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Is THE DELIVERANCE Based on a TRUE Story? All About the HAUNTING Events That Inspired the Film · Mystery Archives Episodes

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There's been a resurgence of interest in the Amon's family
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haunting case with the release of the Netflix film The
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Deliverance just about a week ago now.
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According to the movie's IMDb description, The Deliverance is
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about an Indiana family that discovers strange demonic
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occurrences that convince them and their community that their
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house is a portal to hell. But what if I told you that the
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real case that the film is loosely based on is far more
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terrifying? Today we are going to examine
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the true story that inspired the film, revisiting an older video
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of mine, but also correcting any information that needs to be and
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providing new details and insight into this now infamous
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paranormal case. If you haven't watched the video
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I'm getting ready to update you on, please pause here and go
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watch it. It's going to be linked up in
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the top right hand side of the video.
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I've got it in the description and in the comments as well.
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It's called The Untold Story of the Amon's Family Haunting, and
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for anyone whoever wonders about the untold story, it's the name
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of this series. I'm very aware that the stories
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have been told probably by a ton of different people, but
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anyways, I digress. But watch that video come back
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and everything I'm about to tell you will make way more sense.
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I also highly recommend watching until the end of this video not
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only for a giveaway but I found some information on the Amon's
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that I don't think anyone else has covered before.
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It really just drives at home just how far we've really come
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Doctor Richard Gallagher is a very interesting person that
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I've made a few videos on now. His works to me are some of the
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most convincing for the existence of the demonic because
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he's such a professional and such a reliable source of
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information. With that being said, when I
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think of demonic possession, the image of the exorcist comes to
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the forefront alongside a few other terrifying examples.
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But besides being Hollywood tropes, some of these horror
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inducing manifestations may just be real, depending on who you
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ask. But this case certainly does not
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hold back with just who saw these paranormal things occur
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and how credible the people were and just what they saw.
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Some paranormal stories seem to form tropes of their own.
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Really. This one is also no exception.
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The family themselves were excited to move into a new home.
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This probably meant more space, more freedom for everybody, and
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a fresh start is always a good thing.
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Things typically are normal for a time, until they're not.
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Now that we've finished the original video, I'm going to go
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through an order of the story and give any and all updates,
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corrections, and information relevant to the case, as well as
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my opinions both supporting and debunking various aspects of
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this very wild story. So let's get started.
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When the family first moved in with the emergence of so many
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flies even during the frigid months of the year, in my
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opinion, could be indicative of the demonic.
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However, someone in the comments on the original video had
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brought up that perhaps it could be indicative of a gas leak,
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which I've never heard of a natural gas leak attracting
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flies, but I mean, it's certainly possible.
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After the flies eventually dissipated, the family began to
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experience the sounds of footsteps going up and down the
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stairs, as well as the basement door swinging open, even when it
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was previously logged for most. I think this would prompt people
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to start rethinking their decision to live there.
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I do get being locked down financially though, but I
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certainly would start contemplating my next move as
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far as where I could live. Alongside this, when the tall,
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shadowy figure emerged from Latoya's closet, my first
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thought would be that it's probably a burglar and with
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children in the house. I'm glad that she was brave
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enough to go and try and confront whatever this thing or
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person was, but then when she chased it down, essentially it
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disappeared only to reveal muddy footprints where it had once
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stood again. If you weren't already
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considering moving out, this would certainly expedite that
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process if it were me. Months later, on March 10th,
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2012, the family had hosted a wake at their home for a family
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member that had passed away. I've personally been to too many
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funerals and a lot of wakes, but I've never heard of one taking
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place at someone's home and not a Funeral Home.
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But I mean different different states or beliefs could probably
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account for this. As the wake was ending around
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2:00 AM or so, Latoya would hear the screams of her daughter's
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friend. Her daughter and her friend had
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been in the back bedroom and as she rushed back there to find
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out what the problem was, she too would scream for her mom
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because her daughter was levitating.
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I mean, Can you imagine that for a minute?
