Are you a rooter of creepy fictional serial killer ? Are you also in the grocery store for a raw home ? Then you ’re in lot : The house that served as the residence ofThe muteness of the Lambs ’ hide - suit - make murderer Buffalo Bill isup for sales event . It ’s the perfect place to have an old friend for dinner .
The house , which was build in 1910 , is settle on 1.76 acres in Fayette County , Penn . , about an 60 minutes outside of Pittsburgh . It hasfour bedrooms , one bath , a detach 4 - car garage , and an in - ground swim puddle . And it can all be yours for $ 300,000 .
Scott and Barbara Lloyd corrupt the sign in 1976 and go in the next year . According toThe Pittsburgh Tribune - Review , the couple was eating dinner party one night in 1989 when a manufacturer knock , told them she was placement reconnoitre for a film , and ask to shoot picture of their home . The producer was work onThe Silence of the Lambs , which star Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins and was being film in legion locating around the Pittsburgh surface area .
“ They were looking for a place in which you entered the front door and had a neat short letter through , ” Barbara told theTribune - Review . “ They wanted it to calculate like a wanderer web , with Buffalo Bill drawing Jodie Foster into the anteroom , into the kitchen , then into the basement . ”
The production prepped the house for the shoot over the course of six week ; actual filming , which come in 1990 , assume just three daytime .
Prospective emptor should know ( and will believably be relieved ) that they wo n’t be getting the cellar from the film , where Buffalo Bill lay away and starves his female victims in a pit . Those scenes were shot on a soundstage .
The Lloyds , who are retired , design to move to a cattle farm home not far away ; Scott told theTribune - Reviewthat he ’s “ too old to take care of [ this house ] anymore . ” Barbara said she would n’t be surprised if the eventual buyer turns the home into something a piffling spooky — maybe a horror - themed B&B. “ People love to be scared , ” she say . “ I could see somebody doing something fun with this . ” Here ’s hoping that whatever it is , it does n’t involved putting software on the skin … or getting the hosepipe .
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