I know this house very well and I went to the church back in the mid and late 70's I went to the St. Peters Catholic school right behind the church and watched them film both the Amityville Horror and the possession when they put gas pipe lines to create a fire in one scene when the boy ran from the priest. The house in Toms River was moved from the corner for a lot of people where getting in to accidents stopping in the road with a curve in it to take pictures. They lifted the house and moved it a few hundred feet back then built another home in its place. I lived in Point Pleasant Beach from 1974 till 1985 and worked at Six Flags Great Adventure and on the railroad that went right by the church.
You can see the house across the street in a shot or two. It must have been a wider piece of property. The only thing I can’t see is it being a “several” hundred feet move but I see what you mean.
You gotta know what you’re getting into! You buy a well-known house expect people to drive by and take pictures! As much as you don’t like it that’s what you bought into when you sign those papers!
Agreed.. I’ve been to a good number of famous homes for one reason or another and most residents are very welcoming. I haven’t been to The Goonies house but I heard they are anything but inviting, which isn’t cool.
In the book "High Hopes: The Amityville Murders" it says after the DeFeo family was killed the victims families removed all the personal belongings from the house and left most of the remaining furniture in it (couches, chairs, tables, washer/dryer, dressers, pots & pans, etc.) so when the house was put on the market a year later, and bought by the Lutz family, it still had a lot of the DeFeo's furniture. (The DeFeo's beds were taken by the police as evidence, of course.) But in the Amityville horror case, it makes it appear as if the Lutz's were so frightened when they fled the house that they left behind everything they own and never returned. But according to the book "High Hopes", it isn't true. The Lutz family did take all of their personal belongings and just left the old DeFeo furniture, which they didn't buy or move in with in the first place. So they didn't really lose all that much.
WOW.....that church was SO BEAUTIFUL on the inside! Another AMAZING filming location video from an iconic movie!! Thanks so much for showing this to us!!! VERY WELL DONE!!!! :)
He was in Jaws and Jaws 2 (Amity Island) and The 1st Amityville Horror... Just Saying; Someone needs to get their Info straight by doing proper Research!
@@thomashumphrey4953 They DID do their proper research. What are you talking about? The editor knew that Murray Hamilton was in a bunch of movies that dealt with the word "Amity" and he made a subtle reference and I got that reference. That's why I made the comment. Nobody missed anything.
I was there last year I was told by a guy cutting the grass on one of the yards the house was moved after the 3rd movie and they built a house next to it he said they turned the house to face the street instead of the side of the house facing the street but the garage was in the original spot, they had pix of the construction of the quarter windows and the facade of the barn shape roof.
I went up to the actual house in Amityville back in '92 and '94 with two different friends each time, as there was a debate about which house was the actual house with the second friend. The iconic windows were still there in '92, but had been changed to square windows by '94. Probably because, uh, some people were, um, walking up to the house looking in the front windows. And the address was changed before my first visit. The bar in the strip mall where DeFeo went after the murders was still there, although instead of Henry's it was called the Dakota Rose. I believe the next bar only occupied half the space of Henry's and the Dakota Rose. The other half becoming some other business. Cloud Nine is the name of the bar and may still be there. (I copied this comment from an old video I commented on. Looks like there is no bar there anymore. I also don't remember that black fence in front being there either time I was there. Not sure though. Couldn't have been the first time as that's when my buddy walked up to the front porch and looked in the window (yeah, we did stuff college kids do). Don't remember him jumping a fence. Wow, Google Maps has the street view blocked out!)
In between filming Amityville 2 the Possession and Amityville 3D the owners had changed the quarter moon windows on the exterior facade to rectangle windows. This was on the side of the house without the porch. As the first and 2nd films had quarter moon windows on both sides. The movie house had also been physically moved on the lot after the filming of Amityville 3D. I believe the garage is in the same spot as it was in the films. All exterior scenes were shot at the house in Toms River. All the house interior scenes were shot on a sound stage in mexico I believe.
I'm so glad someone else noticed that! In Amityville 3D when Tony Robert's pulls up to the house with fictional daughter Lori Loughlin, you can see the top windows are square on the side opposite the river where the chimney goes right to the ground🙂👍
The quarter moon windows were always part of a facade installed during and removed after filming. During the filming of part 3 they just didnt bother to install them on both sides, possibly for budget reasons or time restraint.
They actually rotated the house from the `79-`83 filming of the 3 movies. It was originally built with the one side of the house facing the water more so than now. It was a larger lot originally. They sold the right section, and moved this house to the left and rotated it to allow room for the house to it's right to be built. A lot of work for sure. Speaking of which, for all 3 movies, they extended the sides of the house by about 3 ft. to make the quarter-moon windows, widened chimneys and yes, Gambrel roof.
40+ years later and it's still a great ghost story! These days 2825 Saratoga trail in Fredrick Colorado that is becoming a tourist attraction. Some people say the place is haunted due to being a site of the Watts family murders in 2018. The house is a large two story home that stands out in the cookie cutter neighborhood. Cool video!
Thanks for sharing this. I knew the movie house was in Tom's River, just didn't know the real difference. In Milwaukee there are Dutch Colonial Homes that still have the fly eye windows as I call them. They're smaller windows, but still I always think of The Amityville House or The Movie House in Tom's River New Jersey. I'm sure Dutch Colonial Homes are beautiful to own and live in. I understand that the Real Amityville House had a change of address from 112 Ocean Ave to 108 Ocean Ave, perhaps to help keep onlookers away somewhat.
There was a documentary on Netflix not sure it's still there or not that the son spoke out about it and said that the stepfather made the whole thing up none of it was true and he just wanted to be famous.
@@SuV33358 Heck, they jack up entire churches and giant houses and transport them on flatbeds hundreds of miles down the road. Watch "Deliverance" and, at the end, they are moving the town church.
The house was in fact moved to an empty lot next to the original location. Then the owners at the time had a new house built on the original lot for their daughter.
When the Amityville Horror happened I was eight years old and living in upstate NY..., I remember hearing the story. When I was 16 I read the first version of the book..., I read it from beginning to end in one sitting.
