The Haunting in San Pedro

[00:00:00] You were about to hear one of the most terrifying true tales of an aggressive entity on display

[00:00:06] in front of witnesses that defy all logical explanations to this day.

[00:00:13] Jackie Hernandez was starting a new chapter in life.

[00:00:16] She had just gotten married to the father of her two-year-old son and she was pregnant

[00:00:20] with a baby girl.

[00:00:22] There were happy moments, but this new marriage was rocky.

[00:00:25] It had its ups and downs, but in 1989 Jackie's new life and dreams fell apart.

[00:00:32] Her marriage was over.

[00:00:34] As though she moved to 593 West 11th Street in San Pedro, California.

[00:00:39] She had to start all over again, but little did she know that her nightmare was just beginning.

[00:00:49] My name is Edwin and here's a horror story.

[00:00:55] Jackie found herself working multiple jobs to be able to afford her small, cozy house.

[00:01:04] Her kind neighbor, Susan, watched Little Jamie and Samantha while Jackie worked.

[00:01:09] And then small things started happening.

[00:01:11] Almost too small for Jackie to notice.

[00:01:14] Maybe she was too tired.

[00:01:15] I mean, she did work a lot.

[00:01:18] For example, things that she would leave in one spot would end up in another.

[00:01:23] Objects would move.

[00:01:24] Little things here and there.

[00:01:25] It was all too small to notice until Jackie's ex-husband, Al, was visiting.

[00:01:31] Al, Jackie and her friend were all sitting in the living room.

[00:01:34] They were talking when they noticed the pencil holder on the coffee table fly across the room and into the wall.

[00:01:43] On another occasion, Darlinian and other friend of Jackie's was over at the house.

[00:01:48] Jackie and Darlin were sitting on the couch just talking.

[00:01:52] When suddenly they heard a loud crash,

[00:01:55] Darlinian and Jackie ran into the kitchen where the noise had come from.

[00:01:59] And it was a painting that normally hung above the fridge that had fallen.

[00:02:05] But the way that it fell didn't make any sense.

[00:02:08] It looked like it had been placed on the counter five feet away.

[00:02:13] The nails that held the painting up were also on the counter facing up.

[00:02:20] Someone or something had placed them there.

[00:02:28] It only got worse from there, especially at night.

[00:02:32] Jackie would hear what sounded like pebbles falling to the floor

[00:02:36] like they were being dropped from someone's hand.

[00:02:39] That wasn't the only strange sound either.

[00:02:41] There was also a high-pitched tone that would come from the attic.

[00:02:45] To her also find the entrance to the attic slightly open even though she couldn't reach it.

[00:02:50] The only way into the attic was through the laundry room past the kitchen.

[00:02:55] Jackie would have needed a ladder or a tall stool to open the attic door.

[00:02:59] When Jackie found herself standing underneath the entrance to it,

[00:03:02] she would also hear very faint murmurs.

[00:03:06] It sounded like a conversation between a man and a woman.

[00:03:09] But she could never understand what they were saying.

[00:03:12] In the kitchen, Jackie would see ooze dripping out of the walls from the light switch and from other places.

[00:03:19] And it would only last a few seconds.

[00:03:22] Her new cat would stare at the corners and claw at absolutely nothing.

[00:03:29] This was all very disturbing but it was small enough for Jackie to just continue ignoring them.

[00:03:35] But that also changed.

[00:03:37] In February of 1989, Jackie was woken up around midnight.

[00:03:43] She was tired from her long hours but she got up to use the bathroom.

[00:03:47] Before going back to bed, she decided to check on her kids so she opened the door to the room and

[00:03:53] saw an old man.

[00:03:55] He looked like a corpse, bony, and frail with dead eyes.

[00:04:00] He was sitting in the middle of the room facing the door.

[00:04:04] When she ran inside the room, she was gone and the kids were peacefully asleep.

[00:04:10] Still maybe she was just seeing things.

[00:04:12] She might have been asleep.

[00:04:14] It was easy to blame her tired mind so she just talked herself out of it.

[00:04:19] On a different night, just a few days later,

[00:04:21] she found herself waking up at midnight again.

[00:04:24] She got up to grab a drink from the kitchen but she stopped right before walking in.

[00:04:30] The old man from her kids room was sitting right there in the middle of the kitchen.

[00:04:37] Cross-legged just staring at her.

[00:04:41] At that moment she just ran back and hid underneath her blankets.

[00:04:45] She stayed there, frozen in fear.

[00:04:48] And after what felt like hours she peeked out thinking it would be safe.

[00:04:53] But when she looked out from her blankets, the old man was still there, staring.

[00:05:00] And this went on all night.