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You're already in a state of stress due to losing a family
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member and having their actual body in the living room of your
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home, but then you hear a blood curdling scream and then running
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to where it was originating from.
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You then see your daughter passed out and floating above
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her bed. Now that's, that's downright
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terrifying. I mean, I'd start praying too or
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something, you know, maybe tether her down, I don't know.
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But either way, downright disturbing manifestations trying
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to find some kind of help. They called a bunch of churches
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and almost none of them wanted any involvement with anything
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supernatural or paranormal. It's incredible to me how many
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Christian churches supposedly believe in God but don't believe
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in the devil or the demonic and just aren't willing to get
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involved. It's pretty crazy really.
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To me, you can't really have one without the other.
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It just doesn't make rational sense.
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They would eventually find a church that was willing to
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listen and based on the descriptions of what they were
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being told was taking place, it would come to believe that the
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occupation was demonic in nature.
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Now I misspeak in this part of the story.
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On the original video I say that they cleaned the entire home
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with bleach and ammonia. They did do this because they
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were advised to use strong chemicals to clean so it was
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supposedly supposed to help clear out any negative energy
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that could be there, which I've heard just keeping your space
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clean in general can help with that all around.
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They did use both of these chemicals but they used them at
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separate times because if you mixed these you would have a not
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so good time. Just figured how I would finally
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address that instead of answering hundreds and hundreds
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of comments. They would then use olive oil to
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anoint the children as well as sections of the house.
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And this has been in practice and used for thousands of years
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to bless things. I know a lot of people who
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integrate this into their personal practices.
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I am curious just what clairvoyance they spoke with
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though that told them that their home was harboring over 200
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demons. To me that's pretty excessive.
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I mean one or several since they tend to travel in packs, often
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referring to themselves as legion to give the appearance of
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power through numbers. A few would be bad enough, let
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alone 200. So I personally highly doubt
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this. I think this is greatly
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exaggerated, but at further advice of the mysterious
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clairvoyance, Latoya then builds an altar in the basement.
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And I find this strange as well because altars are are used in
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churches you know formally, but you usually don't see them used
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in Christian or even Catholic blessings of a home.
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If anything I would argue this is more of a Pagan practice but
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placing a white sheet on the table they placed a candle and
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statues of Mary, Joseph and Jesus and then salt was also
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placed around the room. To me it's kind of an
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amalgamation of Christian and Pagan practices in a way.
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And I mean hey you know whatever works right?
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I do know from personal experience that salt can be a
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good for attraction spells as well as protection depending on
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how it's used. Latoya and a friend would go on
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to cleanse the house by burning sage and sulfur.
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I have certainly heard of burning sage to cleanse a home
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and we usually burn Palo Santo to restore a positive energy
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following burning sage. We do our own cleansings, but
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I've never heard of burning sulfur.
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If anything, sulfur or the scent of sulfur has always been
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associated with the demonic or hell in general.
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Biblically I find this further troubling because burning sulfur
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can produce toxic and flammable gases.
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So not to be too harsh or anything but whoever was giving
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them this advice may not have been the smartest to be honest.
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As they did this, they would form crosses in the smoke and
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read the Bible, which again in a way is a further binding of the
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practices of Pagan and then also Christian origin.
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Approximately 3 days later, Latoya's children then began to
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speak in deep sinister voices accompanied with twisted smiles
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and bulging eyes. It's as if they were completely
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different people. Now, I can't really explain this
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one to be honest. It is telltale signs of demonic
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possession for manifestations like this to occur.
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But if it didn't actually happen, it would have been
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indicative of some kind of drug use or mental disorder on behalf
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of Latoya, which as far as I've been able to research, has never
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been the case for her. And to make things creepier,
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following these things happening, the kids would have
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no recollection of these things ever occurring.
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Like their memory would be entirely blank for portions of
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time where they were supposedly acting this way.
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Now, I did look into a possible connection between the burning
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of sulfur or a gas leak and the altered voices or hallucinations
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that were taking place. And the burning of sulfur and
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its byproducts are toxic and can cause a variety of issues, but
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they're mostly breathing related.
