Latoya Ammons and the Demon house | Morbid | Podcast | Forensic Files

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proofy things that I found I don't like like they're ugly I don't like the aesthetic of them the aesthetic so I
have to I'm going to work on it yeah you just got to get some like bookshelves in
here yeah yeah exactly there's actually going to be some construction going on at my house in like November so
hopefully they're done with your construction yeah we'll be switching back over to the other house all the
construction mucho construction guys still spooky season it's still spooky season we went to our first haunted
house of the Season yes Barett it's always barretts you're wearing your sweatpants I am I'm wearing my Barrett
sweatpants they're really comfy Barrett they're so comfy Barrett's an Abington it's an Abington right I think so yeah
yeah it's like behind the Abington Ale House it is it's topnotch the best haunted house on the planet I believe it
really they do they tear the [ __ ] down every year and rebuild it to completely
new yeah and they do a [ __ ] phenomenal job this year the theme is gameplay and there's all these rooms
like like little like gaming areas yeah it's super it's just so well done they and I think they spend like months
getting these sets together and you and you can tell yeah and all the actors like the makeup they do it's all like
top the process is just really impressive so if you're looking for A Haunted House in the New England area
that's your that's your guy bar man you got to go yeah we're going to do a couple more we were a little laxidasical
this this year we were well we got like you know sidetracked with Co we got sidetracked with the book tour happening
and uh now we got to make up for it we only got a couple more weekends I know we only have I guess we have three
technically I feel like we never go on Halloween weekend yeah we really don't I feel like it's too crazy but maybe we
will this year maybe we'll change it up it be CRA where we going to go yeah I also went to a cat show this weekend you
sure did I took the kids to the cat show and me my cousin Drew and all the kids I
was like let's go to a [ __ ] cat show and I fought every single urge within my body to not bring home another cat
because I mean yeah like if you have four cats go off I can't go off I can't live a four cat life can't do it and my
cats will not live a four cat life I think Franklin would just eat another cat if we brought one home but they had
those um those like Scottish like smooshy ones oh those are so cute yeah they are I think they have a lot of
health problems CU oh no they're like an English bulldog yeah I think they're like inter breeded so they're like like
it's not cool actually it's not cool you're like they're super cute but it's not Co but I'm like I I want to save you
I know yeah exactly I was like I was waiting for you to pick that up I just scream in the cat's face me scream this
in corporate song into a cat's face that that's Ash energy do that today if you haven't pour one out for Scottish cats
and sing in your own cat's face I think this Something Corporate Tor just ended actually I just saw that our friend
Connor posted and said we did it we love Connor I said you did [ __ ] do it you did [ __ ] did all of it yeah you you
made our lives hell yeah I know we need to like there there's things to be done still yeah there's work to be done
there's work to be done there's guests to be had guests to be booked but we don't want to tell you no
shut up shut up imagine if I was serious that'd be so sad I would never tell you
guys to shut up I actually don't like the the phrase shut up you don't rude yeah um this a little rude if you hear
my ice for a second it's we're all alive and we're drinking iced coffee I made us
it's actually really funny to see you drinking coffee out of a mason jar cuz it's not you aesthetically aesthetic uh
Mason jars are kind of my vibe right now I love this is good iced coffee oh you're
welcome oh you're welcome I do I do make a pretty good iced coffee except I realized this morning that literally all
of my creamer was expired that's true luckily I didn't realize it in the bad way I said oh check those dates and I
checked and I said wh oh three out of four you got to be in the trash yeah I know well I think it's still spooky
season um sure it we'll never really know for sure when these when these published never going to know when
episodes are coming yeah sometimes sometimes we look at Mikey and say what what day is this coming where what day
is uh what's going on where am I hello but you know someday we'll know well hopefully it's still spooky cuz I put a
spooky case hopefully it's still spooky either I think it is me and Dave davio worked on this davio davio exactly this
is Latoya amens and the Demon House the Demon House the demon house this is um if it's starts to sound familiar to you
at all this is the case that the movie The Deliverance was based off of it's Glen Close yes it's that one scene that
you're all thinking about right now and if you're not thinking about it go Google it if you're not thinking about
it you you can't have the internet yeah like you you don't have the internet you
don't have the internet but yeah so it all started in January 2014 when a strange article appeared in the
Indianapolis Star about Latoya aens an Indiana single mother of three who claimed that for more than a year she
and her kids were absolutely besieged by demons in their rented house oh damn she
claimed among other things that the house was constantly infested with black flies so right off the bat you're
haunted oh yeah the kids were levitated from their beds oh [ __ ] her 9-year-old
son became possessed and walked up a wall backwards oh my which like you might say that's silly that didn't
happen multiple people saw this happen that were like I don't know how to explain what happened there and we'll
get it we'll get to that point uh and that was just the beginning by the end of just one year in this house the
family claimed that they were terrorized by all manner of Supernatural assaults from ghostly apparitions to straight up
demonic entities oh my yeah things were popping off got Rachel stavis in here Rachel Rachel we need you Rachel could
have cleared this [ __ ] up in a minute 100% in a minute yeah that's our girl that's our girl Rachel so her story
might have gone completely unnoticed if it wasn't for the surprising number of witnesses that actually saw these things
that's what takes this apart yeah like family friends police officers social workers it kind of reminded me of the
House of flying objects that you just did cuz like people were like people that you wouldn't expect to sign off on
this were signing off but still Latoya obviously wasn't without Skeptics or critics people accused her of
fabricating the story to get out of her lease and others just assumed that she might have been straight up delusional
yeah but who knows what the explanation was for the cause of events either way probably one of the most terrifying
paranormal experiences I've ever read of damn let's go let's get into it so in November 2011 Latoya aens her mother
Rosa Campbell and Latoya's three children 13-year-old Nate 12-year-old shantee and seven-year-old Andre moved
into their new rental house on this quiet little treelined residential Street in Gary Indiana and that wasn't
their real name no I'm actually using the names from the movie based on the case uh the
Deliverance like we were just saying cuz the kids names aren't public yeah but it
Min super confusing if I was like child a child B child c yeah and if they're not public it's like so I said movie
movie but so the thing was things hadn't really been like easy for Latoya in recent years she was struggling to keep
the kids on track in school but and among other things but the new house was an opportunity to kind of start fresh
and her main goal was to make good use of that opportunity she's like we got a new space we're in a new area like let's
go Fresh Start unfortunately things did not work out that way in any way shape or form problems with the house started
almost immediately and it was early December when they started noticing swarms of these large black flies just
gathering in um the screened in porch which was unusual because house flies can't survive freezing temperatures it
was like Amityville yeah exactly but real yeah and Rosa remembered thinking this
is not normal we killed them and killed them and killed them but they just kept coming back which is so gross yeah and
then other strange experiences followed pretty quickly a week or so after they noticed the Flies Latoya and Rosa
started hearing just inexplicable noises in the house always after midnight well
