased. 

The notorious 1927 Dutch Colonial on Amityville's Ocean Avenue went into contract this week, Newsday experiences. 

The property's itemizing agent declined to debate the phrases of the sale. 

The house got here available on the market in June for $850,000.

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Police and members of the Suffolk County Coroner's Workplace examine the homicide of six individuals discovered shot in Amityville in November 1974.  The house which impressed the guide The Amityville Horror has discovered a purchaser

The notorious 1927 Dutch Colonial on Amityville's Ocean Avenue went into contract this week 

The property's itemizing agent declined to debate the phrases of the sale. The house got here available on the market in June for $850,000

The 5,000-square-foot residence sits on a quarter-acre lot alongside the Amityville River. 

It boasts 5 bedrooms, three-and-a-half bogs, a boathouse and a slip.

The house has been restored and up to date whereas retaining interval particulars similar to leaded glass and oak flooring.

Caroline D'Antonio purchased the residence in 2010 for $950,000 and was promoting it as a result of her husband died in 2015 and she or he wished to downsize, the New York Day by day Information reported in June.

Earlier than gaining fame with the discharge of the unique film in 1979, the home was the place 23-year-old Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his dad and mom and 4 youthful siblings in 1974. 

Ronald DeFeo, on proper, is pictured together with his siblings in an undated household photograph

Ronald DeFeo Jr. is pictured on this Suffolk County Police Division mugshot 

DeFeo is serving 25 years to life at Sullivan Correctional Facility, on-line information present. A parole listening to is scheduled for July 2017. 

The Lutz household moved into the home after the murders. 

They claimed they skilled paranormal exercise in the home - mysterious occasions that included odors, inexplicable sounds, and a chilling chilly. 

Their spooky tales impressed the 1977 guide The Amityville Horror, which grew to become a movie in 1979.

George and Kathy Lutz, former homeowners of the house, are seen on this 1979 picture 

The Lutz household's spooky tales impressed the 1977 guide The Amityville Horror

The guide was later tailored into the 1979 horror movie starring James Brolin and Margot Kidder (pictured)

 

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