[00:05:03] Jackie would hide in her blankets and peek out every once in a while only to see the corpse like

[00:05:08] being looking right back at her.

[00:05:13] Finally, morning time came and she felt safe enough to leave the blankets.

[00:05:18] It was a little bit brighter around the house and she walked over to the attic.

[00:05:22] It seemed to be the source of everything she had been experiencing in that house

[00:05:26] and she needed to see what was in there.

[00:05:29] And so she grabbed her ladder, pushed up in the attic door,

[00:05:33] and looked inside.

[00:05:35] And that's when she saw a pudgy head floating toward her.

[00:05:40] It had nobody.

[00:05:43] Jackie screamed and fell off the ladder.

[00:05:45] She ran over to her neighbor, Susan, and told her everything.

[00:05:49] When she had just seen in the attic, the oozing walls, her cat, and what scared her the most.

[00:05:54] That frail, skinny old man in her house.

[00:05:58] Jackie was too scared to go back to it.

[00:06:01] And trying to help, Susan told Jackie that she knew someone they could call for help.

[00:06:07] Susan called, parapsychologist Barry Taft and told him that she could hear the thumping from

[00:06:12] Jackie's attic. She also told him about everything Jackie had seen

[00:06:16] that Jackie was too scared to go back to her home and that there were two children in that house.

[00:06:22] Barry believed Susan and Jackie and immediately assembled his paranormal investigation team.

[00:06:29] Barry Taft is a renowned parapsychologist who has worked on some pretty famous cases.

[00:06:35] If you're into the paranormal and horror movies, then you might recognize the 1980s movie The Entity

[00:06:42] and the movie A Woman Is Brutally Attacked by a Pulser Guysd.

[00:06:45] It's based on the real case which Barry investigated himself.

[00:06:49] These are the kind of cases that he and his team look into.

[00:06:53] When they got Susan's call, they leapt into action.

[00:06:57] Barry Taft, Barry Conrad, Jeff Weatcraft, and a few others arrived at Jackie's house.

[00:07:03] As soon as they walked in it just felt off.

[00:07:07] Maybe you've felt this before, it's a feeling of being underwater like a sensation of overpressure.

[00:07:14] There was also a foul odor and they tried to find a logical explanation for the smell but they

[00:07:19] couldn't find one. They could not locate the source no matter where they looked.

[00:07:24] But once they were all set up and ready to start the investigation,

[00:07:27] they heard a loud bang in the attic. Then another followed by a thud and then another thud.

[00:07:36] Jackie told them it's the attic, it's always the attic and it's where she had seen the floating head.

[00:07:41] It's also the same spot she kept hearing voices. The team began taking pictures and capturing

[00:07:47] evidence. Jeff and Barry Conrad went up to the attic to get pictures and footage.

[00:07:52] And from the moment he set foot in the attic, Jeff felt like something was wrong

[00:07:58] like he was being watched. Still, he kept working and as Jeff clicked the shutter on his camera

[00:08:04] for the third time, it suddenly flew out of his hands. It was pulled and then Jeff was pushed and

[00:08:12] he fell over and it couldn't have been Barry because he was not close enough to reach him.

[00:08:18] When he stood up and walked over to grab his camera, the lens was five feet away.

[00:08:25] They came back down from the attic and joined everyone else in the kitchen and they began to talk

[00:08:29] about what had just happened in the attic. And then all of a sudden there were loud thumps coming

[00:08:35] from up there. They sounded like very loud footsteps. Barry described it as a 200 pound rat

[00:08:44] in his own words.

[00:08:59] Damn.

[00:09:03] Jeff peeked into the attic again, trying to figure out what was making this sound.

[00:09:08] He had seen a black mass and moved slowly across the attic and then it just disappeared.

[00:09:14] The investigation continued and it just got weirder. At around 3am, the alt witness, the oozing liquid

[00:09:21] coming out of the walls. But still they could not find an explanation for it.

[00:09:27] The team then had to leave for the night but return days later on September 4th.

[00:09:37] On the night of September 4th, Jackie called Barry again. She was afraid. Her kids' toys were

[00:09:47] levitating and being thrown around. Paranormal activity seemed to be getting worse and she didn't want

[00:09:52] to be there anymore. Here's part of the phone call. Jackie? We were talking.

[00:09:59] You just cut the line. What happened? Are you guys there? Yeah, she won't get any sleep.

[00:10:05] We better go down and get. Jackie, we're going to come down and get you.

[00:10:10] Okay. Okay. All right. We're coming right now. Okay, hurry, hurry, please, I don't know how long I

[00:10:17] stay here for leaving right now. Okay, bye, bye. Bye. Bye.

