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Mar 15, 2021 · The home — its original address was 112 Ocean Ave. but was changed to 108 to deter tourists — was purchased by George and Kathy Lutz one year after the murders.
- The real story behind the infamous Amityville Horror house - New York Post
Ronald DeFeo Jr. then 23, gunned down his parents and four...
- 'Amityville Horror' home sells for $1.46 million - New York Post
1/27/23. The iconic New Jersey house that served as a...
- The real story behind the infamous Amityville Horror house - New York Post
Nov 21, 2016 · The Amityville Horror, for example, took its plot directly from a series of tragic events that unfolded at a real Long Island, New York home in 1975 to the Lutz family. The family’s stay in the house where Ronald Defeo Jr killed his entire family has since spawned 17 films (with an 18th on the way this January) as well as nine different books.
Oct 26, 2023 · George and Kathy Lutz, the former owners of 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, pose during a press tour for their book circa 1979. Around the same time, the former DeFeo home...
- The Dark History of The Amityville House
- A Chance at A Second Life For The Amityville House
- Third Time’s The Charm?
- The Amityville House Today
The bone-chilling history of the house at 112 Ocean Avenue begins in 1925 in the small, quaint town of Amityville, roughly 30 miles outside New York City. A couple named John and Catherine Moynahan started building their dream home here in 1924, and they lived in the house happily for many years. Then, in 1965, their descendants sold the home to th...
George and Kathy Lutz didn’t really get to enjoy life in their new mansion for long. They followed the advice of a friend and had the house ‘cleansed’ by a priest before moving in, but as it turned out, that didn’t help much. There’s no way of knowing if what the Lutzes claimed actually happened, but one thing is clear: they got out of that house a...
Many previous owners of the Amityville house had to move out over the years, fed up with the attention their home was attracting on a daily basis. TIME Magazine even included the house on their list of the top 10 haunted places in America, which certainly didn’t help anyone forget about all that happened. And yet nobody else ever complained about s...
In the summer of 2016, the Dutch Colonial house was put up for sale once again, after the untimely passing of David D’Antonio. It hit the market with an asking price of $850,000 and eventually sold in February 2017, though well below ask, at $605,000. This also gave us a better look at the many merits of the house — beyond its bone-chilling history...
Published just weeks before the family moved-in, this article by Paul Hoffman would cause people to once again flock to Amityville to gawk at the house with a tragic and horrifying past. Even changing the house's address didn't seem to confuse the curiosity seekers — and when Jay Anson's book The Amityville Horror was released that Fall, the ...
Oct 14, 2020 · The Amityville House officially sold in February 2017 to an undisclosed owner for $605,000, which was $200,000 less than the original asking price. It had been previously owned by four other...