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If there was indeed a natural gas leak, carbon monoxide
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poisoning can cause headaches, confusion, blurred vision,
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hallucinations, and feelings of dread.
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It can also cause seizures, memory loss as well, and a
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variety of of just terrible side effects.
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Could this potentially explain both the attraction of the flies
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as well as the potential occurrences within the home?
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Although I'm unsure if it's a natural gas leak that was
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playing a role and what the family says they went through,
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it very well could have. And all this aside, Latoya's
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youngest son would often speak with an imaginary friend which
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apparently explained to him what it was like to be murdered.
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Now from what I've gathered, of course I don't know the family
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personally or anything like that, but Latoya and her mother
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were both pretty religious, so my guess is that they monitored
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what the kids watched and listened to.
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Media wise. This is the only thing aside
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from an actual entity or a very overactive imagination inspired
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by something that could be the cause of this.
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Of course, lots of media in general contains violence and
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dark elements, but were the children exposed to any of this
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is the real question. The child during one of these
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episodes was apparently thrown from the closet, hitting
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Latoya's daughter and causing an injury that required a trip to
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the hospital for stitches. I have no real way to explain
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this unless it actually happened or was greatly exaggerated, but
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as a result of this, a hospital trip happened and it seems like
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Child Protective Services began to take an interest in the
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family. Latoya's daughter would be
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interviewed by a psychiatrist there at the hospital who would
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end up telling her that she often had experiences as if she
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was being held down and choked by something that she couldn't
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see. Now if we follow the carbon
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monoxide theory, which granted if levels were that high, you'd
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think that one or multiple family members would ultimately
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pass away eventually from it. But it is known to cause
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hallucinations as well as a profound sense of dread and I'm
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curious if this attributed to her experiences or if she was
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indeed being attacked by an unseen entity.
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We come to find out that Latoya would complain of moments where
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her body temperature would rapidly raise and she would
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shake, falling in and out of consciousness.
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Now again, carbon monoxide poisoning can cause seizures and
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blackouts, but not necessarily rapid rises in temperature.
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But being a woman with several kids and although I I looked, I
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couldn't find her age, it is possible that perhaps if it
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wasn't a supernatural occurrence that she could have been
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experiencing symptoms of menopause.
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Things with the family would get so bad that some nights when
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they could afford to do so, Latoya would opt to take
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everyone out to a hotel for a night or two just to get away
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from the house and try to normalize things for them.
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After a trip to the doctor's office, upon being asked what
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was taking place, Latoya began to explain to the doctors that
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they were dealing with something paranormal and possibly demonic
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within their home. As the doctor was writing down
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that she was delusional, the youngest son was thrown against
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the wall without anyone having touched him and at the same time
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her oldest child also went unconscious.
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Now medical staff tried to wake the boys but were unable to and
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would ultimately call 911 to transport them to a nearby
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hospital. Now, aside from a pre-existing
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medical condition, I can't really explain how the the
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oldest son would have passed out right when his brother hit the
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wall. According to eyewitness
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testimony, he was thrown against the wall by an unseen force.
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But could it perhaps be that people were just superstitious?
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That the boy could have just tossed himself against the wall?
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Maybe he was seeking attention. And just so you know, I'm not
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trying to discredit their story. I do think it's important to
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play devil's advocate so to speak and seek the truth and
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debunk things when they can be rationally debunked instead of
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just automatically agreeing with everything you know, being the
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work of dark forces all the time.
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The boys would wake up in the hospital and while the oldest
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was docile, the youngest began to violently attack anyone who
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came near him and it would apparently take 5 grown men to
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restrain the young man. Perhaps this was confusion after
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being unconscious and waking up in a new environment.
