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(2011, Indiana) The Terrifying Gallagher Family Case The Demonic House Certified by Authorities · Weird Darkness:True crime & The unexplained

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  Speaker 1: 2006, Indiana, the Ammons family, the house of 200 demons
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  Speaker 1: that terrorized Gary, and convinced the police that the devil exists.
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  Speaker 1: The house at 3860 Carolina Street in Gary, Indiana, stood
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  Speaker 1: as an apparently ordinary structure in a neighborhood that had
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  Speaker 1: known better days. It was November of 2006 when Latoya Ammons,
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  Speaker 1: a 32-year-old single mother, first arrived at the property along
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  Speaker 1: with her three children, a 12-year-old girl, a 9-year-old boy,
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  Speaker 1: and the youngest at 7 years old. Grandmother Rosa Campbell,
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  Speaker 1: 57 years old, completed the family group seeking a fresh
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  Speaker 1: start in this industrial city of the American Midwest. Gary,
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  Speaker 1: once a prosperous steel capital, showed the scars of economic decline.
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  Speaker 1: Abandoned houses dotted the neighborhood, and Carolina Street was no exception.
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  Speaker 1: But the $ 650 monthly rent was what the family could afford,
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  Speaker 1: and the two-story house seemed spacious compared to their previous dwelling.
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  Speaker 1: The white walls needed paint, the front porch creaked under
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  Speaker 1: the weight of years, and the basement emanated a damp
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  Speaker 1: smell that no amount of disinfectant seemed able to eliminate.
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  Speaker 1: From the first day, Rosa Campbell noticed something strange in
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  Speaker 1: the house's atmosphere. Documents from the Indiana Department of Child
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  Speaker 1: Services would later record her initial testimony. The basement windows,
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  Speaker 1: though hermetically sealed, always appeared covered in condensation. An inexplicable
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  Speaker 1: sense of weight seemed to gravitate over certain spaces, particularly
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  Speaker 1: in the Charles Reed, a Carolina Street resident for 23 years,
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  Speaker 1: would later declare to authorities that the house had remained
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  Speaker 1: empty for months before the Ammons' arrival. No family lasted
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  Speaker 1: more than a year in the property. Previous tenants simply
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  Speaker 1: disappeared without leaving forwarding addresses, abandoning even their security deposits.
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  Speaker 1: The first documented incident occurred exactly seven days after the move.
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  Speaker 1: It was December 3, 2006, approximately 3 in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: when Latoya was awakened by the sound of footsteps on
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  Speaker 1: the upper floor. Thinking one of her children was out
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  Speaker 1: of bed, she went up to check. She found them
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  Speaker 1: all deeply asleep. The footsteps, however, continued resonating directly above
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  Speaker 1: her head, despite already being on the highest floor of
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  Speaker 1: the house. This event would be recorded in her first
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  Speaker 1: call to the Gary Police Department, though at that time
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  Speaker 1: it was simply classified as Minor Unverified Disturbance. Before terror
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  Speaker 1: consumed their lives, the Ammons family led a modest but
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  Speaker 1: stable existence in Gary. Latoya worked as a nursing assistant
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  Speaker 1: on the night shift at Methodist Hospital, while Rosa took
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  Speaker 1: care of the children. School records from Roosevelt Elementary show
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  Speaker 1: that the three minors maintained average grades and regular attendance
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  Speaker 1: during the first months on Carolina Street. The family routine
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  Speaker 1: followed predictable patterns. Rosa prepared breakfast every morning at 6.30am,
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  Speaker 1: The children boarded the school bus at 7.45, and Latoya
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  Speaker 1: slept until noon after her 12-hour night shifts. Afternoons passed
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  Speaker 1: between homework at the kitchen table and television programs in
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  Speaker 1: the living room. Sundays they attended the 10 o'clock service
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  Speaker 1: at Mount Vernon Baptist Church, where Rev. William Banks would
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  Speaker 1: later remember them as a devout family who never missed Mass.
