WEBVTT - S05 Episode 1: You, in There 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:05.199 Introducing The Fountain Road Files, a new horror fiction podcast 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:11.440 from Unexplained creator Richard McLean Smith. In March twenty twenty, 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:15.560 twenty seven year old cafe worker Ben Williams began recording 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:20.040 an audio diary of the coronavirus pandemic. Two months later, 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.599 he was found dead in the South London flat where 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:28.840 he was spending lockdown alone, or so he thought. Search 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:31.880 the Fountain Road Files wherever you get your podcasts, and 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:49.280 for more information go to the Fountain Road Files dot com. 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:53.599 Some know it as the Crossroads of America, others as 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:57.280 the home of Hawkins and the gateway to the upside Down. 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:02.600 But I've only ever known it as Erie. There wasn't 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:04.840 much that I wanted more as a kid than to 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:08.200 be Marshall Teller, uprooted from his home in New Jersey 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.400 to live among the freaks and weirdos of Erie, Indiana. 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:15.399 And by freaks and weirdos, of course, I mean the 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:19.200 best kind of people. I have no idea what inspired 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:23.120 writers Jose Rivera and Carl Schaffer to use the Hugier 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.720 State as the location for one of the greatest TV 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.880 shows of all time, or what exactly they thought was 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:32.520 eerie about it, but if the following story is anything 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:37.560 to go by, it certainly earned its reputation. You're listening 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:48.480 to one, explained, and I'm Richard McClean smith. The doctor 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:51.160 asked for the family to be sent in, then sat 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.920 back in his chair as one by one, thirty one 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.400 year old LaToya Ammonds and her three children filed into 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:02.640 his office, followed by Latoya's mother, Rosa. Doctor on Yuquo 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.560 waited for them to take a seat, then asked what 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:09.600 the problem was. LaToya took a moment to gather her thoughts. 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:14.400 It's the demons in our home, she said. They're attacking 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:20.359 the children. The doctor took a moment to process demons, 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.960 he said, as he pulled out a pad and paper, 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:27.239 what do you mean exactly? LaToya looked at her mother 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:32.160 for reassurance, and Rosa nodded for her to continue. It 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.399 had all started a few months before, back in December 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.640 two thou and eleven, shortly after the family had moved 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:43.360 into a new home. The property, a modest, one story 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.880 rental on Carolina Street, a quiet, leafy suburb on the 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.760 outskirts of Gary, Indiana, was meant to be a fresh start. 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:56.720 Within days, of moving. However, there were ominous signs. It 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.840 was Rosa who noticed it first, the way the flies 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.640 swarmed all over the screen door as if it were 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.960 rotting meat, despite it being the middle of winter at 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:09.440 the time, and how despite their rigorous efforts to get 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:14.280 rid of them, their number never seemed to diminish. Then 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:18.240 one night, not long after the flies appeared, LaToya had 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.799 just put the children to bed when she heard something 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.560 moving above her, like someone pacing about on the ceiling. 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.320 She hadn't thought much of it until a few nights later, 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.480 when she and Rosa heard the basement door creak open 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:35.880 when no one was near it, despite it being locked. 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.880 From that point on, they continued to hear it open. 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:44.560 Another time, after Rosa heard the basement door open again, 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.120 she found a series of wet footprints coming away from it, 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.400 as if someone had just walked up into the house. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.160 Late one evening in March, after a member of their 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.560 extended family had died, a number of friends and family 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:03.280 were that at the house to mourn. With the children 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.080 in bed, a cry was hurt coming from one of 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:09.120 the bedrooms, where Latoya's twelve year old daughter and her 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:13.880 cousin was sleeping. Running to the room, LaToya pushed open 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:17.480 the door just in time to see her daughter appearing 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:20.960 to fall from the air onto her bed. Despite being 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:25.440 fast asleep, the cry had come from the clearly terrified cousin. 