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Hey, weirdos, I'm Ash and I'm Alina and this is morbid.
This is morbid. It's morbid.
Ash's house. And it's all different.
Remix, remix. Parker, we have some construction happening at my house.
So luckily we have a second recording location.
Yes, I need to work on getting this like a little more soundproof.
But all the soundproofy things that I found I don't like.
Like they're like I don't like the aesthetic of the aesthetic.
So I have to I'm going to work on it.
Yeah, you just got to get some like book shows.
And 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.
All the construction, macho construction.
Guys, it's still spooky season.
It's still spooky season.
We went to our first haunted house of the season.
Yes, Barrett. It's always Barrett.
You're wearing your sweatpants.
I am. I'm wearing my Barrett sweatpants.
They're really comfy.
Barrett, they're so comfy.
Barrett's in Abington.
It's in Abington, right?
I think so. Yeah. It's like behind the Abington Ale House.
It is top notch. The best haunted house on the planet, I believe.
It really they do. They tear the shit down every year and rebuild it to completely new.
Yeah. And they do a fucking 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 the sets together.
And you can tell. Yeah.
And all the actors like the makeup they do.
It's all like top notch.
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 guys, man.
You've got to go. Yeah.
We're going to do a couple more.
Yeah. You were a little lackadaisical this year.
We were. Well, we got like, you know, sidetracked with Covid.
We got sidetracked with the book tour happening.
And now we've 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.
If we're going to go.
Yeah, I also went to a cat show this weekend.
You sure did. I took the kids to the show.
Me, my cousin Drew and all the kids.
I was like, let's go to a fucking cat show.
And I thought 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 could go.
I can't live a four cat life.
And and my cats will not live a four cat life.
No, Franklin would just eat another cat if we brought one home.
But they had those those like Scottish like smooshy ones.
Oh, those are so cute.
Yeah, they are. They are really they have a lot of health problems.
Oh, no, they're like an English bulldog.
Yeah, I think they're like interbreeding.
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.
But I'm like, 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.
Say it's me. The something corporate song.
It's a cat's face that's Ash energy, that today.
You have to pour one out for Scottish cats and sing in your own cat's face.
I think that something corporate tour just ended, actually.
Mm hmm. I just saw that our friend Connor posted and said, we did it.
We love Connor. I said, you did fucking do it.
You did fucking did all of it.
Yeah, you made our lives.
Hell, yeah, I know.
We need to like. There's things to be done still.
Yeah, there's this work.
There's 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. No, 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 phrase shut up.
You don't rude. Yeah, is a little rude.
So 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.
Yeah, it's not you aesthetically aesthetic.
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, oh, oh, oh, oh, three out of four.
You got to be in the trash.
Yeah, I know. Well, I think it's still spooky season.
Well, I'm pretty sure it will never really know for sure.
No, when these publish, we're never going to know when episodes.
Yeah, sometimes we look at my kids saying, what what days is coming?
Where what day is what's going on?
Where am I? Hello? But, you know, someday we'll know.
Well, hopefully it's still spooky because I put a spooky case.
Hopefully it's still spooky.
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 if it starts to sound familiar to you at all, this is the case that the movie The Deliverance was based off of.
It's Glenn Close. Yes.
Yeah. 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 can't have the Internet.
Yeah, like 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 Amens and 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, shit. Her nine 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.
What? And we'll get it.
We'll get to that point.
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.
Get Rachel Stavis in here.
Rachel, Rachel, we need you.
Rachel could have cleared this shit up in a 100 percent 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 us apart.
Yeah, like family, friends, police officers, social workers.
It kind of reminded me of the House of Flying Objects that you.
Yeah. Because like people were like people that you wouldn't expect to sign off on.
Yeah, we're signing off 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.
Damned. Yeah, let's go.
Let's get into it. So November 2011, Latoya Amans, her mother Rosa Campbell and Latoya's three children, 13 year old Nate, 12 year old Chante and seven year old Andre, moved into their new rental house on this quiet little tree -lined residential street in Gary, Indiana.
And that wasn't their real names.
No, I'm actually using the names from the movie based on the case.
The deliverance, like we were just saying, because the kids names aren't public.
