Real Life Story Of An Indiana House Haunted By 200 demons. (MUST SEE)

Latoya Ammons (pictured left) moved into a
home with her mother and 3 children in Gary,
Indiana in 2011 and started hearing footsteps in
the basement. Over time, she and her children,
aged 12, 9 and 8, became 'possessed'; their eyes
would bulge, they'd shake and growl. A
clairvoyant said the home was haunted by 200
demons. Sons were taken to hospital after one
was inexplicably thrown in the house. While
there a nurse and a CPS worker saw him walk
backwards up a wall. Full story below..

It is a clear, calm voice – a whisper
that cuts across the voices of the
Indiana police officers recording
proceedings.
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‘Hey’ – a simple word rendered
chilling because nobody present in
the basement that day said it, much
less heard it, at the time.
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None of the police officers sent to
investigate claims of supernatural
occurrences, possession and
paranormal activity at a modest
rental home in Gary, Indiana in
spring 2012 really believed this
could be anything other than a
hoax. None of them thought that
they would be descending into ‘a
portal to hell.’




But today that is exactly what Gary Indiana
police captain Charles Austin (pictured above)
believes the basement of Latoya Ammons’s
former family home contained.
Speaking to MailOnline he said: ‘Everyone of us
who was there that day in the basement and
who saw what we saw, went through what we
went through after…we all think the same, we
all call it the same. That bit of dirt is a portal
to hell.
'I came into work on the Monday and asked my
sergeant if anything had occurred out of the
ordinary over the weekend. He told me that
there had been a contact by a party in reference
to a house in Carolina Street where the mother
was living with three children and her mother,
their grandmother.’
Since the news of the so-called possession and
exorcism of Latoya Ammons broke the story has
been met with intense skeptism by some and
unwavering belief by others. But no-one can
remain unmoved or unsettled by this odd,
alarming tale.
MailOnline has spoken with the key officials
involved in the investigation at its very
beginning and the exorcism in which it
culminated. And both men – one of the law, one
of the cloth – admit to having followed that
same arch of disbelief giving way to horrified
credence.
When Capt Austin heard of it that Monday
afternoon his sergeant told him that Child
Protection Services were involved.
The children had been missing school and had
been removed from their mother’s care but both
Latoya Ammons and her mother Rose Campbell
insisted that the wrong at the heart of their
household was supernatural in nature.
Capt Austin said: ‘The sergeant told me that the
children had been missing school and there was
talk of satanic goings on. He was very leery of
it. I contacted some people, high-ranking
officers; we decided to take a look.
‘I walked in there thinking this was nothing but
a hoax, a concocted story.’
Instead what he experienced that day in the
spring of 2012 shook him to his core,
threatened his life and became part of the
documented history of one of the most
disturbing and baffling cases in Indiana’s police
history.
That voice - picked up by a police tape recorder
as Capt Austin and his colleagues recorded their
tour around the house with a growing sense of
unease – was either a welcome or a challenge,
according to Capt Austin, 62, but whatever it
was, it was not human.
Capt Austin’s assertions were echoed by Roman
Catholic priest Father Michael Maginot, also
interviewed by MailOnline.




Cops and child protection workers were also
spooked during visits to the home in Gary,
Indiana (pictured). In this image, a figure
appears in a window, right, although no one
was home




A close-up of the image shows the cloudy
white figure in the window of the home

Most of the problems at the home were around
the basement stairs, pictured. Police dug a four
foot hole under the stairs to look for graves
Father Maginot may be a more natural
candidate to believe in supernatural
phenomenon than a cop of 37 years' standing
who prides himself in being an ‘aggressive and
assertive law enforcer.’
But, like Capt Austin, he set out to disprove the
story forwarded by Latoya Ammons and her
mother Rose. Instead he would conduct one
minor and three major exorcisms on the
mother of three and told MailOnline that he
himself had been the target of demonic attack
for his involvement in the case.
Over a six-month period Latoya claims that she
and her children were possessed by demons. She
says that the house in which they lived was
ravaged by malevolent spirits, that her
daughter, then 12, and sons, 9 and 7
respectively were physically attacked – thrown
against furniture, dragged from the sofa,
punched and tormented till their gums and
noses bled and they struggled to breath.
As a family she says they fell ill – she to three
kidney infections, her children to a variety of
ailments and disturbances. She says the house
‘dripped oil,’ that shadowy figures walked the
rooms at night, that footsteps could be heard
coming up from the basement only to be
followed by a furious pounding on the door
leading form it to the main house when, in
increasing terror, she and her mother put a
lock on it.




