When a flaming specter steps through a portal in the teenage Reynaldo Reyes’s living room in Tampa Florida & Brooklyn, N.Y. it’s just the first of a series of frightening encounters and unexplained deaths, including that of the well-known rapper Jam Master Jay of Run DMC. This is the bizarre true story of a life-long struggle with the paranormal/horror.
Synopsis:
If Poltergeist was a graphic novel set to rap music, you would have the life of Reynaldo Reyes. Welcome to his neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y. where the front stoops are littered with sorcerers, back stabbers, blackmailers, criminal conspirators, drugs, and welfare families. Where rappers Run DMC are involved in a bizarre mystery. When he is a teenager, a series of strange events culminate in a fright night: the kitchen blazes with flames that don’t burn, “something” steps through the ring of fire, and Reynaldo’s reaction is so severe he is rushed to the hospital.
Whatever entity came through that night, it doesn’t leave. It harasses Reynaldo and frightens others in the building. His behavior changes, often for the worse. There are arguments, physical fights, and trouble with the police. Violence swirls around him. At the same time, the deeply religious Reynaldo has confusing visions of heaven and hell, as well as the future. For example, he suddenly and frantically announces that terrorists are going to blow up the Empire State Building. No one believes him. Three days later, terrorists attack the World Trade Center. The script, based on the book of the same name, details the long years of inner torment and struggle to find answers.
Soon after Reynaldo creates a rap song about three apparitions he experienced over a four-year period, he has premonitions in which a mysterious deity speaks to the well-known lead singer of the rap group Run DMC and starts a rumor that inspires the group’s 1986 hit album “Raising Hell.” Less than a month after Reynaldo’s book is accepted for publication, Jam Master Jay of the rap group Run DMC is murdered. His book is published on October 3, 2002, precisely 27 days before Jam Master Jay’s death. Today the killers have not been captured, and the death remains unsolved. Nor have the specters left Reynaldo alone.
Reynaldo Reyes is a freelance artist. His designs have appeared on T-shirts and his commissioned paintings hang in St. Thomas Catholic Church and the Parapsychology Foundation. He has been interviewed at length by internationally renowned demonologist & paranormal researcher John Zaffis for his TV show and for Zaffis’s documentary, which is shown around the world.
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