Veronica on Netflix: ‘TRUE STORY’ behind horror movie is even scarier

The film takes its cues from the so-called Vallecas case, which took place in a small suburb in Madrid.

It’s the only police report which is, according to The Sun, marked as “unexplained”.

It revolves around a teenage girl named Estafania Gutierrez Lazaro, who died suddenly in August 1991 – with her parents convinced it had something to do with her interest in Ouija boards.

They told the police that when the boyfriend of one of Estafania’s friends died in a motorcycle accident, a group held a seance at school to try and contact him.

It was interrupted by a teacher, after which Estafania’s parents claimed that they all saw a strange swirling smoke enter her nose and mouth. She began having seizures and hallucinations just days later.

No doctors could find anything wrong with her, and no diagnosis could ever be given. Meanwhile Estafania’s heath deteriorated and her seizures and hallucinations intensified until she ultimately passed away.

The parents then claimed that over subsequent months, doors in the house would slam of their own accord, shadowy figures would be spotted lurking, and – with no explanation whatsoever – a photo of their daughter burst into flames.

But worse was still to come.

Everything culminated on one horrific night in 1992 – over a year after Estafania’s death – when her mother “felt a pressure on top of me but there was no-one around… I then felt a pair of hands grab my feet and then grab my hand.”

They phoned the police, and in a 2012 documentary, Police Inspector Jose Pedro Negri revealed just how terrifying things were.

“It was a small bedroom with twin beds,” he recalled. “The father told us that sometimes when he and his little son were sitting on the bed, his son was picked up and thrown on to the other bed in a flying move.

“I sat down in the same bedroom to see if anything would happen. We heard a terrible scream behind us which came from a small balcony. I quickly opened the door and ran out to see if I could see anything. But there was nothing. No fallen stones. Nothing.

“It was 2.30 in the morning and the noise was dreadful.”

He went on: “When I’d first entered the room, I noticed they had a large wooden crucifix on the wall and hanging off it was a smaller pearly crucifix like the one children get at their first holy communions. There was also a poster.”

But a few moments later, “the crucifix had been turned upside down, the little crucifix was on the floor and the poster and the door had three or four deep scratches in them as if someone had clawed through the poster and deep into the door.” The parents ultimately moved out.

While Veronica is not a blow-by-blow account of this story, it is heavily inspired by it – and many viewers have called it too scary to even finish.

Veronica is streaming on Netflix now.