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It's hard to say for certain. Seeing the bizarre events
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unfold, a hospital employee began to believe that the boys
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are being abused and acting out and would ultimately contact the
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Department of Child Safety. Citing what I've already
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mentioned as well as Latoya's seeming to suffer from obvious
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mental illness, ADCF worker by the name of Valerie Washington
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would be assigned to the case would come and interview the
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family. In her report, she would say
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that the boys didn't have any injuries and that Latoya seemed
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to be stable. She would then have her
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evaluated by the psychiatrist there at the hospital, where she
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would be deemed sane. This, I feel like, is a really
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important moment in this case because an actual medical
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professional evaluated Latoya, meaning that according to them,
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and, you know, people do make mistakes sometimes.
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You know, no one's perfect. But according to them and their
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medical expertise, she wasn't crazy.
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As Valerie continued her investigation, Latoya's youngest
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would end up growling at her and then attacking and strangling
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the older brother during the interview.
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Later that day, Washington would return alongside with a
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registered nurse and Rosa, the boy's grandmother, and would
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take the youngest into a small exam room to continue the
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interviews. Finding that interviewing the
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boys alone would probably yield better results, the boy would
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growl again, acting very strange.
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And then we get to the infamous part that everyone knows.
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Now during this segment of the story in the original video, I
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explained that the oldest runs towards Rosa and begins head
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butting her over and over again. This did occur, but it was
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following the incident I'm about to describe with the youngest
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son. Not to get the timeline
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confused, the child began to get violent yet again with his
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grandmother and with the officials in the room, and Rosa
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would opt to call him a demon. Now whether this remark was on
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her actually believing the child was possessed or because he was
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acting like a lunatic is beyond me.
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But with a twisted smile and taking her hands, it began to
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glide or walk backwards up the wall and almost making it to the
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ceiling. Now I'm not sure how to debunk
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this one. Like yes kids can maneuver their
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body weight and push off the wall against an adult for
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example and walk up it in a way, but doing this to the point to
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where they reach the ceiling? I've never seen or heard of
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that. Also, considering this took
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place in front of a registered nurse and the DCF worker makes
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it much more credible because they were freaked out enough to
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run out of the room following the event and to grab the
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nearest doctor to explain what had just taken place.
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And unless they were all in some kind of dramatic theater and for
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what purpose I I don't know would be the only explanation
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aside from it actually occurring.
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The doctor, not believing what the officials had said, said
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that it had to be some sort of a trick or something.
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So accompanying everyone, he went to the room and asked the
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boy to recreate what he had done, but the boy said that he
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didn't remember. And to be fair, if this did
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truly occur, these types of things can't be recreated
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scientifically and at will. They occur so randomly and
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sporadically that it's almost impossible to study them in the
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field. The male RN that was present
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would later say, as documented in the DCF report, that they
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believed that the child was possessed by something evil.
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And the case manager as well, Valerie Washington, But also
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state that there was an evil influence affecting the Amon's
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family. This in and of itself is crazy
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to think about because this was witnessed by two professionals
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in two different fields and officially documented in a
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proper report. The youngest boy would end up
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staying overnight at the hospital and Latoya would stay
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with him while Rosa took the other two to a nearby relative's
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house. It was the boy's birthday the
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following day and after the family celebrated at the
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hospital. Despite the official report what
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she had seen, Washington would inform everyone that DCF would
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be taking custody of the kids, citing that they believed they
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were being spiritually and emotionally neglected.
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This one is a weird one for sure.
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I'm curious if perhaps someone higher up than Washington made
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the call to take the kids, but it seems like, from my personal
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experience anyways, that DCF takes kids out of homes that
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aren't usually that bad or abusive, but neglects those who
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need to be taken away for very real circumstances.
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You know, the system really is broken.
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But either the report was to placate the Amons into a false
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sense of security by going along with their stories, or someone
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higher than Washington saw the report and was like, yeah, these
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people have to be crazy. Word had gotten out around the
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hospital, and the hospital chaplain actually would contact
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Reverend Mangiano, who would reach out to Latoya.
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And despite the turmoil of the situation that she found herself
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in, this was an unexpected but welcome surprise.