after the kids had gone to bed and it sounded like someone with heavy footsteps was walking up the stairs from
the basement into the kitchen [ __ ] that which is what we heard our whole [ __ ]
say that was my parents house you always heard boom and it sounded like work boots walking up the steps MH and
sometimes it was like I would hear it in the basement like at like late at night
but then sometimes you would hear footsteps on like the main stairs too which was and you go over there and
nothing was there literally nothing I wouldn't even go over there I was like way too scared but yeah some they were
like is somebody breaking in the house like cuz they would literally hear the door open and closed what the [ __ ] but
they would come out of their bedrooms to investigate like you're brave ass and there was no sign of anybody in the
basement or the kitchen but they did notice that when they would turn the kitchen light on to get a better look it
would flicker making a crackling sound for a time and then stop ooh which is like so creepy that's horror movie [ __ ]
literally a few days later they both decided that they were going to leave their bedroom doors open in the hope
that they might catch a glimpse of whoever was climbing the stairs cuz they kept hearing it night after night so one
night a little after 3:00 a.m. of course of course Rosa was woken by the sound of
footsteps just like all the previous nights and when she looked out into the living room she saw the shadowy figure
of a man just pacing back and forth no yep nope yep just get get rid of the whole house burn it down Burn It To The
Ground yeah so the next morning she went out to investigate and uh she went with
LaToya and they found quote what looked like muddy Footprints from a boot I would assume someone broke in my house
that's what they thought they 100% thought that like completely concerned that someone might be breaking in they
ended up putting a lock on the basement door but on subsequent nights they would
hear the footsteps climbing the stairs they would also hear pounding on the door as if whatever it was was trying to
get in the kitchen what the [ __ ] yeah I literally have chills just talking about
pounding on the door like no in the middle of the [ __ ] night so they they're like dealing with all this
Latoya is trying to keep the kids on track in school and she's also trying to keep these incidents from the kids
because she scare the [ __ ] out of them yeah they're young but the speed at which things escalated made it
impossible to hide the fact that something was obviously wrong with this house one day about a month after moving
in Shante got home from school and she went to put her things in her bedroom but when she tried to open her bedroom
door it wouldn't open she said it was like as if somebody was holding it shut from the other side oh no so after
several tries to force the door it finally popped open and there was nobody in the room
what the [ __ ] she probably assumed it was one of her younger siblings like [ __ ] with her yeah and then no one's
in there and you're like you're like hello hello in my parents house we would have been like oh the door just swelled
yeah exactly we the amount of times we blamed like weird [ __ ] on the swollen doors in the house had just swelling
doors or creaking or just the house settling it's fine don't worry in the middle of winter we're like oh it's it's
the doors they're swollen they're just swollen but the family also noticed that there were indications of a problem
seemingly all over the house it wasn't just the basement the kitchen just like one bedroom their cell phones often
failed to work despite full service the picture on the television was constantly
getting interrupted and Latoya and Rosa had constant mechanical problems with their cars and the sticks to adjust the
Venetian blinds always seemed to sway back and forth on their own e which something about that yeah that's I just
that's ew I don't like it like I don't like it for Latoya the most uh disturbing experience was learning the
extent of what the children had experienced in the house cuz she's trying to keep this from them um just
like Rosa had seen shadowy fig that shadowy figure in the living room the kids also saw what they believed to be
spirits in the house both boys this is one of the scariest things you'll ever hear in your life so buckle up
buttercups oh God both of the boys reported seeing an elderly lady in the backyard who they described as looking
like quote walking death with red eyes I got that feeling that like where just like blooms out the chills from within y
like the chill just came from the center of my stomach and that's a that's a WM yeah that just but it didn't even feel
like a w cuz to me that feels more warm okay just was a it was cold it yucky I'm
going to vomit yeah I don't like that at all I think I'm assuming that's probably
what like who Glen close's character was but I hav seen the deliver when you look
at a picture of her character yes uh yeah she looks walking death with red eyes yeah and the youngest son Andre
would spend a lot of time with a what he said was a boy his own age who he would
like play and talk with and according to Andrea and Nate the boy would typically
appear in their closet yo yo just the long B yo just silence like in look when a ghost appears in the
closet uh-uh they have bad intentions no one I'm not appearing in someone's closet in the afterlife unless I want to
[ __ ] their world up you know who appeared in front of the closet for me in my life she didn't have a body she
was just made of Bones see and I can still see her in my mind I'm here's the thing I'm horrified that you witnessed
that as a child it hurts my soul but also it's a cool story though would kill to have the image in my head that you
have I wish you could project it out yeah I'm not an artist so maybe I could talk to Shawn for mostly Horror oh my
God describe her in vast detail yes I think I think he could draw it I'm going to text him after this yeah Sean if
you're listening Sean we're coming for you she had like cotton candy hair like it was like white but it was like that
texture it was scary yo you got to write this down I don't know why I'm in a place of yo right now but I need to have
you been hanging out with Cale you need to I know right you need to write all these details down so he can make
because we all need to see the the actual vision of this woman it's so funny cuz I have so many memories of
like nightmares from when I was little that when I was little I didn't think were nightmares like I thought they were
real and then I'm like and now you're like were they real they probably were I have a lot of them like that's scary
yeah it is but then I'm also like is it like the tra tra I was going to say is it trama is it trama or nightm I don't
know could be mix of both I know for a fact to the she didn't have a body she was just made of Bones she's she was
real oh you said that from the time you were little yeah like that was that was a that's never changed I drive by that
building and I look up out the window and I'm like you're like she's up there there she is I guarantee you interview
if a [ __ ] kid lived in that they'll see she didn't have a body she was just made of Bones definitely yeah 100% but
that's the thing I'm like a kid showing up in showing up in someone's closet means you mean business yeah cuz if I'm
in the afterlife I'm showing up there are some people in my pocket right now that I
will show up in their closet oh and it will be me trying to [ __ ] their whole world up absolutely so I wonder like how
that works like how do you decide where where you go do you get to sign in for the day like you're like today I will be
showing up in this person's closet and you have like sign in I kind of like so everybody knows where you are yeah this
person's closet covered it's like in Beetle Juice sort of like when they're all like newly deceased everyone's
hanging out I think it's something like that I think so there's an office for sure and who I'm coming scary well back
to the aim and haunting cuz it's so scary the for months the activity just continued disrupting everybody's lives
and before long the Paranormal Activity started affecting the children physically oh no they were experiencing
this is like so sad they were experiencing regular bouts of vomiting fevers diarrhea things that kept them
from going to school oh no later Latoya also reported that she would discover blood on their pillowcases frequently
and she believed it was coming from their mouths oh my God yeah like something was up oh this is so upsetting
and just like so everybody knows I believe in this one like the we kind of like debunked the uh amville there like
