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Fake Horror Documentary!


Zak Bagans is either a charlatan or a fraud. Did he buy the Ammons House just to produce this a crappy movie?

If you google Ammons House you get this debunking:
https://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_200_demons_house_a_skeptical_demonologists_report

Mother Sets the Stage

Latoya Ammons is a religious believer who has a high superstition quotient. She believes in invisible entities and consults “clairvoyants,” one of whom told her “the house was infested by demons.” She insisted to Inside Edition, “I know that for a fact” (Ammons 2014). At the suggestion of one of two clairvoyants who claimed the house was “filled with more than 200 demons,” a frightened Ammons created an altar in the basement where the terrifying events were believed to have begun. It consisted of a statue of the Holy Family—Mary, Joseph, and Jesus—and a white candle and incense burner (Maginot 2012). The Gary police observed “multiple religious shrines” and “bibles throughout the home” (Washington 2012).

She told medical personnel that her home had “various demons and evil spirits due to someone dying in the home,” and that she had “taken the children to various temples and churches to remove the demons.” One psychologist said of Ammons that she did not appear to be “experiencing symptoms of psychosis,” but another wondered “whether her religiosity may be masking underlying delusional ideations or perceptual disturbances” (qtd. in Kwiatkowski 2014a).

Several professionals concluded that the children were acting deceptively and in accordance with their mother’s beliefs. For example, a psychologist who evaluated the youngest son reported that he tended to “act possessed” whenever he was challenged or redirected, or when he was asked questions that he did not wish to answer. She went on to observe that the boy seemed both coherent and logical—except when he was talking about demons. Then, his stories became “bizarre, fragmented and illogical,” she said, adding that the stories changed every time he related them (Wright 2012).

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Really bruh, you couldn't enjoy it on it's own terms you had to be that guy instead?? over a movie...LMAO

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Go read the recent IMDb reviews and cry some more!

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yeah it is most definitely fake, the beginning part is so over the top, these witnesses are all about money and fame... the ending part did scare me a little bit though and left me feeling weird and depressed after the movie ended, so I guess in that sense as a horror film it did succeed a tiny bit. It also does its job as a documentary to tell the story, although based on the words of lying (or confused, naive) people.

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you mean the nasa engineer didn't seem believable ?`

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I watched this up until one of the kids whilst possessed says something about the grandmother's "punk ass car" in a demonic voice.

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