THE DEMON HOUSE The True Story Behind The Deliverance
The Demon House: The True Story Behind The Deliverance
Black flies swarming a frozen porch in December. Footsteps climbing the basement stairs after midnight. A man with no face pacing the living room, and wet bootprints drying where he walked. In November 2011, LaToya Ammons moved her mother and three children into a small rental at 3860 Carolina Street in Gary, Indiana. Within weeks, two clairvoyants told her more than two hundred demons had taken the house. Then the water in the kitchen began to rain upward, the children began climbing the walls and crossing the ceilings, and the thing from the basement turned violent, choking, throwing and beating anyone who stood in its way, including the lawman who tried to carry the family out the front door. Staff at a family doctor's office watched a boy thrown into a wall with no one touching him. At Methodist Hospital, a state caseworker and a registered nurse watched a nine-year-old glide backward up a wall. Police recorded a whisper, photographed a face on the basement stairs, and dug up the dirt beneath them. A Catholic priest finished the rite in Latin. Netflix and Lee Daniels turned it into The Deliverance. Tonight, Jeremy Hanson tells it the way the people inside that house lived it, then puts the movie back on and shows you what Hollywood took out.
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Is The Deliverance based on a true story? Yes. The Netflix film draws on the Ammons haunting in Gary, Indiana, reported in 2014 and centered on a rental house at 3860 Carolina Street where LaToya Ammons lived with her mother and three children from late 2011 into 2012. Where is the Demon House? It stood on Carolina Street in Gary, Indiana, until paranormal investigator Zak Bagans, who bought it in 2014, had it demolished in January 2016. Who witnessed the events? Accounts came from the family, staff at Dr. Geoffrey Onyeukwu's office, DCS family case manager Valerie Washington, registered nurse Willie Lee Walker, Father Michael Maginot, and Captain Charles Austin of the Gary police. Was there a real exorcism? Father Maginot performed a minor exorcism and later a series of major exorcism rites on LaToya Ammons with the bishop of Gary's approval, the last in Latin in June 2012.