it's already been debunked so we talked about it this one I believe this is scary it's scary and just the sheer
number of people who witnessed some like the things that Latoya was saying well that's what that's what's really taking
me for a ride is like that this isn't you know like the house of flying objects where it's like there's one
person in the room always like you know you can at least somewhat be like maybe it's a mixture of things or it could
just be one thing or the other who knows this seems like other people that are in
higher positions that would go in as a skeptic because they have the best interest of like the children and
everything in mind are seemingly witnessing this like you're saying so like have social work and like police
officers yeah so that's interesting like literally writing things in their reports of like this is inexplicable
that's scary yeah it is and then Rosa her health started uh like a noticeable decline she had three different kidney
ailments that struck her one right after the other like living in this house up until that point like before then she
had been fine and then she moves into this house and she starts having all these kidney problems kidney [ __ ] is bad
yeah whatever was happening in the house had already taken a serous toll on everybody's physical and emotional
health but things just continued to get worse and worse God how on March 10th 2012 the family was all up late into the
early hours of the morning um they spent the day mning the loss of a close family
friend unfortunately and from the living room Rosa heard Latoya screaming mama mama so she went running to her
daughter's bedroom where she witnessed 12-year-old Shante levitating several feet above her bed completely
unconscious what the [ __ ] mhm she said I thought what's going on why is this happening and she immediately grabbed
her Bible and the family surrounded Shante praying over her until she descended back onto the surface of the
bed what moments later she woke up with no memory of what had happened she had no idea that that just all happened holy
[ __ ] and people are like praying loudly around her and she didn't wake up until
she like hit the bed and then like woke up a little bit after according to Latoya the guests who were staying at
the house that night left and refused to ever come back after the inent yeah so other people saw this and are like [ __ ]
that and are like I'm literally never stepping foot in that house again my God it turned out that the levitation
incident was just the beginning of the physical torment that the family was about to endure that weekend Shante was
sitting on the couch in the living room and she felt something grab her and yank
her off the couch throwing her to the floor a few hours later so that same day one of the boys was in the bathroom when
he claimed something grabbed him and jerked him to the floor and this is like aw
quote pulling on his Limbs and genitals what the [ __ ] yeah like demon demon activity holy [ __ ] according to Rosa and
Latoya when they entered the bathroom after hearing his screams they could see something pushing outward from the
inside of his stomach what this is [ __ ] up in every way imaginable it's unreal holy [ __ ] and
then a few hours later so again same day Shante was targeted again this time she
was lifted off the ground and thrown thrown into the refrigerator my God insane it turned out that whatever kids
I know and this poor parents like Jesus just everybody house this happening to their kids and it's sad like and this is
not a family that can just like pack up and go to a hotel for like that's the thing it's not like that's not you know
an option for for of people like that's the thing like to just be like oh well [ __ ] that I guess we'll just go right
pay this rent and also pay for something else exactly and this is a bigger family
too like this is five people that's a lot damn so it turned out whatever was harming Rosa Latoya and the children
also wasn't limiting it to just the family later after family and friends left the memorial that they had at the
house several of them reported that something quote followed them home giving them a heavy feeling or headache
that took a couple weeks to finally dissipate what and this is multiple people who said this and we'll get there
in a little bit but a police officer also claimed this holy [ __ ] yeah it's interesting again this isn't just this
family being like Oh yeah when no one's here all the [ __ ] is happening and you're like yeah no people would come
over and see [ __ ] and be like I'm never going back to that house and then they'd
go and have their own follow them oh my God crazy that's terrifying so it got to
the point where no one wanted to come over and a lot of people weren't even down to like associate too closely with
the family cuz they were scared yeah so while Latoya and the kids had already endured various forms of unexplained
phenomena and forms of Supernatural harassment I guess you could call it the incidents that occurred on or around
March 10th were much more aggressive than any of the ones before God how Rosa Campbell told her daughter we need help
we need to talk to somebody who knows how to deal with it but neither woman knew precisely what it was they were
pretty convinced though that it was Supernatural in nature so they went to the church to try to rid their lives of
this yeah which honestly I'm not even a believer and I think if all of this was happening to me might find a church I
don't even know like that's and especially if you're already religious Rel of course like that's going to be
your that's where you go your outlet mhm so they started with the leadership at the church they attended but they were
pretty disappointed to discover that while the clergy at their Church were sympathetic they didn't really take them
very seriously and [ __ ] up it is it is [ __ ] up and they said like sorry we don't know what we can do to help it's
like these are members of your congregation that are coming to you and isn't that like the whole point of you
yeah you're supposed to offer in times of need you're supposed to offer your assistance you would think and aren't
like demons your thing say you're passing that donation basket around sure like come on this poor family like this
Mother with three children that she's taking care of by herself with her mother living with her you're not going
to try to help no like just come in and do a blessing that's just bless the house you don't need to do an exorcism
you don't need to do anything crazy just come in and say most churches like I think a house blessing is pretty
standard standard I was going to say I feel like every paranormal case that we like talk about where the church does
get involved they at least come down and do a blessing a lot of times they're like yeah I don't know what we can do
but we'll do the blessing yeah I don't it doesn't even sound like they did that for real that reminds me if you guys
haven't read the September house yet by Carissa Orlando read it nice especially this spooky season yeah read it okay
it's a real [ __ ] good book and this made me think about it a little bit oh okay yeah so they were even more
disappointed to find out that this was the case with all the other churches in the area they went and talked to
multiple officials at multiple churches and all were sorry to hear about what was going on but they said they weren't
in a position to assist with paranormal we can't come and just bless your house for you make you feel better we can't
and we won't we we can't make you feel better sorry sorry like um and that's [ __ ] you believe your whole life in
something like yeah and they don't help you in your time of need they turn their
back on you and this seems like a [ __ ] demon isn't that the whole thing like the whole thing is like demons suck
let's get rid of them I think so isn't that the whole shebang so it's like I'm pretty sure can't just come in and toss
some holy water around at least to make maybe this will help make that family feel better yeah exactly like you know
even need to be like a you know an official ceremony or anything just come in bless doesn't have to be anything
crazy yeah do anything literally anything but after failing to find literally any help within the churches
in their area Rosa called her mother Ruth and explained to her what was going on and it just so happened that Ruth had
a neighbor who quote belonged to a church that dealt with Deliverance more than Rosa and Latoya's Baptist Church so
the neighbor offered to speak with the pastor at her own church to see what they could do to help now while she
