Latoya Ammons, her mother, Rosa Campbell, and her three children claimed paranormal activity occurred in the residence.
[1] In November 2011, Latoya Ammons, her mother, Rosa Campbell, and her three children then ages 7, 9 and 12 moved into a house located at 3860 Carolina Street in Gary, Indiana.
Days after the family moved in, they claimed black flies swarmed the porch in December and kept returning repeatedly.
The younger son allegedly had his eyes roll into the back of his head and was growling saying "it's time to die," and "I will kill you".
Sensational stories published in outlets such as the New York Daily News reported that DCS personnel had allegedly witnessed the youngest boy "walking up the wall backwards".
[4] According to skeptical investigator Joe Nickell, police chief Charles Austin was "an admitted believer in the supernatural, including ghosts".
[4] Nickell also interviewed a number of witnesses and concluded that the supposed supernatural events were either misreported, embellished or exaggerated, or had non-supernatural explanations: The supposed levitation was in fact described by the mother that something "raised her [daughter] up off the bed, snatched her off the bed", implying that the girl simply threw herself upwards,[4] while the "walking up the wall backwards" incident failed to mention that the boy's grandmother was in fact holding his hand throughout, which allowed the boy to push himself against the wall and walk up it.
Tracy Wright, a psychologist, noted that the youngest son "acted possessed" whenever he was challenged or was asked "questions that he did not wish to answer".