[00:10:23] The crew drove back to Jackie's house and she thought they were there to take her and the kids

[00:10:27] somewhere else but instead they were there to investigate. They got out of their van, grabbed their

[00:10:33] equipment. This night turned out to be even more dangerous for Jeff who had already been pushed by

[00:10:39] the ghost in Jackie's home. Jeff went back into the attic and another photographer, Gary Boem,

[00:10:46] was on the ladder behind him. Jackie's Susan and Barry were in the kitchen. Gary was still on the

[00:10:54] ladder when he heard Jeff scream. Gary moved as fast as he could using the flash from his camera to see

[00:11:00] in locate Jeff. He found Jeff with his legs wrapped around a beam in the attic. He was being hung

[00:11:08] by his neck. Gary helped him out of the attic. The rope was tied in a knot used by sailors and

[00:11:14] fishermen. It left the red mark on Jeff's neck and that was enough for Jeff. He left the house

[00:11:22] and never returned. It was an intense night for everyone. The team wrapped up the investigation and

[00:11:34] went on their way. They left Jackie, little Jamie and Samantha with her ghosts. Jackie walked by her

[00:11:41] kids' room in the moment of rage and yelled, just don't touch my kids. Moments later a random red

[00:11:48] spot appeared on baby Samantha's forehead. It looked like a red bruise. Jackie felt more afraid

[00:11:55] than ever. This thing was mocking her telling her that it can and will touch her kids. It could do

[00:12:03] whatever it wanted. This was the last straw. Jackie knew she had to leave her San Pedro home.

[00:12:11] So Jackie took her children and moved just over 300 miles away to a trailer home in Weldon,

[00:12:16] California. She was trying to give her marriage and other chance and make up with her husband.

[00:12:21] She needed to get away from the entities that were haunting her in San Pedro.

[00:12:25] For a while things were good and peaceful but this only lasted a few weeks. Then her attempt to

[00:12:31] reconcile with her husband didn't work. It was drinking more, there were more and more arguments

[00:12:36] and he ended up leaving. And once he was gone the ghosts came back.

[00:12:46] But what were things like this time? I'll tell you all about it up next. Stay with me.

[00:12:51] She would hear scratching sounds coming from her shed, sometimes pounding like something was

[00:13:03] trying to get out. It was so loud even her neighbors could hear it. It always happened in the

[00:13:09] middle of the night and always three at a time, a pause and then three more. Another night,

[00:13:16] Jackie walked into her daughter's room and found her blankets on fire. Luckily her kids were in

[00:13:22] her own bed that night. Just a few weeks after that Jackie and a couple of neighbors were helping her

[00:13:28] put a TV in her shed. This wasn't like TVs you see today, it was a giant TV that came with its own

[00:13:34] stand. It easily weighs around 200 pounds. You really needed three people to carry it and Jackie

[00:13:40] and her two neighbors were trying to get her giant TV into the shed when they saw the face of an

[00:13:45] old man appear on the upper left side of the screen. It scared all of them. Her neighbor described

[00:13:51] it as an old man with mean eyes. If whoever set foot into Jackie's trailer home experienced something

[00:13:58] and felt unbearable and she knew it was time to call Barry again. But this time she wasn't sure

[00:14:05] that they were actually gonna come, but they did. They made the long drive to Weldon. The team arrived

[00:14:11] and set up and right away activity began. None of the equipment was working even though it had been

[00:14:17] working before they left. Jeff checked the shed and saw a shadow person move inside.

[00:14:23] Nothing was working and they couldn't get answers. And that's when Jackie made a suggestion.

[00:14:30] What if they used the Ouija board and the team agreed?

[00:14:34] As soon as they were set up the room grew extremely cold. The candles flickered and the table shook,

[00:14:43] but they continued to ask their questions. They asked, how long have you been trapped in the spirit

[00:14:50] world? 60 years it said. Did you die in the San Pedro House? No. Where did you die? San Pedro Bay.

[00:15:02] Did you drown? No. I was held underwater. Did you live in the San Pedro House? My murder.

[00:15:14] How many ghosts are here? The fat times fill the skies. And then Jeff asked, why are you focusing

[00:15:25] your energy on me? Because you are the likeness of my killer. And then Barry asked,

[00:15:34] is there anyone in the room you hate? J-E-F-F

[00:15:48] and right after it finished spelling out Jeff he was thrown from his chair and hit the wall behind him.

[00:15:56] And then Morning Time came and everyone felt safe again.

[00:16:06] Barry went to the newspilate on 7th Street in San Pedro. They had some newspaper archives he

[00:16:12] could dig through. They came across one paper with a front page headline that read,

[00:16:17] Find Body of Young Seaman Under Warp. Marks on Body Hint Man was picked him a foul play.

