Latoya Ammons

Interesting.

In Gary, Indiana, Latoya Ammons and her family reported increasingly frightening experiences inside their home.

Flies appeared during the winter.

Footsteps seemed to come from the basement.

We don't actually have to guess because it basically did.

In November 2011, a single mom named Latoya Ammons moved into a rented house in Gary, Indiana with her mom and her three kids, ages 7, 9, and 12.

The family started hearing footsteps in the basement.

Then there were swarms of flies everywhere in December.

So step one, it usually starts with someone calling their parish or their diocese because something is wrong.

So in November of 2011, a mother named Latoya Ammons moved into a rental house in Gary, Indiana, with her mother and three kids.

And almost immediately, the family said that something was wrong.

Swarms of big black flies on the porch in the middle of winter.

Maybe they just don't rock with your boy.

But regardless, it's a fascinating kind of like subculture that exists.

Now, the first question Exorcist asks isn't, you know, what's your name? It's basically, is there anything here at all? So in the case of Latoya Ammons and her family, Father Maginot spent time with the family and visited the house himself.

And afterwards, he said that he had seen enough to be convinced that something, supernatural was really there.

Gather around, this happened.

Latoya Ammons was on the phone with a clairvoyant.

Her family's house was haunted and she was looking for help from anyone who would listen.

The clairvoyant gave the same advice as everyone else.

But that's when the demons came for the children.

It started in November of 2011.

Latoya Ammons moved her mother and three children into the house she rented at 3860 Carolina Street in Gary, Indiana.

It was a quiet block, an ordinary house, but it wasn't long before they noticed something was off.

Well, hear it.

A woman named Latoya Ammons moved into a house in Gary, Indiana with her mother and three children.

And again, this is also where Megan, our listener, lives.

Almost immediately, strange things started happening.

Just a few weeks after moving into the home that chilly, bleak winter, they were shocked to see black flies filling up a bedroom closet and their screened-in porch.

Latoya's mother later told reporters, This was not normal.

We killed them and killed them and killed them, but they kept coming back.

At night, the family was often awoken by the sound of loud, booming footsteps climbing the basement stairs, followed by the sound of the basement door slowly creaking open into the kitchen.

Latoya would brace herself to get out of her warm bed and check on the kids, and then tiptoe down the stairs to see if an intruder was there.

No one ever was.

She would always lock the basement door, but still, the thumping footsteps and door opening kept occurring.

A babysitter even witnessed the youngest boy levitating a few inches off the ground.

Okay.

Latoya Ammons.

Latoya Ammons moved with her two children, aged seven, nine, and 12, and her mother, Rosa Campbell, to a modest rental home with dreams of a fresh start and a brighter future.

The family hoped this move would mark a positive turning point in their lives.

Their small, unassuming house seemed perfect, affordable, quiet, and tucked away in a residential neighborhood.

Yeah.

That's crazy.

Uh, the Ammons Haunting case, also known as the 200 Demons House or Demons House, is a haunting and demonic possessing which occurred in Indiana, US in 2011.

Government caseworkers would later sign their names to official legal documents stating they watched a nine-year-old boy growl, bare his teeth, and walk backwards up a hospital wall.

Tonight, we're heading to Gary, Indiana for the story of the Demon House, the haunting of the Ammons family.

If it starts to sound familiar, it's the case that inspired the movie The Deliverance.

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DCS intake report from April 2012, case manager Valerie Washington initially suspected Latoya Ammons of manipulating her children to skip school because that's another thing.

They did miss a lot of school because of being up late or being so exhausted or being affected by whatever's at the house.

[laughs]Okay, let's get into The Deliverance.

So this is loosely based on a real-life incident that a woman named Latoya Ammons experienced in 2011 after she and her kids moved into a new house in Gary, Indiana.

And her kids began ex- exhibiting abnormal behavior, including one of them apparently levitating and then having no memory of the event.

And she sought out clairvoyants and people from the church to help her, and there were exorcisms performed and such.

So Lee Daniels, director of Precious, Paperboy, The Butler, um, acquired the rights to Latoya's story, and it was announced as early as 2014 to be in the works, so 10 years prior to its eventual release.

Relativity Media was originally gonna produce it, but they went under, and the project stalled until Netflix picked it up in 2022.

So David Cogginzal and Elijah Bytham wrote the screenplay loosely based upon Latoya Ammons' story.

Uh, Lee Daniels got Andra Day attached to star, whom he had just worked with on The United States vs. Billie Holiday.