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.160 When asked what had happened, she claimed to have seen 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.160 the girl drift up from the bed, hang in the 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:35.719 air for a moment, and then collapsed back down onto 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:46.359 the mattress. Concerned that something other worldly was happening in 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.760 her home, the deeply religious LaToya turned to the church 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:54.400 for help. Following the advice of one representative, she cleaned 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.120 her house from top to bottom with ammonia, then used 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.560 a holy oil to draw crosses on each door and 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:04.200 window frame to keep out any malicious spirits. That night, 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.159 as she put the children to bed, she used the 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.719 same oil to mark a small cross on each of 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:14.120 their foreheads. But, as LaToya explained to the doctor, the 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:20.280 spirits would not be deterred. One afternoon, LaToya overheard her 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.560 seven year old son talking to someone inside a cupboard. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.080 When she asked him who he was speaking to, he 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.880 replied simply that it was his friend. He always asked 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.840 him to play in the cupboard, he said, but there's 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:39.920 no one there, said LaToya. You can't see him because 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:45.400 he's dead, replied her son. It wasn't long after that 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.400 that Latoya's nine year old son began talking in odd 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:52.040 tones about knowing what death was like, and her daughter 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.200 claimed to be hearing voices telling her she would die 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.080 soon and that she would never see her family again. 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.520 Back in the doctor's office, doctor on Yoku began making 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:08.400 some notes. Clearly, he wrote, the family were experiencing some 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.520 sort of mass delusion, that there were ghosts in the house, 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.560 or they were hallucinating perhaps, But as he spelled out 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:19.120 the words, he became aware of a strange gurgling sound. 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.600 Looking up, he realized it was coming from the youngest boy. 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:28.200 As the gurgle became more of a growl, the boy's 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:32.040 face began to screw up in anger. In an instant, 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.560 the doctor watched with astonishment as the boy leapt from 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:39.360 the chair and charged against the wall, almost as if 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.719 something had thrown him across the room, and then he 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:47.600 collapsed to the floor, unconscious. As LaToya gathered him up 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:50.679 and cradled him in her arms, the stunt doctor yelled 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:54.560 for his staff to call nine one one. After being 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.560 rushed to the ear of a nearby hospital. The young 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.960 boy and the rest of the family were thankfully found 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.599 to be in good health. However, with both LaToya and 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.800 her children maintaining that they were under attack from demons, 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.880 a decision was made to call the Department of Child 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:18.840 Services for help. It had just gone eight forty five 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:23.440 pm when DCS case manager Valerie Washington arrived at the 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:28.160 North Lake campus of Methodist Hospitals. After being debriefed by 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:31.280 the medical staff, she was led into a consultation room 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.440 to speak with LaToya and Rosa, while the children were 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:38.080 kept in a separate room next door. No sooner had 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:42.040 LaToya started telling Valerie what had been happening, they heard 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:46.560 that strange growling sound again coming from the adjacent room 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:51.160 than her oldest son screamed for help. The women ran 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.520 next door, shocked to find Latoya's youngest with his nine 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:58.280 year old brother in a headlock. Valerie gasped at the 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:01.280 sight of his eyes rolled back into his head and 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.760 his teeth bared as he held tight to his brother's neck, 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:09.480 choking him. It took five members of staff to finally 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:13.560 pry him away. With his eyes still rolled back in 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.560 his head. The boy started shaking and was placed on 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:20.360 a bed. When he finally settled down, he claimed to 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:25.120 have no recollection of what he'd done. Later, with all 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.760 the family gathered together, Valerie is joined by nurse Willie 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:32.560 Lee Walker and a psychologist to deliver the painful news. 