waited to hear back from Ruth's neighbor Latoya and Rosa took the advice of one local church and they cleaned the house
from top to bottom with ammonia and then they used olive oil to make the sign of
the cross on every door and window okay and they also performed a similar blessing on the children pouring the
olive oil on their hands and feet and making the sign of the cross on their foreheads so desperate for any kind of
answer Latoya also re uh reached out to two local clairvoyants who informed her that quote the family's house home was
besieged by 200 demons and the best thing they could do was move 200 demons which when you hear that
you're like what the [ __ ] that's insane but also I feel like it kind of makes sense with the level that they're able
to assault like it takes a lot of power like even we were talking about the house of flying objects and that sounded
like a poltergeist like that takes a lot of energy to build up it takes like weeks and weeks and it seems like this
started happening to them like almost immediately 100 demons 200 demons and that these people are like the only
thing you can do is get the [ __ ] out of here and like ultimately yeah pretty much uh the explanation of the Demonic
infestation made sense to Latoya and Rosa because they were both Christians but they were barely scraping by as it
was so moving just wasn't financially feasible at that time so instead they set up several altars around the house
draping end tables and white fabric and adorning them with religious icons statues Bible uh passages and they also
took the advice of the local clairvoyants and they burned sage in each room of the house from top to
bottom until the smoke was so thick that it became difficult to breathe I mean that's not good like they're desperate
like that's that's not good everybody also if you're saging you're supposed to have the windows open I was going to say
is it's not supposed to like build up in there no cuz the whole thing is like you're saging something out so the I'm
pretty sure like the smoke carries it out also like and again like I've always said it like I'm you practice whatever
religion you feel I would never sway you against that or anything like that um but as someone who doesn't practice that
religion or a religion uh the idea of this like demon infested home and now all these altars are set up going to
piss them off well no it just it it is so chilling to think of I'm like this must have been the scariest mhm setting
of just this demonic chaos with all this religious paraphernalia around cuz like
religious horror to me I was just going to say is the scariest like because it just the the lay yeah it just brings a
different vibe to it I love it like it's it really like really brings it to a place yeah and this to me is like but to
think that this is real life like cuz I'm like this is religious horror right here like setting up all the altars and
[ __ ] then I'm like oh my God this was someone's existence yeah and like three children and like that's so scary and
imagine just like going to sleep for the night yeah just like wrapping up the day
in that house in that house what's going on in that house how it's all set up now
and you're at your like most vulnerable Fu and they're all just desperate as hell and it's like I would living at my
friends houses at that point and be couch surfing yeah seriously but it's like again but your friends have
distanced themselves because they're scared that they're going to have things attached to them and there's five people
here like you can't just show up on somebody's doorstep five people like most most people don't have friends that
are like yeah all five of you can say inde definitely you know so to Latoya surprise the rituals performed around
the house actually seemed like they worked for three days things in the Aman's house were finally peaceful no
incidents no activity but the peace they experienced in the wake of the cleansing
did not last long after 3 days The Assault on the family worsened considerably so I think it like pissed
them off the demons according to Latoya the demons like I'm speaking of the Demons the diamons according to Latoya
she and each of her children experienced demonic possession she said the kids eyes bulged evil Smiles crossed their
faces and their voices would deepen every time it happened no yeah and she said she felt weak lightheaded and warm
whenever a demon overtook her body she said you can tell it's something different something Supernatural I hate
this soon after Andre took to spending his afternoon sitting in the closet with the ghost boy who often told him what it
was like to be murdered oh my God I have chills that just will not evacuate I like literally
I'm like what the [ __ ] yeah like my littlest had skeletone that you all know but skeletone was just sitting there
being like I got a family yeah and I'm going to go visit my family he said I'm going to leave and he never came back he
just left and that's great and he never Never Scared anybody never said like hey
I was murdered he just hung out yeah you know this little boy if she told me like
he was telling me what it's like to be murdered no I don't know what I do no like I say I'm like oh I would do no I
don't know what I would do I I think I just start crying yeah for a long time that is such an upsetting thing to think
about crying and never stop yeah oh my God and eventually The Entity started moving from one child to another so
quickly that Latoya and Rosa wouldn't have time to react before it moved from one to the other like if she was trying
to get three kids in the car she said one would run to the car and start kicking it one would be rest restraining
the other would be and the other would be thrown to the grass then one would start cussing or saying it's time to
kill do or doing some sort of demonic chant where one would stop and the other would pick up just where the other left
off what the [ __ ] like no and she's just trying to like get them in the car to go somewhere for
the day no no no no no no you know how hard it is to get three kids in the car son's possession yes like they
essentially are possessed like no matter what're and you Conant state of needing
an exorcism trying to get them into the car yes and then to add actual possession into it no no uhuh no thank
you mm-m holy [ __ ] and then when the entity would leave them they would just immediately
fall asleep like they were exhausted oh that's so upsetting it is sad yeah so by
early April the kids are missing school on a regular basis and the administrators actually became concerned
about their well-being so out of options and with literally no help coming from the church Latoya took the kids to their
primary care physician in the hope that he might know what to do which I think to me proves how desperate she is she's
going to the kid doctor the doctor Dr um Jeffrey anaku I believe it is said 20 years and I've never heard anything like
that in my life I was scared myself when I walked into the room wow so like it was visible what they were going through
a reporter for the Indian Indianapolis Star was given access to the doctor's clinical notes from the visit and he
describes quote delusions of ghost in the home and quote hallucinations among the children and describes all of them
as delusional I mean which he's looking at it from a point of view of of like I can't just sit here and be like yeah you
have ghosts I'm sure that's what's happening he's seeing these kids going through it
he's thinking child abuse exactly and that's got to be his first concern it was of course unfortunately like you can
understand and I understand that this was probably [ __ ] horrifying from both sides you know like but you can
understand the doctor's that he's looking he's thinking of these kids and yeah you know he's not in the house and
unfortunately um Child Protective Services had they had a history with this family they been involved before so
the doctor's notes are clear that he believed them to be a family experiencing a mental health crisis the
statements from medical staff but so he thinks that but the statements from the medical staff in the office that day
actually painted a different picture really according to one member of the staff who was later interviewed by I
think they're DCS now department of children's services according to one of those workers during an interview Latoya
told the intake staff many stories quote regarding demons and spirits and that her home has various demons and evil
spirits due to somebody dying in the home but regarding the children's Behavior staff reported that during the
examination Latoya's youngest son was quote lifted and thrown into the wall with nobody touching
him like medical staff saw this happen medical staff who worked I don't know if they were all doctors or nurses but like