@@NickP You don't even know..., it was so bizarre..., murder..., ghosts...,and possession. .., that sh-t will keep you awake when you're a kid. If you ever get the chance, see if you can find the first printing of the original book at your local library..., you need to hold the book in your hands and read it at night with a couple candles around you..., and maybe some friends. The Amity Horror written story has two versions..., the first one, and then the movie adaptation..., its just like the movie ''Alive'..., that one..., don't read the first true telling of the plane crash before you eat dinner. I don't know about you..., but I would've walked until I died before I could eat someone. That story gives a whole new meaning to..., never mind. Ick!
@@wilclark2272 Lol I hear ya, that was another crazy story. That sounds like a bone chilling experience, the way you describe the setting for an immersive read into the paranormal mystery. I appreciate the info, not sure if I will go through with that but it sounds wild. Thanks again. Btw - I watched the Night Stalker on Netflix, I had no idea how crazy that guy was in real life. I knew he was a serial killer but I did not know the details until I watched that series.
@@NickP First of all..., I like the way you write..., second...., reading the first book of Amityville at night is/was a bad idea..., I didn't sleep. LoL Hey..., if you ever want to hear the stories about the two different ghosts I've lived with over the years..., in different states, let me know. My first ghost is a good story..., I've been telling it for 35 years. The second ghost..., the previous owner of my apartment building..., my cat saw him..., and that was some spooky stuff. I've never heard a cat make a sound like that.
@@wilclark2272 Thank you and likewise.. LOL I'm sure that was an immediate regret when you put the book down to attempt to fall asleep lolll.... That sounds interesting, and I've heard and experienced too much for these things to be simply made up. .. That cat story sounds really creepy. Amazing
I lived in Toms River when they were shooting that movie. Of course the street was blocked off, so you couldn't drive by during the shoot, but it was the most exciting thing to happen in that little town.
What still puzzles me to this day is the Defeo murders....6 of them murdered in that home....all found in their beds on their stomachs...if you're familiar with the real house, then you know the staircases to the second, and third floors are open (in the entrance foyer, if you look up, you can see all the way up to the third floor)...how were six individuals, on two separate floors, shot to death by one person with a rifle, and not one of them stirred from their beds?...like i said, an open staircase (you would think a rifle blast would echo like crazy throughout the open stairwells)...first shot, no one stirs, or awakens, second shot, third shot, fourth shot, and even after the fifth shot STILL, no one climbed out of bed, and then up to the third floor, and the sixth shot which killed Dawn (I actually believe there were seven shots, because if I'm not mistaken I believe one of the parents was shot twice....HOW did not one of them awake, and climb out of bed to see what the hell was going on?...you would think there would of been one of the boys, or Dawn, that would of been found on the floor of their rooms at least....but all six of them were found in their beds, on their stomachs....HOW did not ONE of them awaken, and get out of bed to see what the "loud noise" was?.... autopsies found no trace of any drugs in their systems....HOW do you sleep through the echoing blasts from a rifle, in a home with a centralized OPEN staircase?....the house wasn't a mansion, it was just a colonial, I grew up in a very similar home, my 2 sister's had the third floor, same set up as the Ocean Ave. house, I, my parents, and my 2 brothers were on the second floor...and you could quite easily hear others on each of the 3 floors....it will always baffle me how not ONE of them awoke during the shootings, because the shots had to echo throughout the home.... I'm sorry, but I have to believe there was something dark, sinister, in that home, I just don't see how it's possible that no one awoke, and at least got out of bed to see what was going on....especially one of the boys, or Dawn, who were the last 3 to be shot, Dawn was even up on the 3rd floor and the last to be killed....5 or 6 shots...and she never even stirred from her slumber... there's something that's not right there....
Not only that, but you can hear a rifle shot 10 blocks away, none of the neighbors heard a thing exept the dog barking, so i really believe some paranormal happend, but not to that exsteam
I couldn't agree more with your opinion and can't understand why more people don't make this extremely logical point a major part of this story. No one really makes it a point of focus. It's brought up here and there but not really. It seems impossible for it to have been carried out the way it was reported. If it was carried out the exact way it was reported, then how could there not be those forces at play that you mentioned? Wouldn't the family have to be drugged to sleep through that insanely loud attack from a single assailant. They performed toxicology tests during the autopsies but found nothing....Crazy.... Again, I agree
Another great point. In my belief some of the neighbors of that tight nit and quiet community also would have needed to be drugged to sleep through that jarringly loud attack, forget about the poor victims inside the house. It doesn't make sense.
@UCjiL7aCuCbn08rTDow7CgfQ i believe in the paranormal, just because it happend to one family does'nt mean its going to happend again, some people have one or two episodes of hauntings and never again, well were all going to find out oneday
Also the windows were the original ones used in the movie and were changed in recent years du to complains of too many nosey people touring around the house and taking pictures.
I remember watching this movie when it came out. OMG! It took the world by storm. It was THE horror film at the time! Love your channel and how you know all this stuff and go to the locations.
I grew up in Toms River and watched some of the filming at the house back then. It was indeed a big deal at the time. I was fascinated by it. I didn't see any actors during the filming I saw. Just 'rain and lightning'. My father was a volunteer firefighter in Toms River and helped out a little on the movie early on. The guy doing the special effects came up to him at the firehouse and asked about providing the 'rain' in the movie. He showed the guy around Toms River driving in the car that was in the movie (the one where the hood flies up and crashes into the sign. The crash was filmed at Hooper and Oak Ave in Toms RIver). I even tried to get on as an extra, but wasn't selected. When the movie came out, we all went out to see it at the Dover Theater in Toms River (sadly now demolished). I remember the audience laughing when all the familiar sites of Toms River were shown on screen. A couple sites you missed. Washington Street near the golf course. That's where James Brolin was riding his motorcycle. Also the Thomas Mathis bridge (which leads to Seaside Heights from Toms River, yes the MTV Jersey Shore Seaside Heights) which is featured in the movie when Margot Kidder is trying to get back to the house towards the end.
I had no idea they filmed this movie in Jersey. The real house is in Amityville, Long Island, NY. My teacher in High School lived right near the real house. She passed the house everyday.
The house used to be close to the main road in Toms River. You could see the side of it while driving past. Looked just like it did in the movie. The road was moved and realigned about 20-25 years back, which makes the house look like it doesn’t exist nowadays. Another house was built between the road and house shortly after. The roof was redesigned and 1/4 windows removed to keep visitors from trespassing around that time as well.
