The notorious Amityville Horror house has gone up for sale for £800,000, but would you feel safe there?

Probably one of the most famous horror houses, having featured in the 1979 film The Amityville Horror, this five-bedroom Dutch Colonial property situated in New York has yet again gone on sale.

The incredibly troubled past started in 1974 when six members of the DeFeo family were shot dead as they slept by the eldest son Ronald DeFeo. 23 at the time, he remains in prison serving a life sentence.

After the horrific incident, the house was first put up for sale and was purchased by George And Kathleen Lutz. They along with their three children remained in the house for only 28 days. Moving in on December 23, 1975 a family friend asked that they get the house blessed to overcome it’s history. However when the priest entered a room of the house, a male voice demanded he ‘Get Out!’

The next day the priest telephoned to ask that the family stay out of the room where he heard the voice, but the call cut short by static, he returned only to develop a fever and stigmata-like blisters on his hands.

Over the course of the next 27 days, the family experienced many supernatural terrors, including; swarms of flies; a secret ‘red room’; ghostly embraces; ooze from walls and doors; cloven hoof prints outside; visions of red eyes and a pig-like demon; detailed nightmares of the murders; and bite-marks from a china lion!

Since then the house has been lived in by families who had no such experiences, but given the fraught history and paranormal nature of the house, this is sure to receive many interested bidders… or for the reasons above, none at all.

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