‘Amityville Horror’ 50 years later

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...a look at the ‘most haunted house in the world’ decades after grisly killings

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At first glance, the cute, three-story home with the black shutters and wrought-iron fence looks like an American Dream.

Then you realize: it’s that house.

The five-bed, four-bath Dutch Colonial on Ocean Avenue in Amityville was the site of one of New York’s most infamous mass murders, when a young man shot all six members of his family as they slept with a .35-caliber Marlin rifle, one by one.

The bloodshed wrought by Ronald DeFeo Jr. the morning of Nov. 13, 1974 was straight out of a horror movie, and eventually became one: the 1979 classic “The Amityville Horror” starring Margot Kidder and James Brolin as a couple who buy and move into the empty house after the murders only to meet a demonic presence.

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