Father Maginot says he set out to disprove the
claims but instead became utterly convinced of
them
There were swarms of dead horseflies on the
porch – swept up one day only to return in
equal abundance the next. Lights flickered,
phones played up, television signals scrambled
and reverted to normal on a whim.
In short, she claims, the family was terrorized
beyond all endurance. And the impact in
school-time lost and medical treatment sought
saw the Department of Child Protection Services
step in and call in first he police, and finally
after one particularly harrowing event, Father
Maginot.
Sitting before the fire in the main room of St
Stephen the Martyr’s rectory in Merrillville,
Indiana Father Maginot admitted he only
became involved by chance. He happened to be
covering for the usual chaplain of Gary ER on
the weekend when a medic called in some
distress to report a bizarre occurrence.
He said: ‘We were having our bible study after
mass when I got the call saying “You’re a
Catholic priest. You do exorcisms. We need you
to do one.” They went onto tell me that a little
boy had just walked, glided, backwards up a
wall and flipped over to land on his feet.
‘They said he was growling, they described all
sorts of things. I went of course.’
Father Maginot speaks rapidly and earnestly. He
is affable, open and welcoming but he is no
fool. He set out, he insisted, to disprove any
notion of the occult. To do an exorcism
permission is needed from the Bishop and, to be
frank, he admitted he was reluctant to go down
that path having approached Bishop Dale J
Melczek, Bishop of Gary some years earlier on
another matter involving possible supernatural
events only to receive short shrift.
He said: ‘I set out to disprove it because to be
honest I didn’t want to get the bishop involved.
But I had policemen, social workers, doctors
and security guards telling me what they had
witnessed.
‘I couldn’t just dismiss them all. That was a
Friday. So I met with the mother and
grandmother on the Sunday.’
n an involvement with the case spanning five
months Fr Maginot never met or examined any
of the children.
But he became convinced, he said, that Latoya
was indeed possessed and that the house in
which she and her children lived had become
cursed as a result of a hex placed on her.
Shaking his head, aware perhaps of how
unbelievable the story, he admitted; ‘I think
there was a curse placed on the mother, that
she was the focus possibly by an ex-boyfriend
or his wife and that that combined with some
tragedy and perhaps occult practices that had
taken place in that house before and that had
opened a portal.’
It is the conclusion Capt Austin has drawn
against every logical thought that told him that
just could not be true.
Speaking from Gary Police Department
Headquarters, he has run every department
from narcotics to homicide, gang intelligence to
autodetail. He has taught 500 officers and
received the department’s highest reward for
his service. He doesn’t believe in the sort of
‘garbage’ he thought he was being fed in by the
two women at Caroline Street in Gary two
spring’s ago.
He said: ‘I was skeptical. I was leading the pack
through the house. We walked in and the first
thing we see is in the living room there’s a
candle burning and a bible and a little altar
with a crucifix – same in every room in the
house. There was a drawing on the refrigerator
done by one of the boys that was Jesus on the
cross but behind him there looked like demonic
figures.’