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  Speaker 1: Lake County Department of Social Services documents reveal that the
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  Speaker 1: family had no previous history of problems. No reports of neglect, abuse,
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  Speaker 1: or domestic disturbances. Neighbors from their previous residence in Hammond, Indiana,
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  Speaker 1: described them to investigators as quiet, hardworking people. The former landlady,
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  Speaker 1: Margaret Sullivan, confirmed they always paid rent punctually during the
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  Speaker 1: three years they lived in her property. However, December of
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  Speaker 1: 2006 would mark the beginning of subtle changes. Methodist hospital
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  Speaker 1: medical records show that LaToya began requesting shift changes with
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  Speaker 1: unusual frequency, citing family emergencies. Her co-workers noticed pronounced dark
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  Speaker 1: circles and a weight loss of approximately 7 kilograms in
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  Speaker 1: six weeks. The nursing supervisor, Patricia Holden, documented in her
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  Speaker 1: December 20 report that Latoya appeared distracted and occasionally disoriented
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  Speaker 1: during her rounds. The atmosphere on Carolina Street had begun
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  Speaker 1: to especially affect the children. The nine-year-old son's fourth-grade teacher,
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  Speaker 1: Jennifer Martinez, reported to the school counselor that the boy
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  Speaker 1: had become withdrawn and frequently fell asleep in class. When asked,
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  Speaker 1: the minor responded that things at home wouldn't let him sleep.
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  Speaker 1: The 12-year-old girl began complaining of constant headaches, with 17
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  Speaker 1: visits to the school nurse recorded between December 2006 and
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  Speaker 1: January 2007. Rosa Campbell kept a notebook where she recorded
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  Speaker 1: household expenses, but gradually began to register other events. An
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  Speaker 1: entry from December 15 mentions, all the basement light bulbs
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  Speaker 1: burned out at the same time. Third time this month.
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  Speaker 1: December 18 she wrote, the children all slept in my
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  Speaker 1: room again. They say there are shadows in their bedrooms.
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  Speaker 1: These notations would later be included as evidence in the
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  Speaker 1: official investigation of the case. The turning point came during
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  Speaker 1: the Christmas holidays. The family had tried to maintain an
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  Speaker 1: appearance of normality, decorating a small artificial tree and preparing
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  Speaker 1: the traditional dinner. But according to Rosa's subsequent testimony before authorities,
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  Speaker 1: on the night of December 24th, While they were dining,
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  Speaker 1: all the house lights began flickering rhythmically for exactly 13 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: The temperature in the dining room dropped so drastically they
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  Speaker 1: could see their own breath, despite the heating working at
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  Speaker 1: maximum power. Nipsco Electric Company records confirm unexplainable anomalies in
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  Speaker 1: the property's energy consumption during that period. It was then
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  Speaker 1: that Latoya made the decision to contact her church. Reverend
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  Speaker 1: Banks made his first visit to the house on December 27, 2006.
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  Speaker 1: His report, filed in parish records and later shared with investigators,
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  Speaker 1: describes a palpable oppression upon crossing the threshold and an
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  Speaker 1: unnatural cold concentrated in specific areas, particularly around the basement stairs.
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  Speaker 1: He immediately recommended that the family seek additional spiritual help,
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  Speaker 1: a suggestion that would mark the beginning of a downward
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  Speaker 1: spiral into events that would defy all rational explanations. January
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  Speaker 1: 2007 brought with it an escalation of events that would
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  Speaker 1: be meticulously documented in multiple official reports. On January 3,
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  Speaker 1: at 2.45 in the morning, Latoya Ammons made the first
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  Speaker 1: of what would be 37 calls to 911 over the
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  Speaker 1: following six months. Emergency operator David Richardson recorded, Resident reports
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  Speaker 1: violent banging sounds coming from the basement. Children's screams heard
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  Speaker 1: in background. Unit dispatched to 3860 Carolina Street. Officers Timothy
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  Speaker 1: Campbell and Marcus Washington arrived on scene at 3.05 in
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  Speaker 1: the morning. Their official report, case number 07-000345, describes finding
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  Speaker 1: the family gathered in the living room, visibly disturbed. Upon
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  Speaker 1: inspecting the basement, they found no evidence of intrusion, but
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  Speaker 1: Officer Campbell noted an unusual observation, temperature notably lower in
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  Speaker 1: basement compared to rest of house. Patrol car thermometer read
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  Speaker 1: 18 degrees Celsius on main floor, but dropped to 4
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  Speaker 1: degrees in basement. No apparent explanation for thermal difference. On
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  Speaker 1: January 7, Rosa Campbell took the children to the Methodist
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  Speaker 1: Hospital emergency room. Medical records, later obtained by the Indianapolis
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  Speaker 1: Star through a public information request, document bewildering injuries. The
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  Speaker 1: 7-year-old son presented bite marks on his back that didn't
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  Speaker 1: match any known human dental pattern. Dr. Sylvia Eckert, emergency
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  Speaker 1: physician with 15 years of experience, wrote in her report,
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  Speaker 1: Mark's present anomalous configuration. Spacing and depth are inconsistent with
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  Speaker 1: human or common domestic animal bites. Family insists they appeared
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  Speaker 1: spontaneously while the minor was sleeping. During that same hospital
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  Speaker 1: visit an incident occurred that would be witnessed by multiple witnesses.
