Posted on 02/29/2016 5:26:10 PM PST by marshmallow
Gary, Ind., Feb 29, 2016 / 04:01 pm (National Catholic Register).- The home that was believed to be a site of demonic activity was demolished last month. The story, as reported in the National Catholic Register,, centered on an Indiana family attacked by demons and freed by a Catholic priest through a series of exorcisms.
It had attracted international attention after multiple people from various agencies, including a police officer and hospital and social-service employees, gave eyewitness testimonies of unexplained occurrences involving the family who lived there, including levitation of objects and loud footsteps leaving prints. Two hospital personnel reported seeing one of the boys walking backwards up a wall, flipping into the air and landing on his feet while in a hospital room waiting to be examined. In a separate event, the Department of Child Services report stated that the staff at a doctor's office witnessed one of the boys getting lifted up and thrown into a wall.
Zak Bagans, host and executive producer of the TV show Ghost Adventures, purchased the home in 2014 to film a documentary. Filming wrapped up in late 2015, and the coverage is expected to be released later this year. In an email interview, Bagans, who said he is Catholic, is not revealing much at this time, but he is convinced there was an evil presence in the home.
"I do believe the dark forces in the house were aware of my presence and did interfere with the production in many different ways - some serious," he said. Bagans added that, immediately after his investigation, he developed an unexplained physical illness from which he continues to suffer.
Priest Adviser to the Film
Father Michael Maginot, pastor of St. Stephen Martyr Church in Merrillville, Ind., and the priest who freed the family.......
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The acrobatics described might be explained by gravity waves.
I believe in all things spiritual, both good and bad, but I always start from a basis of suspicion and doubt. I suspect almost all of these cases are fraudulent baloney, superstition or previously misunderstood mental health issues.
Hopefully I never personally witness any spooky stuff. I’m not interested in having that experience.
Demonic house? I thought you said destroy the Delmonico house!
Everyone’s only hope is a blog?
things were levitating and no one took a movie with their smartphone? This is why I don’t believe in space aliens— by now, someone would have made a movie of a ship, a creature— something. Life is dull, I would love to see something like this, unfortunately, the universe is very rational.
Ghost chasers and UFO photographers are the worst in the world.
Stupid superstitious BS. That priest should be beaten and driven from town. He had a responsibility to tell those people not to be idiots.
This is freakin’ literally medieval to tear down a house to get rid of the ghosts. I guess we should just be grateful they didn’t burn it.
And you sound like such a sweet loving soul...
“I guess we should just be grateful they didn’t burn it.”
That’s what they did with the original Exorcist House.
https://sites.google.com/site/historicalmountrainier/historical-mount-rainier/exorcism
I seen a picture from the police car’s dash cam that has/looks like a person on the porch.
Wow—I have a huge amount of respect for you and your posts to this site, but none of us has all the answers. Someone in my own family lived in a haunted house at Fort Knox KY family housing. I didn’t believe it at first, but we all had such strange experiences in that place we were all convinced it was true. There are things that are inexplicable to us.
I lived in New Orleans. They gots lots of ghosties there.
A married couple I know who live in an old Victorian mansion claimed that they often felt a strange unseen presence or heard spooky noises.
One morning they heard footsteps and water running in the guest bathroom.So they both rushed upstairs to see.
There was no one there, but ‘no one’ had slept in the bed and left it mussed up, and ‘no one’ was running a hot bubble bath.
Thanks for that. Within the article there is a link to an actual investigation of the case. A really good read.
And.....the house that was burned? The boy never lived there. It is an urban legend.
I grew up near there and have actually stood in the middle of that lot. Popular belief was the house that was burned had fallen into disrepair and was condemned. The fire dept burned it down for practice. Supposedly ownership of the lot was being kept secret but the legend (that I learned as a teenager in the ‘70s) was that it was bought by ‘The Church’ to keep another house from being built there. I knew a woman who lived next door to it and she said she had played in the derelict house when she was a little girl.
I never saw the house, but part of the oil tank was still sticking out of the ground before they put the playground there.
Alas, Mark Chorvinsky passed away several years ago and Strange Magazine went with him. I haven’t read the article in years, I should read it again.
Catholic ping!
True story of ‘haunted house’ on Andrews Air Force Base near DC.
http://www.bswett.com/1992-08YesWeDoHouses.html
I don’t see that report as “superstitious BS.”
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