Yeah. But it would have gotten minor.
Super confusing if I was like child A, child B, child C.
Yeah. And if they're not public, it's like so I say, yeah, 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 for in a new area.
Like let's go fresh start.
Unfortunately, things did not work out that way in any way, shape or form.
Probables of the house started almost immediately and it was early December when they started noticing swarms of these large black flies just gathering in the screened in porch, which was unusual because houseflies can't survive freezing temperatures.
It's 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.
But that which is what we heard our whole house going to say that was my parents house.
You always heard and it sounded like work boots.
Oh, I got the steps.
Mm hmm. And sometimes it was like I would hear in the basement like like late at night.
But then sometimes you would hear footsteps on like the main stairs.
Yeah. Which was when you go over there and nothing was there.
Literally nothing. I wouldn't even go over there.
I was like way too scared.
Oh, but yes, they were like, is somebody breaking in the house?
Like, yeah, because they would literally hear the door open and close.
What the fuck? But they would come out of their bedrooms to investigate like your brave ass.
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.
A horror movie shit.
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 because they kept hearing it night after night.
So one night a little after 3 a .m., of course, of course.
Rosa was woken by the sound of footsteps, just like all the previous nights.
And when she looked down into the living room, she saw the shadowy figure of a man just pacing back and forth.
No, yep, no. 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 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 percent 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 fuck? Yeah, I literally have chills.
I just talking about it on the door like no in the middle of the fucking night.
Oh, 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's like the shit 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, Chante 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? She probably assumed it was one of her younger siblings like fucking with.
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 all obviously the amount of times we blamed like shit on the swollen doors.
The swelling doors are creaking or how settling it's fine.
Yeah, the middle of winter.
We're like, oh, it's it's the doors they're.
Yeah, 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 bed everywhere.
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 seem to sway back and forth on their own.
Yeah. Which something about.
Yeah. That's just that's you.
I don't like it. I don't like it.
For Latoya, the most disturbing experience was learning the extent of what the children had experienced in the house.
Because she's trying to keep this from.
Yeah. Just like Rosa had seen shadowy figure 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.
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 we're just like blooms out.
Yeah. The chills from within.
Like the chill just came from the center of my stomach.
And that's what that's a warm.
Yeah. But it didn't even feel like a warm because to me that feels more warm.
OK, this was a. It was cold.
Yeah. It was a unit of vomit.
Yeah, I don't like that at all.
I think I'm assuming that's probably what like who Glenn closest character was.
But I haven't actually seen the.
When you look at a picture of her character.
Yes. Yeah, she looks like walking with red eyes.
Yeah. And the youngest son, Andre, would spend a lot of time with what he said was a boy, his own age, who he would like play and talk with.
And according to Andre and Nate, the boy would typically appear in their closet.
Yeah. Yeah. Just the long walk.
Yo. Just like when a ghost appears in the closet.
Uh -oh. They have bad intentions.
Oh, 100 percent. I'm not appearing in someone's closet in the afterlife unless I want to fuck 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 am. Here's the thing.
I'm horrified that you witnessed that as a child.
It hurts my soul. But it's a cool story that would kill to have the image in my head that you have.
I wish you could project it.
Yeah, I'm not an artiste, so maybe I could talk to Sean 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.
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 right now, but I have you been hanging out with you need to know right?
You need to write all these details down so he can make this because we all need to see the the actual vision of this woman.
It's so funny because 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, 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 trauma trauma?
I was going to say, is it trauma?
Is it trauma or be nightmare?
I don't know. Mix of both.
I know for a fact that 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 at the window and I'm like, you're like, she's up there.
Yeah, she is. I guarantee you interview if a fucking kid lived in that.
They'll see she didn't have a body.
She was just made of bones, definitely.
Yeah, 100 percent. But that's the thing, I'm like a kid showing up and showing up in someone's closet means you mean business.
Yeah, because 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 fuck their whole world up.
So I wonder like how that works.
Like, how do you decide where you do?
You get to sign in for the day.
Well, you're like today, I will be showing up in this person's closet and sign in.
I kind of like everybody knows where you are.
Yeah, I know this person's closet covered.
It's like in Beetlejuice sort of like when they're all like, yeah.