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  Speaker 1: According to the sworn statement of nurse Willie Lee Walker,
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  Speaker 1: while waiting in the examination room, the nine-year-old boy began
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  Speaker 1: growling and his eyes rolled back. Without warning, the child
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  Speaker 1: rose from the floor and was thrown against the consultation
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  Speaker 1: room wall. Nurse Walker, with 23 years of service, would
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  Speaker 1: later testify, I saw with my own eyes how that
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  Speaker 1: child levitated. He didn't jump, wasn't pushed. He floated in
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  Speaker 1: the air for several seconds before being thrown against the
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  Speaker 1: wall with a force no human could generate. The Indiana
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  Speaker 1: Department of Child Services opened a formal investigation on January 10, 2007.
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  Speaker 1: The assigned social worker, Valerie Washington, made her first home
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  Speaker 1: visit on January 12, Her initial 22-page report would become
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  Speaker 1: one of the most extraordinary documents in the department's history.
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  Speaker 1: Washington wrote, Upon entering the residence, I observed approximately 15
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  Speaker 1: large flies congregated on the enclosed porch, despite sub-zero outside temperatures.
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  Speaker 1: Family reports flies appear daily regardless of how many times
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  Speaker 1: they fumigate. During that first visit, Washington personally witnessed several
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  Speaker 1: unexplainable phenomena. At 2.37 in the afternoon, while interviewing Latoya
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  Speaker 1: in the kitchen, all drawers and cabinets began opening and
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  Speaker 1: closing violently simultaneously for approximately 90 seconds. Washington documented, there
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  Speaker 1: was no evidence of wires, devices, or mechanisms that could
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  Speaker 1: cause this phenomenon. Mrs. Ammons remained seated, visibly resigned, as
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  Speaker 1: if this were a regular occurrence. On January 15, the
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  Speaker 1: family attempted to seek more specialized spiritual help. They contacted
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  Speaker 1: three different churches, but two refused to get involved after
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  Speaker 1: hearing the details. The third, the Apostolic Church of Deliverance,
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  Speaker 1: sent Deacon Michael Harris. His visit is documented in the
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  Speaker 1: parish record and in a subsequent police report, as Harris
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  Speaker 1: called 911 after witnessing what he described as unequivocal demonic manifestations.
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  Speaker 1: Harris reported that upon sprinkling holy water in the basement,
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  Speaker 1: the walls began showing stains of what appeared to be
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  Speaker 1: black oil seeping from inside the concrete. Samples were collected
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  Speaker 1: by the Gary Police Department and sent to the state laboratory. Results,
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  Speaker 1: dated January 25, indicated organic substance of undetermined origin, not
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  Speaker 1: matching any known compound in the database. The night of
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  Speaker 1: January 18 marked a critical point. The three children were
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  Speaker 1: found in a catatonic state in their beds at four
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. Latoya described them as awake but unresponsive,
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  Speaker 1: with completely white eyes. The ambulance transported them to Methodist
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  Speaker 1: Hospital where they remained under observation for 72 hours. Electroencephalograms
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  Speaker 1: showed abnormal but non-epileptic brain activity. Dr. Rebecca Morrison, pediatric neurologist,
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  Speaker 1: documented brain wave patterns unprecedented in medical literature. All three
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  Speaker 1: children presented perfect synchronization in their readings, as if sharing
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  Speaker 1: a single consciousness. Police Captain Charles Austin decided to assign
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  Speaker 1: regular surveillance to the residents after the 15th emergency call.
