Demon House

I'm Zak Bagans, paranormal investigator.

For the past 13 years,

I've investigated over 1,000 hauntings.

I have a series on TheTravel 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 fucked 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.

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.

When I woke up, my lungs hurt,

...and I knew this was some serious shit...

...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.

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.

Now I'm outside their new home 150 miles away,

...hoping they'll talk to me.

Someone in there.

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.

– 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.

What did you notice first?

I was told not to even go in the house.

It was really affecting the kids...

...and my sister the most, you know.

And really the youngest, my nephew.

It was really, really letting him have it.

It was hurting him, you know, things of that nature.

Then, when they came to see me and stay with me...

...those few days and nights,

...it was attacking them in my home.

I heard it.

I was upstairs in my bedroom,

...and I heard, "Whoom!"

They were all sitting in my living room,

...and they started this little, weird, evil little chant...

...out of nowhere.

And it started with...

...my youngest nephew started.

He stopped.

My oldest nephew picked it up.

He stopped.

My niece picks it up.

Are you okay?

We were taking them to the car,

...and then all of a sudden,

...my one nephew started attacking the other one.

And then, my niece just starting attacking.

They just kept attacking each other.

Stop it.

And my nephew looks up at my mom,

...said, "Get your hands off me, you old bitch."

I said that's enough.

Get your fucking hands off me, bitch.

Fuck your old-ass car, bitch.

Had they ever talked to your mom like that?

No, they would never do that.

– Ever? – Ever, ever.

I had my oldest nephew,

...and she had him.

And he looks at him, he's like, he says,

"Are you ready to go, my brother?"

"Yes, my brother, I'm ready to go."

All of a sudden, it just started grabbing...

...my oldest nephew, just slamming him,

...slamming him, slamming him in the back.

Then he just kept throwing him.

I don't know exactly why it chose my family.

I don't know if it was...

Do you think it was in the house?

I'm thinking it's a presence that was in the house...