House of 200 Demons used to be located in Gary, Indiana. Has since been demolished.
Atoya Ammons moved her family into a quaint one-story home on Carolina Street in November 2011 — but were what she believed to be demonic forces that forced her and loved ones to flee in terror just six months later real or products of their overactive imaginations?
The first sign something was terribly wrong came in the form of a swarm of giant black flies that descending on the home’s screened-in porch — despite the cold December weather. “We killed them and killed them and killed them, but they kept coming back,” recalled Ammons’ mom, Rosa Campbell. “This is not normal.”
Neither was their terror on March 10, 2012. At around 2 A.M., the family and some friends they had been hosting were sleeping, when Ammons’ 12-year-old daughter began screaming. Campbell said they ran into the little girl’s room and discovered her levitating above the bed. “I thought, ‘What’s going on? Why is this happening?’” said the grandmother, who began praying with Ammons and their guests.
The girl finally descended and regained consciousness, but she didn’t remember a thing — unlike their visitors who couldn’t forget what they saw and refused to ever return.
Another night, said Ammons, she woke up to a figure pacing her living room, but when she sprang up and investigated further, all she found were wet bootprints. And on multiple occasions, the sound of footsteps ascending their basement stairs and the creaking of the door to the kitchen left everyone rattled. Yet, nobody was ever there, and all they could do was make sure the door was kept locked.
Ammons and Campbell decided divine intervention was the only way to deal with what they were certain had to be demonic activity. “We need help. We need to talk to someone who knows how to deal with it,” Campbell recalled telling her daughter at the time.
One church they contacted told them the house was possessed by spirits, and they followed advice to clean it with ammonia and bleach before using oil to mark all their doors and windows with crosses. Ammons then anointed the kids’ hands, feet, and foreheads with the oil.
Still desperate, Ammons and Campbell contacted a clairvoyant, who told them to move because the house was possessed with over 200 demonic entities. Unfortunately, financial issues meant the family couldn’t just abandon the rental property so easily, though they at times stayed in a hotel to escape their circumstances. On the advice of the clairvoyant, they burned sage and built an altar holding statues of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus in the basement.
With a Bible in hand, Ammons also walked through the home and read Psalm 91: “You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.”
The frightened family welcomed a days-long lull in the terror, but, they said, the situation then worsened — and the kids became bigger targets. Campbell said her seven-year-old grandson would occasionally sit in a closet listening to an invisible entity discussing what it was like to die. Another time, he was ejected from a bathroom.
Read more here: https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/bad-behavior/haunted-house-indiana-demons-possessed-family
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