Demon House

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[skateboard rolling]

[spare piano music]

I'm Zak Bagans,

paranormal investigator.

For the past 13 years,

I've investigated

over 1,000 hauntings.

I have a series on

The Travel Channel in the U.S.

called "Ghost Adventures."

I'm one of the world's

leading researchers

on ghosts and demonology.

And this is the case

that really f***ed me up.

The story was huge.

It was the next Amityville.

And I went all out.

I had plenty of resources,

equipment, a great crew.

I thought I was

gonna crush this story.

But in the end,

nothing was as it seemed.

I fell ill and couldn't

leave my room for eight days.

I didn't feel like myself.

Crew members quit on the spot

or had to get fired.

Witnesses and experts

ended up in the hospital.

And at the heart of it all

was a little screwed-up house.

It took me three years

to finish this film.

I had everything I needed.

But the truth is,

this film is cursed.

[ominous music]

[wind whistling]

In 2014, I had a nightmare

where I'm a spirit hanging out

with other spirits.

And I show them

this trick I can do,

moving an object on a table

without touching it,

like what I try

to get spirits to do

during my investigations.

Then, I'm suddenly

in front of a door,

and I can't control my body.

And the door opens,

and a 12-foot-tall goat figure

is standing there,

and dark black smoke

comes out of its mouth,

and I'm forced to inhale it.

[growling]

When I woke up,

my lungs hurt,

and I knew this was

some serious sh*t

that meant something.

A week later, a story

about a demon possession

in Gary, Indiana,

makes international news.

And a look at one

of the most documented cases

of demon possession

and exorcism in recent history.

While this news is breaking,

I'm filming a show

in California

when I start getting calls

about it.

The next day, over the phone,

I buy the house, sight unseen.

Now, "Inside Edition"

with Deborah Norville.

That "Portal to Hell" house

that we've been telling you

about in Gary, Indiana,

where so many eerie things

are said to have happened,

has just been sold.

And wait till you see

who's moving in.

The new owner is Zak Bagans.

What on Earth were you

thinking, buying this house?

A week later,

I arrive with a film crew.

A woman named Latoya Ammons,

along with her young children

and her mother,

are the family at the center

of this haunting.

Unfortunately,

they've since moved out,

and some squatters

have moved in.

It takes some convincing

to get them to leave.

Hello?

Hey, Charles, it's Zak,

did you call?

Okay, thanks, Charles.

Hey, how you doing, man?

Leon Steadman.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah,

how are you?

- How you doing?

- I'm all right. I'm all right.

Your friends?

Who's your friends?

Oh, man.

This is my first steps

right now inside the home.

And... wow, this is it, huh?

Then, psychic medium

Chris Fleming sends me a text.

He's heard I bought the house.

He sends me a warning

that I'll never forget.

He tells me there's

a 12-foot-tall demon guardian,

just like the one

from my dream,

at that house.

And I better stay

the hell away from it.

I should have

taken his advice.

[eerie music]

But I didn't.

I just got the keys

to the Demon House.

So I have the house,

but I don't have Latoya Ammons

and her family,

who were allegedly possessed

in the house.

They've moved away

to Indianapolis,

so we go searching for them.

This is it.

This is what it all

comes down to,

after numerous conversations

with Latoya and her mother

about them debating on whether

or not they want to talk

or do an interview with me.

They always said

they'd return our phone calls,

and they never did.

So, we were able

to find their address.

I have to go try

and talk to them.

We're in Indianapolis.

Latoya did a news story,

like, a year ago or something.

And we were able

to find this news story

that wasn't related

to her exorcisms,

about a mold problem

here in these apartments.

And you could see her

standing there

with the address

on the right-hand side.

And that's how we were able

to be led here.

This whole story started

in 2011,

when the Ammons family moved

into that old rental house

in Gary, Indiana.

They started hearing footsteps

going up and down

their basement stairs,

saw shadowy figures

in the living room,

and flies swarmed

their screened-in porch

in the dead of winter.

The local Catholic church

told them

their house was haunted

by spirits,

and a couple clairvoyants

claimed that the house

was home to 200 demons.

Then it started affecting

their young children more.

They started having

dark conversations about death

with people who weren't there.

A family doctor wrote it off

as delusions.

Then, on April 27, 2012,

everything blew up.

[eerie music]

Now I'm outside their new home

150 miles away,

hoping they'll talk to me.

Someone in there.

[knocking]

Is Latoya or Rosa here?

How are you?

I'm Matt.

We talked on the phone

a couple weeks ago.

- This is Zak.

- What's up, man?

How you doing?

Good.

I wanted to see

if Latoya or Rosa

would want to talk to us.

Okay.

Okay, yeah.

See what happens.

[tape fast-forwarding]

- It's bullshit.

- I knew it.

Oh, she won't?

Okay.

Kevin explains

they won't speak to me

because I've spent time

in the house,

and they fear things have

attached themselves to me.

Luckily,

Kevin is willing to talk.

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