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  Speaker 1: Officers reported lights turning on and off in empty rooms,
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  Speaker 1: shadows moving in windows of rooms they knew were unoccupied,
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  Speaker 1: and on one occasion, organ music emanating from the basement
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  Speaker 1: despite there being no musical instrument in the house. On
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  Speaker 1: January 22, the case took an even more disturbing turn
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  Speaker 1: when the seven-year-old son spoke to his grandmother in a
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  Speaker 1: deep voice that wasn't his own, speaking in what a
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  Speaker 1: linguistics professor from Indiana University would later identify as archaic Latin.
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  Speaker 1: The child, who barely mastered basic second-grade English, recited complex
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  Speaker 1: phrases that translated said, We are legion, for we are many.
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  Speaker 1: This house belongs to us. Blood will be the price.
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  Speaker 1: Rosa recorded the event on her cell phone, and the
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  Speaker 1: recording would become crucial evidence in the subsequent investigation. January 23,
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  Speaker 1: 2007 would remain etched in official files as the day
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  Speaker 1: the Ammons case transcended any rational explanation. At 10.30 in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, social worker Valerie Washington returned to Carolina Street
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  Speaker 1: accompanied by DCS supervisor Nancy Talbot, licensed child psychologist Sandra Matthews,
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  Speaker 1: and police officer Jason Brown as security escort. What they
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  Speaker 1: would witness that day would be documented in sworn statements
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  Speaker 1: that would change their lives forever. The joint report, signed
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  Speaker 1: by All Present, describes that upon entering they found the
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  Speaker 1: family in the main living room. The three children were
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  Speaker 1: sitting on the couch, motionless, staring fixedly at the wall.
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  Speaker 1: Latoya explained they had been like that since 6 in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, not responding to external stimuli. When psychologist Matthews
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  Speaker 1: attempted to examine the 9-year-old son, the most documented incident
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  Speaker 1: of the case occurred. According to the four concordant official declarations,
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  Speaker 1: the boy mechanically stood up, walked toward the wall, continued
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  Speaker 1: walking up the wall perpendicular to the floor, crossed the
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  Speaker 1: ceiling walking upside down, took several steps on the ceiling,
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  Speaker 1: and descended down the opposite wall, all while his grandmother
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  Speaker 1: attempted to pray the Lord's Prayer. Nancy Talbot, with 28
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  Speaker 1: years of experience in child services, would later write, I
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  Speaker 1: have investigated hundreds of cases of abuse, neglect, and family disturbance.
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  Speaker 1: I had never witnessed something that defied the fundamental laws
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  Speaker 1: of physics. The boy walked on the ceiling for approximately
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  Speaker 1: 20 seconds. There were no wires, no tricks. Valerie Washington fainted.
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  Speaker 1: Officer Brown unholstered his weapon by instinct, though clearly there
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  Speaker 1: was nothing to use it against. psychologist Matthews ran out
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  Speaker 1: of the house and vomited on the porch. Captain Charles
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  Speaker 1: Austin of the Gary Police Department made the unprecedented decision
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  Speaker 1: to officially involve religious consultants. On January 25, Fr. Michael Maginot,
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  Speaker 1: parish priest of St. Stephen Martyr Catholic Church in Merrillville,
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  Speaker 1: was contacted. Maginot, a priest with training in psychology and
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  Speaker 1: a doctorate in theology, initially showed skepticism. His first report
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  Speaker 1: to the Diocese of Gary, dated January 27, Reflects this skepticism.
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  Speaker 1: I proceeded with the presumption of mental illness or elaborate fraud. However,
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  Speaker 1: his second visit on January 28th dramatically changed his perspective.