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.
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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, then 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 Amityville Florida 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's really taking me for a ride.
It's like that this isn't like the house of flying objects where it's like, there's one person in the room always.
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, except social workers 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 like a noticeable decline.
She had three different kidney ailments that struck her one right after the other.
Oh, geez. And 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.
This whole kineship is bad.
Yeah, whatever was happening in the house had already taken a serious toll on everybody's physical and emotional health, but things just continued to get worse and worse.
Oh my God, how? On March 10th, 2012, the family was all up late into the early hours of the morning.
They spent the day mourning the loss of a close family friend, unfortunately.
And from the living room Rosa heard Latoya screaming, momma, momma.
So she went running to her daughter's bedroom where she witnessed 12 year old Chante levitating several feet above her bed, completely unconscious.
What the fuck? She said, I thought, what's going on?
Why is this happening?
And she immediately grabbed her Bible and the family surrounded Chante praying over her until she descended back onto the surface of the bed.
Moments later, she woke up with no memory of what had happened.
She had no idea that that had just all happened.
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 incident.
Holy shit. Yeah, so other people saw this.
And are like, fuck that.
And are like, I'm literally never stepping foot in that house again.
It turned out that the levitation incident was just the beginning of the physical torment that the family was about to endure.
That weekend, Chante 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 awful.
Quote pulling on his limbs and genitals.
What the fuck? Yeah, like demon demon activity.
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.
This is fucked up in every way imaginable.
It's unreal. Holy shit.
And then a few hours later, so again, same day, Chante was targeted again.
This time she was lifted off the ground and thrown into the refrigerator.
My God. Insane. It turned out that whatever.
These poor kids. I know.
They were. And these poor parents, like Jesus.
Just everybody in this house.
This thing was happening to their kids.
And it's sad. And this is not a family that can just pack up and go to a hotel for like.
That's a thing. It's not like that's not an option for.
For a lot of people.
That's the thing like to just be like, Oh well, fuck 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.
Yeah, five people. That's a lot.
That turned out. Whatever was harming Rosa Latoya and the children also wasn't limiting it to just to 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 of weeks to finally disappear.
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 shit. Yeah, it's interesting.
Again, this isn't just this family being like, Oh yeah, when no one's here, all the shit is happening.
Then you're like, yeah.
No, people would come over and see shit and be like, I'm never going back to that house.
And then they'd go and have their own shit.
Follow them. 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 because 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.
My 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.
Which honestly, I'm not even a believer.
And I think if all of this was happening to me, I might find a church.
I don't even know. Like that's, and especially if you're already.
You're already religious.
But of course, like that's going to be your.
That's where you go.
Your outlet. 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 it is fucked up.
It is fucked 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 times of need.
You're supposed to offer your assistance, you would think.
And aren't demons your thing?
I'll say. You're passing that donation basket around I'm sure.
Like, come on, this poor family, like this mother with three children that she's taking care of by herself, like her mother living with her, you're not going to try to help.
No. Just come in and do a blessing.
That's the thing. You know, 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.
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.
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 the spooky season.
Yeah. Read it. Okay.
It's a real fucking good book.
And this made me think about it a little bit.
Oh, okay. So they were even more disappointed to find out that this was the case with all the other churches in the area.
Cool. 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 a paranormal.
We can't come and just bless your house.
Nope. We can't make you feel better.
We can't. We won't.
We can't make you feel better.
Sorry. And that's fucked.
Do you believe your whole life in something?
And then they don't help you in your time of need.
They turn their back on you.
And it seems like a fucking demon.
And isn't that the whole thing?
Like the whole thing is like demons suck.
Let's get rid of them.
I think so. It isn't about the whole shebang.
So it's like, I'm pretty sure you 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 don't even need to be like a, you know, an official ceremony or anything, just come in.
Bless the house. Doesn't have to be anything crazy.
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.
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 reached out to two local clairvoyants who informed her that quote, the family's 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 fuck 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.
200 demons. 200 demons.
And that these people are like, the only thing you can do is get the fuck out of here.
And like ultimately, yeah, pretty much.
The explanation of the demonic infestation made sense to Latoya and Rosa because they were both devout 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 alters around the house.
