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The house from “Amityville Horror” was put up for sale in the USA

Дом из "Ужаса Амитивилля" выставили на продажу в США

On long island in the U.S. state of new York sold the mansion, where, in 1974, were killed six people. Committed home crime formed the basis of the plot of the book “the Amityville Horror: the Real story” and the same movie. The price is 850 thousand dollars, reports the New York Daily News.

Built in 1927, the house has five bedrooms and three bathrooms. The sale of the facility is broker Jerry O’neill. “I know this house,” he told the publication, ” there lived the family of my classmate. We spent a lot of time. It is a beautiful building.”

Mistress of the mansion and settled down there in 2010, I decided to put the property for sale after the death of her husband, and instead of finding housing in a smaller area. She already bought an apartment in another area of long island.

In 1974, 23-year-old Ronald Defeo murdered his parents, two brothers and two sisters living in the house. During the trial the lawyers of a young man trying to prove his insanity, as Defeo stated that to commit the mass murder he ordered coming over to vote. Now the man is in prison. In July 2017 could be decided on his parole.

Written in 1977, the novel “the Amityville Horror” was based on the testimony of the Lutz family, who lived in the house after the Defeo. Less than a month after the settlement of George, Kathy Lutz and their three children abruptly left the mansion. According to them, they are constantly faced with various supernatural phenomena.

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