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  Speaker 1: During an interview with Latoya in the living room, while
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  Speaker 1: Rosa and the children were in the kitchen, the Venetian
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  Speaker 1: blinds began undulating violently without any source of wind. Then,
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  Speaker 1: according to Father Maginot's testimony before Bishop Dale Melksek, Latoya
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  Speaker 1: began convulsing and levitated approximately half a meter above the
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  Speaker 1: couch for nearly a minute while speaking in multiple simultaneous voices,
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  Speaker 1: some masculine and others feminine, in languages Maginot identified as Spanish, German,
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  Speaker 1: and what appeared to be Aramaic. On January 30, Methodist
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  Speaker 1: Hospital readmitted the three children after they were found in
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  Speaker 1: their beds with body temperatures of 33 degrees Celsius, technically
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  Speaker 1: in severe hypothermia state, but completely conscious and not showing
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  Speaker 1: typical symptoms of extreme cold exposure. Dr. Rebecca Morrison documented,
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  Speaker 1: medically impossible. With that core body temperature, they should be
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  Speaker 1: in coma or dead. However, all three children were alert,
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  Speaker 1: though not responding to questions. Their pupils didn't react to
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  Speaker 1: light and their tendon reflexes were absent, but they could
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  Speaker 1: move voluntarily. During their hospitalization, multiple hospital employees witnessed unexplainable phenomena.
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  Speaker 1: Nurse Patricia Coleman reported that the cardiac monitors of all
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  Speaker 1: three children showed exactly the same readings at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: identical beat by beat. Radiology technician James Patterson documented that
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  Speaker 1: x-ray machines malfunctioned only when attempting to examine the Ammons' children.
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  Speaker 1: Five different machines on three different floors experienced the same failures.
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  Speaker 1: On February 2, DCS made the decision to temporarily remove
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  Speaker 1: the children from the home. They were placed in three
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  Speaker 1: different foster homes to avoid mutual psychological contamination, according to
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  Speaker 1: the official report. However, All three homes reported disturbing incidents
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  Speaker 1: within the first 24 hours. The Johnson family, who took
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  Speaker 1: in the 7-year-old son, called emergency services when all crucifixes
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  Speaker 1: in their house, including one that had been in the
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  Speaker 1: family for three generations, appeared inverted and burned. The Smith family,
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  Speaker 1: with the 9-year-old son, reported their normally docile family dog
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  Speaker 1: became aggressive and had to be euthanized after savagely attacking
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  Speaker 1: the boy without provocation. The Williams family, caring for the
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  Speaker 1: 12-year-old daughter, found the words, You cannot hide us, written
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  Speaker 1: in what appeared to be blood on the bathroom mirror,
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  Speaker 1: though subsequent analyses couldn't determine the substance's origin. Father Maginot,
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  Speaker 1: now convinced of the case's supernatural nature, formally requested authorization
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  Speaker 1: to perform an exorcism. The process required approval from Bishop Melksek,
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  Speaker 1: who assigned an investigation team including Father Gregory Thompson, expert
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  Speaker 1: in paranormal phenomena, and Dr. Richard Klein, psychiatric consultant for
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  Speaker 1: the diocese. Their five-day investigation produced an 87-page report concluding,
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  Speaker 1: The phenomena observed and documented by multiple credible witnesses, including
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  Speaker 1: medical professionals, social workers, and police officers, cannot be explained
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  Speaker 1: by known psychiatric, medical, or environmental factors. On February 10,
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  Speaker 1: while the children remained in state custody, Latoya and Rosa
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  Speaker 1: continued experiencing intensified paranormal activity in the house. Police officers
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  Speaker 1: assigned to the case reported seeing solid dark figures moving
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  Speaker 1: through the windows when they knew only the two women
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  Speaker 1: were inside. Officer Timothy Campbell documented, At 3.15 in the
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  Speaker 1: morning of February 11, I clearly observed seven distinct figures
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  Speaker 1: in the second floor windows. I radioed requesting backup and
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  Speaker 1: we entered the property. We only found Mrs. Ammons and Mrs.