the staff the staff working at this office like literally saw this with their own eyes and wrote it down whoa
yeah and that's that's the thing that makes because those are the things that make me just go what because like you
know there's some parts of this where you go like is is there a severe mental health crisis happening here and like
some like religious delusions and all that stuff like is that happening yep and then you see something like that and
you go what the [ __ ] is that right cuz how do you explain that how do you explain that cuz you if he like stumbled
into the wall yeah I'd be like okay that's probably a mental health crisis he was lifted and thrown into the wall
and there's a crazier thing that happens later that's just inexplicable other medical staff reported that this the
specific child was quote making growling noises and his eyes rolled into the back
of his head what which that I feel like you could kind of do on your own but still still yeah the situation finally
ended when Latoya wrapped her arms around him and he became limp and was placed on the bed at which point the
medical staff actually called 911 yeah cuz what the [ __ ] is going on yeah they
requested emergency services so several minutes later an ambulance arrived along
with seven or eight police officers and the children were taken to the Methodist
Hospital in Gary according to Rosa when the boys came to in the hospital Nate acted rationally but Andre screamed and
thrashed like resisting the medical staff this is so sad it is it's awful at the same time an anonymous call was
placed to DCS and requested that the state open an investigation into the possible abuse of the aiman's children
for possible child abuse or neglect M the caller indicated their belief that Latoya was suffering from symptoms of
mental illness and quote the children were performing for her and she was encouraging their behavior which is
awful but you can understand why somebody might somebody might have thought that if they're not seeing
everything going on in this house like all of this is behind closed doors and then they're just hearing reports of
this that's the thing their job is to keep children safe and I can understand somebody calling worried about the kids
100% so DCS case worker Valerie Washington met the family at the hospital that day and opened the
official case into the alleged abuse and neglect at the same time all the children were physically examined and
found to be free of any outward signs or uh of abuse no bruises or anything like
that meanwhile Latoya was examined by staff at the Methodist hospital and determined to be of sound mind see this
is the stuff that makes me go what the [ __ ] is going on here it was only in her
interviews with the children that Valerie Washington started to think something actually strange was happening
within the family if not the house itself M according to interview notes from a discussion with Shante the girl
told Washington that quote at times she has weird thoughts and unnatural events take place in the home during the
evening time she also reported being thrown across the room and grabbed by Dark Shadows a few nights ago that's
horrifying so scary and for a child to be saying this is so disturbing and shant is older I think um I think I said
at the top she's 12 yeah so she's like not like a little little kid just like making up a story you know what I mean
well that's the and also it's like for Latoya to be you know you're going to be looked at as possibly abusing these
children or that you're going through a mental health crisis so if this is really happening you're going out of
sheer desperation because like you know what you're going to face absolutely and
she's already faced it but she was so desperate that she went for help when she could have just kept it to herself
if that was what was really happen you know what I mean the abuse was happening I completely agree so it does tell you
something that she was so desperate that she opened herself up to this KN cuz she
had to know yeah you know this was going to be the the first thing they were going to think of and she still opened
up to it to be like help please like I don't know what to do which so devastating and that's it is absolutely
and that's what's so sad about the fact that she went to all the churches she did first I think she was like can we
please like find some help here so I don't have to go this other so I don't have to go somewhere else and get
thought that I'm hurting my children yeah like that's awful I can't imagine how that would feel because you hope no
parent would ever do something like this to their children no knowingly sometimes
DCF does invest or DCS they're like called a different thing a lot um I think here it's DCF I think so people
call in cases to be [ __ ] when like abuse isn't happening and people are investigating yeah for sure like you
they have to but they're mandated reporters it's she she's going through it and she
knew exactly so by far the most unusual event and this is [ __ ] crazy by far the most unusual event that day occurred
while Andre was being interviewed by Valerie Washington he told Hospital staff that quote ghosts were attacking
him and his brother but before he could finish his statement he had a quote weird grin and walked backwards up a
wall to the ceiling he then flipped over his grandmother landing on his feet there were multiple people in this room
in including the casew worker Valerie Washington who saw this happen Okay I can't explain this I can't
explain this according to those in the room he never let go of his grandmother's hand so he held her hand
walked the wall backwards onto the ceiling and flipped over her body I'm and it if this again if this is just
the family saying that this happened and no one else was was there and you're like I would be like that is the dumbest
thing I've ever heard like I that would be akin to the idville story where it's like too far you know Kathy Lutz got
levitated up off the bed and then just levitated towards the closet for no reason I'd be like no one else was there
except for you know George Lutz like w we say and y'all are trying to make money on this seeing that a social
worker was in that room witnessed it and wrote it in the report yes which puts their own job in danger because it makes
them look a little cooky cooky and there was medical staff in the room who were like what the [ __ ] yeah no one Els and
people aren't going to be putting their whole [ __ ] careers on the line here no to keep up with some hoax for no
reason and even like police officers were involved at this point later in an interview with the police officers asked
maybe if the boy had run up the wall or performed some kind of like acrobatic you got it you're they were like yeah
but they everybody in the room insisted no he walked up the wall backwards and flipped over one of the nurses at the
hospital said he walked up the wall flipped over and stood there there's no way he could have done that and when
this happened both Valerie Washington the case worker and the nurse who was attending to these children ran out of
the room in fear like ran out of the [ __ ] hospital room okay something's there's 200 demons in this house like
I'm 100 there's a lot of demons like it's happening so when Washington and the nurse they literally ran out of the
room terrified and grabbed a doctor and was like I don't know what the [ __ ] going on just walked on the ceiling like
let's can we backwards let's fix this so they reported to the attending physician
what everybody had just seen and the doctor was like yeah [ __ ] off that didn't happen cuz like how do you I
would say the same thing he's a man of science like this man is being like there's no [ __ ] con I'm going to fire
both of you like how could you like he's like one of you doesn't even work here and you're fired fired he told the nurse
okay so if Andre walked up the wall backwards then he'll do it again but he was not only unable to repeat the move
he had no memory of what even happened the first time he told the doctor I didn't walk up a wall I can't walk up a
wall what the [ __ ] and when he tried he was unable to get his foot like his footing or balance because like who can
walk up a it's one thing to like it would even be shocking if like he ran up the wall and onto the ceiling and down
like that's an acrobatic move of like someone show me how to do that yeah show me to be walk backwards slowly up the
wall and onto the ceiling where gravity makes that impossible y like and he's 9 years old that's the thing like I'm
pretty sure I said at the beginning he was 9 years old I'm trying to keep everybody's ages in check holy [ __ ] but
