The Amityville house at 108 Ocean Ave. in Amityville, N.Y., is one of the most famous haunted houses in history, but both its backstory and its current paranormal status have been hotly contested.

The five-bedroom Dutch Colonial home, which was built in the 1920s, per House Beautiful , first gained notoriety as the subject of Jay Anson’s 1977 novel The Amityville Horror .

Its legend grew with the release of a 1979 movie based on the book starring James Brolin and Margot Kidder that later spawned an extensive film franchise.

Though the home was the site of a gruesome mass murder in 1974, Anson’s book is centered on a series of strange occurrences that reportedly took place in 1975 that caused its inhabitants, George and Kathleen Lutz, to flee their new residence just 28 days

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