Where Is The ‘Amityville Horror’ House? Ronald Defeo Jr Killed Family At This Property

It is a legendary property after real crimes and alleged other events that happened there inspired a horror franchise, but some have wondered if the “Amityville Horror” house was a real place. As it turns out, the home where Ronald Defeo Jr. murdered his parents and siblings is very real—and even houses a new family today.

Defeo, Jr., who died at 69 at Albany Medical Center in New York on March 12, had been serving a sentence of 25 years to life for the Nov. 13, 1974 deaths of his parents and four siblings, who he was convicted of shooting and killing as they slept. According to People, he later tried to use an insanity defense and claim voices in the house encouraged him to commit the crimes at the home, located at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York and was also later retried when he claimed his sister had actually committed the crimes and he stopped her.

Adding to the legacy, one year later, George and Kathy Lutz moved into the house and only lasted 28 days there, after claiming paranormal activity occurred in the home. Their story inspired both the novel “The Amityville Horror: A True Story” and two horror films.

Since then, the home has gone on the market a few different times—now with an address of 108 Ocean Avenue, which the New York Post reports was changed to deter tourists—though no one else has reported stranger happenings, which has led to the legends about the home since being dubbed as “The Amityville Hoax.”

According to Zillow, the five-bedroom, four-bathroom 3,600 square foot home is currently off the market, after being purchased in 2017. The current estimate for the property is $854,598.

Records show the house being sold in June of 1997 for $310,000, before going for sale again in June 2010, where the price had gone up to $1,150,000. The listing for the house was removed a few months later before it was decreed as sold in October of that year for a purchase price of $950,000.

The most recent listing, in June 2016, saw it listed for $850,000, with the listing being removed in November of that year. It then sold in March 2017 for the price of $650,000.