he's like he's a he's a b he's a b that would be like one of the girls just walking up the
[ __ ] like that's just let me know if they do that anytime it's the ceiling that gets me the fact that he walked all
the way up the wall and onto the ceiling and then flipped back down yeah like gravity my friends yeah but despite
having witnessed the wall walking and generally believing the story of demonic possession the nurse still admitted that
the children's Behavior was likely due at least in part to mental illness she was like something's a foot here but I
also think mentalness is playing into this ding them to this like whatever is happening in this house might be
literally making them mad absolutely so that night Latoya spent the night in the
hospital with her youngest son while her mom returned home with the other children the next day was Andre's
birthday and he's in the hospital like going through this so Rosa and the children came back to the hospital to
celebrate but the celebration was shortlived oh no not long after they gathered in Andre's hospital room Latoya
got a call from Valerie Washington informing her that DCS decided it was in the best interest of the children to
temporarily remove them from the home until the situation was resolved and there was a plan for their safety moving
forward and that's on his birthday on his [ __ ] birthday which I'm like you couldn't have done it one [ __ ] day
later that's the thing like what the f I get it I know there's a m like I was involved in DCS as a kid like I get it
but I don't know and it's just like and you can see why they came to that conclusion because obviously they might
this might not even like be against Latoya you know what I mean they're saying that home is unsafe it's just
yeah it's the saf we watch something happen in that home that we can't explain they need to be out of that
house and you can't remove them from the house right now so it's just such a it's
such a sad situation it is a situation like getting so sick in that house that they can't even go to school like this
is affecting every part of their lives yeah and right but my goodness but to be separated as a f like it's just so sad
and on your child's birthday on your young like your baby's birthday and he's in the hospital he one has to spend his
birthday in the hospital and two he gets moved to like a foster home on his birthday Latoya must have just been
yeah so Latoya later told a reporter it was obvious we were a team and we were beating it whatever it was we made it
through together as a team and they separated us oh that like breaks my heart yeah she was like that like really
bre heart Mom that's a mom that's a single Mama right there being like this family is a [ __ ] team makes me want
to cry oh like that like breaks my heart it really does anything hearing about like DCS and foster care and stuff and
like it's traumatic having to be separated just like it's such a sad yeah and obviously that has to happen it's
necessary like like some in many cases it's the best thing that can happen but like when you hear about it it's never
it's always devastating no matter what it's traumatic well that's the thing even if you coming from this [ __ ]
awful environment mhm that's still devastating that one you had to live that and now you have to live in the
unknown right as a kid no who had no [ __ ] business having to deal with that I know I actually like like I just
said I was involved in DCF and luckily I never had to go to foster care because I
had like you and Ma and papa yeah but I think about fostering sometimes just to like give back to just just to that's
like that that that's them hofers if you didn't hear in the other episode yes I'm
I'm on the Hofer train this year I [ __ ] love the Hofer they're just like they're a perfect shining example of you
know a lovely Foster family and it takes like just just a sidebar here it takes such a specific human to to be able to
do that because yeah if you're a foster parent [ __ ] Kudos billions and billions of Kudos cuz
they will get like a newborn in the middle of the night and then you bond with that baby and then sometimes and
you know what they're coming from and sometimes you have to give that baby back and obviously the the goal most of
the time is to reun for DCF is to reunite the M goal which in my opinion is not shouldn't always be the goal but
oh but knowing fight right that knowing as a foster parent that like that's the goal and that you
may have to like you got to be like what a selfless human being you have to be to just be like I want to
make this child's life as loving and beautiful as I can for the time I have them yeah but then I'm just going to
have to put my own like Devastation aside and sever that bond to give them back to like continue their life right
like [ __ ] you have to see be such a selfless person and also there's [ __ ] who completely use the fost it
for the money like we were talking about uh couple cases ago they were foster parents and you're like hello you really
got like the best and the worst yeah I think I would just end up with 45 million kids cuz I just like I'll adopt
this one too adop them yeah 18 kids let's go I couldn't even I don't even think I could Foster an animal and it's
just and it's because I just will end up with all of them like I there's no way I
couldn't no I know it's it's a it's an angel it's a special person truly you're a special kind of person if you do that
I think Sabrina Sabrina Sabrina just fostered some kittens and she's an angel she is a
[ __ ] angel Sabrina and kin are both Angels truly but yeah sometimes I think about it like I'm I'm not at a point in
my life right now where I would do it may later someday in the future I would think about it it's beautiful beautiful
but anyways back to the case in the formal paperwork uh Valerie Washington noted the children's physical or mental
condition is seriously impaired and seriously endangered as a result of Latoya inability to supply education or
supervision which is rough in simple terms the amount of school that the children had missed due to the
everything that was going on was seen as neglect unfortunately that does constitute neglect and the home
environment was not one that was promoting safety no cuz shit's going down but according to Latoya she could
not send the children to school sometimes because the spirits would make them sick or they would be up all night
with no sleep so they couldn't go to school that's horrifying she's in between a rock and a heart
yeah but like I said earlier this was not the first time that the DCS had been involved in the family in 2009 a case
worker was assigned for the same reason but at that point there was no mention of spirits or demons or anything it just
the kids not going to school not going to school and not having enough supervision which also she's a single
mother I'm sure she's working multiple jobs like it's a tough position to be in you know but anyway about a week after
the children had been removed Valerie Washington conducted a home VIs visit to Latoya's house accompanied by three
police officers two of whom just joined out of quote professional curiosity I honestly couldn't blame them on that
friend because you're like what is going on here yeah I'm pretty sure this is like a smaller town yeah you know so
people are hearing this and they're like I want to go so inside they discovered several makeshift altars around the
first floor of the house as well as several Circles of salt which Latoya explained had been put in place to
disuade the demons which walking into that would would be horrifying absolutely and I'm sure these officers
are like okay immediately I'm sure they thought she was mentally ill like 100% there's like some you know religious
mania going on here yes like that's exactly what they thought was happening so good that's what I would think so the
officer officially tasked with accompanying uh Valerie Washington on the visit was Gary Police Captain
Charles Austin he was a veteran police officer with more than 35 years experience and he later told a reporter
that prior to his involvement in this case he always believed in ghosts but he did not believe in demons but after
investigating the case he changed his mind 100% wow among other things he claimed there were unusual and
unidentifiable excuse me Silhouettes and the photos that officers took in the basement that day which actually LED
them to believe Latoya's story of demonic possession [ __ ] and like those who left the house after the family wake
Austin actually believed he was followed home by some sort of entity that day that caused tons of electrical problems
in his house for several days what the [ __ ] this is a policeman with 35 years on the force who didn't believe in