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  Speaker 1: Campbell huddled in the first floor bathroom, praying. We searched
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  Speaker 1: the entire house. There was no one else. the case
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  Speaker 1: had begun attracting attention from national experts. Dr. William Peterson,
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  Speaker 1: paranormal researcher from Duke University, arrived February 12 with a
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  Speaker 1: team of technicians and specialized equipment. Their measurements documented extreme
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  Speaker 1: fluctuating electromagnetic fields without identifiable source, temperature variations of up
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  Speaker 1: to 20 degrees Celsius between adjacent rooms, and most disturbing,
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  Speaker 1: audio recordings capturing voices that weren't audible to those present
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  Speaker 1: at the time of recording. Spectrographic analysis of these voices
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  Speaker 1: indicated some operated at frequencies outside the normal range of
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  Speaker 1: human speech. February 15 marked another turning point when the
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  Speaker 1: nine-year-old son, while in his foster home under constant DCS observation,
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  Speaker 1: began describing in detail unsolved murders and Gary dating from
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  Speaker 1: the 70s. He provided names, dates, locations and methods that
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  Speaker 1: were later verified with cold police files. Detective Michael Harrison
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  Speaker 1: from Gary Police Department would confirm the boy revealed details
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  Speaker 1: never made public, including locations of never-recovered evidence. A search
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  Speaker 1: based on the boy's information led to discovering a knife
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  Speaker 1: buried exactly where he had indicated, with DNA matching a
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  Speaker 1: victim from 1978. On February 18, 2007, Bishop Dale Melksek
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  Speaker 1: formally authorized the exorcism, a procedure that hadn't been performed
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  Speaker 1: in the Diocese of Gary in over 15 years. Father
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  Speaker 1: Michael Maginot was designated as principal exorcist, assisted by Father
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  Speaker 1: Gregory Thompson and Deacon Marcus Williams. The protocol required exhaustive preparation,
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  Speaker 1: including three days of fasting and prayer for the religious team.
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  Speaker 1: In parallel, Dr. William Peterson from Duke University intensified his
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  Speaker 1: scientific investigation. On February 20, he installed 32 high-definition cameras,
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  Speaker 1: motion sensors, electromagnetic field detectors, and ultra-sensitive audio recorders throughout
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  Speaker 1: the house. His team included quantum physicist Dr. Sarah Chen
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  Speaker 1: from MIT and molecular biologist Dr. James Mitchell from Johns Hopkins.
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  Speaker 1: Their initial hypothesis explored the possibility of localized dimensional anomalies
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  Speaker 1: that could explain the observed phenomena. The first exorcism attempt
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  Speaker 1: was performed on February 23 on LaToya Ammons at St.
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Martyr Church. The procedure, lasting 4 hours and 30 minutes,
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  Speaker 1: was documented on video with diocese authorization. During the ritual,
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  Speaker 1: according to Father Maginot's official report, Latoya manifested superhuman strength,
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  Speaker 1: requiring five adult men to keep her in the chair.
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  Speaker 1: She spoke fluent Latin, revealing private personal information about each
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  Speaker 1: person present that she couldn't have known, including the name
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  Speaker 1: of Father Thompson's deceased sister who had died at birth
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  Speaker 1: and was never publicly mentioned. On February 25, Indiana Department
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  Speaker 1: of Health authorities conducted a complete inspection of the property.
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  Speaker 1: Chief Inspector Robert Martinez documented dangerous levels of carbon monoxide
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  Speaker 1: in certain areas, but readings fluctuated inexplicably minute by minute
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  Speaker 1: without any identifiable source of gas. They also found black
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  Speaker 1: mold in the basement, but the spores presented anomalous biological characteristics. Dr. Mitchell,
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  Speaker 1: upon analyzing the samples, reported, the mold's DNA structure contains
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  Speaker 1: sequences that don't match any known organism in global genetic databases.
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  Speaker 1: On February 28, an unprecedented multidisciplinary team gathered at Carolina Street.
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  Speaker 1: It included FBI representatives specifically from their Ritual Crimes Division,
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  Speaker 1: scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and specialist doctors from
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  Speaker 1: the Centers for Disease Control. FBI Special Agent David Reynolds
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  Speaker 1: would write in his classified report, later obtained through the
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  Speaker 1: Freedom of Information Act, no evidence of fraud, manipulation, or
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  Speaker 1: deception was found. The witnessed phenomena defy conventional explanation and
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  Speaker 1: represent a significant challenge to our understanding of physical reality.
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  Speaker 1: On March 2nd, An exorcism was attempted on all three
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  Speaker 1: children simultaneously. The procedure was performed at Methodist Hospital under
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  Speaker 1: strict medical supervision. During the ritual, medical monitors recorded unprecedented anomalies.
