In November 2011, Latoya Ammons moved into an unassuming house in Gary, Indiana, with her mother and three children — then it was allegedly besieged by 200 demons.
For several harrowing months in late 2011 and early 2012, an Indiana woman named Latoya Ammons tried to tell anyone who would listen that her house was haunted. Worse than haunted — it was allegedly terrorized by demons. Though church officials and clairvoyants had offered her some advice, they had largely been unhelpful. Meanwhile, her case had begun to draw unwanted attention from police and doctors, who suspected she was delusional. They believed that her children, though seemingly possessed, were only just following Ammons’ own disturbing lead.
Then, everything changed one day at Methodist Hospital in Gary, Indiana.
There, Ammons’ two young sons were being examined by medical professionals after a frightening encounter with her personal physician, during which they’d spoken in demonic voices, and one of them had crashed into the wall as if thrown. Though Ammons’ nine-year-old son seemed to calm down, her seven-year-old son had begun to scream and thrash, even as five grown men attempted to hold him in place.
Inside Edition/YouTubeStarting in 2011, Latoya Ammons and her family were allegedly possessed and terrorized by malevolent spirits inside the “Demon House” of Gary, Indiana.
Meanwhile, a Department of Child Services caseworker named Valerie Washington, alerted to the situation by an anonymous caller who believed that Ammons might be mentally ill, showed up at the hospital. After hospital staff examined Ammons and her sons and determined that Ammons was of “sound mind,” Washington set out to interview the entire family including Ammons’ mother — who also lived at the allegedly haunted house.
And then, things began to get very, very strange.
As Washington interviewed Ammons, she witnessed the seven-year-old boy growling and his eyes rolling into the back of his head. Later that evening, when Washington returned with a nurse named Willie Lee Walker to examine the two boys, the seven-year-old began to growl again and, speaking in a deep, strange voice, announced: “It’s time to die. I will kill you.”
With that, the nine-year-old began to attack his grandmother, who grabbed his hand and started to pray. As Walker and Washington watched — and as Washington later documented in her report — the boy then walked backward up the wall and across the ceiling. Never letting go of his grandmother’s hand, he then flipped down and landed on his feet.
“We didn’t know what was going on,” Walker later said. “That was crazy. I was like, ‘Everybody gotta go.'”
But it would take more time — and the involvement of a Catholic priest — for Latoya Ammons’ frightening experience to finally come to an end.
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