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.760 Given the evident disruption occurring at the home, Valerie had 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.520 little option but to recommend that the children be placed 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.640 elsewhere for the time being. But just as she was 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:46.360 about to go into further details, Latoya's youngest began to 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:52.120 growl again, fixing his brother with an uncompromising stare. The 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.880 others watched with alarm as his mouth broke into a strange, 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:59.440 wide smile, before he then ran head first into his 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:04.640 grandmother stomach. Again and again, he butted into her, his 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:08.920 teeth clenched tightly together until Rosa grabbed his hands and 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:13.280 began to pray loudly over him. It's time to die, 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:17.240 he said, as he wrestled to get free. Then all 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:21.920 of a sudden, the boy stopped, walked steadily backwards and 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:26.440 up the wall. The others could only watch with utter 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:30.439 confusion as he continued moving up toward the ceiling, until 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:34.240 eventually he flipped over his grandmother and landed back on 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:39.559 his feet. Valerie bolted from the room in terror. Later, 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.880 when police asked her to go over exactly what had happened, 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:45.960 the best way she could describe it was that the 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:56.480 boy had glided up the wall. That night at the Ya, 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.920 LaToya and her youngest child were kept in for observation 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:04.720 while Rosa took the other two home. The following day, 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:08.480 they returned to the hospital, where case manager Valerie Washington 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.520 broke the painful news to LaToya that she would be 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:16.760 officially separated from her children pending a formal investigation. Though 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:20.400 she didn't express it explicitly in her report, Valerie had 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.400 come to believe that the family really were suffering at 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:27.400 the hands of a genuine evil. When the hospital chaplain 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.160 then heard about the peculiar events of the previous night, 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:35.360 he too came to the same conclusion. That afternoon, he 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:39.199 contacted local reverend Michael Machineau to ask if he'd be 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:43.559 willing to conduct an exorcism on the family. Father Machineau 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:47.120 agreed to help, but only if the family contacted him directly. 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.200 They called him the next day and made arrangements to 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:56.520 meet at the Carolina Street property. A day later, Machineau 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.600 arrived at the house to find LaToya and Rosa waiting 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:03.400 anxious outside. Neither had been back since their visit to 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:08.560 the hospital. Reassured by Machineau's presence, however, they made their 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.440 way inside and invited him to take a seat with 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.560 them in the living room. Over the next few hours, 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:17.520 they told him about everything that had happened, from the 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.720 abundance of flies in winter, toward the times that they'd 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:24.280 heard strange noises coming from behind the basement door, to 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.319 the time LaToya caught a glimpse of a shadowy figure 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:31.520 watching her from inside her closet. They had stayed in 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:36.880 a hotel that night. Just then, the bathroom light began 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:41.000 to flicker, but when Machineau walked over to investigate, the 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:45.000 flickering abruptly stopped. Perhaps the demons are afraid of me, 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:49.360 he wandered out loud. Returning to the sofa, Machineau was 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:54.000 just about to speak again when Rosa interrupted. Look, she said, 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:58.360 pointing to the blinds. They were swaying, but there was 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:04.080 no breeze inside. After four hours of conversation, LaToya complained 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:08.120 of a headache. Taking a crucifix from his bag, father 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.880 Machineau placed it on her head, and she began to 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:15.360 convulse violently, and when he pulled it away, she returned 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:19.360 to her usual self. It was just as he'd suspected, 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:25.680 LaToya was possessed. Machineau finished by sprinkling holy water in 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.559 each room and made arrangements to get back in touch 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.560 with La Toya to make a plan for the exorcism. 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:42.000 In the meantime, he suggested they move out permanently. A 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:46.120 few days after father Machineau's visit, DCS case manager Valerie 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:50.240 Washington made her routine visit to the house. The official 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.560 purpose was to assess the family's living standards, in which 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:58.760 she was assisted by Captain Charles Austen from local law enforcement. However, 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.960 with rumors about the apparent demon house beginning to circulate, 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:08.719 two other officers tagged along out of curiosity. LaToya and 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:12.800 Rosa met them outside, but with LaToya too angry after 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.640 having her children taken away from her, it was left 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:20.840 to Rosa to show them around. An anxious hush came 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.680 over the group as they cautiously made their way through 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:28.680 the screen door and into the property. Footsteps cracked and 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:32.400 creaked across the hardwood floor as Valerie made her inspection 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:36.440 of the three bedrooms, bathroom, and open kitchen, glad to 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:40.800 find it all in good condition. Finally they arrived at 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:47.000 the basement door. Rosa led them down. Woe, said one 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.559 of the officers, when he caught sight of the peculiar 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:55.320 table arrangement in the corner. That's just the altar, explained Rosa, 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.440 comprised of a white sheet over a table with a 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:01.360 single candle and a small statue of the Holy Family 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.520 on top. They'd been advised to construct it by a 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:08.720 local self described clairvoyant when the strange events started happening. 