Review: Zak Bagans' documentary 'Demon House' is too much hooey, not enough boo Los Angeles Times

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Come face-to-face with the most haunted artifacts in the world and hear the bone chilling stories of the paranormal activity that surrounds them. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Zak Bagans’ documentary “Demon House” is essentially an uncensored, overlong episode of his long-running Travel Channel series “Ghost Adventures.” And while this particular “paranormal investigation” may terrify the more credulous among Bagans’ fan base, skeptics are likely to feel bored and confused. Zak Bagans purchases the house in which the alleged Ammons hauntings occurred. Bagans leads a team of paranormal investigators to investigate the house.

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Ammons claimed she and her three young children had been possessed by spirits inside the rental home from 2011 to 2012. The Gary Police Department and the Indiana Department of Child Services investigated, a priest performed exorcisms and even some of the biggest skeptics were made into believers.

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Nearly a year ago, the Kenmore family called police to report strange 10-foot-tall creatures in their backyard. At one supper the fare was "pâté de foie gras, salad, biscuit glacé, and champagne frappé." While the emissaries waited, Anderson gathered his officers together and polled them as to how long they thought they could maintain possession of the fort without new supplies. Five days, they agreed, with almost no rations on the last three.

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In addition to hosting and executive-producing the "Ghost Adventures" series on the Travel Channel, Bagans is also an author, actor and paranormal investigator. He bought and later demolished the "Demon House" on Carolina Street in Gary, Indiana in 2014 after reading an IndyStar story about Ammons' claims of demon possession inside the home. Body camera footage from Metro Las Vegas Police shows a flash across the sky the night of the family’s sighting, adding intrigue to the mystery, NewsNation local affiliate KLAS reported. However, the police department would not make the officers who responded to the call that night available for an interview. Kenmore believes there is a connection between the creatures he reported in his family’s backyard last year and the phenomena inside the house. Although, he isn’t too sure now that the creatures were extraterrestrial, but rather demonic presences.

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Based on the comic book characters created by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner, “Dead Boy Detectives,” now streaming on Netflix, follows Edwin (George Rexstrew) and Charles (Jayden Revri), the show’s solvers of supernatural mysteries. Kenmore called it another sign of a demonic presence in the house. Edwin, who died in 1916, is formal, reserved, repressed and orderly. Charles, who passed away in the 1980s, is comparatively a wild boy; he wears a “ska” button in his lapel and a “rude boys” patch on his shoulder, and says “brills” and “innit” and “oi! They are teenagers not in person but only in persona; the actors are well into their 20s, which allows, psychologically, for more sophisticated plotlines.

She kept it very private now and locked the book nightly, but in time it would become one of the most famous diaries of American history. Their boat moved out over the black waters, the enslaved oarsmen again hard at work, but they did not steer toward Charleston. Instead, they rowed due west, toward James Island, twenty-three hundred yards away, where a battery of heavy mortars had been established in a colonial-era redoubt named Fort Johnson, once abandoned but now again ready for battle.

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Bagans’ cameraman Adam is later affected by being in the house, and a parapsychologist named Barry Taff (author of Aliens Above, Ghosts Below) experiences physical repercussions, or so we're told. It proves to be incredibly tedious when you can’t trust your documentarian or even the possible true suffering of his friends, as they collectively inspire more of a “who cares? The usual society quadrille of house visits and return visits, with calling cards passed inward by Black house servants in white gloves, took on a relentless Rome-afire intensity. Carriages moved from house to house driven by enslaved men in scarlet livery, with enslaved boys on the fenders to open gates.

