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Paranormal Activity with Yvette Fielding

THE POLTERGEIST GIRL: The True Story of Tina Resch

Season 1, Ep. 241

This week on Paranormal Activity with Yvette Fielding, we’re diving into one of the most controversial and talked-about paranormal cases of modern times… the story of Tina Resch, better known as The Poltergeist Girl.


In 1984, a quiet family home in Ohio became the centre of a global media storm when objects reportedly began moving on their own.


Telephones flew across rooms.


Lamps toppled without warning.


And in one now-famous moment, a photographer captured an image that appeared to show a telephone suspended in mid-air.


But what really happened inside that house?


As journalists, police officers and paranormal investigators flooded the home, many claimed they witnessed strange activity for themselves.


Was this a genuine case of psychokinetic energy… or something far more explainable?


We explore the key moments of the case, including:


  • The first chilling disturbances
  • The photograph that shocked the world
  • Eyewitness accounts from inside the house
  • The investigation by parapsychologist William G. Roll
  • The controversial footage that changed everything


And then… the story takes a dark and tragic turn.


Years later, Tina, now known as Christina Boyer, would become the centre of a very different kind of case, raising even more questions about the life of the girl once known as the Poltergeist Girl.


This is a story of mystery, media frenzy, and a case that still divides opinion to this day.


Was it real… or was something else going on?


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