{"id":82225,"date":"2026-04-19T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82225"},"modified":"2026-04-19T09:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:05:08","slug":"exorcist-priest-warns-of-lingering-demons-as-merrillville-church-is-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/exorcist-priest-warns-of-lingering-demons-as-merrillville-church-is-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Exorcist Priest Warns Of \u2018Lingering Demons\u2019 As Merrillville Church Is Sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> nwi.com:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Michael Maginot believes that evil demons may still exist from exorcisms he performed years ago at his former parish, St. Stephen, Martyr Catholic Church in Merrillville.<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only lee-article-text\" data-nosnippet=\"\">\n<p>\u201cThe church is in the process of being sold, and all the holy protections have been taken away,\u201d Maginot told me on the now-defunct church property. Maginot is a retired Roman Catholic priest ordained in 1983 for the Diocese of Gary. In his career, he has performed roughly 500 exorcisms, some of them in his rectory near the church, including 18 formally sanctioned by the Catholic Church, he said. If his last name rings a church bell in your head, it\u2019s likely because Maginot gained international attention more than a decade ago for performing exorcisms on a Gary woman named Latoya Ammons and her family in 2012. The case involved allegations of demonic possession at 3860 Carolina St. in Gary, leading to the release of the pseudo-documentary film, \u201cDemon House.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1776589238\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Exorcist Priest Warns Of \u2018Lingering Demons\u2019 As Merrillville Church Is Sold\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From nwi.com: The Rev. Michael Maginot believes that evil demons may still exist from exorcisms he performed years ago at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82228,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82225\/revisions\/82228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}