Tina Resch Poltergiest Incident Tina Rush poltergeist case (also known as the Columbus Poltergeist), revealing that the alleged activity occurred in Ohio in 1984 and that skeptics later pointed to video footage showing the teenage Tina deliberately knocking over a lamp as proof of a hoax, a finding often juxtaposed with the observations of parapsychologists like William Roll. DayJobbers https://youtube.com/live/l8-mllGB0Fg Transcript (AI transcription) so i heard you guys are just like two regular guys now, retired to podcasting yeah yeah just working joes yeah you know day jobs all the way down. We left the game. We left the game. The day the day jobbers as we'll say. The day jobbers. You were there. You were there. Hey everybody, welcome to Mondo Frico. I got the day job. How are you guys doing, day jobbers? That's going to be your new thing. I'm going to change the graphic from just two regular guys to day jobbers. Fantastic. I'm still recovering from Thanksgiving. Yeah. Oh, what happened to you? Did you hit my car? I just ate too much. Oh, okay. Your stomach. Yeah. Yeah. No. I'm good. I'm good. I mean, yeah, you can change this to the day jobbers now because I have a job now. Oh, you have a job? That's even better. That's…
That's always good. You know? Fantastic. Now you can pay me, pay you what you owe me now. So that's fantastic. I'll be putting my Venmo up on the screen here in just a few minutes. I'll get right on that. If you can, uh, if you want to hit that, maybe a QR code, just zap it with your phone. You'll be okay. Yep. Yep. So, uh, thanks for being here today, guys. Uh, this little show, we talk about weird stuff and, uh, I know, uh, Robert said he brushed up on it, but I don't know if you brushed up on everything. And all the weird stuff. There's a lot. There's a lot of weird stuff out there. There is a lot of weird stuff. Hence my background here where I'm standing in a swamp of some sort. At least you are not at your desk. Yeah, I'm not at my desk. I'm out in my backyard and out in the backyard at the swamp. So you guys, are you up for possibly a little quiz on the topic at hand?
Absolutely. Is it open book? Set up for failure. Is it open book? I got the internet in front of me right now. If you're fast with your fingers on the goog, I think we could call it open book here. All right. Well, we've got our researcher on the other side of the camera. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, really? What is this? Another day jobber? No, they don't get paid. They don't have a job. Gotcha. Just somebody, the random person that came into the apartment. So here we go. We'll play a little quiz music and get you in the mood. All right, we have a quiz on, uh, the Tina rush poltergeist case. Now you heard anything about Tina rush before? I told you so.
The way this quiz goes. Is this what the movie Poltergeist is based off of? I don't believe so, but we never know. We never know. Yeah, you know, these days. Because the movie Poltergeist was based on some real. Yeah, but it was based on some, well, quote, real. Yeah, yeah. So the way the quiz goes, we'll start out with questions that are easier, and then they'll get harder as we go along. At least that's the plan here. all right. Is this multiple choice or? Yeah, multiple choice. I'll read the question. I'll read the answers. And you give me what you think is the best answer. How's that? All right. Yeah. All right. See how this is what was it the christy rosh or the tina tina tina rosh tina rosh poltergeist case okay all right in what u.s state in year did the alleged tina ross poker
poltergeist case activity also known as the Columbus poltergeist hint wink wink primarily take place Ohio choices New York 1988 California 1980 Ohio 1984 Massachusetts 1979 Ohio 1984 is the correct answer It's going to be one of those bait-and-switches where it's called the Columbus Poltergeist, but it happened in California for some weird reason. Is that like a hotel called Columbus? No, it was actually Columbus, Ohio. It actually started in Kansas. Yeah. No, it was Ohio in 1984. You guys got it right. That was an easy one. We'll move on. Next question. What common household item was featured… In the most famous and controversial newspaper photograph taken during the poltergeist events, appearing to fly near Tina of its own accord here, I suppose. A, a table lamp. B, a drinking glass. C, a telephone receiver. Or D, a wooden chair. I'm going to go with wooden chair. Yeah, I'm feeling wooden chair. Why would it be? I don't think any of those items are controversial, though. Really? Really?
