The Demon House of Gary, Indiana

A rental house on Carolina Street in Gary, Indiana, where tenant Latoya Ammons said demons had possessed her and her three children. The Indianapolis Star reported its demolition in 2016.

Latoya Ammons was the tenant of a rental cottage in Gary, at 3860 Carolina Street. Joe Nickell, in a skeptical 2014 report for Skeptical Inquirer, describes it as an ordinary house with an enclosed porch. Ammons said demons had possessed her and her three children. Kenny Biddle, also in Skeptical Inquirer, sums up the claims made by Ammons and her mother: odd noises, the children turning violent and talking in strange voices, and two of them levitating or climbing walls.

In 2014 The Indianapolis Star built its account on official records running to nearly 800 pages and over a dozen interviews with officers, child welfare staff, psychologists, relatives and a Catholic priest. It says the case was one of the strangest Indiana's Department of Child Services had ever dealt with, whether the family was in the grip of a systematic delusion or of demonic possession. The claims led to a DCS intervention, a police inquiry and several exorcisms. A priest said they were the first the bishop of the Diocese of Gary had approved.

Wikipedia records a different reading from the family's own physician, Geoffrey Onyeukwu. The family contacted him in April 2012. On a visit to the house he judged their behaviour "delusional", someone from his office called the police, and the children went to hospital.

Zak Bagans bought the house in 2014, soon after the Star's first story, and the paper reported its demolition in 2016. Bagans and his crew made a 111-minute film about the house. Biddle reviewed that film for Skeptical Inquirer under the title Demon House Deconstructed. He notes that a psychic in it claims the house held more than 200 demons, and that the psychic is never named.