The Deliverance True Story | Real-Life References | Netflix Movie | Ammons Haunting Case

Netflix's the Deliverance directed by Lee Daniels is not entirely based on a true story but is Loosely based on a local family that lived in a haunted house located in Gary Indiana for approximately a year Latoya Ammons the real life counterpart of Ebony Jackson had moved into the old rental house with her mother Rosa Campell and her three kids the names of all these real life people have been changed in the Netflix film to protect their identity and not just the names of the people even the location of the film has been changed to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania for Creative reasons coming back to the true story the ammon's family moved into the Demon House in November 2011 soon after which they started hearing strange footsteps on the basement stairs and even saw shadowy figures in their living room as per the reports the house was even swarmed with black flies similar to what Ebony's family experienced in the film The reason for all these Eerie occurrences remains a mystery to date even though the film tries to give it a psychological angle after a series of trauma izing incidents the ammon's family finally vacated the house in June 2012 and moved to Indianapolis where they lived with Latoya's brother Kevin as mentioned in the film the real life Latoya had also lost custody of her three kids after a Child Protective Services officer reported the matter however 6 months later in November 2012 she regained custody and was reunited with her family just like Ebony Jackson in 2014 a professional Paranormal Investigator Zach bagin purchased the Demon House from original landlord Charles Reed for $35,000 after he heard about it in newspapers and television as soon as he arrived at the property he started conducting a series of experiments to figure out the real reason for the Paranormal Activities unfortunately he couldn't find any solid proof though many believed that it was the basement that was haunted just like the film mentioned the local priest Father Michael Maginot who was portrayed as Reverend Bernice James in the film had performed multiple exorcisms on the Amon family to finally get rid of the demon so that the family could move on and start a peaceful life somewhere Father Michael magut believed that the previous owners of the house might have performed a Conjuring ritual in the basement and accidentally opened a portal to Hell which eventually led to a demonic presence in the cursed house in the deliverances ending the film portrayed a similar demon hole in the basement which could imply that it was the pit that caused all the unnatural occurrences as for the police investigation Indiana officer John grusa recovered a fingernail a clipon nail and some women's underwear buried under the stairs of the basement it seemed like someone was meddling with the Demonic powers and accidentally unleashed the curse onto the house or maybe it was intentional Bagons found out that Latoya had an abusive ex-boyfriend and he might have something to do with the hauntings but the boyfriend refused to make any statement and it turned into a dead end in the film ebony had been sexually assaulted by her mother's boyfriend when she was a teenager it seemed ebony never really shared the incident with anyone not even her mother but she blamed her for all those years of Torment Ebony's childhood trauma eventually shaped her character and turned her into an easy pray for the demon one could also believe that maybe there was no demon at all and it was ebony who was struggling to overcome her own dark thoughts and in the end she finally did in one of the haunting scenes she imagined a man walking in her bedroom who was later revealed to be her sexual assaulter it was him whom ebony believed to be hiding in the basement in his documentary Zack baggin brought a bunch of people to the property to film the house but a lot of them started losing their minds he also found out that whoever had stepped into the house in the past sooner or later met with a tragic fate or an accident that turned their life upside down that was the reason why bagin decided to abandon his research and finally destroyed the house so that its evil could get buried beneath the rubble though I feel he destroyed it because he didn't want any other producer to film anything there in the Netflix film we never saw any police visiting the house because Lee Daniels initially established that ebony had a criminal record which was the reason why she never contacted the police however in real life a local police officer named captain Charles Austin had arrived at the house after getting a call from Child Protective Services because the kids were not attending the school at the property Austin felt an eerie presence and therefore decided to search the house for the cause of it he even went to the basement and felt something weird in there which he failed to explain in words here comes the most freak part of the true story the hospital scene where we saw Ebony's youngest kid Andre walking backwards up the wall actually happened in real life a CPS officer Valerie Washington mentioned as Cynthia Henry in the film actually witnessed a 7-year-old Andrew grinning like a demon and then walking on the wall backwards and surprisingly Valerie was not alone and the incident was recorded on camera which was why it couldn't be ruled out as a mere hallucination Valerie along with the kids grandmother Rosa and few other doctors and psychologists witnessed the same thing in the hospital because of which many had to seek therapy after the incident the Real Life kid used to talk to an imaginary friend As Told by his mother though there is no evidence to prove the same as for the documentary Andrew had also attacked his grandmother where he headbutted her multiple times in the stomach I guess a similar thing happened in the Netflix film where we saw someone killing Glen Clo's character Alberta and it seemed like it was none other than Andre acting under the influence of the demon her however this murder is entirely fictional Andrew didn't kill his grandmother in real life and even the Reverend didn't get killed if you may remember in the deliverances ending Bernice James mentioned a black family that lived in the haunted house around 20 years ago in 1993 Janelle's young son Trey was possessed by the demon in the house and even though doctors tried their best to find the cause of his strange Behavior none could find anything wrong with the boy in the end Janelle ended up killing her entire family under the roof and hanging herself surprisingly this incident was Loosely inspired by a real life event a woman named Maka who appeared in Bon's Demon House documentary revealed that she lived in the same house with her mother and her brother in the 1990s her brother used to live in the basement and he later shot himself for reasons still unknown soon after her visit to the haunted house some 20 years later even mea's daughter Erica tried to commit suicide which made bin believe that indeed something strange was happening with the house also I feel shant's character in the film is Loosely based on Erica and if I forgot to mention earlier then Rosa 2 was a True Believer just like her fictional counterpart Alberta Zack baggin along with several Physicians and psychoanalysts believe that this might be a case of mass hysteria or maybe it was Gary's crime rates and economic conditions that had something to do with the Demonic activities as these things can affect people mentally and make them more vulnerable to such incidents even the Netflix film pointed out from time to time that ebony was drowning in debt and wasn't able to provide a healthy lifestyle for her kids she was struggling to make NS meet and the Very thought of it was eating her from within whatever the case might be the only good thing that came out of the whole ordeal is that ebony finally transformed into a better mother who was ready to bridge her differences with the kids's father so that they could live a happy life thereafter she even became a faithful believer in Jesus Christ as far as the real life Latoya is concerned she threw her brother out for talking with Zach baggin on a serious note she might have moved on from the dark chapter in her life too and I hope she is living a peaceful life looking after her grandchildren thank you for watching this video and do share your thoughts about the Deliverance in the comment section below do hit the like button and subscribe to our channel to get your daily dose of Cinema and cies see you in the next one and for the time being we're signing off bye