There were similar drawings elsewhere he
recalled. He sat as Latoya’s mother, Rose, told
him how the Venetian blinds would get wet and
appear to drip oil, that the basement door
would open and close and that they heard a dog
barking sometimes and scratching.
Capt. Austin listened but, he said, ‘I thought it
was a joke.’
But the further into the house he investigated
the less comfortable he felt. Things just seemed
‘odd.’
He said: ‘Underneath the stairs was dirt and a
candle. I was trying to figure out what was
going on there because the rest of the basement
was cement.
‘I took pictures of the candles and crucifix
under the stairs on the dirt.’
Those pictures, taken on his iPhone,
subsequently disappeared he said and the phone
which he used that day never behaved the same
again.
But before those images disappeared, he said, he
saw that they contained figures he had not seen
before; figures he said were not there before,
standing around him and beneath the stairs.
According to Capt. Austin: ‘The officer behind
me took pictures of me standing in front of him
and in his pictures he saw lots of figures too.’
With the practiced narration of an experienced
witness, Capt. Austin continued: ‘I said,
“Enough of this garbage.” On leaving the
property I went to a gas station and made a
phone call.
‘I had my police radio, my squad car dash AM/
FM radio, my police cell and my iPhone. I was
looking at the pictures I had taken on my
iPhone when I made this call and all of a
sudden this growling voice came from my AM/
FM radio.
‘It said, “YOU OUTTA HERE” Then a lot of
garbled other stuff and static.’
The memory clearly disturbs the veteran officer
to this day. He said: ‘I’m thinking something is
seriously wrong here.’
Later he called his fellow officer who told him,
‘Those pictures that we took under the stairs,
there’s silhouettes of other people under the
stairs with you.’
After that, according to Capt. Austin, every
other officer present that day had problems
with their radios, phones and house alarms.
Most alarming for Capt. Austin was an incident
he had two weeks later when he was, he said
bluntly, ‘attacked.’
Returning home in his Infiniti SUV he said, ‘the
electric door to my garage would not open. It
had been fine before. I pressed the keypad it
must have been 10 times then gave up.
‘I exited the vehicle and went to flip the main
power in the garage but that didn’t work, then
the house and finally that worked.
‘But when I went back to my car the drivers
seat was just moving backwards and forwards
by itself. Backwards and forwards, backwards
and forwards.
‘When I took the car to the shop to get it looked
into they said if I hadn’t brought it in it could
have caused an accident and I could have been
killed because for some reason the seat was
about to collapse.’
The next time Capt. Austin was in the house it
was with Father Maginot several weeks later.
They brought a dog, thinking perhaps they
would find a crime scene, perhaps human
remains, that might account for the
disturbances but the dogs found nothing.
The men dug, five foot down into the dirt in the
basement and unearthed a bizarre collection of
objects: boys’ socks with the ankle portion cut
out, a fake fingernail, women’s panties, a
heavy, corroded iron weight, a broken plastic
shoe horn and a red oval kettle lid.
Household trash? Or objects ritualistically
buried in an attempt to summon something up
or keep something at bay?
By then even the most level-headed present
were open to the latter explanation and several
of the people who had visited the house on the
first inspection, including the original CPS case
worker, had become so shaken by the day and
its aftermath that they refused to go back.




