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Haunting in Indiana

Shock horror, people who believe in nonsense will report seeing nonsense but fail to gather verifiable evidence of such.
 
Newbeak said:
Are the witnesses to the levitations hallucinating or plain lying?
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You don't suppose they have dreams on getting on one of those ghost shows?



The most interesting one was a boy supposedly walking up a hospital wall and onto the ceiling..
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They didn't bother to call some doctors and nurses to corroborate this?:rolleyes:

Steve S
 
I am going to go with this,

The children's behavior was so unusual and unexplainable that doctors feared their mother was suffering a mental illness and possibly encouraging the kids to act that way.
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Unless of course they have some evidence.
 
Iamme said:
If this happened on the old Batman tv series, i wouldnt have thought much OF it.
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Love your avatar btw. Great movie.
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Thanks,DTESS is probably my favourite movie.The remake was the ◊◊◊◊◊,IMHO..
 
steve s said:
You don't suppose they have dreams on getting on one of those ghost shows?





They didn't bother to call some doctors and nurses to corroborate this?:rolleyes:

Steve S
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Well,the story says a registered nurse was in the room at the time and witnessed it.
 
Newbeak said:
Saw an interesting story on Drudge
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Early on, not much happened. Here's the interesting part:

Daily News said:
Two clairvoyants told them the house was filled with more than 200 demons. The family's church recommended pouring olive oil on Ammons' children's hands and feet, with smeared crosses along their foreheads, as a form of protection.

At one clairvoyant's recommendation, the frightened mother created an altar in her basement with a white candle and a statue of Mary, Joseph and Jesus. It was down there, beneath the staircase leading up to her kitchen, where the family thought the terrifying events began.
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You get the extraordinary claims after this. Apparently, the family was heavily religious and also got reinforcement from the crackpot psychics.
 
Newbeak said:
Well,the story says a registered nurse was in the room at the time and witnessed it.
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Could the boy have walked backwards up the wall? Yes, if his mother was doing more than just holding his hand. And, I'm sure that was the case. I would imagine she was holding up most of his weight for a couple of seconds.
 
Too bad someone didn't pull out their smartphone and tape the kid traipsing on the wall/ceiling.Now THAT would be interesting!
 
barehl said:
Could the boy have walked backwards up the wall? Yes, if his mother was doing more than just holding his hand. And, I'm sure that was the case. I would imagine she was holding up most of his weight for a couple of seconds.
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Never considered that possibility.If she were strong enough,she might have held him inverted for a short time.Makes me think of people who develop extraordinary strength when a car needs lifting,for example.
 
Let's just hope that nobody starts pulling out knives over this one.

FYI: I checked on the background of the doctor who reported the demonic voices, acts of super-human strength, etc. He was born and trained in Nigeria where demonic possession is still all the rage. Appears to be a case of physician-assisted poltergeist. Weird cultural beliefs have a habit of reinforcing weird cultural beliefs.

As for the walking on the ceiling, Lionel Richie sold out the Genesis Convention Center every time he played Gary . . . imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
 
Here's the long form report from the Indianapolis Star:

http://archive.indystar.com/article/20140125/NEWS/301250013/The-disposession-Latoya-Ammons

All I can do is marvel at how deliciously complex and inventive the human mind can be. What an amazing story of induced group psychosis this is.

But, in the end, all is well now that the local priest remembered to perform the exorcism in Latin. Apparently Beezlebub doesn't have access to Google Translate so the first two attempts in English didn't take.
 
The family moves out, the kids get psychological help and it all stops.
The priest seems to have just made things worse with his idiotic behaviour.
 
Newbeak said:
Never considered that possibility.If she were strong enough,she might have held him inverted for a short time.Makes me think of people who develop extraordinary strength when a car needs lifting,for example.
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Made me think of that belief too - both being beliefs based on anecdotes with no actual evidence for ever occurring.
 
Is there some procedural reason an exorcism would have to be done in Latin? Apparently phrases from the demons were heard in English such as "You outta here" and "hey" which could be interpreted as simply a friendly greeting.

I am assuming Latin would be like a native language for Demons with all others as secondary?
 
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