Well, it wasn't a vibrator, guys. Come on. Like a bong just floating around. Tina's bong flew by her face. The ghost was getting high. So you guys went with D, wooden chair? It was C, telephone receiver. It was the 80s. There was a lot of telephones on long cords. I don't know. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But why was it controversial? Yeah, I mean, that's the question. What's controversial? Well, the controversy was the newspaper photograph. Okay. Controversial newspaper photograph. So apparently people didn't believe it. Oh, yeah, of course, because it's not real. Well, potentially, yeah. I am a ghost skeptic. I do not believe that the ghost exists. Yeah, yeah. All right, let's move on to question number three. What specific incident provided the strongest piece of non-antidotal evidence for skeptics who claimed Tina was faking the phenomena? She was holding the phone as it flew. She's just talking on it. She's like, look, see, it's happening. Yeah, it's happening. Yeah, woo.
My hand's just on it, but the ghosts are where they want it. She's pinching it, right? So A, Tina's adoptive parents publicly confessed that they had orchestrated the entire event. Oh my God. B, a video camera inadvertently recorded Tina deliberately knocking over a lamp before reacting in mock surprise. C, investigators found a small motor hidden underneath the couch that was used to shake objects. Or D, skeptics scientifically proved that the thrown phone was a lightweight hollow replica. I'm going to go with B, the lamp thing. That she knocked over a lamp. You guys in agreement here? I'm going to… I want the motor to be true, so I'm going to go with C, the motorized couch. Oh, the motor under the couch. Yeah. They had sense around in their living room back in the day. Well, Robert got a
it was B. A video camera inadvertently uh recorded tina deliberately knocking over a lamp just before uh reacting in mock surprise. You got that one. How many is that that's two yes two so we we got we got two more to go. We are number four. Okay. All right. Years later, Tina Rush, under her adult name, which was totally different for some reason, Christina Boyer, I guess she got married and changed, I guess maybe her full name is Christina. I mean, Christina, I think you can start under Tina. Yeah, Tina, yeah. And then, you know, you get married, you change your last name. It's not that weird. This is where it takes a weird term. Was convicted in connection with the death of her daughter. What specific legal plea did she enter to accept the conviction while simultaneously maintaining her factual innocence in order to avoid a potential death sentence? That's hardcore here. Now we're zooming into…
We're zooming into the, you know, the murder podcast thing. I know. I was about to say that. Yeah. True crime. Now we're going to true crime. And, you know, we got it's all legal, legal up in here. A plea of Nolo Contendra. B, a standard guilty plea with admission of the facts. C, an Alford plea or D, a Magnotten rule plea. I'm going to go with McNaughton rule. I'm going with C, the Alfred plea. Oh, really? But I think it's A, but I'm going to go with. You think it's A? A, C, and D. Robert's just hedging his bets here. You know what? Robert's going A and D. Let me do B and C so we just cover all the bases. Yeah, let's put a tenor on A, B, and C. Okay, well, actually. D is my final.
D is your final answer? Okay. And C is the correct answer. I'll give it to you guys. Half of you got it. I knew that one. The day jobbers here got it. So, wow, that's good. You got three. This is the last question. Let's see if we can – well, I guess you've made it over the halfway point, so you're better than 50%. So let's see if you can push that up a little bit on the last question. A long-standing controversy surrounding the Tina Rush case primarily stems from the direct conflict between which two forms of evidence? Here are your choices. A testimony of the foster parents versus the official police report on the initial disturbances. Parapsychologist William Roll's documented observations versus the accidental video footage of the lamp being knocked over. See the estimated value of the damaged objects versus the amount of insurance money claimed by the family.
or D, the initial newspaper report versus the later segment on the TV show Unsolved Mysteries. I'm going with D again. I'm going to go with C just because you always got to follow the money, man. Like these things get away with it until money gets involved. And then someone's like, OK, we like everyone's willing to believe in a ghost until someone says, yeah, that ghost cost me $50,000. