The ‘Amityville Horror’ house is for sale: Five bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms and one bloody history

Authorities investigate a mass murder in Amityville, N.Y., in 1974. - washingtonpost.com

Authorities investigate a mass murder in Amityville, N.Y., in 1974. – washingtonpost.com

AMITYVILLE, NY — In 1974, it was an expensive and stately Long Island estate, nestled in a vintage-home village, with white shutters on the windows, white lattice on the side and a white sign out front that read: “High Hopes.”

But the house on Ocean Avenue in Amityville was darkened that year by a gruesome mass murder that claimed every family member there — except one.

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