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  Speaker 1: The seven-year-old son's body temperature rose to 42 degrees Celsius
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  Speaker 1: without causing brain damage. The 12-year-old daughter stopped breathing for
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  Speaker 1: seven minutes without showing signs of hypoxia. The nine-year-old son
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  Speaker 1: showed two distinct heart rhythms simultaneously on the same monitor.
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  Speaker 1: something medically impossible according to cardiologist Dr. Jennifer Park. On
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  Speaker 1: March 5, the Duke University team made a disturbing discovery.
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  Speaker 1: Audio recordings from the house, when played backward and slowed
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  Speaker 1: down 300%, contained coherent messages in Old English warning, The
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  Speaker 1: door is open. More will come. The pact was sealed
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  Speaker 1: with blood 200 years ago. Historical investigation revealed that the
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  Speaker 1: land where the house was built had been the site
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  Speaker 1: of a series of unexplained disappearances in 1806. exactly 200
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  Speaker 1: years before. Father Richard Zurofsky, demonology expert from the Vatican,
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  Speaker 1: was consulted via videoconference on March 8. After reviewing all evidence,
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  Speaker 1: he declared this case presented characteristics of level 5 demonic infestation,
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  Speaker 1: the most severe classification in Catholic Church protocols. He recommended
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  Speaker 1: immediate intervention from a specialized team from Rome, but the
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  Speaker 1: bureaucratic process would take weeks the family didn't have. On
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  Speaker 1: March 10, an alternative solution was attempted. Lakota shaman Joseph
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  Speaker 1: Crowfeather was invited on recommendation from cultural anthropologist Dr. Maria
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  Speaker 1: Santos from University of Chicago. Crowfeather performed a traditional cleansing
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  Speaker 1: ceremony involving burning white sage, sweetgrass, and cedar. During the ceremony,
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  Speaker 1: documented by the Duke team, cameras captured what appeared to
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  Speaker 1: be hundreds of luminous orbs emerging from the walls and
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  Speaker 1: converging in the basement. Crowfeather later declared,' I' ve dealt with
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  Speaker 1: spirits for 40 years,' What inhabits that house is not
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  Speaker 1: from this world nor from the spiritual world I know.
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  Speaker 1: It's something much older and more malevolent. On March 12,
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  Speaker 1: Rabbi David Goldstein, expert in Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism, examined
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  Speaker 1: the house and discovered symbols carved into the basement beams
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  Speaker 1: that had been previously overlooked. The symbols, when analyzed by
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  Speaker 1: ancient languages professor Dr. Marcus Webb from Oxford via digital photographs,
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  Speaker 1: were identified as a mixture of ancient Sumerian and Enochian symbols.
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  Speaker 1: supposedly the language of angels according to 16th century esoteric texts.
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  Speaker 1: On March 15, the most intense exorcism to date was performed.
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  Speaker 1: For six continuous hours, three Catholic priests, two Protestant ministers,
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  Speaker 1: a Muslim imam, and Rabbi Goldstein performed rituals from their
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: respective traditions simultaneously. The phenomena during this event were so
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  Speaker 1: extreme that the police department evacuated all houses within a
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  Speaker 1: two-block radius. Witnesses reported seeing the physical house vibrate and distort,
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  Speaker 1: as if the structure itself was being subjected to forces
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  Speaker 1: beyond comprehension. On March 18, 2007, after months of documented terror,
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  Speaker 1: the Ammons family made the decision to permanently abandon the
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  Speaker 1: Carolina street house. Department of Child Services records show the
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  Speaker 1: children were reunified with their mother on March 20, under
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  Speaker 1: the strict condition of never returning to the property. They
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  Speaker 1: moved to Indianapolis, where according to DCS follow-up reports, paranormal
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  Speaker 1: phenomena gradually ceased over the following six weeks. However, the
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  Speaker 1: house at 3860 Carolina Street continued being an enigma. Owner
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  Speaker 1: Charles Reed attempted to rent it again in April 2007.