anything like this my God like he was like yeah I think there's ghosts but like no there's not demons and then he
left and he was like oh there's demons and one follow one came to my house no not long after the children were removed
from her custody Latoya was informed that they would remain in the temporary custody of the state until she could
prove that she was responsible and stable enough for them so to her that meant she would have to rid her house
and herself of the demons that was that were plaguing the family for months fortunately help was actually much
easier to find this time around than it had been in previous months after hearing the story of what happened at
the Methodist Hospital the hospital chaplain David Neville reached out to one of his colleagues Reverend Mike
majino the pastor at a church in nearby Merillville unlike many of the other clergy in the area minino was actually a
True Believer in demons and did have some knowledge of exorcism oh we found one we found one we will always find one
yeah you got to find one but he informed Neville that before he could do anything
he would have to speak with the family and then if it was warranted he would have to get permission from the bishop
to perform the right of the exorcism that's such an interesting that that interests me so
much to cuz I you I always thought exorcisms were one of those things where it was like a priest was like here I
come coming to do an exorcism and it was just like yep the fact that there's like
they have to go through like special permissions and like it's like a you have to be like approved to perform this
right and everything it's very interesting yeah you have to like jump through hoops and it's interesting that
like I feel like a lot of the cases that we cover the priest is so insistent on getting The Bishop's permission like
they're like I'm not [ __ ] around without his permission exactly and then you have Ed and Lorraine who are always
calling yeah the arch dases it's crazy and always getting permission somehow always getting permission but then the
arch dases they forget they're like no no permission was made they get quickly get one of those men in black like mind
erase or things and they're like we didn't do that we didn't do that and Ed and luran are like they don't get they
did it wor about totally shut up they Li so in late April minino met with LaToya
and Rosa at their new rental apartment in Gary where they gave him the lowdown on everything that happened in the
previous months everything they told him was compelling but he asked for permission to review any additional
material including any law enforcement or Hospital footage or documentation and they agreed to provide it but it wasn't
until he accompanied Latoya and two Gary officers back into the home that his belief in Latoya's case was absolutely
cemented according to the Reverend when Latoya entered the house for the first time since my interview with her oil
seemed to condense and drip onto the steps from the crosses she made above oh it also appeared all over the blinds in
her bedroom [ __ ] when he reviewed the police footage from from the walk through later
that afternoon there was no traces of oil or any other unexplained phenomena that actually occurred like when he was
visiting what strange despite what he believed was compelling evidence of demonic possession the bishop Dale Mel's
check I think denied his initial request for permission to perform an exorcism the Archbishop said no denied he did
however suggest that majino uh minino excuse me contact other priests in the area and ask them for training in the
right of a minor exorcism oh [ __ ] I didn't know there was different levels of exorcism there are and now I'm so
interested I think it'd be fun to kind of talk about on an episode and like dive into the different levels cuz I
didn't know all this I didn't either so you can do a minor exorcism and that does not require the church's approval
those are the ones I'm thinking about where they just run on in and perform an ex loophole in the case of a minor
exorcism a clergy member will use prayer and religious symbols and other statements to drive out any negative
entities that might be you know in the home or space so after making some phone calls the Reverend did locate a priest
who was willing to provide the information necessary and about a week later majino was back at Latoya's former
house this time to drive out whatever had been tormenting the family so in addition to himself and Latoya the
exorcism was attended by Virginia Washington the case worker the case worker and officer Samantha ilck I think
it is from the Gary Police Department and another unnamed officer um Samantha had been at the previous walkthrough and
was actually somewhat skeptical of Latoya's claims but was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt she was
like I want to see this I want to see this [ __ ] cuz and she's like you know my
captain there has become a Believer maybe I will after leaving the house that afternoon she said she was fully
convinced something evil was in that house damn she said we felt like someone was in the room with you like someone
breathing down your neck oh I hate that yeah so as majino prayed throughout each
room of the house he instructed l to look up the names of the demons that could possibly be inhabiting the house
but each time she tried to do so the computer would shut down without explanation that's why you need an
ancient Tome of course no stop using technology nope you need ancient to you need ancient dusty ass to has anyone
watched Buffy you fliping through yeah and it makes that sound and you find your thought you find you find the Damon
it's true that's what it is but the deeper she dug for the right uh the right name the sicker and more
light-headed she got making the process so arduous and just completely unpleasant so finally they discovered
the demons inhabiting the home were Basel buub the Lord of the Flies be elub thank you the Lord of the Flies and
quote other high-ranking demons including lieutenants and sergeants that torture and hurt
kids I didn't know those were things I did not know there were sergeants rankings Among The Damons it's a whole
Community I had no idea it's very militaristic it is I don't like that I'm not into it the fact that be elub is
there like you damn don't say it too many times in my house please you're just like you got like the you you got
the demon I'm quite frankly palosanto in the room after this yeah as you should yeah with the windows open palosanto me
too please before I leave oh I will whenever we talk about demons I think we should start palosanto because I do
think some weird energy is building up in the Pod lab and we're in my house right now and that shit's not welcome
yeah it's not happening thank you so the prayer and ritual went on for several hours during which time Latoya was
becoming more weak more exhausting or more exhausted excuse me she later said I was hurting all over from the inside
out I'm trying to do my best and be strong but eventually she fell asleep which she said was quote the Demon's way
of lessening the rituals effect like knocked her out essentially ultimately majino performed a minino I don't I keep
going to say like making it fancier I love it Mao performed three exorcisms between May and June during during which
time Latoya and Rosa actually had moved to Indianapolis but they drove back to Gary for each ritual cuz I think I I
don't know if she was paying rent on this house and her next house but she's trying to get her kids back you can tell
but finally at the last exercism in June majino changed tactics and quote paraded
the demons in Latin rather than English which he claimed was the key to successfully driving them out and at
hearing the Latin words in scripture Latoya started to convulse and then went slack and seemed to be asleep he said a
prayer of thanks over her sleeping body and when she woke up she and Rosa went back to Indianapolis where they claim
they have not experienced any demonic activity since so in Cabin in the Woods when he
says do not read the Latin he's wrong apparently you read the Latin I think you can only read the Latin if you know
the Latin and what what you're saying yeah you don't want to just read willy-nilly Latin never if we tell you
one thing if you take one thing away from this episode never read Latin willy-nilly yeah don't just willy-nilly
you got to know about the Latin yeah but in November 2012 roughly one year after
this whole ordeal began Latoya did regain custody of all three children and her entire family started participating
in inh home based Therapy Services good according to one report filed with DCS they quote have not experienced any
