Accompanying Roll on the investigation was Kelly Powers, a young man from Florida State University with a background in psychology and counseling. He wrote a book about his research into this phenomena titled The Poltergeist in 1972. In 1958 he had coined the phrase "recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis" (RSPK) to describe the type of phenomena seen in such cases. Rhine, perhaps the most prominent name in the field. Roll, who ran the Parapsychology Research Foundation (PRF) at Duke University, certainly had the credentials for such an investigation. Reporter Harden reached out to parapsychologist William Roll. The effects seemed to only take place when nobody was looking, but by the end of the day at least one video crew felt they'd captured something paranormal when a lamp was knocked over. On March 8, 1984, approximately 40 reporters filled a 20' x 20' room in the Resch home looking to capture any evidence of paranormal activity, but it didn't seem forthcoming. The story was picked up by the Associated Press, and a media storm hit the home.
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He had taken a series of photographs while visiting the family, and the best of these showed Tina cringing on the couch as a telephone is moving through the air in front of her. The veteran photographer was astounded by what he captured on film. Harden brought photographer Fred Shannon to the Resch's home, having prepared him to expect the miraculous. With household items whizzing through the air, the Reschs turned to reporter Mike Harden to see if he could help. In March of 1984 her tantrums had become less of a concern than the weird occurrences that seemed to surround her. She wanted very badly to find her birth mother. She had a very volatile relationship with the Reschs which often led to shouting matches. Tina Resch was 14 years old when the unusual activities started. They'd helped care for more than 250 children by the time these events took place. Reporter Mike Harden had written about the Resch family because the couple had such a robust role in the community as foster parents. Glasses, photographs, telephones and lamps were being thrown about and broken and the events all seemed centered on the Resch's adopted daughter Tina. In 1984 the home of John and Joan Resch became the scene of such events.
Many times when this central figure is removed from the scene the events stop and do not follow them to other locations. In most cases the poltergeist events are centered around one person - often a teenager. Poltergeist cases are characterized by loud noises, things being thrown, apportations of tiny objects, mysterious liquids appearing, rocks falling on the roof, and occasionally people being pushed, clawed, pressed or otherwise harassed. So when I talk about hauntings I'm not endorsing the existence of supernatural manifestations, but using the word to mean "the collection of unusual events" associated with such cases. For the purposes of this article I'm going to talk about various aspects of this field but remember that these are terms which the scientific community - and Skeptoid - do not endorse as real or genuine. Consider these words: phantoms, shadows, phantasms, ghosts, spirits… there is a robust lexicon to describe these non-corporeal entities, but no scientific proof that any of them exist. This is a problem for paranormal believers too in that ghost investigations are all trying to explain elusive phenomena. This leaves the investigator to more of a forensic role and sometimes with nothing but a collection of anecdotes.Įven the terminology for such events is difficult because a skeptical view of any such phenomena is predicated on examining each unusual component rather than collectively viewing them as a haunting. The most difficult challenge is that the allegedly paranormal events rarely manifest themselves when skeptical researchers are present. Skeptics are often depicted as dismissing the idea of ghosts and spirits without investigation, but there is actually a rich history of thorough scientific investigations of such alleged phenomena. Before we get into the particulars of the Columbus Poltergeist, lets talk about skeptics and hauntings. So when a trouble household in Columbus, Ohio began experiencing flying objects and mysterious disturbances, one had to wonder: was this a poltergeist or merely zeitgeist?Įnthusiasts of paranormal lore will know that the word poltergeist is derived from the german words for noisy and spirit. Although the film was not based on a real case, and the phenomena in the film veered wildly from the historical symptoms, it did make this peculiar type of event culturally available in a way it had never been before. In 1982 a terrifying phenomena was lifted from the pages of parapsychology literature and turned into the highly successful film, Poltergeist.
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