{"id":860057,"date":"2021-10-08T14:28:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T18:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=860057"},"modified":"2021-10-08T14:28:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T18:28:32","slug":"fact-check-did-an-exorcism-take-place-at-this-house-10-years-before-it-survived-hurricane-ike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-an-exorcism-take-place-at-this-house-10-years-before-it-survived-hurricane-ike\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did An Exorcism Take Place At This House 10 Years Before It Survived Hurricane Ike?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-an-exorcism-take-place-at-this-house-10-years-before-it-survived-hurricane-ike%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=860057&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CUqeIkDp8G-\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=084a3773-5a61-4b35-ad2a-813473795d02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Instagram<\/a> purportedly shows a house in Texas that withstood Hurricane Ike 10 years after an exorcism took place inside it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CUqeIkDp8G-\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-8.5\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: Misleading<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the home did withstand Hurricane Ike in 2008, it was not the site of an exorcism in 1998. The house was not built until 2005.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Ike, which made landfall in Texas as a category two storm, killed over 100 people across the Caribbean and U.S. Gulf Coast region in September of 2008, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/data\/tcr\/AL092008_Ike.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Hurricane Center<\/a>. The storm destroyed thousands of homes in the Houston area and damaged over 100,000 more, the city\u2019s NBC-affiliate KPRC 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/features\/2021\/09\/13\/13-years-later-you-still-wont-believe-these-photos-and-stats-from-hurricane-ike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The meme in the Instagram post features a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hurricane_Ike#\/media\/File:Hurricane_Ike_Gilchrist_damage_edit.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal Emergency Management Agency photo<\/a> of a single house standing amid wreckage caused by Hurricane Ike in Gilchrist, Texas. Text beneath the picture <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CUqeIkDp8G-\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=084a3773-5a61-4b35-ad2a-813473795d02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reads<\/a>, \u201cAfter Hurricane Ike hit Houston, Texas in 2008, this house was left standing while everything else was demolished. This is the same house where an exorcism took place 10 years prior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The house, which can be seen in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@29.50879,-94.4978138,3a,75y,76.04h,93.56t\/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_zM9IYEs5Us15Ze_9YL8FQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Maps street view<\/a>,&nbsp;is <a href=\"https:\/\/swedesrealestate.com\/vacation_rentals\/last-house-standing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">listed<\/a> for rent by Swedes Real Estate with the moniker \u201cLast House Standing.\u201d It attracted global attention after the 2008 hurricane due to photos of the home surrounded by the devastated Gilchrist landscape, according to Houston-based <a href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/gilchrist-texas-yellow-house-hurricane-bolivar-ike-swedes-real-estate\/4235787\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABC 13<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is impossible for the house to have been the site of an exorcism in 1998. Pam and Warren Adams, the home\u2019s owners at the time of Hurricane Ike, built it in 2005 after their previous home on the same property was destroyed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/lch\/rita_main\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hurricane Rita<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/hurricanes\/article\/Owners-return-to-last-home-left-in-Bolivar-town-1763667.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Houston Chronicle<\/a> reported. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/07\/29\/fact-check-video-hurricane-hanna-border-wall-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Viral Video Claims To Show Hurricane Hanna Blowing Over Part Of The US\u2013Mexico Border Wall In Texas)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact was unable to locate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Last+house+standing+Gilchrist+exorcism&amp;oq=Last+house+standing+Gilchrist+exorcism&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160.4186j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">any credible media reports<\/a> of an exorcism being performed in the house. Warren Adams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/hurricanes\/article\/Owners-return-to-last-home-left-in-Bolivar-town-1763667.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> the Houston Chronicle less than a month after Hurricane Ike that the home had been constructed 15 feet above the ground and that the property\u2019s elevation is farther above sea level than many surrounding lots.<\/p>\n<p>Pam Adams later wrote an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crystalbeachlocalnews.com\/sister-of-the-salt-shares-why-she-loves-bolivar-peninsulaby-pam-adams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> for the Crystal Beach Local News in which she discussed her experience before and after Hurricane Ike. In the article, she does not mention an exorcism taking place at the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Instagram purportedly shows a house in Texas that withstood Hurricane Ike 10 years after an exorcism took place inside it. 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