Hell's EVP: the harassment of its current custodian

The hell EVP: November deaths and a harassed custodian

There is a tape now known as the hell EVP, and one question hangs over it: whether it contains something capable of compromising someone. There is not a single proof that this audio is anything more than noise and voices of unverified origin. And yet, around it, a sustained digital persecution has been waged against its current custodian, Santiago Vázquez, with YouTube channels dedicated exclusively to ridiculing him. The underlying question is not whether the paranormal phenomenon is real. The question is why someone invests time and effort in keeping the campaign going.

The story places the recording in the basement-library of a villa in Puerta de Hierro, in the mid-1980s, around two or three in the morning. Parapsychologist Germán de Argumosa presented the material as a supposed EVP in which voices of torture were heard and a "Juan, I will kill you" directed at one of those present, described as a Chilean diplomat. That man, always according to the circulated version, died about three months later in a Swiss clinic, drowning while asking for water.

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What the hell EVP is and what the attendees' record says

Everything rests on a document that has never been fully made public: the minutes with the names of those who were in the house that night. From there comes the most repeated hypothesis, that the tape contains something capable of harming a third party and that is why some prefer to keep it hidden. Part of the analysis holds that the prudent thing would be to destroy it.

Decades later, the material still lacks independent technical verification and no identities have been revealed.

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The deaths surrounding the recording: who died and when

Here the slippery ground begins. The date of the supposed emergence of the material by Argumosa, a 17 November, is repeated in the calendar of the custodian's circle. His brother died on 18 November 2018, from an asphyxiation classified as involuntary. His father, journalist Santiago Vázquez senior, died on 19 November 2022 at the age of 91. Two consecutive days in November, two direct relatives.

To those names is added that of journalist Enrique Muro, who died of a heart attack on 4 April 2010 at the age of 41, with no previous signs of health problems. And that of the supposed "Juan", around 40. Dates intertwine easily when one wants to see a pattern, and are dismantled just as easily when one does not. Astrological explanations even circulated—deaths with Uranus in opposition to natal Uranus, the so-called midlife crisis—which are no more than a curious statistical coincidence.

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The cyberbullying of Santiago Vázquez and the cross-accusations

The matter has degenerated into an open war between the custodian and part of the circle that surrounded him. According to one participant in the thread, serious accusations accumulate against Vázquez: that he would mock former colleagues, that he would have spread personal data of superiors and that he would demand recognition or money under threats. These are fruta that arose in the heat of discussion, with no known judicial resolution, and none can be taken as proven.

On the other side, what is verifiable is an organized digital offensive against him. YouTube channels that do nothing else, systematic mockery videos and the suspicion repeated in the thread that there is money behind it. That does not make Vázquez clean wheat. It only describes an asymmetry: some produce the harassment, the other receives it.

His public trajectory does not help simplify the portrait either. Those who have heard him at conferences recognize a capable communicator; there is one from October 2011 cited as serious and sober. Those who see his recent messages find someone overwhelmed, talking about tears and workplace harassment. Between those two extremes is the real person.

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The object of power hypothesis: what is at stake for whoever possesses the tape?

The most speculative line remains, the one that holds that the tape is not a document but an object of power and that guarding something like that has a cost. The coincidence of dates, the saints venerated by Vázquez himself—Damian, Benedict of Nursia, figures unusual in ordinary devotion—and the warning that Argumosa himself would have received from Enrique Tierno Galván feed the esoteric reading. None of this is demonstrable.

In parallel, another current reduces everything to the most earthly: a cultural product built over decades, with a community that pays to listen and another that pays to laugh. Fraud as a two-way business. Under that prism, the tape compromises no one except whoever monetizes it.

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There is no clean consensus, and probably never will be. What is predictable is what comes next: as long as Vázquez remains the visible face of the matter, the campaign will continue, because harassment has an audience. If he disappears, another will be sought. The tape, meanwhile, will remain in some drawer, with no one daring either to destroy it or to open it completely.