Draping end tables and white fabric and adorning them with religious icons, statues, Bible 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 not good everybody.
Also, if you're saging, you're supposed to have the windows open.
I was gonna say, it's not supposed to like build up in there.
No, cause the whole thing is like, you're saging something out.
So I'm pretty sure like the smoke carries it out.
Also like, and again, like I've always said it like you practice whatever religion you feel.
Of course. I would never sway you against that or anything like that.
But as someone who doesn't practice that religion or a religion, the idea of this like demon infested home and now all these alters are set up.
It's gonna piss them off.
Well, no, it just, it is so chilling to think of.
I'm like, this must've been the scariest setting of just this demonic chaos with all this religious paraphernalia around.
Cause like religious horror.
I was just going to say.
Is the scariest like, cause it just.
It just brings a different vibe to it.
I love it. I really like really brings it to a place.
And this to me is like, but to think that this is real life like cause I'm like, this is religious horror right here.
Like setting up all the alters and shit.
Then I'm like, oh my God, this was someone's existence.
And like three children.
That's so scary. And imagine just like going to sleep for the night.
It's like wrapping up the day in that house.
In that house. That's going on in that house how it's all set up now.
And you're at your like most vulnerable and they're all just desperate as hell.
And it's like, holy shit.
I would be living at my friend's houses at that point.
I'd 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 with five people.
Like most people don't have friends that are like, yeah, all five of you can say like definitely.
So to Latoya's surprise, the rituals performed around the house actually seemed like they worked for three days.
Things in the Eamon'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 three days, the assault on the family worsened considerably.
So I think it like pissed them off.
Yeah. The demons. According to Latoya.
The demons. See like I'm speaking of the demons.
The demons. 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 literally I'm like, what?
Like, oh, fuck. Like my littlest had skeleton that you all know.
The skeleton was just sitting there being like, I got a family.
And I'm gonna go visit my family.
He said, I'm gonna leave.
And he never came back.
And he just left. And that's great.
And he never. Never scared anybody.
Never said like, I was murdered.
He just hung out. 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 think I would just start crying.
Yeah. For a long time.
That is such an upsetting thing to think about.
Start crying and never stop.
Yeah. Oh my God. And eventually the entity started moving from one child to another so quickly that La Toya 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 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.
Are doing some sort of demonic chant where one would stop and the other would pick up just where the other left off.
What the fuck? 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.
You know how hard it is to get three kids in the car?
Sans possession? Like they essentially are possessed.
No matter what. And then you add demonic possession.
They're in a constant state of needing an exorcism trying to get them into the car.
And then to add actual possession into it?
No. No. No. No. Holy shit.
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. Yeah.
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And the administrators actually became concerned about their wellbeing.
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's doctor.
The doctor, Dr. Jeffrey Onyaku, 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.
So like it was visible what they were going through.
A reporter for the Indianapolis Star was given access to the doctor's clinical notes from the visit.
And he describes, quote, delusions of ghosts 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 like, I can't just sit here and be like, yeah, you have ghosts.
Yeah, they're possessed.
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 gotta be his first concern.
It was, unfortunately.
Like you can understand, and I understand that this was probably fucking horrifying from both sides.
But you can understand the doctor's point of view.
He's thinking of these kids and he's not in the house.
And unfortunately, child protective services, they had a history with this family.
They hadn't 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.
So he thinks that, but the statements from the medical staff in the office that day actually painted a different picture.
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 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 working at this office, like literally saw this with their own eyes and wrote it down.
Whoa. And that's the thing that makes me.
Because those are the things that make me just go, what?
Because you know, there's some parts of this where you go, is there a severe mental health crisis happening here and some religious delusions and all that stuff?
Is that happening? Yup.
And then you see something like that.
And you go, what the fuck is that?
Right. Because how do you explain that?
How do you explain that?
Because if he stumbled into the wall, 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 the specific child was quote, making growling noises and his eyes rolled into the back of his head.
Which that, I feel like you could kind of do on your own.
But still, 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, because what the fuck 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 Amans children for possible child abuse or neglect.
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 think that.
Why somebody might've 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. I can understand that.
Their job is to keep children safe.
Yeah, 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 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 fuck 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.
