10 Disturbing Possessions And Exorcisms That Really Happened

In November 2011, Latoya Ammons made the grave mistake of moving to the former murder capital of the U.S with her three children to take refuge in a white rental cottage at 3860 Carolina Street.

After moving in, the family immediately encountered paranormal activity: unfounded footsteps were heard from the basement at midnight, a cloud of enormous black flies hogged the front porch in the dead of winter, and a black shadow ruined the living room with its muddy boots.

Two clairvoyants announced that 200 demonic spirits roamed the house, and the local churches ordered Latoya to draw crosses on every door, create a makeshift altar in the basement, and bathe her children in olive oil. Latoya tried to exorcise the cottage by following the churches’ suggestions and reading the Psalm 91 aloud, but things only got worse; Ammons' daughter felt like she was always being choked, and the youngest boy kept headbutting his brother’s stomach.

Around April 2012, the Department of Child Services took custody of the children while the investigation of the cottage intensified with Reverend Maginot, Gary police captain Charles Austin, and Latoya’s DCS family case manager Samantha Illic. Having discovered underwear, socks, and a drapery cord underneath the basement’s stairs, Maginot performed a two-hour exorcism on Latoya which resulted in a removed entity attaching itself to Illic and breaking her ribs.

Latoya had her children returned to her when she moved to Indianapolis with her mother, and The Demon House was demolished in 2016 by Zak Bagans – Ghost Adventures' investigator - soon after he had purchased it to film a documentary.