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.440 An open Bible and a burned stick of sage had 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:16.160 also been placed on top of it. And that's where 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:19.720 we think the demons are coming from. Rosa pointed to 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:23.080 a large spot under the stairs where the basement's concrete 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:26.640 floor appeared to have been smashed open, almost as if 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.400 something had erupted out of it from out of the 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:34.320 black earth that was now visible from underneath. One of 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.920 the officers pulled out a video camera to film it, 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.640 but when he went to press record, he found the 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:43.520 battery light blinking on and off. The batteries were dead, 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:48.600 despite being brand new that morning. Luckily, they had a 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:53.560 spare device on hand. Rosa pointed out the various circles 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.880 of salt they put on the ground toward off the 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:59.040 malicious spirits as the officer made a quick sweep with 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:04.640 the camera. Satisfied they'd seen everything, the group returned upstairs, 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.440 relieved that it was over. Valerie and the officers thanked 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.360 Rosa for her time and headed on their separate ways. 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:17.360 Back in his patrol car, Captain Austin reached for the 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:20.960 radio receiver when a violent blast of static burst out 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:28.640 at the speakers were there. Austin drew back in shock. 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.440 What the hell was that? Came the dispatched voice from 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:39.520 the other end. No idea, replied the captain. Later, when 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.360 the officers watched the recording of their visit, they were 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.120 convinced they heard a voice that didn't belong to anyone 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:48.400 in the room at the time, and when they examined 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:51.120 photos they took of the front of the property, they 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:54.200 noticed something peculiar that seemed to be staring out at 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:58.680 them from a window, something with unusually large eyes and 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:03.040 a gaping mouth. It looked as if it were screaming. 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:15.120 Under further psychological examinations, Latoya's children spoke of shadow figures 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.360 that roamed their home, and how the children would sometimes 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:22.600 go into trances. They spoke of doors slamming unaided, and 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:27.800 objects being moved around without anybody touching them. It was 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.240 also discovered, however, that the children had been regularly missing 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:36.280 school since two thousand and nine. Despite Latoya's protests that 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.520 this had only happened recently because the unusual events had 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:43.800 kept them awake all night, the DCS investigation concluded that 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.400 she was in neglect of her duties as a parent. 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:50.600 As a result, a temporary wardship was awarded to the 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:55.720 state and her children were placed in care, with LaToya 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:59.760 and Rosa now living with family in Indianapolis. Father Magineau 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.760 took the opportunity to conduct a blessing on the house, 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:07.359 joining a second DCS visit on May tenth. He conducted 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.480 the ritual in front of two police officers and Samantha 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:15.280 Ilitch from Children's Services. As the reverend conducted the blessing, 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.800 flicking droplets of holy water into the furthest corners of 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:22.000 the house, Ilitch made her way into the living room 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.560 when she began to feel a sudden surge of pain 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.840 in her little finger. It was as if something were 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:31.760 breaking it from the inside. Then a tightness began to 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:35.399 take hold in her chest. With a growing sense that 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.080 the walls were beginning to close in and all light 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.600 was diminishing, she ran for the door and burst into 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.320 the street, gasping for air as if she had just 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:49.119 broken the surface from out of water. After suffering a 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.800 string of medical problems in the following weeks, including broken 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:56.879 bones and burns from a motorbike crash, many of Ilich's 0:17:56.880 --> 0:18:00.240 friends were left wandering if something of the house ended 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:05.160 up attaching itself to her. A few days later, Father 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:08.760 Magineau received permission from the local bishop to conduct the 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:19.800 exorcism on LaToya. One morning in June, LaToya arrived at 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:23.000 the designated church in Merylville to begin the ritual with 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:26.720 Father Magineau. They were joined by the two police officers 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:30.400 who'd assisted in the original house investigation, and one other 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:35.640 parishioner in case LaToya needed restraining during the procedure. Throughout 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:39.240 that morning, Magineau railed at the demons he was convinced 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:44.440 were hiding in Latoya's body. I cast you out, unclean spirit, 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:48.280 he shouted, along with every satanic power of the enemy. 