According to interview notes from a discussion with Shontay, the girl told Washington that quote, at time 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 Shontay is older, I think I said at the top she's 12.
So she's like not like a little, little kid just like making up a story, you know what I mean?
And also it's like for Latoya to be, you know, you're gonna be looked at as possibly abusing these children.
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 gonna face.
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 happening, you know what I mean?
Like if 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 knowing cause she had to know.
Yeah. You know, this was gonna be the first thing that we're gonna think of.
She still opened up to it to be like help please.
Like I don't know what to do, which is 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.
Cause you have no parent would ever do something like this to their children.
No, and so sometimes DCF does invest or DCS they're like called a different thing a lot.
I think here it's DCF.
Yeah, I think so. People call in cases to be assholes when like abuse isn't happening and people are investigating.
Yeah, for sure. Like they have to, but they're mandated reporters.
So it's like, she's going through it and she knew exactly.
So by far the most unusual event, and this is fucking 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 including the caseworker 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 out the wall backwards onto the ceiling and flipped over her body.
Again, if this is just the family saying that this happened and no one else was there and you're like, I would be like, that is the dumbest thing I've ever.
Like that would be akin to the Amityville 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.
Like that's silly. I'd be like, no one else was there except for, you know, George Lutz, like why are we saying this?
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 kooky kooky.
And there was medical staff in the room who were like, what the fuck?
Yeah, no one else, and people aren't gonna be putting their whole fucking careers on the line here 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, cause you're like, yeah, but 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 fucking 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 fuck's going on.
This boy just walked on the ceiling.
He was like, let's just give me backwards.
Let's fix this. So they reported to the attending physician what everybody had just seen.
And the doctor was like, yeah, fuck off.
That didn't happen.
Cause like, how do you, which I would say the same thing, he's a man of science.
Like this man is being like, there's no fucking kids.
Like I'm going to fire both of you.
Like how could you, I feel like he's like one of you doesn't even work here and you're 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 fuck? 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 movement.
But like someone show me how to do that.
Yeah, show me to me, Rachel.
But to walk backwards slowly up the wall and onto the ceiling where gravity makes that impossible.
Yup. And he's nine years old.
That's the thing. Like I'm pretty sure I said at the beginning he was nine years old.
I'm trying to keep everybody's ages in check.
Like holy shit. But he's like, he's a bebe.
He's a bebe. I would be like one of the girls just walking up the fucking wall backwards.
Like that's just not.
Let me know if they do that any time soon.
It's the ceiling that gets to me.
The fact that he walked all the way up the wall and onto the ceiling and then flip back down.
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 afoot here.
But I also think mental illness is playing into this.
Them too mad. 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 short lived.
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 fucking birthday.
Which I'm like you couldn't have done it one fucking day later.
That's the thing. I get it.
I know there's a merge.
Like I was involved in DCS as a kid.
Yeah. But I don't know.
And it's just like, and you can see why they came to that conclusion.
Absolutely. 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 safety of the kids.
Like we watch something happen in that home that we can't explain.
Right. 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. An awful situation.
And while the kids are getting so sick in that house that they can't even go to school.
Like this is affecting.
Yeah. Like something is going down.
Yeah. But my goodness.
But to be separated as a family, 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.
One has to spend his birthday in the hospital and two, he gets moved to like a foster home on his birthday.
Oh, that's fucked. Latoya must have just been aside herself.
So Latoya later told her 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.
She was like, that like really breaks my heart.
That's a mom. That's a single momma right there, being like, this family is a fucking 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.
It's traumatic. And families having to be separated, just like it's such a sad thing that has to happen.
It's necessary, like some kids do need to be.
Oh, in many cases, that's the best thing that can happen.
Yeah. But like when you hear about it, it's never, it's always devastating.
And no matter what, it's traumatic.
Well, that's the thing.
Even if you were coming from this fucking awful environment, 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 fucking business having to deal with that.
I know. I actually, 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 mom and papa.
But I think about fostering sometimes just to like give back.
Just in just, that's like them hoppers there.
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They're just like, they're a perfect shining example of a lovely foster family.
And it takes like just a sidebar here.
It takes such a specific human to be able to do that.
