Jaboticabal Poltergeist

**Jaboticabal Poltergeist** was a claim of supernatural cases of poltergeist antics took place in the city Jaboticabal in São Paulo, Brazil. In the 1960s. An aggressive spirit tormented an 11-year-old girl named Maria Jose Ferreira, who had to endure slaps, bites and other physical attacks from the invisible being. The demonic tyrant finally succeeded in making the whole case end tragically for Maria.

## Phenomenon & Poltergeist

The unusual phenomena began when bricks and stones that seemed to appear from nowhere suddenly started falling on the Ferreiras' house. Bricks flew in through the windows and smashed property and family valuables inside, hitting family members several times. After a few days, the family realized that it was probably not just the antics of vandals, but that evil forces from the other world were involved. Shortly thereafter, they contacted the priest and demanded an exorcism. The priest listened to the family and himself witnessed several inexplicable phenomena, including destructive bricks, moving plates and knocking on the walls.

As it was soon discovered, the priest did not manage to expel the evil spirit from the house. In several cases involving a poltergeist, it's just the opposite – things get worse after the exorcism and the spirit becomes even more aggressive. This is exactly what happened to the Ferreira family. After the priest left, the spirit began to manifest itself much more actively and aggressively. Bricks and stones flew at the house in even greater quantities, this time accompanied by eggs, dishes and other household objects, including furniture. However, this time the activity directly focused on the 11-year-old daughter of the Ferreiras, Maria. She was immediately beaten, bitten and slapped by the invisible aggressor. It even happened that stuck needles suddenly appeared in her skin, which apparently materialized out of nowhere. Once, up to 55 needles were allegedly removed from her ankle at once. The ghost also allegedly placed cups on Mary's face at night, apparently in an attempt to suffocate her. The activity followed her to school, where one day during lunch her clothes suddenly started to smolder.

The local dentist Joao Volpe, who was also a medium, soon learned about the case and immediately decided to visit the family. Upon arrival, he reassured the family that the activity was not of a demonic nature, but rather a moody poltergeist. Volpe tried to explain to them that a poltergeist is not actually a ghost, but just the accumulated energy of one family member, manifesting in this way out of frustration. He believed that the originator of unusual phenomena is Maria herself, who, according to him, is a natural medium and connects with the world of spirits. He was also convinced when Maria told him that she has several invisible friends who treat her kindly and when she wants, they leave her sweets that appear at her feet.

Volpe was amazed by the girl's behavior and asked the family if he could take her home for observation. The family agreed and Maria moved into Volpe's house. For the first few days, nothing out of the ordinary happened, and the girl was at peace from the painful attacks. Volpe thought it was because Maria was finally away from her parents and not experiencing stress. Before long, however, showers of stones began to fall on the house, and knocking and banging could be heard from the walls. During one observation, Volpe and several of his companions saw a large rock fly in through the window, hit three people in the head at once, and fly out the window again. One night, Maria's clothes suddenly caught fire and set the whole room on fire, with the fire causing serious burns to Volpe as well. It was then that the dentist realized that a much stronger medium like himself was needed for this case. And Chico Xavier was sure of that.

After these incidents, Maria traveled to the city of Uberaba, where the center of all spiritualists and mediums was located. Xavier decided to take Maria and Volpe home immediately. There he decided to hold a séance and contact the spirits to find out why Maria was being abused in such a way. In a trance, Xavier connected with an angry spirit who claimed that Maria was a witch in a past life who used black magic to cause the death of several people. The ghost then claimed that she and the other victims had placed a curse on Maria and would tyrannize her for the rest of her life. Xavier tried to convince the ghosts to leave the girl alone and leave because she is not responsible for the events that happened earlier.

After many hours of prayer, Xavier finally informed Maria that the spirits had finally left and would no longer bother her. After some time, 13-year-old Maria finally returned home and continued to live with her parents. Unfortunately, Chic Xavier's prediction did not come true, and the angry spirits soon continued their attacks. At the age of 16, after about five years of invisible terror, Maria committed suicide by drinking a drink laced with poisonous pesticides. After her death, all the strange activities suddenly stopped. Did the vengeful spirits finally get what they wanted?