issues with demonic presences or spirits in the home in Indianapolis and are moving on from that point in their lives
damn the report goes on to say the family continues to attend church regularly on Sunday but the family is no
longer fixated solely on religion to explain or cope with the children's behavior issues whoa so I think DCF
definitely was like there's too much yeah Reliance on religion going on here to a point where it's dangering on
religious mania yes exactly in 2014 a long form article in the Indianapolis Star about the family's experience
generated an unexpectedly large amount of national attention and thrust the family right back into the spotlight
Latoya said I figured that I'd get an uproar from my hometown but I never imagine that it would go viral just four
days later Zach beIN of Ghost Adventures who Zach beIN oh a man named Zack bin I
don't know if you've heard of him he bought the house from the owner for $35,000 and subsequently made a
television documentary about the house which I will be watching today I will be watching that later yep he referred to
it has the next Amityville wow and I added but real I was just going to say I don't know if
you want to throw that one on there you're like the next hoax exactly I I believe in this one a lot more I
definitely like I'll be honest I think there were probably parts of this that got dramati how do you say that
dramatized yeah dramatized I would say dramaticized I feel like that's can you is that a word too dramaticized
dramatized you decide I'll take both I think there were parts of this that got both of them that did both of those
things and I'm sure you know sometimes the kids were like oh I can't go to school I you know
demons I think overall they did experience a lot of what they said there is something very unexplained in this
situation 100% there's something that does not the fact that many people saw a kid walk backwards up a wall and onto
the ceiling and then flip over his grandma while holding her hand you're just never you're never going to tell me
that that wasn't a demon yeah that's the so it there's other things that for sure
you can question and just at least be like huh okay well and then but this next part to me I'm like huh cuz like we
all know Zach beins has an entire [ __ ] Museum filled with the most haunted [ __ ] on the planet yeah when
this documentary was finished he had the house demolished whoa yeah just after the release of the documentary in 2016
he told a reporter something was inside that house that had the ability to do things that I have never seen before
things that others carrying the highest forms of credibility couldn't explain either there was something there that
was very dark yet highly intelligent and Powerful whoa so Zach beIN was like I don't want to [ __ ] with that we're
demolishing that house holy [ __ ] the man who will take like every haunted [ __ ]
thing into his Museum to me was like let's get rid of this that's like I have chills on my legs right now like can not
be like we're going to save this house and they continue investigating he was like nope no we should just get rid of
it mhm completely got rid of it so interesting and several years later Latoya's story was adapted into the
Deliverance this year yeah this year isn't that for some reason I thought that movie had been out for way longer
you're probably thinking of Deliverance I was that's exactly what I was thinking
um definitely different Netflix released it and it was directed by Lee Daniels and it stars um Andre day and queen Glen
Close oh and Glenn I've never had actually seen the movie I haven't seen the movie well I've seen like the stills
of like we're not I'm not seen the of Nana Nana Glenn there Nana Glenn I want to watch it and I want to watch the the
documentary I'm dying to watch the documentary now yeah cuz nothing is more fun than watching a Zack BAC Zack BAC is
such a character or or a Taps I love a I love a ghost hunting yes yes ghost ghost
adventures and Ghost Hunters Ghost Hunters I I prefer Ghost Hunters personally me too uh but there's
something to be said about all of them isn't this an interesting case though that was a very interesting case like I
90 I would say I 98% believe most of what happened there it's funny because we went from like a straight up hoax Tom
like straight up Shenanigans nonsense and then we went to the house of flying objects where you
could be like all right I think there's a little bit of something happening here
but who knows what is it you know the kid going through it and there's like this energy that's building it what's
going on right but you think there's like a little bit of each and then you go to this one and you go a kid walked
up a wall and onto the ceiling and flipped over his grandma and for a whole [ __ ] room of people yeah that's a
differents DCF case workers were writing things in their reports where they were
like yeah some part of some parts of this are inexplicable yeah nurses were like yeah I'm we didn't even mean to do
that either like put them in that order know that they like went into like nonsense like might be real kind of
thing it was a nice way to top off spooky season I don't know if this is the last spooky season episode or not I
have no idea we have an we have a fun guest coming up that's a little bit spooky yeah um but he's also just like a
fun guest to have yeah he's just a wonderful human being he's lovely we going to be recording that tomorrow so
it might be the next episode after this yeah and then we have our fun Halloween episode oh actually that's the episode
after this there you go I don't really know to be honest but you know what Halloween oh the episode is fun I'm so
excited you're GNA you know you're going to get a little Nifty gifty along with it so so look out for that yeah and fun
subsequent gifts to come yeah cuz we're we're excited about this one thing not really gift yeah I shouldn't say gift
like you're not going to hold a gift in your hand no uh a fun a fun thing that we never do yeah exactly but we might do
more of soon yeah uh so yeah look forward to that um and we hope you keep listening and we hope you keep it weird
but not so weird that you walk up a wall backwards and flip over your camera after your grandma after walking on the
ceiling my grandma my grandma [Music] oh [Music]

In January 2014, a strange article appeared in the Indianapolis Star about Latoya Ammons, an Indiana single mother of three who claimed that for more than a year, she and her children were besieged by demons in their rented home. Ammons claimed, among other things, that the house was constantly infested with black flies, the children were levitated from their beds, and her nine-year-son became possessed and walked up a wall backwards. And that was only the beginning; by the end of just one year in the house, the Ammons family claim they were terrorized by all manner of supernatural assaults, from ghostly apparitions to demonic entities.

Latoya Ammons’ story might well have gone unnoticed, had it not been for the surprising number of witnesses to the paranormal events, from family and friends to police officers and social workers. Still, Latoya was not without her critics or skeptics—some accused her of fabricating the story to get out of her lease, while others assumed she was simply delusional. Regardless of the explanation for the cause of the events, there’s no denying that Latoya Ammons story is one of the most terrifying paranormal experiences heard in decades.

Thank you to the Incredible Dave White of Bring Me the Axe Podcast for research and Writing support!

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Brief Summary

Latoya Ammons and her family faced terrifying demonic hauntings in Indiana, leading to possession claims and a controversial exorcism.

Key points

The Cat Show Dilemma. Ash recounts a cat show visit that tested her resolve against adopting another cat.
Latoya's Terrifying Experience. Latoya Aens and her family face a series of paranormal events in their new home.
Shante's Levitation Incident. Witnessed by her mother, Shante levitates above her bed, leaving the family in shock.
The Family's Desperate Measures. Rosa and Latoya clean their house and perform rituals to rid it of demons.
Medical Staff Witnesses Possession. Doctors observe Latoya's son being lifted and thrown against a wall, raising alarms.
Children's Disturbing Behavior. Latoya's children exhibit signs of possession, alarming medical staff and authorities.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

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7:40WatchOct 28, 2024

Tension

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