Because you're a foster parent fucking kudos.
Billions and billions of kudos because 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 you know that. And sometimes you have to give that baby back.
And obviously the goal most of the time is to, for DCF is to reunite with the baby.
That's the main goal.
Which in my opinion is not, shouldn't always be the goal.
But knowing as a foster parent that like that's the goal.
You may have to like, you gotta be, like what a selfless human being you have to be to just be like, I wanna make this child's life as loving and beautiful as I can for the time I have them.
But then I'm just gonna have to put my own like devastation aside and sever that bond to give them back to like continue their life.
Like fuck. You have to be such a selfless person.
And also. But then there's assholes who completely use the foster.
And are just in it for the money.
Like we were talking about a couple cases ago they were foster parents and you're like hello.
You really got like the best and the worst.
I think I would just end up with 45 million kids.
Cause I just feel like, I would up to this one too.
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 there's no way, I couldn't.
No, I know, it's an angel.
You're a special person.
You're a special kind of person if you do that.
I think Sabrina. Yeah, two girls, one goes.
Sabrina just fostered some kittens.
And she's an angel.
She is a fucking angel.
Sabrina and Corinne are both angels.
But yeah, sometimes I think about it.
Like I'm not at a point in my life right now where I would do it but someday in the future I would think about it.
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But anyways, back to the case, in the formal paperwork, Valerie Washington noted, the children's physical or mental condition is seriously impaired and seriously endangered as a result of Latoya's 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, because 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 hard place.
But like I said earlier, this was not the first time that the DCS had been involved in the family.
In 2009, a caseworker was assigned for the same reason, but at that point, there was no mention of spirits or demons or anything.
It was 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 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 press because you're like, what is going on here?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is like a smaller town, 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 dissuade the demons.
Which walking into that would be horrifying.
Absolutely. And I'm sure the officers are like, okay.
Immediately I'm sure they thought she was mentally ill, like 100%.
There's like some religious mania going on here.
Yes, that's exactly what they thought was happening.
So good call. That's what I would think.
So the officer officially tasked with accompanying 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 in 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 fuck? This is a policeman with 35 years on the force who didn't believe in anything like this.
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 fall and he 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 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 Magino, the pastor at a church in nearby Merrillville.
Unlike many of the other clergy in the area, Magino 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 gotta 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 interests me so much.
Me too. Because I always thought exorcisms were one of those things where it was like a priest was like, here I'll come, I'm coming to do an exorcism.
And it was just like, yep.
The fact that there's 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.
Yeah, 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 fucking around without his permission.
Exactly and then you have Ed and Lorraine who are always calling the archdiocese.
It's crazy. And always getting permission sometimes.
Always getting permission, but then archdiocese, they forget.
They're like, you know, no permission.
Yeah, they quickly get one of those men in black, like mind eraser things.
And they're like, we didn't do that.
We didn't do that. And then Lorraine are like, they don't get it.
They did it. They did.
Totally shut up. They lie.
So in late April, Magino met with Latoya and Rose at their new rental apartment in Cary, 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.
It also appeared all over the blinds in her bedroom.
What the fuck? When he reviewed the police footage from the walkthrough 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 Melzchek, I think, denied his initial request for permission to perform an exorcism.
The archbishop said, nah.
Denied. He did, however, suggest that Magino, Magino, excuse me, contact other priests in the area and ask them for training in the right of a minor exorcism.
Oh, bitch. 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.
Yes. And, like, dive into the different levels.
Because 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 exorcism.
Yeah, 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 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, Magino 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 caseworker? The caseworker.
And Officer Samantha Ilic, I think it is, from the Gary Police Department, and another unnamed officer.
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 shit.
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.
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 Magino prayed throughout each room of the house, he instructed Latoya 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 tomes.
You need ancient dusty -ass tomes.
Has anyone watched Buffy?
You're flipping through.
Yeah. And it makes that t -t -t sound.
And you find your spot.
And you find the demon.
It's true. That's what it is.
But the deeper she dug for the right name, the sicker and more lightheaded she got, making the process so arduous and just completely unpleasant.
So finally they discovered the demons inhabiting the home were Beelzebub, the Lord of the Flies.