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"Sir," it read, "By authority of Brigadier-General Beauregard, commanding the provisional forces of the Confederate States, we have the honor to notify you that he will open the fire of his batteries on Fort Sumter in one hour from this time." It was three-twenty a.m. Ruth Doherty is an experienced digital writer and editor specializing in interiors, travel and lifestyle. With 20 years of writing for national sites under her belt, she’s worked for the likes of Livingetc.com, Standard, Ideal Home, Stylist and Marie Claire as well as Homes & Gardens. Matt Damon lives with his wife and children in their six-bedroom penthouse at the Standish in Brooklyn Heights, New York, which they purchased in 2018 for a record-breaking $16.745 million. Its huge population of film industry, sports and music stars practically guarantees rubbing elbows with the rich and famous when shopping at Palisades Village. There's a games room, bar office, staff quarters, wine storage and tasting room, and a media room, making this an entertainer's paradise.

"Patience oh my soul—" Mary wrote, "if Anderson will not surrender, tonight the bombardment begins. In Charleston that Thursday there was a wild dinner party, "the merriest, maddest dinner we have had yet," wrote Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of the colonel then delivering the Confederate ultimatum. Dinner was an afternoon meal, generally around two or three o'clock; supper was in the evening.

But the bad spirits, or so Bagans and company would like you to think, are ever present, and “Demon House” offers first-hand accounts of him and his crew capturing strange sounds, filming a shadow in a doorframe, or seeing rising levels of magnetism in the basement, etc. Sometimes there's even surveillance footage of himself or others seemingly briefly possessed. With little filmmaking tact other than trying to prove he’s right, it amounts to a hammy enterprise, like his numerous unfortunate freeze frames that create accidental punchlines whenever someone says something ominous. She regained custody of her children six months later, and the family moved into a new home, with no reports of demons.

Campbell initially heard footsteps in the basement and doors creaking. Later, she alleged to have witnessed a "shadowy figure of a man pacing in the living room" and found a "boot print". Ammons' 12-year-old daughter was claimed to have levitated above her bed unconscious during a sleepover with a friend. They were said to have prayed until the girl returned to the bed. The older son was allegedly thrown across the room by an unknown force.

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“We always knew that part of the Season 1 journey for all three of our core characters was going to be an exploration of identity,” said Steve Yockey, who developed the series. Edwin and Charles’ longstanding routine and dynamic are shaken up after they meet Crystal (Kassius Nelson), a very much living teenager with a demon ex-boyfriend and no memories of her past. A neighbor told NewsNation that he remembers the night that the creatures allegedly visited the Kenmore’s backyard. He said his TV and surveillance cameras stopped working at that same time.

Planters who had been wearing ordinary clothing one day turned up the next in elaborate uniforms, red sashes glaring—their "soldier's toggery," as Mary put it. With so much tension in the city, she wrote, the atmosphere was "phosphorescent." The streets were full of soldiers in uniform marching and singing; at night she heard the heavy rumble of ammunition wagons moving over cobbled streets—no one could sleep. "The plot thickens," she wrote, using a phrase then in common usage but first deployed in a play two centuries earlier. "The mystery is to find out where these utterly groundless tales originate."

Anderson was fifty-five years old, with a wife, Eliza (known universally as Eba), three daughters, and a one-year-old son, also named Robert. Anderson was clean-shaven, rare for the time, and this helped impart to his face a pleasant openness very unlike the hollow, axe-handle aspect of his Confederate opponent across the bay, his friend and former pupil Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, who had taken command of all South Carolina military activities. Their relationship was courteous and cordial, almost warm, despite Beauregard's obvious willingness to kill Anderson and all his men if it meant furthering the cause of Southern independence. Join us for a spirited adventure through the world renowned Zak Bagans’ The Haunted Museum in downtown Las Vegas, as seen on Travel Channel/Discovery’s Ghost Adventures and The Haunted Museum TV Series!

Their daughters went to boarding school in New Jersey, a measure meant, apparently, to ease the burden of child-rearing for Eba, who suffered from an indeterminate chronic illness, which Anderson in one letter described as her "long continued indisposition." Ghost Adventures host and executive producer Zak Bagans opened Las Vegas’ first award-winning Haunted Museum in the historic Wengert Mansion, a building known for decades for its dark occult history. Venture through creepy hallways and secret passages while exploring paranormal exhibits and cursed artifacts, as well as possessions once owned by notorious serial killers.