The Vallecas Case: Haunting or Hoax? | S19E4

In 1991, 17-year-old Estefanía Gutiérrez Lázaro began suffering from terrifying visions and unexplained seizures after an encounter with a Ouija board at her school. Months later, she died under mysterious circumstances.

But for her family, Estefanía's death was really only the beginning.

Inside their apartment in Vallecas, Madrid, strange phenomena began escalating. Doors opened on their own. Shadows moved through the rooms. And infamously, a photograph of Estefanía appeared to burn on its own, while it was still in its frame. Eventually, it got to a point where the family couldn't take it anymore, and called the police.

What the officers allegedly witnessed inside would become part of an official police report, earning the Vallecas Case a reputation as Spain's first paranormal incident supposedly documented by law enforcement.

But was this really a haunting? Or has decades of retelling transformed a family's tragedy into something far more supernatural than the evidence suggests?

Tune in to find out more.

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