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:52.080 Every specter from Hell and all your fell companions in 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:55.760 the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. With his voice 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:59.000 rising in volume, he pressed a crucifix against her head, 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:04.320 and her body volst wildly. And so the session continued, 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:07.680 with Latoya's energy seeming to ebb and flow as the 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:11.680 day went on. By the end of that day, sensing 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:15.439 they'd made progress, Father Magineau gave LaToya a set of 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:20.920 rosary beads to take home. Later that afternoon, after she'd left, However, 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:24.720 Magineau found the beads ripped apart and abandoned in the 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:30.800 parking lot. For the second exorcism session, Magineau decided that 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:33.200 they'd need the names of the demons that they were 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:36.880 really going to make it work. He suggested to LaToya 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:39.560 that she look up the names on the internet, telling 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:42.200 her that she would know them when she saw them, 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:45.080 but when she tried to do it, her computer kept 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:49.960 shutting down inexplicably. Instead, Magineau brought his own list of 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:53.680 possibilities to the next session and had LaToya point out 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:57.719 the one she believed were responsible. Armed with two names, 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:03.320 Magineau conducted the right for a time. This time, LaToya 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:06.479 convulsed and cried out in pain whenever the names were 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:09.879 shouted out, until finally it seemed she was too weak 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:19.800 to carry on and fell asleep. After the second session, 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:22.879 Father Machineau went on a retreat to prepare for the 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:26.399 next one, leaving a backup plan with an assistant in 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:29.480 case there were any problems. While he was gone, a 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:32.040 piece of paper with the long name of a demon 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:35.160 written on it that was then tucked into an envelope 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:39.359 and surrounded with blessed salt. The assistant was to burn 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:43.119 it if LaToya was in distress. Not long after the 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:46.960 reverend left, LaToya called the assistant, complaining that she was 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:51.879 suffering from terrible nightmares. The envelope was promptly burned, and 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:57.600 the nightmares apparently ended. With Machineau returning soon after, they 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:01.359 conducted the third and final exorcism, this time in Latin. 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:06.600 Machineau claimed later that although LaToya didn't understand the Latin, 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:10.200 she remained quiet during the moments that God was praised, 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:15.840 but convulsed violently during the condemnations. When the ritual was finished, 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:21.679 LaToya fell asleep, exhausted. When she finally woke, she claimed 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:27.440 the demons were gone. That night, after LaToya had driven 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:31.520 back home to Indianapolis. A storm ripped through the local area, 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:37.840 knocking the power out for twenty four hours, with local 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:41.280 news getting wind at the incredible story. Though the family 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:44.359 were no longer living there, the house on Carolina Street 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:48.240 became somewhat of a curio, with local police often even 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:52.520 stopping by to take a look. Landlord Charles Read was 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:55.720 eventually forced to demand that the police stopped coming because 0:21:55.760 --> 0:21:59.080 they were scaring the lieutenant. He told the press that 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:02.520 there had been no plus before or after LaToya and 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:07.480 her family stayed there. After having her children removed from her, 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:10.679 LaToya was given a strict set of guidelines to follow 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:13.800 in order to prove that she was capable of looking 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:18.480 after them, which included the requests that she attend therapy sessions, 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:21.320 that she no longer discussed the notion of demons, and 0:22:21.480 --> 0:22:24.440 an insistence that she work on different ways to discipline 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:28.280 her children that weren't directly related to religion or the 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:33.960 notion of demonic possession. In November two and twelve, having 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:38.680 successfully demonstrated her commitment to the guidelines, Latoya's children were 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:42.760 returned to her. She later said it was the happiest 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:47.919 day of her life. 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