Paranormal Revenge

My dad bought a fixer upper.

We lived in his grandmother's home.

In the bottom of the floorboards was skeletal remains.

It's on video.

That someone wished something bad upon me.

Jacob. Jacob.

She was headless.

If someone hears phantom crying,

it could in fact be a message from the spirit world.

Tried to talk myself out of,

I didn't see what I saw.

But it scared me because I thought I saw death.

What is the reason that her mother-in-law had them?

I just know that I was terrified.

I got very angry at that point,

and I just put my hand out and I start charging it.

I heard my mom scream,

"Somebody pushed me, somebody pushed me!"

It scared me because he saw it.

He started to say,

"In the name of Jesus,

"I cast out this spirit that's in this house.

"I cast you into the desert."

When I started thinking about things

to try to figure out what was going on,

why is this happening?

Jake.

Living in Philly,

you actually knew your neighbours.

You know, you would walk outside

and your neighbour would be literally standing

at your doorway.

You went into your house,

they literally would walk right by your window.

This neighbourhood that I lived in in Philadelphia

was predominantly a Hispanic neighbourhood.

It had predominantly Puerto Ricans that lived there.

It was a, how can I say?

It was a wonderful experience growing up as a kid.

But when I was 13,

my family moved from Philadelphia

to the quiet suburb of Bridgeton, New Jersey.

So moving into New Jersey,

Bridgeton, New Jersey, roughly,

was tough.

It was no longer a Puerto Rican community.

It was more suburb.

So you barely even see as many people around.

As a kid, moving into New Jersey,

I thought we were going backwards.

My dad bought a fixer upper

that he wanted to transform into a beautiful house

for our family.

None of us were too keen on the move,

but we bought into Dad's dream.

When my father started working on this house,

he literally gutted the entire home.

This was basically a tear down rebuild.

I got my hands dirty helping my dad,

you know, tearing down many walls in the house

and ripping-ripping out the floorboards.

A month after we moved into the house,

I was helping my father on a Saturday

and it was just me and my dad.

In the bottom of the floorboards

was skeletal remains.

These skeletal remains were animal in origin.

I remember my father saying,

"Don't tell your mother anything,"

because my mother would've immediately started screaming,

thinking this was some kind of Santeria bruja,

brujo type of witchcraft sorcery going on behind this.

My mother did all kinds of voodoo

and had all kinds of beliefs in the black arts,

the magic arts,

however you wanna call it.

Witchcraft.

Erin Goodpipe.

Take one. Mark.

There's a lot of, factors in Jake Estrada's case.

Jake's family has just moved into a new house.

They end up finding ritualistic items

that they think are related to

the spiritual practice of Santeria,

which is an Afro-Cuban spiritual practice.

It's very easy to vilify a culture like that,

one that has material culture where they use

specific items to basically interact with the spiritual,

whether that's for protection,

whether that's for good things,

but also for bad things at times.

He knew if my mom knew about what was discovered underneath

what would become her kitchen,

she would totally wig out.

She would just tell my dad,

"Nope! I'm not moving in. We're gone."

I was freaked out.

I was like, who buries this underneath the floorboards

in their house?

After my father did the extensive build of the house,

we started living in the home now.

Things were going nicely.

I began to get this strange sensation

that I was being watched.

Jacob.

The voice I was hearing was definitely female.

And my name was specifically called.

At first I thought it was my sister

playing a joke on me.

And I ran out of the room and I ran into my sister's room.

And then I saw my sister sleeping in bed,

laying in bed.

I'm walking out into the main living room area.

Mom?

And I'm calling out to my mom and-

Mom?

I didn't hear her call me back.

And so I went into the room and I realized no one was home.

And I was like,

I thought they were home, you know?

And, where are they?

You know, and I was like,

just, it made me really perplexed and confused.

As a teenager,

Jake is in a very vulnerable state.

And so this is a time of life where

essentially you can be susceptible to

experiencing spirits, um, and being manipulated by them.

Deep down,

I believed that I wasn't losing my mind,

but I was made out to feel like I was losing my mind.

Art was always a great escape for me,

and as a kid, it was the cornerstone of my world.

A great escape from reality.

Jacob.

And you start looking around

and getting weird goosebumps on your arm,

the backs, the hairs on your neck standing up.

You're just getting this peculiar feeling

that you're being watched.

Jacob.

Jacob, Jacob.

Jacob, Jacob, Jacob, Jacob, Jacob.

Was I just imagining hearing them call my name,

and they just weren't there?

Jake.

And at the time I had a Walkman,

you know, and I was like,

well, I'm gonna use this Walkman

to try to record to see if I can talk to this entity

and figure out why she was here,

why this lady was in my room visiting me.

And me being me,

I started to ask her a question.

Why are you here?

And I remember hitting the Walkman, recording it.

I think Jake is absolutely doing the right thing here,

trying to record, the sound of a voice.

I started to try to talk to her,

but the batteries started to die

and I would change it repeatedly

and I had no results.

It wouldn't work.

I remember testing the batteries out

on-on different items in the house.

I had a boombox and also a remote control

and it worked perfectly well.

So when I put it into the Walkman

and try and use it,

the batteries would immediately die.

In my work, in the spiritual and in the paranormal,

I've seen many instances where a spirit

will drain the energy or the electricity

out of certain instruments.

Jacob.

Jacob.

Jacob.

She was headless.

She was like, there was this torso,

and you could tell was female,

but there was no head.

Jake.

I didn't really know what she wanted.

I just know that I was terrified.

My initial thoughts when I hear of,

of a spirit that is headless is,

the manifestation of perhaps lacking their consciousness.

Perhaps there was an injury that was sustained

that led to death.

It was important for me to show my parents

what I was dealing with, happening in my bedroom.

I started to draw what I was seeing,

and I was trying to use this moment to also process

what was happening with myself too.

Whenever I'm doing a paranormal investigation,

it's really important to get to the bottom

of the identity of the spirit.

I looked into the county archives

to see if there was any information

on the previous inhabitants of the home,