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The Reverend would interview Rosa and Latoya at their
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Carolina St. home to get a better feel for their character
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and for the situation. The lights apparently kept
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flickering throughout the interview and blinds wildly
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swinging. Despite there not being any
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source or cause for this, these things accompanied with a
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feeling of darkness. Mangiano believed that he was
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dealing with the real deal. Following the interview, he
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would schedule with the women a time when he could come and
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bless the home, and following this blessing, he believed that
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the home was indeed infested with demonic entities and that
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it was no longer safe for anyone to live there.
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Rosa and Latoya, following his advice, would then move in with
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a nearby relative. A week later, DCF sent
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Washington with two Lake County police officers and the Gary, IN
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Chief of Police to examine the Carolina St. home and determine
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if it was safe for the children to live in.
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Latoya would meet them there but would refuse to go inside of the
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house. Washington, alongside the
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officers, would enter and would examine the home.
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Underneath the stairs there was a dirt patch that Rosa believed
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that the demons were originating from.
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For what reason? It was never really made clear
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as to why she felt that way despite all my research, but she
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felt that way nonetheless. The police chief who did believe
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in ghosts but not demons at the time, which again to me is is
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kind of weird, but I mean to each their own.
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He later changed this belief after he visited the home on
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Carolina St. With things moving on their own
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accord during their time there, flickering lights, eerie
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feelings, and with a supposed EVP capture by mistake that one
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later discovered would reveal disembodied voices whispering to
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them, he became a believer. Several photos would also be
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taken and would reveal disturbing and strange
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silhouettes of figures within the home.
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This too is a very important threat in the case in my opinion
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because these things were seen and captured by seasoned police
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officers, one of them being the Gary Chief of Police at the
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time, and most law enforcement officials don't tend to just go
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on the record and risk their reputation unless they believed
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what they experienced to be true.
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Even weirder, that evening following the investigation of
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the Amon's home, the captain returned to his own home where
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his garage door malfunctioned and didn't want to open.
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The driver's seat of his vehicle also began to move forward on
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its own. Thankfully though, when he was
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parked the following day he would have the car examined by a
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mechanic and the mechanism was found to be broken and that if
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it would have malfunctioned while the chief was driving then
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it could have been catastrophic and caused an accident.
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Although the chief would attribute these to something
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following him home from the Eamon's house, it very well
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could have just been a series of really strange coincidences.
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Officers would continue their joint investigation with DCF and
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among several things to happen, an oil like substance began to
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streak down the walls with no visible origin.
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Thinking this could have been from past olive oil anointments,
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they cleaned the wall and sealed the room for 20 plus minutes
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only to reveal additional oil streaks down the walls after
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they reopened the room. I don't know if this was
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supposed to be ectoplasm or what have you.
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I don't believe that the liquid was ever tested to see if it was
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olive oil. It could have possibly soaked
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into the drywall or the wood and produced excess oil I guess.
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Or like oozed back out with temperature changes.
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I do also think it could have possibly been condensation, but
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apparently there wasn't any air leaks or anything in the house.
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So it's, it's really hard to make like a solid determination
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on that one. I may skip over some of the
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smaller details of the case just because there's so much
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information that's presented. But an exorcism would be carried
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out on the House and also done by seasoned priests.
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Ultimately, this would lead to an exorcism, or a series of
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exorcisms I should say, on Latoya herself.
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Manjano wanted to conduct things himself but was denied absolute
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control by his Bishop who sought experience exorcist to accompany
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him. Latoya had come to believe, and
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we're not totally sure how as she was being oppressed by the
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demon Beelzebub, also known as the Lord of the Flies.
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Which I mean, this could be wishful thinking from a Google
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search given all the flies that had previously plagued them
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since she was a religious woman. Or I mean, it could be the real
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deal, you know? You never really know.
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The exorcisms would be conducted within Manjano's church and they
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would be conducted several weeks apart.