[00:16:25] They believe this was one of the spirits that had been haunting Jack for years.

[00:16:30] Herman Hendrickson was in the Navy. His body was found floating under the San Pedro Pier on March 25th 1930.

[00:16:38] There was some information that didn't quite match with the learn during the Ouija board session.

[00:16:43] Herman was found to have hit his own head and then fallen into the water from the pier.

[00:16:48] Accidentally, the spirit that contacted them to the Ouija board said it was murdered,

[00:16:53] drowned by someone who looked like Jeff. Still they really believe that the entity was indeed

[00:16:59] Herman. After discovering the identity of one of the spirits, Jackie grew curious.

[00:17:06] She started talking to some of her old 11th Street neighbors, the ones who had been there the longest.

[00:17:12] She figured out that her old house was built by a man named John Damon, who later died in the house.

[00:17:18] She believed that this was the old man she had been seeing and the one who appeared on her TV in

[00:17:23] Weldon. Since John Damon lived in the house, could he have been the man who murdered Herman Hendrickson?

[00:17:32] There was no way to be certain but it could explain why both spirits were causing so much harm.

[00:17:38] In June 1990, Jackie and her kids moved again. This time to an apartment in San Pedro.

[00:17:45] As soon as they moved in, Jackie had a priest come and blessed the apartment. She didn't want the haunting

[00:17:50] to continue. And thankfully not much happened in there. She only ever saw a glowing orb in her

[00:17:56] kitchen when it was only one time. Based on everything else she had experienced, this was nothing.

[00:18:03] Jeff and Barry on the other hand began noticing things were happening in their apartment.

[00:18:10] Their stuff was being moved, their pictures were turned upside down. One of their windows was

[00:18:15] randomly broken. Lights were turning on and off. Barry was pushed by an unseen force and it was

[00:18:23] getting dangerous. Like one time the cleaning lady was sweeping the kitchen in their apartment.

[00:18:30] She turns the living room and saw a frail and almost dead looking man sitting on the floor.

[00:18:37] He was cross-legged and had dead eyes. They believed it was the same old man that had been haunting Jackie.

[00:18:46] Luckily for them, this only lasted a few weeks. It started when Jackie had moved back to San Pedro

[00:18:52] even though there were a few cities away. But over the weeks the paranormal activity slowed down.

[00:18:59] And remember that orb that Jackie had seen? Well here's what happened. While in her apartment,

[00:19:05] Jackie saw a ball of light and she followed it and it led her to a nearby graveyard.

[00:19:11] The light kept moving until it reached a grave. It floated in circles a few times until it disappeared.

[00:19:18] The grave? Red John Damien.

[00:19:23] Jackie believed that the ghost that had been haunting her for years was just saying goodbye.

[00:19:27] The paranormal activity pretty much ended after that for everyone involved.

[00:19:34] In 1997 Jackie and the team returned to her old San Pedro home because they were finishing

[00:19:39] up the documentary on what happened. They found out from the owners that people came and went but

[00:19:45] no one stayed in the house for long. They also learned it wasn't just Jackie who had been experiencing

[00:19:50] strange things. A pair of newlyweds lived in the neighborhood from 1987 to 1995.

[00:19:58] In one night her husband was walking in the hallway on his way to bed.

[00:20:02] That's when he saw a figure of a man standing in the doorway, the one of their newborns room.

[00:20:09] He saw the old man step into the room of the doorway and he raced over.

[00:20:14] He was ready to fight this intruder but when he stepped inside no one was there just a sleeping baby in

[00:20:22] the crib. The entire time they lived in the house the wife was paranoid and this was out of character

[00:20:28] for her and they also saw an oozing liquid coming out of the walls with their closet.

[00:20:34] They would hear footsteps in the hallway and conversations they could not understand.

[00:20:39] It was too much for them and they left in 1995.

[00:20:48] After she left Jackie's house at empty first in time, neighbors would see the blinds open

[00:20:53] and close from the inside. You could also hear loud groans and the murmurs of a conversation

[00:20:58] that could not be understood. This all ended when the house was torn down.

[00:21:04] And even today if you walk down West 11th Street in some Pedro California,

[00:21:08] there is no 593 address. It just isn't there. All we have left are the accounts,

[00:21:16] the photographs and the terrifying memories to remind us of 593 West 11th Street.

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[00:21:36] This episode was researched and written by Cristina Lomarkey, who also mentions in the

[00:21:40] notes that she had walked around the area this past summer. Her cousins used to live nearby.

[00:21:45] And the house number is in fact skipped, going from 591 to 595 West 11th Street.

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