Oh boy we have some special ones here tonight! Or this morning...
Article[spoiler][quote]A US police captain says he believed a story about a woman who claimed her children were possessed by demons.
Latoya Ammons, from Indiana, said her three children walked up walls, levitated and spoke in voices.
Official reports filed in 2012 backed up her claims, with psychologists stating that they saw the nine-year-old child speak in "different deep voices" and walk "up the wall backwards".
"He flipped over and landed on his feet," they added.
Gary Police Captain Charles Austin, who has more than 35 years of experience, said he had been convinced by the story.
According to a local newspaper, the Indianapolis Star, he described himself as a "believer" after visiting the house and interviewing Ms Ammons and her family.
'Growling noises'
Official Indiana state documents detail more events, apparently witnessed by medical experts and those outside the family.
The children's names were removed from the papers to protect their identities.
Medical staff reported they observed the children and heard the seven-year-old making growling noises and his eyes rolled into the back of his head.
"They observed [name blank] lifted and thrown into the wall with nobody touching him."
The report also detailed the time when the seven-year-old "walked up the wall" in front of a number of medical professionals.
"[Name blank] began to have a weird smile on his face and he charged at the grandmother's stomach and head butted her several times until she grabbed his hands and started praying.
"[He] was speaking in a different deep voice saying 'It's time to die,' 'l will kill you,' and staring around the room.
"[He] had the weird grin on his face and began to walk backwards while the grandmother was holding his hand and he walked up the wall backwards while holding the grandmother's hand and he never let go.
"He flipped over and landed on his feet in front of the grandmother and sat down in the chair."
'Dark shadows'
At other times Ms Ammons said she saw her daughter "levitate" out of her bed, while the 12-year-old also reported being "thrown across the room and grabbed by dark shadows".
Elsewhere in the reports, it shows that an unnamed witness had suggested the "mother may have mental health concerns".They also said it may be that the "children are performing for the mother and that she's encouraging the behaviour".
The three children were removed from the family home by authorities after the reports were filed.
According to the Indianapolis Star, the day after the children were taken from Ammons, the hospital chaplain called on Rev Mike Maginot to carry out an exorcism on the children and their mother.
"Whenever you would praise God in Latin, no reaction," he said.
"But you start condemning the demon, condemning the evil spirit, all of a sudden she [the child] is reacting to that."
The children were returned six months later when the problems subsided.
There are now new tenants in the property and the landlord has not received any further reports of demonic possession.[/quote][/spoiler]
Now I just want to draw people's attention to this little bit...[quote]They also said it may be that the "children are performing for the mother and that she's encouraging the behaviour".[/quote]
I really hate that nicholas cage meme/rage comic thing but it has never been more appropriate. You. Don't. F-cking. Say.
What pisses me off/makes me facedesk in despair is that you have Psychologists who signed off on this and it didn't occur to them that the children were behaving like this because of their ill mother who was convinced they were possessed.
Anyways, discuss the stupidity of people who cannot see the bleedin' obvious when it is right under their noses.
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3spooky5me
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3 RepliesEdited by ToastyWaffles: 1/30/2014 9:59:44 PM[quote]"Whenever you would praise God in Latin, no reaction,"[/quote] Off-topic rant incoming... Why Latin? I know it's the Catholics favourite language, but that hardly means anything. Does God favour Latin now? Or was it Elizabethan English that He speaks in? Or maybe Greek, Aramaic, or Hebrew? Bleh. [spoiler]And this is coming from a Christian.[/spoiler]
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2 Replies... I'm pretty sure the Bible says that Satan can't touch young children. This is a case of stupid Hollywood trash getting to mentally ill people.
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Edited by Progo: 1/31/2014 12:37:27 AM>Small town Indiana Small towns will do anything to attract 'haunting' tourists, the psychologist would have been easy to buy off*, it was probably the police chief's idea, and all they needed was one mom who crossed the law to blackmail into doing it. The chaplain would have believed the stories and the kids just needed to be taught to perform for him. *Yes, I know it's sad, but there are rotten apples everywhere :/
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20 RepliesITT: if your opinion differs from mine you're retarded.
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Self fulfilling prophecy up yo' ass.
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Spooky shit! We have 3 possibilities. 1) Demonic possession occurred 2) The parents and those who signed off are into some shady stuff. 3) The cops and psychologists are superstitious idiots. All 3 are equally terrifying.
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3 RepliesThis worries me because the USA seems to be slipping backwards into the dark ages. This is shit you hear about in Haiti or some central African country. Its like there are people in the US that [i]want[/i] us to be a backwards superstitious nation.
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1 ReplyIt was obviously aliens.
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1 ReplySo you don't believe in possessions? That sucks.
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I can just imagine a kid running at a fall and trying to run up and then falling over and making grumbling noises.
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6 RepliesWhat if they actually are possessed?
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8 RepliesBecause a mother encouraging their children to walk up walls totally enables them to do that.
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But he walked up the wall and landed on his feet! It has to be real.
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2 Replies[url=https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1004899-intake-officers-report.html]Actual report[/url] Because it is all written by a third party, it is hard to tell what any professional really said, because most of it is describing what the family reported, not direct quotes from the staff. The portion of the report actually written by state workers does not mention demonic possession at all, and recommends children be removed because the mother did not send them to school.