Dr. Barry Taff, the UCLA parapsychology researcher who served as principal investigator on the case that became the film The Entity, joins Art Bell to recount the real events behind one of the most documented paranormal investigations in history. Beginning in 1974, Taff and his team witnessed luminous balls of light flying through a Culver City bedroom, a full-bodied male apparition materializing in a corner, and a Geiger counter reading that dropped to zero as phenomena intensified.
The photographs Taff sent to Art Bell's website show arcs of light hovering in free space above the terrified woman, confirmed as three-dimensional by their failure to bend with the walls behind them. Taff describes how the phenomena followed the woman through multiple moves across California and into Texas, and how neighbors who knew nothing of her history experienced poltergeist outbreaks after she moved in next door. The later San Pedro case proved even more violent, with photographer Jeff Wheatcraft nearly hanged by an unseen force and physically hurled across rooms.
Taff's clinical perspective grounds the extraordinary testimony. He links poltergeist activity to epileptic seizure patterns and repressed psychological conflict, while acknowledging that no current technology can explain how emotional distress translates into a force capable of snapping keys, throwing bodies, or producing human blood plasma from inside wooden cupboards.