@@robertholden12 Oh ok, I guess I made this all up for attention then… Did you ever think that maybe the house they blew up might’ve just been a movie set? Because Hollywood does that type of stuff you know. They don’t go around blowing up real houses in suburban neighborhoods for movie purposes. They create similar looking homes that they then destroy on a set. Most times they use a small scale replica that gets destroyed because blowing up a full size house is pretty dangerous, I would imagine. I don’t know why I even have to explain something like this. I live right up the street from the house that was used in the first Amityville movie. It’s still there all day, everyday. Unless maybe it’s a mirage or something. Maybe it’s the ghost of the house they supposedly blew up! How bout you try doing some research on the ‘Amityville Horror house Toms River’ before commenting something so ridiculous next time. Use Google and you can find a trove of information, books, news articles, pictures, video clips, etc, etc, etc about when they filmed the movie in Toms River and everything that’s happened since.
On that one we really missed your side to side comparaison as you notoriously known for doing and that makes you # 1 !! Dont change your ways please or redo that Amityville properly ❤ 💯
I dont understand why this was such a special story. Unfortunately people get murdered all over the world and much much worse than this. So I don't see why this is any different
"There is an appointed time for every human being to die a physical life...then comes the judgement...before a righteous, holy, pure, just God." There are no ghosts from dead humans. There are however evil spirits. Confess your sins and receive Christ as Savior.
Awesome footage , never knew that the movie location was different from the actual house , I knew the remake was with Ryan Reynolds but not the original. If lived there I would change those windows looking the way it did in the film 😀😀😀 so cool
@@NickP It can be renovated from top to bottom and it still creeps me out and it can never erase what happened in that house and then you got the movie franchise behind it. No thank you.
Cool video, I live in the county over. I remember my parents took us to the house just after the movie came out. I remember looking into the windows and seeing a house with the walls of the outer shell. They actually built a house around the actual house. Hence why the roofline is different. When we where there it looked just like the real house. From what I remember they built around the house to walk in between for some of the special effects as well. Not sure if it’s still there but there was a boat house on the property too.
Right, that's what I learned during my research. Thanks for the additional info! I don't think the boat house is still there, I tried getting into the back but it didn't work out.
Wondering what the bad joke was when you came up to the witching brew bar which is now a law office.....btw I have a relative who owns a home that looks exactly like the Amityville Horror house, inside and out, but no creepiness going on there. My Aunt and cousin are very religious.
I was going to reference "The Bar" in terms of exam vs an actual bar.. yeah lol... That's interesting how you have a relative that owns a virtual carbon copy of a house. My imagination would be running a bit wild on visits. Very cool.
I have heard that shortly after filming part three, that the house was moved over one lot and turned so that the front door faced the road and the side with the sunroom no longer faced the river.
After the murders, I'm certain that some negative energy remained and some weird shit went down. Probably nothing since though after all the hype, priests, psychics, reporters etc. that were in and out. They all most likely drove out the bad juju during the 80s. Who knows? I'd love to stay there for a week. All alone. Just see what happens.
I lived on Long Island my entire life. I was born in Amityville hospital in the 1960’s ( it’s gone now). And was raised 2 villages over. When the book first came out, so did interest in the house. But then, after the movie came out, the traffic on Ocean ave was insane. As teenagers we would even drive past frequently to catch a glimpse of the home..there would be a slow moving line of cars driving by every day ( I can’t imagine living there for obvious reasons). I remember the home changing owners through the years. As I remember the house was not moved or shifted. It was refaced. The iconic windows removed. They basically were trying to change the entire look of the house ( which they did). This was a big story in the news at the time on Long Island. They also changed the home address. We live in Florida now. It’s been years since I drove by and really don’t see the need to bother the current owners. Thank you.
I don’t believe the claims that the house was moved. It has external chimneys. Those can not be moved and tearing them down and rebuilding them would be about 50k. I don’t see that happening.
9:48 // "1977" your voice really can sound off like Bobby D N's add a little Pause and u may well be CB able to portray the Voice over with a Robert D N flair // just saying u do sound like Bobby D add the pause, and his timing for when to mouth out the rest of a sentence. myop if i could voice over like Harrison Ford 'they don't advertise for killers in the newspaper' Blade Runner with Voice over my fav version
I was born in 1974. Places are haunted by demons. But for human spirits after we die we go direct to heaven our spirit. And yes people can get possed by demons only if that person let it happen. Im not pushing my beliefs on anyone thats my opinion. Love your videos love the adventure stay safe bro 🙋♀️
Actually, father Pecoraro testified in open court that he heard a voice say, "Get out!" and was slapped in the face when he was in the house. Furthermore, the idea that it is been "dismissed as a hoax" is just one camp in a number of camps of thought regarding the case.
i have to say no one should be going near that place to film a movie (in the real house) given the LONG 'into the night' (good movie with jeff goldblum) film schedule into the 3am time line and all lights could flicker and add too much OT to the shoot, so Frak that!! // the deaths too many bad vibes some body has to answer for the negative long terms affects upon the family that did get into that lack of full disclosure i have watched the Doc on the boy of the family (brolin's) he seems better but I have seen what Mormons do to their kids and Ouija Boards can speak to as far as 18 months in advance at least that is Be my personal question and got some answers' experience. NOTE: i did not handle the Pointer, as i can not give up control of my body so 3 girls took part as the handlers and i asked the questions... and none of the girls knew what i was going to ask or what the answers might be 18 months in advance of meeting two persons of interest // and there were other insights but not as far ahead as the 18 months. I can Tarot with a High % but them Ouijas once they are made into Chocolate, then used and then melted down they can bring insight to them bodies that want to play small g god too many damned fools need to get an education and one chocolate bar thru the digestive tract with well if a OB is used in a grave yard, there could be countless 3 to 8 maybe depends on how many souls linger at that piece of dead land there is a LINE up of suicides waiting Longer for taking out themselves b4 their proper time so to speak and i had an aunt that (by marriage) killed herself, went into her neighbor's dream that night and asked to be the soul of her unborn child (she was 8 months pregnant) so i took that story from the neighbor as evidence of mary regretting her choice to be a dead over a living slave to the whims of her inferior self destructive thoughts but she never used a Ouija, she just watched too many rocky horror picture show showings in person with the costume and toast to throw at the screen real time warp out there Ron Hubbard is out there in the desert he died but his soul has not come back like he promised his sheep of steal money and never bring world peace some True Christians want to use the Chocolate Ouijas in the far west USA desert, find the soul of ronny duh H and trap it in the chocolate Ouija once the dead go into the Ouija they may well become Trapped and then we can melt down them into bite size portions for kids or churches or all sorts of enemies of Faith LOL amity does mean friendship JAWS // another wonderful upload decent access too some folks used to fear cameras and locals and tourists now they know it adds value to their property God Bless
13:03 // myop IT (clown dude) IS (bad dudes) a place not to be tourists have been known to bring bad news back with them from overseas or over there to their house/home eg: covid was overseas then someone told the 40k americans to come back to USA with their stuff and the rest of 600 k dead americans and counting and some died and were not counted as from covid BUT Nick the Quick and no one notices he has done the Location P seems to possess the Know, the Luck and his mere normal appearance may indeed bring an aura of 'thanks, these are not the droids u r looking for, but can u direct me to the location i seek?' and it happens no fears // another great shoot nice compare and contrast thanks
I never understood why a Roman Catholic University would allow a movie producer to film on their property when the story involves murders, demons and devils.
