Zak Bagans and the Gary 'Demon House' real story: 10 things to know

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One of its last residents was mother-of-three, Latoya Ammons, who sought religious, medical and law enforcement help after allegedly experiencing a series of disturbing events inside. Those included family members levitating, speaking in tongues, convulsing and acting extremely violent. Bagans and his crew, including renowned psychic Chris Fleming, had planned to dig up some “ritualistic” objects buried underneath the basement stairs and bless them in the hope of closing the portal to whatever evil was coming through. Gary police Capt. Charles Austin told the Indy Star he thought the Demon House allegations were fake at first and a ploy for money, but after visiting the house and interviewing those involved, he has become a true believer. Bagans claims that after being sealed up in the house alone, he suffered permanent eye damage and that was the final straw.

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The Man in the Brown Velvet suit declared Adam told the truth about all his questions, including vomiting blood, having visions of killing Bagans, visions of Bagans killing himself, and seeing The Devil, quite literally. Paranormal investigator Zak Bagans documents the most authenticated case of possession in American history. By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Policies , and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes. By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Policies, and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and to receive email from the Fandango Media Brands. She has been with the brand for 25 years, writing cover stories and features and managing special issues including the Beautiful Issue and Sexiest Man Alive.

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We're super friendly, but we're not interested in your blog posts or paranormal encounters unless it's relevant to GA.Please abide by the rules, and don't be a wanker.Creepy stalker fan-girls will be removed. Bagans explained he felt he had acted on something else’s will rather than his own, so he dug everything up again, except they could not find the woman’s fingernail. Other items recovered included women’s underwear, a child’s sock, and a weird, heavy oblong object.

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In one such incident, one of Ammons’ children was described as walking backwards up a wall inside of a hospital room, flipping into the air and landing on his feet. In another instance, at their doctor’s office, medical staff reported seeing one of the boys being lifted and thrown into a wall “without nobody touching him,” according to a Department of Child Services report. However, during the filming of Demon House, the Ammons family stopped cooperating with the investigation, leading to speculation they were looking for a movie deal and that the family’s story might be fake. They reported violent behaviors they say were provoked by the demons there, as well as one child becoming possessed and walking backward up a wall.

Both Ammons and Maginot signed movie deals separate from the Bagans film with Evergreen Media Holdings in 2014, with Lee Daniels set to direct, but the current status of the project is unclear. "Something was inside that house that had the ability to do things that I have never seen before " he told IndyStar via email in 2016. "There was something there that was very dark yet highly intelligent and powerful." Maginot performed three major exorcisms on Ammons, two in English and the last one in Latin, in June 2012. Here are the answers to 10 frequently asked questions about the documentary and the real-life case that inspired the chilling tale.

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Whenever I talk about it, things happen and I was worried about this week if anything would happen. Things like that go through my mind, but I can't be submissive and worried, then it'll just make it worse, but I think it may have inspired me to move into a different house and turn it into an old cathedral church, that's for sure. But at the same token, I have kept a few pieces of the house and want to keep them as mementos for what I went through. The film was originally released on March 16, 2018, and currently has a 33 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. One critic called it "patent balderdash," but another praised its "crawling sense of escalating paranoia."

He released a two-hour documentary horror film, "Demon House," in March 2018 based on the experiences of Ammons and her family. Zak, Aaron, Bill and Jay travel to the Bell Witch Cave in a secluded area near Cross Plains, Tennessee, where they will investigate the notorious legend of the Bell Witch that has plagued the Bell family and other families on the nearby farmland in 1817. This is the first time in Paranormal TV that the case is documented. Zak, Nick and Aaron head to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to investigate a home terrorized by an ancient, demonic force called "Zozo", an ancient demon which is known for attacking, sexually assaulting and possessing its victims through a spirit board. The guys visit the infamous Mustang Ranch, a legal brothel near Reno, Nevada, to investigate claims of an angry male spirit sexually attacking the female employees. This entity is believed to be professional boxer Oscar Bonavena who was shot down and killed right in front of the security gates by a bodyguard in 1976 after the ranch's owner Joe Conforte found out he was having an affair with his ex-wife Sally.

With his new paranormal documentary out now in US theaters and on VOD and Digital HD platforms from Freestyle Digital Media, I caught up with Ghost Adventures extraordinaire Zak Bagans to talk about owning the Demon House. The police investigated and the Indiana Department of Child Services intervened, and the DCS found Ammons guilty of neglect for not sending her children to school regularly. They told Ammons to find a job and appropriate housing, and cared for her three children while she did. Zak Bagans purchases the house in which the alleged Ammons hauntings occurred.

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The film follows the Ammons haunting case and was released in the United States on March 16, 2018, by Freestyle Releasing, with Lost Footage from the film being released on January 1, 2019 and an Uncut version airing shortly after on February 16, 2019. In the season ten premiere, Zak, Nick and Aaron board the iconic RMS Queen Mary docked in Long Beach, California, for their lockdown. Once the most luxurious ship at sea, the Queen Mary is now considered one of the most haunted places on earth. Towards the end of the investigation, Zak captures a fully defined shadow figure on his night vision enabled camcorder cross a doorway, which they were not able to debunk as a trespasser.

And I hate to say that part of me is attracted to the edge of this chaos and danger. I like flirting with it to feel this, but the affliction I endured from the house was caused by whatever unseen forces are in the house. Look what it did to everybody else and look at the timing of what it did. There's a weird part of this house that stays with you, and it feels like they're listening to you.

Zak, Nick, and Aaron head back to their hometown of Las Vegas to investigate the allegedly haunted La Palazza Mansion. The crew spends seven hours locked inside the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia. The former psychiatric hospital is said to be one of the country's most haunted sites. At HuffPost, we believe that everyone needs high-quality journalism, but we understand that not everyone can afford to pay for expensive news subscriptions. That is why we are committed to providing deeply reported, carefully fact-checked news that is freely accessible to everyone.