Editing Amityville, New York (section)

===''The Amityville Horror''===
[[Image:Amityville house.JPG|thumb|left|The Amityville Horror House in December 2005. The house's signature quarter moon windows on the top floor were replaced in 1990.|217x217px]]
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Amityville is the setting of the book ''[[The Amityville Horror]]'' by [[Jay Anson]], which was published in 1977 and has been adapted into a series of films starting in 1979. The story of ''The Amityville Horror'' can be traced back to a real life murder case in Amityville in November 1974, when [[Ronald DeFeo Jr.]] shot all six members of his family at 112 Ocean Avenue. In December 1975 George and Kathy Lutz and Kathy's three children moved into the house, but left after twenty-eight days, claiming to have been terrorized by [[paranormal]] phenomena produced by the house. Jay Anson's novel is said to be based on these events but has been the subject of much controversy; the murder case actually happened, but there has been no evidence that the house is or was haunted.

The local residents and authorities in Amityville are unhappy with the attention that ''The Amityville Horror'' brings to the town, and tend to decline requests to discuss it publicly.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amityvillerecord.com/news/2000/1026/Front_Page/11.html |title=Why Hollywood's version of DeFeo murders isn't Amityville's |publisher=Amityvillerecord.com |access-date=June 3, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Mayhew |first=Malcolm |url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050508/news_1h08amityvlm.html |title=The reel horror |work=The San Diego Union-Tribune |date=May 8, 2005 |access-date=June 3, 2011}}</ref> The website of the Amityville Historical Society makes no mention of the murders in 1974 or the period that the Lutz family lived at the house. When the [[History (U.S. TV channel)|History Channel]] made its documentary about ''The Amityville Horror'' in 2000, no member of the Historical Society would discuss the matter on camera.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amityvillehistoricalsociety.org/Hist.Chronological.htm |title=The Chronological History of Amityville |publisher=Amityvillehistoricalsociety.org |access-date=June 3, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725195856/http://www.amityvillehistoricalsociety.org/Hist.Chronological.htm |archive-date=July 25, 2011  }}</ref>

The house featured in the novel still exists but has been renovated and the address changed in order to discourage tourists from visiting it. The [[Dutch Colonial Revival architecture]] house built in 1927 was put on the market in May 2010 for $1.15 million and sold in September for $950,000 (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|.95|2010|r=1|fmt=c}} million in {{Inflation/year|US}}).<ref>{{cite web|first=Valerie|last=Kellogg |url=http://www.newsday.com/classifieds/real-estate/real-li-1.812034/amityville-horror-home-becomes-a-dream-house-1.2318995 |title='Amityville Horror' home becomes a 'dream house' |work=Newsday |date=September 27, 2010 |access-date=August 15, 2014}}</ref>