112 ocean address of actual amityville house // u say its now 108 ocean ave // i have never been there but i would seek to trap any bad spirits that the dynamic duo did not remove put the demons into the chocolates and or a plastic doll and then and then and then rocket them off earth // send the chocolate OB in one rocket to the sun to melt and the plastic doll to the moon with a sign 'this is how we treat assassins' (unforgiven)
There is a photo somewhere on the Internet of when they were constructing the quarter moon windows over the actual windows of the house in toms River New Jersey, so that they could make it look exactly like the actual Amityville house. I forget where on the Internet that iimage is but, it is in fact on the Internet. It’s a pretty cool photo though.
I'm surprised that Georgian Court University (a strict Roman Catholic university) would allow such a movie filmed on their property. With demons, devils, ghosts, etc. Must I guess if the price is right?
I think a lot plays into the decision. The church in Toms River allowed them in as well. You do make a good point when really zeroing in on the priest and that controversy. There’s really nothing redeeming that takes place in that respect. I imagine the spiritual aspects of the story appealed to them, but I’m sure the money didn’t hurt.
I saw the movie twice. And I wanted too visit Amityville long Island, just sight seen. Not too.go in sides the bldg. at all.i will never walks out. Just too.takes pic... of the old home.thats not that same house.now I'm looking at the old one they showing.the orign... 🏡 🏠
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I know this house very well and I went to the church back in the mid and late 70's I went to the St. Peters Catholic school right behind the church and watched them film both the Amityville Horror and the possession when they put gas pipe lines to create a fire in one scene when the boy ran from the priest. The house in Toms River was moved from the corner for a lot of people where getting in to accidents stopping in the road with a curve in it to take pictures. They lifted the house and moved it a few hundred feet back then built another home in its place. I lived in Point Pleasant Beach from 1974 till 1985 and worked at Six Flags Great Adventure and on the railroad that went right by the church.
I knew something wasn’t right about the landscape, makes a lot more sense now.
Thanks for the info.
You can see the house across the street in a shot or two. It must have been a wider piece of property. The only thing I can’t see is it being a “several” hundred feet move but I see what you mean.
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You gotta know what you’re getting into! You buy a well-known house expect people to drive by and take pictures! As much as you don’t like it that’s what you bought into when you sign those papers!
Agreed.. I’ve been to a good number of famous homes for one reason or another and most residents are very welcoming. I haven’t been to The Goonies house but I heard they are anything but inviting, which isn’t cool.
No not really. There is such a thing as quiet enjoyment of your property
@@NickP Premiered on 3 Nov 2020 house un-moved looking at the house/garage drive way ua-cam.com/video/7lK0FHnKpYg/v-deo.html
@@NickP www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/113715959316745466/ the film set before it was torn down,,,
@@kylereese4822 Very cool, thanks
I live near the Amityville Horror House on Long Island. Cool Movie.
Very cool, thanks!
Collectorholic still have a lot of sight seers and trespassers??
So do I. My boat is docked on the ocean ave canal!
@@ThomasBMawn Hello neighbor.
Yes there a still gawkers and picture takers out there as well😂. Its picked up alot since the new conjuring movies and spike in the paranormal stuff.
In the book "High Hopes: The Amityville Murders" it says after the DeFeo family was killed the victims families removed all the personal belongings from the house and left most of the remaining furniture in it (couches, chairs, tables, washer/dryer, dressers, pots & pans, etc.) so when the house was put on the market a year later, and bought by the Lutz family, it still had a lot of the DeFeo's furniture. (The DeFeo's beds were taken by the police as evidence, of course.) But in the Amityville horror case, it makes it appear as if the Lutz's were so frightened when they fled the house that they left behind everything they own and never returned. But according to the book "High Hopes", it isn't true. The Lutz family did take all of their personal belongings and just left the old DeFeo furniture, which they didn't buy or move in with in the first place. So they didn't really lose all that much.
I wish they’d fix that sunken garden. That looked beautiful and could be really something with a little care.
I was surprised at the condition it was in.
WOW.....that church was SO BEAUTIFUL on the inside! Another AMAZING filming location video from an iconic movie!! Thanks so much for showing this to us!!! VERY WELL DONE!!!! :)
Thanks a lot guys!! Glad you enjoyed it! You Rock!
I'm glad you put the Murray Hamilton being in two movies having to do with the Amity name, lol.
LOL Thanks
Amity of course means friendship
He was in Jaws and Jaws 2 (Amity Island) and The 1st Amityville Horror... Just Saying; Someone needs to get their Info straight by doing proper Research!
@@thomashumphrey4953 They DID do their proper research. What are you talking about? The editor knew that Murray Hamilton was in a bunch of movies that dealt with the word "Amity" and he made a subtle reference and I got that reference. That's why I made the comment. Nobody missed anything.
I was there last year I was told by a guy cutting the grass on one of the yards the house was moved after the 3rd movie and they built a house next to it he said they turned the house to face the street instead of the side of the house facing the street but the garage was in the original spot, they had pix of the construction of the quarter windows and the facade of the barn shape roof.
Very cool, thanks for the info.
