-
(#6) The House Was Still Haunted After Estefanía Passed
After Estefanía's passing, the hauntings continued to torment her family for over a year. The Gutiérrez parents claimed that after their daughter died, they didn't go a day without dark, ominous figures stomping through their home and slamming doors. They described how their appliances turned on and off without warning, and how inanimate objects would leap from shelves and move without interference.
Members of the Gutiérrez family also maintained how they could hear someone whispering to them in the middle of the night, and at times, hear Estefanía shrieking.
-
(#5) Estefanía Passed About 6 Months After The Ouija Board Incident
In the film Veronica, the girl passes away under extreme circumstances in three days, but Estefanía's passing took over six months. After more than half a year of suffering from seizures and hallucinations, Estefanía's life ended in August of 1991. Reportedly, she passed while at the hospital and not at home like the fictional character Veronica.
Estefanía's parents don't know what happened to her, but they believe that her death had to do with the supernatural. They've never said that they explicitly believe a demon was released, but they think her passing was caused by something evil.
-
(#7) Estefanía's Death Is One Of The Most Popular Ghost Stories In Spain
According to Paco Plaza, the director of Veronica, he made this movie because it's a story that he's heard time and time again. Plaza admits that he made some changes to the story, but he says that the tale is such a popular Spanish myth that everyone who tells it adds their own spin. In a Q&A at the Toronto International Film Festival, he said:
In Spain it’s very popular. Because it is, as we say in the film, the only time a police officer has said he has witnessed something paranormal, and it’s written in a report with an official police stamp. [...] But I think when we tell something, it becomes a story, even if it’s in the news. You only have to read the different newspapers to know how different reality is, depending on who’s telling it.
With this in mind, Plaza didn't strive to replicate Estefanía's tale or even present her story in a biographical sense. He wanted to express his own artistic vision of the Spanish lure.
-
(#8) Shadow People Allegedly Began To Haunt The Family
According to the Gutiérrez family, one of the most terrifying things that happened after Estefanía passed was the sudden appearance of a mass of shadow people. When Estefanía was still alive, she claimed that she was tormented by shadowy figures, and it seems they had moved on to the parents. Mrs. Gutiérrez claimed that one of the shadow people attacked her in her sleep:
I felt pressure on top of me but there was no one around. I said [to Mr. Gutiérrez] ‘there’s someone here.’ I then felt a pair of hands grab my feet and then grab my hand, which were uncovered by the blanket.
While these instances of paranormal phenomena haven't been confirmed, the family continued to experience unexplainable occurrences within their Vallecas home.
-
(#4) It Took A Year For Police To Get Involved
The story of Estefanía's haunting was nothing like what happened in Veronica. While the police arrive after a crazed 911 call in the film, it took over a year before the actual police became involved in the real case. Estefanía's family didn't reach out until after the girl's passing in 1991. When the family brought the police to the apartment in Vallecas, the authorities discovered a series of spooky happenings.
When the police investigated, they claimed they heard a loud banging noise coming from an unoccupied area in the home. After that, they reported how a “perfectly closed armoire” became opened “in a sudden and totally unnatural way.”
-
(#3) She Suffered From Hallucinations
Estefanía's parents claim that after she performed the séance, she began to hallucinate. According to the family, Estefanía said that she saw dark figures walking through the house. She described the mysterious beings as "evil," maintaining that they plagued her all night. Then the teen began to have seizures.
The seizures became full-on manic fits where she would bark at her siblings, but no one knew what to do. Her parents took her to multiple doctors and specialists but no one could figure out what was wrong with her. She reportedly didn't have a mental problem, but it was obvious to professionals that Estefanía wasn't well.
New Random Displays Display All By Ranking
About This Tool
Veronica is a 2017 Spanish supernatural horror movie. It tells the story of a girl who used the Ouija board and became fascinated, then suffered hallucinations and epilepsy. The exact cause of her death is a mystery. The film was inspired by the true events of the Vallecas case in 1991 where Estefanía Gutiérrez Lázaro died mysteriously using ouija boards. Although the police and her family admitted that the case is real, people have no way to know what happened.
Fans regard it as one of the scariest movies. Have you watched it? The random tool collected 13 items, you can know the terrifying true story that inspired Veronica which is even scarier than the movie.
Our data comes from Ranker, If you want to participate in the ranking of items displayed on this page, please click here.