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What takes place within these exorcisms are either total
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demonic manifestations of evil or intense religious delusional
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theater. It honestly really just comes
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down to what you believe. This case seems to have a lot of
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details that could sway someone. Either way, when you really dig
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into it, Latoya would be freed of her apparent demons after the
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3rd exorcism, and now we'll start getting into everything
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that happened after the original case took place.
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Latoya and Rosa would move out of the home on Carolina St. and
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the home would have several more tenants, none of which say that
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they experienced any paranormal activity.
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So either the exorcisms worked, the demons were indeed attached
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to Latoya in the 1st place, or the demons that existed only
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truly existed within the minds of those involved.
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Latoya, thankfully, would go on to regain custody of her
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children in November of 2012 and had the authorities keep an eye
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on her until the case was finally closed in February of
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2023. Her story goes fairly off the
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grid after all this happened, her and her children as they
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grew up, and her mother Rosa all shield away from public life
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following the incidents. And really, I can't blame them.
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In interviews and even talks with a friend of mine
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personally, Latoya comes off as a pretty pretty genuine person.
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Genuine in character and in her beliefs and what she believed
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took place. And my critiques, again, are not
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to disparage her or anyone else. I just think that's like,
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healthy skepticism is important to have when tackling these
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kinds of things. Word of the Haunted Indiana home
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would eventually make its way to infamous Ghost Adventures host
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Zach Bacon's Via the Indy Star newspaper that originally gave
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press coverage to Latoya's story.
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He would get in touch with the current owners at that time and
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would purchase the home for $35,000 in 2014 where he would
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then film the documentary Demon House where he claimed he
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experienced dark demonic forces, some of which apparently caused
28:13
him to need to wear glasses. I guess whether this was truly
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demons affecting his health or the cause of old age, we'll
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never truly know. But begins, of course, is a
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polarizing figure in the paranormal world.
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A lot of people either love or hate him and I'm not here to
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debate that, but I mean you can in the comments, I don't really
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care. But in 2016, after giving press
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statements about his findings, one of one of the outlets of
28:39
which was the indie star, Zach would have the house demolished
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and would then release his documentary Demon House in 2018.
28:46
Now whether his findings were real or amped up entertainment
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is again up to you to decide, but I do think it is strange
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that he had the home demolished. This wouldn't allow anyone else
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to investigate the home, of course.
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Now, whether it was to prevent others from investigating the
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house or if it was Zach's way to prevent people from living there
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due to the demons is, again, something we'll never truly
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know. Demon House, of course, would go
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on to be a massive success. Zach would also take a piece of
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the stairs in which sat over the supposed portal to hell from the
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Amon's home in the basement, and it is now on display in his
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haunted museum, with some saying that they've had experiences of
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their own after witnessing it in person.
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When the case on Carolina St. took place, the family consisted
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of Latoya Amon's Rosa Campbell, her mother, her oldest daughter
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Aaron, oldest son Andrew, and youngest son Armani, whose ages
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at that time were 12-9 and seven.
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I withheld their names in the original video because I I
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couldn't find if this information was published at
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that time and I wanted to respect their privacy.
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It has since been published in a lot of different publications, a
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lot of different outlets. So this to the what I'm about to
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tell you is also published, but I haven't heard anyone mention
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it or talk about it. Sadly.
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In 2021, Latoya's youngest son, Armani, passed away at the age
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of 17. The cause of death, however, is
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not publicly available. But I do very much feel for her
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and her family. I don't think that any mother
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should have to bury their child. Fast forward to today in 2024.
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Although it's uncertain just how involved Latoya was in the
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making of the Deliverance film, the film is loosely based on her
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story and was released on August 16th in theaters and August 30th
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on Netflix. It is similar but certainly not
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the same story whatsoever. I'm sure after watching my
30:43
breakdown and or the original video or both and then watching
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the film, you'll definitely see that for sure.
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Latoya and her family, as far as I know, continue to live a nice
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quiet life without fear and continue to stay out of the
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limelight and I really can't blame them.
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Was their case a legitimate demonic haunting or was it all a
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publicity stunt and for what reason?
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I wouldn't know, but at the end of the day, that's up to you to
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