'Amityville Horror' house for sale

[Brian Damage]

AMITYVILLE, N.Y., May 25 (UPI) -- The New York state house that inspired "The Amityville Horror" is back on the market for an asking price of $1.15 million.

The home, where Ronald DeFeo Jr. killed six family members in 1974 and was supposedly haunted when George and Kathleen Lutz lived there for 28 days, was listed Monday in Amityville by Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty, Newsday reported Tuesday.

The events at the home inspired Jay Anson's 1977 book, "The Amityville Horror: A True Story," which in turn became the basis for several film adaptations.

"It's one of the more beautifully redone houses in the neighborhood," listing agent Laura Zambratto said.

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/05/...2961274821997/

[catlover79]

I think I'll pass, thank you.

[Retro4Life]

Originally Posted by catlover79

I think I'll pass, thank you.

Yes, me too.

I read the book back in the 70's and there are images from it that still scare me today. I know that many say the Lutzes made up everything in order to make money, but George Lutz maintained to his grave that at least most of the story was true.

Plus who leaves a house in the middle of the night after only living there 28 days? And at a great price, no less?? Something was going on in that house!

[catlover79]

Who was the realtor, anyway?? Did they even get a commission??

[JamesG]

Originally Posted by catlover79

Who was the realtor, anyway?? Did they even get a commission??

Here's the realtor site:
http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...701_1119028614

[catlover79]

Originally Posted by JamesG

Here's the realtor site:
http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...701_1119028614

No, I meant in the movie itself.

[JamesG]

Originally Posted by catlover79

No, I meant in the movie itself.

In real life, the Lutz family found the house from "an ad in the paper".

It was a year after the mass murder and they bought the house for the beautiful location and the really low price.

Mr. Lutz mentioned the reason he bought the house was that he needed a place for his family and they've already tried looking at dozens of houses and couldn't find anything suitable.

[LuLu Rogers]

Unfortunately, the house has been remodeled. The famous "eye shaped" windows have been replaced, so it doesn't have that creepy look to it anymore.

Then:




Now:

[catlover79]

Originally Posted by JamesG

In real life, the Lutz family found the house from "an ad in the paper".

It was a year after the mass murder and they bought the house for the beautiful location and the really low price.

Mr. Lutz mentioned the reason he bought the house was that he needed a place for his family and they've already tried looking at dozens of houses and couldn't find anything suitable.

Ahhhh, I see. Thanks.

[comedyfreak]

I read that it was a hoax Lutz was deeply in debt and made it up, a family was murdered there but no hauntings took place. He wanted to cash in on the legend.

[Torgo]

Originally Posted by comedyfreak

I read that it was a hoax Lutz was deeply in debt and made it up, a family was murdered there but no hauntings took place. He wanted to cash in on the legend.

Same here. Plus the story about the hoax popped up on one of those TV documentaries about haunted locations.

[Torgo]

Originally Posted by LuLu Rogers

Unfortunately, the house has been remodeled. The famous "eye shaped" windows have been replaced, so it doesn't have that creepy look to it anymore.

Then:




Now:

That's like putting whitewalls on Christine.

[JamesG]

Does the Amityville House Have a New Tenant?
by Joseph McCabe
May 28, 2010


If you've ever wanted to see the inside of the famous house that inspired The Amityville Horror, you could soon get that chance.

The house went on the market recently, and one group has already stepped forward and expressed an interest in leasing it.



Newsday is reporting that PETA wants to stage an exhibition about "the real-life horrors inflicted on animals at factory farms and slaughterhouses," titled "The Amityville Slaughterhouse of Horrors."


The vice president of the animal rights group, Tracy Reiman, has told the owner that "Not only would hosting PETA's exhibit attract more potential buyers to the house, it would also let visitors know that every vegan saves more than 100 animals a year."



"The show," Newsday says, "would feature instruments used in raising and killing animals for meat, milk and eggs, including wire battery cages, branding irons and electrified prods. Attendees would have the chance to be put inside a metal-and-concrete pig gestation crate..."

But the part that freaks out even a seasoned horror fan like myself is this: "Each child would be given a 'crazed and knife-wielding Ronald McDonald doll.'" Yikes!

http://www.fearnet.com/news/b19218_d...ew_tenant.html

[catlover79]

^ I just heard that on the news.

[mystery_daisy]

They should demolish that house already.
The Sylivia Likens murder home was finally demolished.