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  Speaker 1: The Thompson family lasted exactly 13 days before fleeing in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the night, abandoning all their belongings. According
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  Speaker 1: to the April 25th police report, the Thompsons claimed their
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: two children began speaking in the same voices and languages
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  Speaker 1: that the Ammons children had manifested. The case attracted international
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  Speaker 1: media attention when the Indianapolis Star published an exhaustive investigation
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  Speaker 1: in October 2012, including 800 pages of official documents obtained
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: through public information requests. Journalist Marissa Kwiatkowski interviewed 37 official witnesses,
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  Speaker 1: all maintained their original testimonies five years later. Officer Timothy
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  Speaker 1: Campbell declared, I know what I saw. It changed my
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  Speaker 1: perspective on reality. I haven't slept well since then. In 2014,
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  Speaker 1: Zach Bagans, paranormal investigator and host of the show, Ghost Adventures,
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  Speaker 1: bought the house for $ 35, 000. His documented three-day investigation produced
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  Speaker 1: additional disturbing evidence, including a video recording where a three-meter-tall
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: shadow figure clearly appears in the basement. Bagans reported experiencing
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  Speaker 1: psychological oppression so intense I contemplated suicide, something he had
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  Speaker 1: never experienced in 20 years of paranormal investigations. On February 16, 2016,
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  Speaker 1: Bagans made the unprecedented decision to completely demolish the house.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: The demolition was filmed and during the process, workers reported
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: that excavators experienced unexplainable mechanical failures. Three different operators refused
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  Speaker 1: to continue after claiming they saw hundreds of shadows emerging
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  Speaker 1: from the debris. The house remains were incinerated and dispersed
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  Speaker 1: at undisclosed locations to prevent them from becoming relics. but
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: the physical destruction of the house didn't end the mystery.
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  Speaker 1: Police records show the vacant lot continues generating unusual reports.
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  Speaker 1: Neighbors have documented unexplainable lights floating over the empty land,
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  Speaker 1: sounds of crying children emanating from the ground, and a
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  Speaker 1: perfectly circular dead zone three meters in diameter where no
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: vegetation grows, exactly where the basement entrance was. Father Michael
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  Speaker 1: Maginot in a 2018 interview reflected on the case. In
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  Speaker 1: my 40 years of priesthood, I never experienced anything similar.
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  Speaker 1: It fundamentally changed my understanding of good and evil. I
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: believe that house was a portal, an entry point for
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: something we shouldn't have disturbed. The fact that phenomena continue
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  Speaker 1: after demolition suggests the problem was never the physical structure,
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  Speaker 1: but something much deeper in that place. The Ammons' children,
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  Speaker 1: now adults, have maintained a low profile. In a rare
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  Speaker 1: public statement in 2020, the youngest son, now 21 years old, said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember much from that period, it's like a
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  Speaker 1: blurry dream. But I still have nightmares. I see shadows
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  Speaker 1: watching me. I hear voices calling me. My siblings experience
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  Speaker 1: the same. We live in different states now, but we
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: all feel something follows us, waiting. The Indiana Department of
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Child Services conducted an internal review of the case in 2021.
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  Speaker 1: Their 200-page report concludes, The events documented in the Ammons
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  Speaker 1: case defy conventional child welfare protocols. The concordance of testimonies
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  Speaker 1: from multiple trained professionals suggests they witnessed genuinely anomalous phenomena.
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  Speaker 1: This case has led to creation of new protocols for
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: situations involving paranormal activity allegations. The scientific community remains divided.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: While some researchers like Dr. Peterson continue studying collected data,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: seeking explanations within paradigms of quantum physics and multiple dimension theory,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: others have dismissed the case as collective hysteria despite overwhelming
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: documentary evidence. Theoretical physicist Dr. Chin published a controversial article
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  Speaker 1: suggesting the house could have been a dimensional thinning point
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  Speaker 1: where barriers between parallel realities had weakened. The Ammons case
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  Speaker 1: remains officially unresolved. Files at Gary Police Department, Indiana DCS,
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  Speaker 1: and Gary Diocese remain open. To date, it's considered one
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  Speaker 1: of the most documented paranormal activity cases in United States history,
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  Speaker 1: with sworn testimonies from over 40 professionals including police officers, doctors,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: social workers, psychologists, and clergy. The question persists, what really
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: inhabited that Carolina street house? And more disturbing still, is
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: it still there, waiting in that vacant lot, or did
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: it leave with the family, an invisible but eternal presence
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: that will accompany them forever?