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hand, so I left things open until I could figure out his angle. He said that he loved my story about buying the house and wanted to talk again later, so I hung up thinking nothing more about it. But it wouldn’t be the last time I would hear from him.
    I went back to making my film and quickly learned that everyone’s ego had swollen since the story broke. So much attention was being paid to the people involved that they started shopping their stories around to the highest bidder. This is America, and I get it, but it was frustrating nonetheless. Everyone was hard to talk to. The
Indianapolis Star
wouldn’t let me use Marisa’s articles in the film, and I wasn’t allowed to interview her. She offered to meet me at the house to have the
Star
write about my making the documentary, but it doesn’t work that way. This is a two-way street: You help me and I help you. They gave me all this attention for buying the house but then wouldn’t allow me the courtesy of an interview or give me permission to use her article in the film, so I flushed that plan.
    Next up was Captain Charles Austin of the Gary Police Department, who was one of the first officers to respond to the family. He had investigated along with Child Protective Services because the kids were going to school with bloody noses and not acting right. CPS took the kids away and went to the home with Captain Austin to interview the family. This is when they told them that they were possessed by demons, and Captain Austin didn’t believe them for a second. He thought they were making it up, and can you blame him? But then he had his own experience. After walking back to his police car to drive away, his AM/FM radio came to life with very high static, and a deep, demonic voice came through saying, “YOU IN THERE!” He was on the phone with another police officer back at the Demon House when it happened, and the other officer heard the voice, too. That officer also saw an apparition in the house, so suddenly the police believed the family’s claims of demonic possession because they saw it themselves! Later, Captain Austin would label the house “a portal to hell.”
    I talked with Captain Austin, and, man, is he a character. He’s funny, laughs a lot, and is a pleasure to be around. One day, he told me that another producer had contacted him. It turned out to be a guy I know, which shows you how competitive the entertainment industry is. Everyone was going after these people—including me, to be honest, but there was a difference in our objectives. Hollywood sees the money in the story, and I just want to tell the story. My production isn’t designed for maximum profit; it’s bare bones so I can capture what happened. After talking with Charles Austin many times, I got the impression that he would give me an on-camera interview, as would the landlord. At that point I had a filming schedule, a crew, a lot of equipment, three of the participants, and the house. Ultimately the family was the priority, but no one had heard from them, probably because everyone wanted the life rights to their story. I couldn’t compete with the offers that I knew were being tossed at them anyway.
    Inside Edition
wanted to do another interview with me in the house, but I wasn’t sure because I hadn’t done a proper investigation yet. We were in our third or fourth day of filming background shots and superficial pieces, and at one point something dark happened. I think I saw a demon attack someone I let into the house. It shocked me and the crew. I had no idea what was waiting for us in that house, so there was no way I was going to let reporters in. Besides, it would have been irresponsible of me to give them access when I knew that there was a risk of bodily harm. I might as well have invited them to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
    So I kept
Inside Edition
on the porch and did an interview with them there, and right away I wasn’t feeling well. Not myself at all. I didn’t