I went up to the actual house in Amityville back in '92 and '94 with two different friends each time, as there was a debate about which house was the actual house with the second friend. The iconic windows were still there in '92, but had been changed to square windows by '94. Probably because, uh, some people were, um, walking up to the house looking in the front windows. And the address was changed before my first visit. The bar in the strip mall where DeFeo went after the murders was still there, although instead of Henry's it was called the Dakota Rose. I believe the next bar only occupied half the space of Henry's and the Dakota Rose. The other half becoming some other business. Cloud Nine is the name of the bar and may still be there. (I copied this comment from an old video I commented on. Looks like there is no bar there anymore. I also don't remember that black fence in front being there either time I was there. Not sure though. Couldn't have been the first time as that's when my buddy walked up to the front porch and looked in the window (yeah, we did stuff college kids do). Don't remember him jumping a fence. Wow, Google Maps has the street view blocked out!)
Correct. The windows were removed. The house itself was refaced..in a way.
Margot Kidder was so beautiful in the 1970s. This film is one of my all time favourite horror films when I was a kid.
In between filming Amityville 2 the Possession and Amityville 3D the owners had changed the quarter moon windows on the exterior facade to rectangle windows. This was on the side of the house without the porch. As the first and 2nd films had quarter moon windows on both sides.
The movie house had also been physically moved on the lot after the filming of Amityville 3D. I believe the garage is in the same spot as it was in the films.
All exterior scenes were shot at the house in Toms River. All the house interior scenes were shot on a sound stage in mexico I believe.
Thanks for the info.. From what I gathered, that sounds spot on!
I'm so glad someone else noticed that! In Amityville 3D when Tony Robert's pulls up to the house with fictional daughter Lori Loughlin, you can see the top windows are square on the side opposite the river where the chimney goes right to the ground🙂👍
The quarter moon windows were always part of a facade installed during and removed after filming. During the filming of part 3 they just didnt bother to install them on both sides, possibly for budget reasons or time restraint.
Mexico was a sound-stage filming location in 2 and 3.
Oh wow. I didn’t know that but I’ve been to the real one. My uncle lives right over there. Great stuff nick!
Nice.. Great area to live in.. Thanks a lot bud!
I live in the next town over from Tom’s river I’ve visited all these locations on a daily basis over the years
Awesome
That was a scary movie . You explained things well as always. Thanks and see you later.👍
Thanks a lot bud!
when you Google Amityville, the towns info and demographics etc pops up and the pic for the town is this house lol
lol
They actually rotated the house from the `79-`83 filming of the 3 movies. It was originally built with the one side of the house facing the water more so than now. It was a larger lot originally. They sold the right section, and moved this house to the left and rotated it to allow room for the house to it's right to be built. A lot of work for sure. Speaking of which, for all 3 movies, they extended the sides of the house by about 3 ft. to make the quarter-moon windows, widened chimneys and yes, Gambrel roof.
That's incredible... Thanks for the info!
Anyone still watch this video?
Greetings from Los Angeles. I enjoyed this very much. Cool stuff.
Glad you enjoyed it!.. Greetings from NY...I miss LA Thanks a lot!
40+ years later and it's still a great ghost story!
These days 2825 Saratoga trail in Fredrick Colorado that is becoming a tourist attraction. Some people say the place is haunted due to being a site of the Watts family murders in 2018. The house is a large two story home that stands out in the cookie cutter neighborhood.
Cool video!
Interesting. I look forward to visiting Colorado, thanks a lot!
Arguably the best haunted house movie ever made.
Thanks for sharing this. I knew the movie house was in Tom's River, just didn't know the real difference. In Milwaukee there are Dutch Colonial Homes that still have the fly eye windows as I call them. They're smaller windows, but still I always think of The Amityville House or The Movie House in Tom's River New Jersey. I'm sure Dutch Colonial Homes are beautiful to own and live in. I understand that the Real Amityville House had a change of address from 112 Ocean Ave to 108 Ocean Ave, perhaps to help keep onlookers away somewhat.
Interesting.. And yes, I believe that's why google also has it blocked from view.
There was a documentary on Netflix not sure it's still there or not that the son spoke out about it and said that the stepfather made the whole thing up none of it was true and he just wanted to be famous.
Sounds about right.
They just turned the house so the balcony faced the water... Probably for 70's drama as this end faces the street at the actual house.
How the hell do you 'turn' a house? 😄
@@SuV33358 I won't say it's easy but I come from a town of a well known house moving company. It's actually done quite a bit.
@@shaundsypal oh I believe you. It just sounds funny 😄
@@SuV33358 Heck, they jack up entire churches and giant houses and transport them on flatbeds hundreds of miles down the road. Watch "Deliverance" and, at the end, they are moving the town church.
Thanks so much this video was excellent. The house is actually blurred out on Google if you try to look it up lol
Yes it is lol... My pleasure.. Thank you!
Liked and shared my friend
Thanks bro!
One of my favourite horror films,great vid.
Classic.. Thanks a lot !
Thats a beautiful house to. The Amityville Horror murder (1st movie based on Defeo family) was in the real house right?
Yes, the actual house in Long Island.
The house was in fact moved to an empty lot next to the original location. Then the owners at the time had a new house built on the original lot for their daughter.
Interesting, thanks for the info!
When the Amityville Horror happened I was eight years old and living in upstate NY..., I remember hearing the story. When I was 16 I read the first version of the book..., I read it from beginning to end in one sitting.
A truly crazy story
@@NickP You don't even know..., it was so bizarre..., murder..., ghosts...,and possession. .., that sh-t will keep you awake when you're a kid. If you ever get the chance, see if you can find the first printing of the original book at your local library..., you need to hold the book in your hands and read it at night with a couple candles around you..., and maybe some friends. The Amity Horror written story has two versions..., the first one, and then the movie adaptation..., its just like the movie ''Alive'..., that one..., don't read the first true telling of the plane crash before you eat dinner. I don't know about you..., but I would've walked until I died before I could eat someone. That story gives a whole new meaning to..., never mind. Ick!
@@wilclark2272 Lol I hear ya, that was another crazy story. That sounds like a bone chilling experience, the way you describe the setting for an immersive read into the paranormal mystery. I appreciate the info, not sure if I will go through with that but it sounds wild. Thanks again.
Btw - I watched the Night Stalker on Netflix, I had no idea how crazy that guy was in real life. I knew he was a serial killer but I did not know the details until I watched that series.
