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The fact that this startling event happened so quickly in a blinding flash of time, makes it very unlikely if not impossible that Jeff could have perpetrated a hoax. Logically, we also knew that it would have been very unlikely for someone to injure himself for the sake of a prank.
Later after we left the house, I was more than anxious to review the videotape that we'd recorded earlier in the evening. When I returned to my apartment in Studio City, I was startled to discover a bright comet of light traveling through a doorway behind Jeff shortly after the hanging episode.

Upon further examination of the tapes, another orb of light can be seen buzzing over the top of Jeff's head while standing in the living room discussing his ordeal with Gary Boehm. And yet another light was found zooming across the kitchen above Susan Castaneda moments after Wheatcraft had descended from the attic space.
What are these bizarre lights? No one seems to know. While these objects at first glance appear to be insects, computer analysis has revealed the contrary. Dr. Keith Dobrey, a noted Los Angeles entomologist, examined the tapes and came away completely baffled.

"As far as insects go, there would be nothing so bright and so glowing as these objects appear to be." Dr. Dobrey stated. "These things seem to be self-illuminated. Insects, outside of fireflies which don't occur here (in Southern Calif.), are not self-illuminating!"
During the course of our investigation, we would indeed film many more of these enigmatic lights which seemed to possess the ability to transverse space extremely fast (some of these lights were clocked at speeds around 211 mph). It should be noted that Dr. Taff's photo team recorded similar lights during their investigation of the Entity case in 1974.

During October1989, Jackie moved to a remote trailer home located on Chukkar Street in Weldon, California nearly three hundred miles north of Los Angeles in Kern County. Located in a picturesque canyon over-shadowed by the majesty of the High Sierras, Jackie finally felt at peace believing she had escaped her psychic predator. But all of that would change within a few months. For in early April, unexplainable scratching sounds as if a wild animal were clawing at the walls of a small storage shed behind the home, began to awaken she and her children.
On April 2nd while helping Jackie move a widescreen TV set into a storage shed behind the home, her next-door neighbors, Jim and Janice Silcott , also encountered the apparition of the old man. The ghost, which resembled the same dessicated spectre that Jackie had observed in the San Pedro home, appeared on the TV screen in broad daylight even though the unit was unplugged!

"He had very evil eyes," according to Jim Silcott. "They just glowered at me as if at any instant, he would come crashing right out of the TV set and destroy me!" Janice echoed her husband's sentiments about the "evil eyes" yet the apparition appeared for only a few seconds before vanishing into oblivion.
Prompted by more phone calls of desperation from Jackie, Jeff and I decided to travel to Weldon on April 13th, 1990 to see for ourselves. While Jeff had refused (and understandably so) to return to the original San Pedro house after the hanging incident, he reluctantly agreed to join me on this latest excursion to Jackie's now "haunted" trailer home.
After spotting several mysterious black shadows floating inside the storage shed, we were prompted by Jackie and her friend Tina Lawler (a babysitter who lived next door) to try out a Ouija Board given to her by a friend.
The failure of the video equipment would again prove to be the harbinger of violent poltergeist activity. As Jeff and I sat down to try the board, the room immediately grew colder even though the temperature outside was mild and relatively warm in the High Sierras that evening. Also it should be noted that all of the windows were closed in the kitchen.

After having agreed that we would apply very light fingertip pressure to the planchette, Jeff and I sat down to one of the most bizarre episodes of the paranormal ever witnessed. For almost immediately, the planchette skated rapidly across the board providing lucid answers to our questions.

"ARE YOU REALLY A GHOST?" I asked it. The planchette would repeatedly indicate "YES" all the while the table began to shake violently beneath the board. "HOW MANY GHOSTS RESIDE AMONG THE LIVING?" Jackie queried as she quickly began taking notes of the session. A cryptic response immediately followed: "PHANTOMS FILL THE SKIES AROUND YOU!" Again, the table shook violently and it was at this point that our chairs vibrated too.

It should be mentioned here that Jackie had lit three or four candles prior to the commencement of the session. At frequent intervals, each of the candles would extinguish themselves one by one as if being blown out by something invisible!
Throughout the course of this incredible session, we further learned that this "ghost" had been "HELD UNDER WATER" in "PEDRO BAY IN 1930" and that he'd not suffered an accidental drowning but had been "MURDERED" instead. Several minutes later, I asked why was it picking on Jeff (alluding to the hanging incident back in September). The board did not take long to respond, "BECAUSE YOU (meaning Jeff) HAVE THE LIKENESS OF MY KILLER!" .

Several days later back in Los Angeles, I visited San Pedro's daily newspaper, "The News Pilot" hoping that the information provided through the Ouija Board might give us some clues as to the identity of the ghost who was haunting Jackie Hernandez.
After scanning several months of old microfilm, an unusual front page article caught my eye. FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED IN DEATH OF SEAMAN, blared the headlines! Upon reading the fifty-nine year old story, I learned that a seaman named Herman Hendricksen had indeed been found apparently murdered in the bay in the year 1930-the same year reported by the Entity during the Ouija session.

The seaman angle would turn out to have yet another bizarre twist. Months later, a friend suggested that we re-examine the cord that had been tied around Jeff Wheatcraft's neck, the night the ghost had attempted to strangle him in the attic. Having had some experience fishing in the past, he suggested that this "knot" resembled a "fishing knot, the kind used by sailors.ships.

Was it possible that the ghost of a seaman dead nearly sixty years had returned from its watery grave to haunt an innocent victim? No one could say for sure, but this amazing discovery left us with many tantalizing clues to a most bizarre haunting. In fact, we later learned that many seamen had indeed lived in Jackie's home throughout the years since San Pedro is a seaport town.

It was soon becoming apparent that this case was becoming a "have ghost will travel" story since Jackie would soon move once again, this time returning to the town where it all began-San Pedro, California! Because she wanted to be closer to her friends, Jackie moved into a small apartment on West 7th Street. As it turned out, the entity would not be far behind. Within a few days, objects began moving by themselves while chandeliers swung from their fixtures of their own accord, strange rapping noises emenated from the walls while she observed more ghostly lights.

Around three a.m. another startling event occurred witnessed by my friends. A "slab of light" in the shape of a human being suddenly appeared and swooped towards Jeff and Gary who stood near the hallway immediately north of the living room. This "being" abruptly curved to the right and dissolved into the wall adjoining the bedroom on the other side. Although it had appeared for only a few seconds, it was astonishing to see according to Jeff and Gary. In fact, my video camera which was rolling from the floor towards my friends, picked up the shuffling of feet and the startled sounds at the exact moment that it occurred.

After December 1990 the San Pedro Ghost diminished in intensity and effect in the life of Jackie Hernandez. Parapsychologist Dr. Barry Taff considers this case to be unique in many respects. "In all my years of psychic research, never have I heard of a poltergeist invading the domain of those who came to investigate it."

Today, Jackie Hernandez still resides in San Pedro, California though she no longer lives in any of the dwellings where haunting activity occurred. Occasionally, Jackie will phone to say that a door swung open by itself with nary a breeze or that something flew off a shelf of its own accord. However, these events have greatly diminished since those feverish days back in 1989 in which a ghost came calling and hung a man in her attic!