The Spectral Voyager Episode 5: The Haunting of Jackie Hernandez
Added 2023-09-14 20:42:58 +0000 UTCIn 1989, in the bustling seaport of San Pedro, California, Jackie Hernandez began to experience strange phenomena in her newly rented bungalow. Lights would turn on and off. Objects would move. A heavy breathing could be heard rattling in the attic above her laundry room. After a neighbor experienced the activity herself, she encouraged Jackie to reach out to a team of Ghost Hunters she had recently seen on TV. What would follow was a year-plus long investigation that included everything from full-figured apparitions, to dripping ectoplasm. Jake and Brad provide a comprehensive look at either the best evidence of a poltergeist ever captured on video, or perhaps the first ‘found footage’ horror movie ever made.
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The Spectral Voyager theme composed by Nick Sena.
Additional music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky.
Jackie Hernandez dramatizations performed by Katie Amis.
Editing by Corey Klotz.
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Comments
I'm extremely late to the game here. But holy shit this was terrifying. Great work boys.
Benjamin Schaefer
2025-01-31 01:38:12 +0000 UTCSo I loved this episode and decided to watch the 'unknown encounter' film last night, pretty much straight after listening to this ep. At first I was super into it and loved the campy aesthetic but by halfway through I started to feel pretty uneasy and queasy about the whole situ. Personally I feel its maybe a story of exploitation. Jackie is clearly not well at all. I know we are supposed to see her distress as the impact of the malevolent spirit, but to me it seemed the impact of being a single mother unable to even afford gas for her car, pregnant and under enormous stress. She says in the documentary she had a history of not feeling safe in her houses until this new house, where at first she was fine, but then the haunting started. It feels as if she is experiencing a worsening of a historical issue. The other parties have an obvious interest in there being a spirit in Jackie's home as well. The parapsychologist Barry Taff would appreciate significant findings, the film crew would like to be involved in a good film. I don't believe everybody knew it wasn't true, I think that accounts for the sincerity of many of the testimonies from people who believe they witnessed the spirit. But also I think high tensions and Jackie's clear unhappiness and fear could influence that. I started to feel like I was watching all of these men who wanted an outcome basically participate in what they felt was a harmless goof, while Jackie absolutely spiraled. Also I don't trust Jeff at all. Why would he leave the noose around his neck until he came down from the attic. Your first instinct would be to take it off. Also, why was he not hung? (Obvs not calling for this, glad he wasnt, lol) Why did the spirit decide to drape Jeff over a beam? Would be interested to know if Jeff had experience in dance, because of the position he's holding in the noose photo shows his weight is supported by his calfs, it's a classic 'pole-dance' position. Also being thrown into the air from the ouji board sitting - you could probably launch yourself backwards from your chair. I wanted to believe in this but ultimately I just felt icky. Poor Jackie! I hope she was able to put this behind her. Still loved the pod episode though!
sarah clark
2024-01-30 09:48:07 +0000 UTCFYI Amazon Prime video in the UK has the film available for streaming - have to say I remain highly skeptical after watching it
R T
2023-10-13 13:23:38 +0000 UTCWow a bunch of Hollywood types document ghosts. I can't roll my eyes any harder for fear they won't stop spinning
Adam Wienecke
2023-10-10 19:16:40 +0000 UTCThis was way scarier than the documentary turned out to be haha
Sierra Bangs
2023-10-06 08:35:54 +0000 UTCThis may be another mark in the skeptic column- that image of the sky full of phantoms is a great image, but also a familiar one. In Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, after Marley departs, Scrooge is able to see how many tortured spirits there are in the invisible world. Here is where that phrase comes up in context: “Not so much in obedience, as in surprise and fear: for on the raising of the hand, he became sensible of confused noises in the air; incoherent sounds of lamentation and regret; wailings inexpressibly sorrowful and self-accusatory. The spectre, after listening for a moment, joined in the mournful dirge; and floated out upon the bleak, dark night. Scrooge followed to the window: desperate in his curiosity. He looked out. The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went. Every one of them wore chains like Marley's Ghost; some few (they might be guilty governments) were linked together; none were free. Many had been personally known to Scrooge in their lives. He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step. The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever. Whether these creatures faded into mist, or mist enshrouded them, he could not tell. But they and their spirit voices faded together; and the night became as it had been when he walked home.”
David D.
2023-10-05 18:24:35 +0000 UTCAs a professional translator, I gotta say that the language she uses in her interviews is way too precise to be extemporaneous. It has to be scripted.
Brad Plumb
2023-09-30 02:25:18 +0000 UTCI love this series!!!
Ilias
2023-09-24 22:22:18 +0000 UTC