@@NickP First of all..., I like the way you write..., second...., reading the first book of Amityville at night is/was a bad idea..., I didn't sleep. LoL Hey..., if you ever want to hear the stories about the two different ghosts I've lived with over the years..., in different states, let me know. My first ghost is a good story..., I've been telling it for 35 years. The second ghost..., the previous owner of my apartment building..., my cat saw him..., and that was some spooky stuff. I've never heard a cat make a sound like that.
@@wilclark2272 Thank you and likewise.. LOL I'm sure that was an immediate regret when you put the book down to attempt to fall asleep lolll.... That sounds interesting, and I've heard and experienced too much for these things to be simply made up. .. That cat story sounds really creepy. Amazing
Nice work Nick!!
Thanks!
So sad to this day what happend to all the DeFeoes rest in peace
Truly terrible.
@@NickP thank you
If that was my house, I wouldn't have changed anything..I would probably let people take a tour on Halloween night and charge like $10 lol
I lived in Toms River when they were shooting that movie. Of course the street was blocked off, so you couldn't drive by during the shoot, but it was the most exciting thing to happen in that little town.
Very cool
What still puzzles me to this day is the Defeo murders....6 of them murdered in that home....all found in their beds on their stomachs...if you're familiar with the real house, then you know the staircases to the second, and third floors are open (in the entrance foyer, if you look up, you can see all the way up to the third floor)...how were six individuals, on two separate floors, shot to death by one person with a rifle, and not one of them stirred from their beds?...like i said, an open staircase (you would think a rifle blast would echo like crazy throughout the open stairwells)...first shot, no one stirs, or awakens, second shot, third shot, fourth shot, and even after the fifth shot STILL, no one climbed out of bed, and then up to the third floor, and the sixth shot which killed Dawn (I actually believe there were seven shots, because if I'm not mistaken I believe one of the parents was shot twice....HOW did not one of them awake, and climb out of bed to see what the hell was going on?...you would think there would of been one of the boys, or Dawn, that would of been found on the floor of their rooms at least....but all six of them were found in their beds, on their stomachs....HOW did not ONE of them awaken, and get out of bed to see what the "loud noise" was?.... autopsies found no trace of any drugs in their systems....HOW do you sleep through the echoing blasts from a rifle, in a home with a centralized OPEN staircase?....the house wasn't a mansion, it was just a colonial, I grew up in a very similar home, my 2 sister's had the third floor, same set up as the Ocean Ave. house, I, my parents, and my 2 brothers were on the second floor...and you could quite easily hear others on each of the 3 floors....it will always baffle me how not ONE of them awoke during the shootings, because the shots had to echo throughout the home.... I'm sorry, but I have to believe there was something dark, sinister, in that home, I just don't see how it's possible that no one awoke, and at least got out of bed to see what was going on....especially one of the boys, or Dawn, who were the last 3 to be shot, Dawn was even up on the 3rd floor and the last to be killed....5 or 6 shots...and she never even stirred from her slumber... there's something that's not right there....
Not only that, but you can hear a rifle shot 10 blocks away, none of the neighbors heard a thing exept the dog barking, so i really believe some paranormal happend, but not to that exsteam
I couldn't agree more with your opinion and can't understand why more people don't make this extremely logical point a major part of this story. No one really makes it a point of focus. It's brought up here and there but not really. It seems impossible for it to have been carried out the way it was reported. If it was carried out the exact way it was reported, then how could there not be those forces at play that you mentioned? Wouldn't the family have to be drugged to sleep through that insanely loud attack from a single assailant. They performed toxicology tests during the autopsies but found nothing....Crazy.... Again, I agree
Another great point. In my belief some of the neighbors of that tight nit and quiet community also would have needed to be drugged to sleep through that jarringly loud attack, forget about the poor victims inside the house. It doesn't make sense.
@@NickP ...There is definitely more to those murders... it's as if that house was "shut off" from the world for those fateful minutes that night....
@UCjiL7aCuCbn08rTDow7CgfQ i believe in the paranormal, just because it happend to one family does'nt mean its going to happend again, some people have one or two episodes of hauntings and never again, well were all going to find out oneday
Also the windows were the original ones used in the movie and were changed in recent years du to complains of too many nosey people touring around the house and taking pictures.
I remember watching this movie when it came out. OMG! It took the world by storm. It was THE horror film at the time! Love your channel and how you know all this stuff and go to the locations.
Leonard Shea! How've ya been ol bud?
You couldn’t pay me to live in this house!! Jesus be a 🛡around me.
I grew up in Toms River and watched some of the filming at the house back then. It was indeed a big deal at the time. I was fascinated by it. I didn't see any actors during the filming I saw. Just 'rain and lightning'. My father was a volunteer firefighter in Toms River and helped out a little on the movie early on. The guy doing the special effects came up to him at the firehouse and asked about providing the 'rain' in the movie. He showed the guy around Toms River driving in the car that was in the movie (the one where the hood flies up and crashes into the sign. The crash was filmed at Hooper and Oak Ave in Toms RIver). I even tried to get on as an extra, but wasn't selected. When the movie came out, we all went out to see it at the Dover Theater in Toms River (sadly now demolished). I remember the audience laughing when all the familiar sites of Toms River were shown on screen. A couple sites you missed. Washington Street near the golf course. That's where James Brolin was riding his motorcycle. Also the Thomas Mathis bridge (which leads to Seaside Heights from Toms River, yes the MTV Jersey Shore Seaside Heights) which is featured in the movie when Margot Kidder is trying to get back to the house towards the end.
That’s awesome how you remember the experiences! I really appreciate all the info, very cool.
I had no idea they filmed this movie in Jersey. The real house is in Amityville, Long Island, NY. My teacher in High School lived right near the real house. She passed the house everyday.
Interesting.. Yes, I show it at he end of the video. Thanks
108 Ocean Avenue
The house used to be close to the main road in Toms River. You could see the side of it while driving past. Looked just like it did in the movie. The road was moved and realigned about 20-25 years back, which makes the house look like it doesn’t exist nowadays. Another house was built between the road and house shortly after. The roof was redesigned and 1/4 windows removed to keep visitors from trespassing around that time as well.
