A beautiful 1927 colonial-style waterfront home with 5 bedrooms, 3 and a half baths, and a ton of history behind it in Long Island can be yours for as little as $1,150,000. The home has had many owners, some more notorious than others.
Link to story. Link to listing. -via YesButNoButYes
The home gained its notoriety when Ronald DeFeos killed six family members while they were sleeping in 1974 and subsequent owners George and Kathleen Lutz claimed to be haunted for 28 days, which were detailed in the book "The Amityville Horror" (on the cover: "This book will scare the hell out of you"—Kansas City Star). However, James Cromarty, who lived in the house after the Lutzes were foreclosed upon, "Nothing weird ever happened, except for people coming by because of the book and the movie."
Link to story. Link to listing. -via YesButNoButYes
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This is the iconic facade now. http://www.hauntedamericatours.com/ghosthunting/hauntedcities/Amityville%20HOUSE.jpg
May 25th, 2010 at 9:49 am
It's beautiful! I'd love to own it. She did a great job on the pictures, making sure not to show that iconic facade, unless maybe it's been remodeled so that no longer exists?
Miss Cellania
May 25th, 2010 at 9:59 am
It's been remodeled extensively. I may be wrong, but I think the extension we see to the left in the picture here is in front of the old facade. I know the first thing they did to change it was reshape those windows
The iconic facade does actually still exist, same windows and all, and is visible when you drive down the street past the house. The "front" of the house actually faces the side when you drive past it, so the iconic facade is still in tact. There are some shots of the back of the house facing the water in the listing but that side is a little different than the front... Beautiful house, but no matter what you believe 6 people were still murdered there, so I say no thank you!
BTW- The house was sold to Brian (the current owner) in 1997 for around $300k. That was also 13 years ago.