Now that the Ammons family have moved out
the new tenants claim they have had no
problems, certainly not any of demonic
possession
Father Maginot’s experience of the exorcisms of
Latoya Ammons is similarly unnerving.
He met with Latoya and her mother at the
house and, he said, for two hours they
conducted an interview without any incident.
The women told him what they claimed was
going on – the footsteps, the pounding,
sometimes an animal growling, the horseflies,
the youngest boy was often found talking to
another boy whom no-one else could see and
then there was the jarringly horrible tale of an
‘old woman with red eyes’ who disappeared as
suddenly as she had appeared to the children in
the yard one day.
He said: ‘Only the children saw definite figures
but the grandmother saw a shadow of a man
and they would find dirty footsteps in the front
from in the morning just paced to and fro and
going nowhere.
‘Ghostly things are easier to deal with,’ said
Father Maginot, explaining, ‘A lot of the time as
Catholics you can have a mass, pray for them,
tell them to go into the light, not to be afraid.
But demons are different. You're inviting in
guests from other realms and they don't
necessarily want to leave.'’
During his visit to the Carolina Street house
Father Maginot said that among the many
strange phenomenon he witnessed were walls
dripping with oil, Venetian blind rods tilting
from side to side in unison and apparently for
no reasons, seemingly set footprints appearing
on the floor.
Lights repeatedly flickered then stopped when
approached in such a way that the priest
became convinced this was ‘an intelligence’ not
simply an electric fault.
The final straw, the family told him, was when
they were sitting as a family watching
television and a bottle of Febreeze floated up,
moved to and fro in the air before being hurled
into Latoya’s room, smashing a lamp. In the
aftermath they saw the shadow of a man.
They left the house for a hotel that night and
never returned to live there again.
A clairvoyant who had visited the house and
told Latoya she saw ‘hundreds of demons’ in the
basement had told her to anoint the house with
oil and put salt down to seal the gateways to
demons.
Father Maginot did the same during his visit
uttering blessings and trying, at every turn, to
find a logical explanation for the things he was
seeing and the things these women were telling
him. But increasingly he struggled.
He said: ‘I was trying to find a focus for it, to
understand where it was coming from because
that can help solve these things.’
Father Maginot became convinced that Latoya’s
former lover was a ‘trigger’ or possible ‘source.’
Every time he asked her about this man – who
is not the father of any of the children – Latoya
complained of more symptoms of the possession,
fever, cold, headaches, nausea and convulsions.
He said: ‘After almost four hours when she was
going through one of these moments I took my
crucifix and put it to her forehead and she
began convulsing.
‘I had thought the demons were with the kids
but now I could see they were with her. She
was the source. They jumped from her and they
jumped from child to child – they would pick up
each other’s chants, or convulse in turn, act
crazy, or growl in turn. But they were with
her.
‘I said, that’s enough. We’re not prepared to do
an exorcism here but I’ve got enough there’s no
need to torture anyone.’
Instead on June 1, 8th and 29th Latoya came to
St Stephen the Martyr, Church in Merrillville
and submitted to three major exorcisms.
She had, by then, moved out of the Carolina
Street house in Gary and was living in a new
apartment in Illinois. At the time the children
were in state care but they have since been
returned to their mother and grandmother’s.
Father Maginot recalled: ‘I carried out the first
exorcism in English and there was no incident.
It was like it had already gone but they do say
they play possum.’
Father Maginot gave Latoya a crucifix and a
rosary made of Benedictine medals. As she left
the church the rosary ripped into five pieces.
Father Maginot said: ‘I said, “I don’t think we’re
done here.”’
Later Latoya reported to the priest that the
corpus, the figure of Christ on the crucifix he
had given her, had similarly been torn off.
'I had to figure out how to provoke the demons
and drive them out,’ Father Maginot said,
rocking to and fro in his easy chair.
Latoya had researched names and felt two
belonged to her demons. Father Maginot will
not repeat either - one is a biblical name, other
is not – because he does not want to risk calling
them.
He explained: ‘It’s a very personal thing. Once
you have their name, it’s as though you have
them caught. They like to work in mystery and
darkness. Once you shine a light you show their
limitations and they don’t like that.’
As if to prove that point Father Maginot
recalled how he was ‘attacked by demons’ the
day before the second exorcism.
Out riding his bike a series of near accidents
and unsettling moments climaxed with him
being seemingly spontaneously thrown from the
saddle of his bike into the grass at the side of
the bicycle path he was following.
He said: ‘I looked and saw that the seat of my
bike was completely twisted but it made no
sense because it was absolutely tight and I had
to really pound it to straighten it out. I was in
no doubt I had been attacked. I was being
warned.’
The second exorcism saw a more violent
response. The exorcism is, Father Maginot
explained, a ritual repeated over and over, with
the priest narrowing in on the demon and its
triggers.
He said: ‘You try to protect yourself as much as
you can. You go to confession because if there
are any unconfessed sins it will use that.
‘It will use anything possible to deflect, or
distract or scare you.
‘You will think you’re torturing the person but
you’re not. You’re torturing the demon.’
The final exorcism was in Latin – praising God
and condemning the demon.
‘The parts that were praising God there was no
reaction from Latoya,’ Father Maginot recalled.
‘The parts condemning the demon she convulsed
which was interesting to me as she doesn’t
know Latin.’
Latoya said she felt herself being pulled up as if
to levitate but Father Maginot saw no sign of
that.
After third exorcism Latoya fell asleep he
recalled. He gave her the now mended rosary
and she took it home with her.
‘I never heard from her again,’ he said. ‘I was
anticipating more. I was anticipating another at
least but it turned out the game was over.'
After the final exorcism Father Maginot visited
the house and blessed it with what he referred
to as a 'more serious blessing.' He said: 'This
involved incense and salt and Holy Water.'
There were already new tenants in place and
they had reported no problems since the priest
had 'sealed' the portal with salt and blessings
following an earlier investigation.
But, he said, he told landlord Charles Reed, 'If
we don't deal with this now, properly, this will
not go away. This will close the portal and seal
it.'
Father Maginot is in no doubt that the
possession was real and that everything that
happened to Latoya and her children and
everything that others witnessed was the work
of demons – fallen angels, God’s creatures
turned against God and against man.
And for all his reluctance the same seems to be
true of Capt. Austin. He said: ‘It shook me,
everything to do with this. It shook me. This
was a situation that was so out of my normal
habitat. Did it shake me? Yes to a certain degree
it did.