Not the movie house the house in the films was purposely built and destroyed in amityville 3 it exploded at the end of the amityville 3 film
@@robertholden12 Oh ok, I guess I made this all up for attention then… Did you ever think that maybe the house they blew up might’ve just been a movie set? Because Hollywood does that type of stuff you know. They don’t go around blowing up real houses in suburban neighborhoods for movie purposes. They create similar looking homes that they then destroy on a set. Most times they use a small scale replica that gets destroyed because blowing up a full size house is pretty dangerous, I would imagine. I don’t know why I even have to explain something like this. I live right up the street from the house that was used in the first Amityville movie. It’s still there all day, everyday. Unless maybe it’s a mirage or something. Maybe it’s the ghost of the house they supposedly blew up! How bout you try doing some research on the ‘Amityville Horror house Toms River’ before commenting something so ridiculous next time. Use Google and you can find a trove of information, books, news articles, pictures, video clips, etc, etc, etc about when they filmed the movie in Toms River and everything that’s happened since.
The house was built on Indian burial ground
The movie house was moved. This wasn't the original location when the movie was filmed.
On that one we really missed your side to side comparaison as you notoriously known for doing and that makes you # 1 !!
Dont change your ways please or redo that Amityville properly ❤
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Of course, and thank you! This was one of my earlier videos, I’m going to redo this in the future.
Long Island baby
The last scene with the lake and the dock was incredible 😍 I can't wait for Summer.
I dont understand why this was such a special story. Unfortunately people get murdered all over the world and much much worse than this. So I don't see why this is any different
Because not all murders get written into best selling paperbacks then become blockbuster hits.
lois lane
Haha Yes
"There is an appointed time for every human being to die a physical life...then comes the judgement...before a righteous, holy, pure, just God." There are no ghosts from dead humans. There are however evil spirits. Confess your sins and receive Christ as Savior.
Yes.....demons are real.
Why don't you believe,...? In regular plain ol' ghosts. Maybe like some vampires there are ghosts who were born ghosts, they are purebloods.
Awesome footage , never knew that the movie location was different from the actual house , I knew the remake was with Ryan Reynolds but not the original. If lived there I would change those windows looking the way it did in the film 😀😀😀 so cool
Glad you enjoyed it, and I agree. Thanks a lot!
You couldn't pay me to live in that house.
LOL
@@NickP It can be renovated from top to bottom and it still creeps me out and it can never erase what happened in that house and then you got the movie franchise behind it. No thank you.
@@darlene5216 All kidding aside, I couldn't agree more.
@@NickP I'm glad.😁
Oh wow the famous house of amityville I love it great tour and footage great story told about it how it changed it reconstructed it for the film
Glad you enjoyed it.. Thanks a lot buddy!
Cool video, I live in the county over. I remember my parents took us to the house just after the movie came out. I remember looking into the windows and seeing a house with the walls of the outer shell. They actually built a house around the actual house. Hence why the roofline is different. When we where there it looked just like the real house. From what I remember they built around the house to walk in between for some of the special effects as well. Not sure if it’s still there but there was a boat house on the property too.
Right, that's what I learned during my research. Thanks for the additional info! I don't think the boat house is still there, I tried getting into the back but it didn't work out.
@@NickP The boathouse was removed after the first movie and is not present in two or three : )
Loved this documentary
That's great to hear, thanks a lot!
Wondering what the bad joke was when you came up to the witching brew bar which is now a law office.....btw I have a relative who owns a home that looks exactly like the Amityville Horror house, inside and out, but no creepiness going on there. My Aunt and cousin are very religious.
I was going to reference "The Bar" in terms of exam vs an actual bar.. yeah lol... That's interesting how you have a relative that owns a virtual carbon copy of a house. My imagination would be running a bit wild on visits. Very cool.
I have heard that shortly after filming part three, that the house was moved over one lot and turned so that the front door faced the road and the side with the sunroom no longer faced the river.
I heard that as well after making this video.
That is not true I can find it on Google 112 Ocean Ave Amityville,NY
The address has been changed.
Did anyone still lives in the house now?
Yes
Man I thought this whole entire time that The Amityville horror house was actually film at the real life property, thanks for clarifying that for me!
I thought the same thing for a while. I'm pretty sure the studio wanted to, but the town wouldn't allow it.
Great job Nick! This was a classic!
Thanks a lot Brother!
Fantastic! Look for a new chapter coming in 2022. That's all I can reveal.
Thank you! Can't wait!
Great video 👍 ❤️ ❤️
Thanks a lot!
Brilliant video. Thank you!.
Would love to be able to travel overseas to visit..
Hopefully you can visit.. Thanks a lot!
After the murders, I'm certain that some negative energy remained and some weird shit went down. Probably nothing since though after all the hype, priests, psychics, reporters etc. that were in and out. They all most likely drove out the bad juju during the 80s. Who knows? I'd love to stay there for a week. All alone. Just see what happens.
Never seen the movie, but the filming locations look pretty cool 👍
Crazy story all together lol. Thanks bud!
Love all your videos keep them coming.
Thank you! Will do!
Best video so far . Thank you . Amityville 1 and 2 are the best , I used to be all into the movies and story
Thanks a lot!
@@NickP you're welcome
I can't believe someone lives there now.
I lived on Long Island my entire life. I was born in Amityville hospital in the 1960’s ( it’s gone now). And was raised 2 villages over. When the book first came out, so did interest in the house. But then, after the movie came out, the traffic on Ocean ave was insane. As teenagers we would even drive past frequently to catch a glimpse of the home..there would be a slow moving line of cars driving by every day ( I can’t imagine living there for obvious reasons). I remember the home changing owners through the years.
As I remember the house was not moved or shifted. It was refaced. The iconic windows removed. They basically were trying to change the entire look of the house ( which they did). This was a big story in the news at the time on Long Island. They also changed the home address. We live in Florida now. It’s been years since I drove by and really don’t see the need to bother the current owners. Thank you.
I would like to visit the ones from Toms River, NJ and from Babylon, NY. Greetings from a big fan of american movies from Brazil 🙂
Knock and tell them to turn them lights on the gate posts off....save the planet😄👍
Lol I wanted to get into the backyard.
I don’t believe the claims that the house was moved. It has external chimneys. Those can not be moved and tearing them down and rebuilding them would be about 50k. I don’t see that happening.
That's the house but that's not the location. The house was on Water Street when the movie was filmed.