Beelzebub? Beelzebub, 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 they were lieutenants and sergeants.
I also didn't know they had rankings among the demons.
It's a whole community.
I have no idea. It's very militaristic.
It is. I don't like that.
I'm not into it. The fact that Beelzebub is there, like, you, damn.
Don't say it too many times in my house, please.
Like, you got like, you got the demon.
Yeah. Quite frankly, Palo Santo -ing the room after this.
Yeah, as you should.
Yeah, with the windows open.
Palo Santo me too, please, before I leave.
Oh, I will. Whenever we talk about demons, I think we should start Palo Santo -ing 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.
Yeah. Ultimately Maginot performed a Maginot, I keep going to say like making it fancier.
I love it. Maginot performed three exorcisms between May and June, during which time Latoya and Rosa actually had moved to Indianapolis, but they drove back to Gary for each ritual.
Because I think, 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 exorcism in June, Maginot 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 you're saying.
Yeah, you don't wanna just read willy -nilly Latin.
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 gotta know about the Latin.
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 in -home based therapy services.
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.
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 reliance on religion going on here to a point where it's dangerous.
Yeah, it's bordering on religious meanings.
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 imagined that it would go viral.
Just four days later, Zach Bagans of Ghost Adventures.
Zach Bagans. Oh, a man named Zach Bagans.
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.
Yup. He referred to it as the next Amityville.
Wow. And I added, butt real.
I was just gonna say, I don't know if you wanna throw that one on there.
Cause you're like the next hoax.
Exactly. 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 dramatized.
How do you say that?
Dramatized? Yeah. Dramatized.
It was say dramatized.
I feel like that's a good word.
Can you say both? Is that a word too?
Dramatized, 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 will, 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 gonna tell me that that wasn't a demon.
Yeah, that's the thing.
So there's other things that for sure you can question.
Yes. Just at least be like, huh, okay.
Well, and then, but this next part to me, I'm like, huh.
Cause like we all know Zach Bagans has an entire fucking museum filled with the most haunted shit on the planet.
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 Bagans was like, I don't wanna fuck with that.
We're demolishing that house.
Holy shit. The man who will take like every haunted fucking 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 to not be like, we're gonna save this house and like continue investigating.
He was like, nope. No.
We should just get rid of it.
Completely dark a bit.
So interesting. And several years later, Latoya's story was adapted into the deliverance.
This year? Yeah, this year.
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.
Definitely different.
Netflix released it and it was directed by Lee Daniels and it stars Andra Day and Queen Glenn Close.
Oh, and Glenn. I've never actually seen the movie.
I haven't seen the movie.
Well, I've seen like stills of like, we're not gonna see the clips of Nana, Nana Glenn there.
Nana Glenn. I wanna watch it and I wanna watch the documentary.
I'm dying to watch the documentary.
Cause nothing is more fun than watching a...
Zach Biggins. Zach Biggins is such a character.
Or taps. I love a ghost hunting.
Yes, yes. Ghost adventures and ghost hunters.
Ghost hunters. I prefer ghost hunters personally.
Yeah, me too. 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 would say I 98 % believe most of what happened there.
It's funny because we went from like a straight up hoax.
We went from 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, the kid going through it and there's like this energy that's building it.
What's going on? 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 found a whole fucking room of people.
And like DCS, DCF caseworkers were writing things in their reports where they're like, yeah, some part, some things are inexplicable.
Nurses were like, yeah.
We didn't even mean to do that either.
Like put them in that order.
I know. That they like went into like nonsense, this 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 a fun guest coming up that's a little bit spooky, but he's also just like a fun guest.
Yeah, he's just a wonderful human being.
Yeah, we're gonna 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. So I don't really know to be honest.
But you know what Halloween, the episode is fun.
I'm so excited. You're gonna get a little nifty gifty along with it.
So look out for that.
Yeah, and fun subsequent gifts to come.
Yeah, because we're excited about this one thing.
Not really gifts. Yeah, I shouldn't say gift, like you're not gonna hold a gift in your hand.
A fun thing that we never do.
Yeah, exactly. But we might do more of soon.
Yeah, so yeah, look forward to that.
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My grandma. My grandma.
My grandma. My grandma.
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