Zak Bagans of "Ghost Adventures" Purchases Possessed Home

The Indianapolis Star recently published a story about LaToya Ammons, a woman who has claimed that she and her family were possessed by demons in their Gary, Indiana home. After the story went viral, media outlets around the world (including film makers) have been clamoring to speak to Ammons, her family and anyone else involved, however she has only consented to do an interview with "Inside Edition."

Though the Ammons family currently reside in Indianapolis, their allegations of demonic activity in the Carolina Street house ranging from hundreds of black flies, levitation, wall crawling and exorcisms, it's no surprise that the interests of the masses have been piqued. Including that of paranormal investigator and TV personality, Zak Bagans.

The current owner of the home, and former landlord to the Ammons family, has decided to sell the property for $35,000, and Bagans has decided to buy it. "It's not entertainment, [...] I really do have a passion for this stuff and the research aspect of this stuff," he revealed to the Indiana Star.

"Ghost Adventures" guest and clergyman, Bishop James Long, took to his Facebook earlier to confirm the news of Bagans' new real estate venture. "There has been a lot of chatter about Zak Bagans buying this house that allegedly had Demonic activity in it. I have also been getting a lot of emails asking me if I knew anything about it. I have spoken with Zak and I CAN confirm that he HAS purchased the home and plans to do a documentary on it." 

As of now,  Bagans will be using the home for paranormal research and a new documentary. Currently, there are no plans to feature the home on "Ghost Adventures." 

-Nowal Massari

'Died in House' Site Will Reveal Your Home's Past

For those who have an interest in the paranormal, or even those who are about to purchase a new home, Diedinhouse.com will provide a history on any house! However, this website is far from free. A single search will run you $11.99, while multiple searches will run you from $34.50 for three searches all the way up to $269.70 for thirty searches.

Founded in 2013 by a Chapin, SC software development company, Died in House wants you to be informed, as not all states require realtors to disclose information pertaining to deaths in the home. According to their disclaimer, regarding paranormal activity; "Information contained on any DIH web site or application provides no representation as to the presence of any ghost, haunting or any other paranormal activity; or the nature of any such future activities." Basically, they're not guaranteeing anything, though the forum on their site has quite a few paranormal related threads.

All of the information about your home is easily accessible as it's all public record, which the folks at DIH readily admit. What do you fine folks think about this? Worth the money or do the legwork yourself to find out if anyone has died in your home?

-Nowal Massari

'American Horror Story' house gets treated like 'Hollywood Treasure'

Hollywood Treasure, Syfy's pop-culture memorabilia show, is about to get into the real estate business.

Having just premiered its second season, the show follows Joe Maddalena and his Profiles in History auction team as they scour the country hunting down (and authenticating) the coolest props/costumes/vehicles/etc that we love from movies, TV and more. But their newest acquisition, the house from American Horror Story, isn't hard to find.

The first season of the bizarro FX network cult hit centered around the house, and became as much of a character on the show as the actors. Now on the market, the episode of Hollywood Treasure featuring the house will air Tuesday, May 29 at 10 PM ET/PT on Syfy.

Profiles in History says that construction of the house began in 1904 and was completed in 1908 befoe the Catholic Church added a chapel addition in 1954. The house sits on approximately 3/4 an acre and is around 12,000 square feet. The home was built by renowned architect Alfred Rosenheim and is currently a designated historic monument. The house will be going on the market for $12 million. Maddalena and his Profiles staff will help market the property around the world with Brad Downs of Rodeo Realty Inc. of Beverly Hills, California.

Maddalena showing off his ruby
slippers, courtesy Syfy

Says Maddalena about the house:

“We’re trying to expand our reach into all areas of things that have to do with television and motion pictures and this opportunity came along. We got a phone call from a guy, and he said, ‘Hey, I have some things from American Horror Story.’ I’m like, ‘Well great. It’d be cool to get some props.’ And lo and behold, we met this man and we ended up at the American Horror Story house. The actual house is here in Los Angeles and it was surreal because I had no idea. And I’m walking up to it and it was really eerie, because you’re in the house. You’re in the rooms. You’re in the basement. You’re thinking of people hanging themselves and all this crazy stuff going on. And it’s really cool because this was like a 17,000 square foot mansion. It’s just another side of our business that we’re pursuing, is we’re going after these properties now, because they have such a value besides being a house. So for an American Horror Story fan, it was the coolest thing I’ve ever walked through in my entire life, to go through that house. And it was scary. Being in the basement, they turned the lights off. You wanted to run out of there!”