9:48 // "1977" your voice really can sound off like Bobby D N's add a little Pause and u may well be CB able to portray the Voice over with a Robert D N flair // just saying u do sound like Bobby D add the pause, and his timing for when to mouth out the rest of a sentence.
myop if i could voice over like Harrison Ford 'they don't advertise for killers in the newspaper' Blade Runner with Voice over my fav version
I was born in 1974. Places are haunted by demons. But for human spirits after we die we go direct to heaven our spirit. And yes people can get possed by demons only if that person let it happen. Im not pushing my beliefs on anyone thats my opinion. Love your videos love the adventure stay safe bro 🙋♀️
Actually, father Pecoraro testified in open court that he heard a voice say, "Get out!" and was slapped in the face when he was in the house. Furthermore, the idea that it is been "dismissed as a hoax" is just one camp in a number of camps of thought regarding the case.
i have to say no one should be going near that place to film a movie (in the real house) given the LONG 'into the night' (good movie with jeff goldblum) film schedule into the 3am time line and all lights could flicker and add too much OT to the shoot, so Frak that!!
// the deaths too many bad vibes some body has to answer for the negative long terms affects upon the family that did get into that lack of full disclosure
i have watched the Doc on the boy of the family (brolin's) he seems better but I have seen what Mormons do to their kids and Ouija Boards can speak to as far as 18 months in advance at least that is Be my personal question and got some answers' experience.
NOTE: i did not handle the Pointer, as i can not give up control of my body so 3 girls took part as the handlers and i asked the questions... and none of the girls knew what i was going to ask or what the answers might be
18 months in advance of meeting two persons of interest // and there were other insights but not as far ahead as the 18 months.
I can Tarot with a High % but them Ouijas once they are made into Chocolate, then used and then melted down they can bring insight to them bodies that want to play small g god too many damned fools need to get an education and one chocolate bar thru the digestive tract with well if a OB is used in a grave yard, there could be countless 3 to 8 maybe depends on how many souls linger at that piece of dead land there is a LINE up of suicides waiting Longer for taking out themselves b4 their proper time so to speak
and i had an aunt that (by marriage) killed herself, went into her neighbor's dream that night and asked to be the soul of her unborn child (she was 8 months pregnant) so i took that story from the neighbor as evidence of mary regretting her choice to be a dead over a living slave to the whims of her inferior self destructive thoughts but she never used a Ouija, she just watched too many rocky horror picture show showings in person with the costume and toast to throw at the screen real time warp out there
Ron Hubbard is out there in the desert he died but his soul has not come back like he promised his sheep of steal money and never bring world peace some True Christians want to use the Chocolate Ouijas in the far west USA desert, find the soul of ronny duh H and trap it in the chocolate Ouija once the dead go into the Ouija they may well become Trapped and then we can melt down them into bite size portions for kids or churches or all sorts of enemies of Faith LOL
amity does mean friendship JAWS // another wonderful upload decent access too
some folks used to fear cameras and locals and tourists now they know it adds value to their property God Bless
13:03 // myop IT (clown dude) IS (bad dudes) a place not to be tourists have been known to bring bad news back with them from overseas or over there to their house/home eg: covid was overseas then someone told the 40k americans to come back to USA with their stuff and the rest of 600 k dead americans and counting and some died and were not counted as from covid
BUT Nick the Quick and no one notices he has done the Location P seems to possess the Know, the Luck and his mere normal appearance may indeed bring an aura of 'thanks, these are not the droids u r looking for, but can u direct me to the location i seek?'
and it happens no fears // another great shoot nice compare and contrast thanks
11:35 love the jaws reference
Then you should really enjoy my next video 😉.
I never understood why a Roman Catholic University would allow a movie producer to film on their property when the story involves murders, demons and devils.
Great video. Thanks
Glad you liked it! Thank you!
I’m scared of the house because you can turn evil can that really happen
I don’t blame you.
Thanks 🙏
That house is really creepy
Very well done sir! Thank you so much for posting : )
Glad you liked it, thanks a lot!
It's also been said it's the Shinnacock Indians. They are out east Long Island. It's all nonsense.
The filming house was moved to this location. After I believe the first movie.
112 ocean address of actual amityville house // u say its now 108 ocean ave // i have never been there but i would seek to trap any bad spirits that the dynamic duo did not remove put the demons into the chocolates and or a plastic doll and then and then and then rocket them off earth //
send the chocolate OB in one rocket to the sun to melt and the plastic doll to the moon with a sign
'this is how we treat assassins' (unforgiven)
thats the church in the 2nd movie too
Thanks for the info
I remember going to Amityville for a family reunion. I've also wanna to see the house i never did.Thanks for the upload
My pleasure, thank you
Thats cool you went there see where it was filmed at
Thanks a lot
@@NickP welcome
You are amazing! you deserve 100K plus members!
Wow, thanks a lot Tim!
thanks from france!! really interesting!!
Glad you liked it, thank you!
Forget the movie, what creeps me out is a stranger filming my home😳😳😳
The house was relocated to an adjacent lot and turned 90°
The house in Amityville is blurred out on google maps as well. Cool video!
Yes, thanks a lot!
This house is obviously a slight lookalike
There is a photo somewhere on the Internet of when they were constructing the quarter moon windows over the actual windows of the house in toms River New Jersey, so that they could make it look exactly like the actual Amityville house. I forget where on the Internet that iimage is but, it is in fact on the Internet. It’s a pretty cool photo though.
I’ll try to find it, thanks.
the house was turned 90 degrees
Avez-vous essayé de visiter l'intérieur de la maison (résidence)
I'm surprised that Georgian Court University (a strict Roman Catholic university) would allow such a movie filmed on their property. With demons, devils, ghosts, etc. Must I guess if the price is right?
I think a lot plays into the decision. The church in Toms River allowed them in as well. You do make a good point when really zeroing in on the priest and that controversy. There’s really nothing redeeming that takes place in that respect. I imagine the spiritual aspects of the story appealed to them, but I’m sure the money didn’t hurt.
I saw the movie twice. And I wanted too visit Amityville long Island, just sight seen. Not too.go in sides the bldg. at all.i will never walks out. Just too.takes pic... of the old home.thats not that same house.now I'm looking at the old one they showing.the orign... 🏡 🏠
The real house and movie house are different from each other.
this was in the 1600's
Not sure if you had mentioned it but what was the reason why they didn't film at the actual house? Couldn't get permission?
I believe so, couldn’t receive permission.