"Amityville Horror" Homeowner Dies

[DAME]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 11:15am

Has anyone been by the real house? I did when I lived in NY. Creepy. I don't rember what neighborhood of Long Island it was in. Anyone?

Amytiville

Updated On: 5/11/06 at 11:15 AM

[DAME]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 11:17am

But isn't it in a enclosed neighberhood? I always used to get this house and Billy Joels "Glass House" confused.

Updated On: 5/11/06 at 11:17 AM

[Dollypop]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 11:21am

I've been there. The people on that street are really fed up with gawkers who come to find the original house.

The whole story was a hoax, you know.

[DAME]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 11:22am

So they say. I don't care. I loved the book. I scared the **** out of me when I read it. ( I was 14).

[Dollypop]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 11:27am

NEWSDAY did an expose on the story and photographed key locations in the house. The mysterious red room under the staircase was really a liquor cabinet and a door that had to open out into a hallway (for plot purposes) actually opened into a room. Threre were plenty of other inaccuracies in the book too.

I, too, devoured the book. Now I'm too much of a cynic to enjoy a thing like that.

[blueroses]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 11:27am

It's on Ocean Avenue in Amityville. I've driven by a few times. Its still scawwwy!

[DAME]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 11:28am

Dollypop,
Were the inconsitencies mentioned in the article with the book? Or the movie?

[broadway86]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 12:04pm

I go to school about 20 mintues away from the house. After my friends and I saw House of Wax, we called my sister-in-law for directions. We didn't bother the current owners, but we all really wanted to check it out. It's still pretty creepy.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 12:08pm

The inconsistencies were in the book. As I don't go to movies, I don't know how faithful the film was to its source material.

[Magdalene]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 12:32pm

I went by the house once, 25+ years ago---it really creeped me out!

[DAME]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 12:53pm

I had the same impression. Anybody have a link with picturees of the house?

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 12:54pm

The movie house Updated On: 5/11/06 at 12:54 PM

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 12:56pm

The real house

PS The real house did have eye windows when the DeFeo's lived there. Later owners changed them.

Updated On: 5/11/06 at 12:56 PM

[DAME]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 12:58pm

That creeped me out! But that house looks like it had a makeover. You sure thats the right house?

Updated On: 5/11/06 at 12:58 PM

[broadway86]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 1:17pm

That's the one, DAME. It's one of the only houses I've ever seen that has its side to the street.

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 1:48pm

I read that book (as a teenager) in one sitting! It totally freaked me out.

But I took it as a work of fiction, based on a few facts, even then.

Still... I rarely (if ever) can read books in one sitting.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 1:49pm

I read both Amityville and The Shining in one sitting.

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 1:54pm

Not back to back, I'm assuming...

...unless you had a chamber pot with you!

...And WAIT, the Shining is pretty damn long! Are you an Evelyn Wood graduate?

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 1:56pm

Actually, I am B12B, but The Shining still took me all night.
Updated On: 5/11/06 at 01:56 PM

[RobbO]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 1:59pm

this will make it all better.

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 2:16pm

DANG.

*wipes brow*

I didn't realize the remake was such a porno.

Updated On: 5/11/06 at 02:16 PM

[RobbO]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 3:15pm

it begins.

[jsrocks]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 4:18pm

I would be too freaked out to live in the same house the DeFeo's did!! AAAHHHHHHHH!!!

Thanks for the picture of Ryan b/c that did make it a lot better.

[DAME]

Posted: 5/11/06 at 4:21pm

I thought it began at 420?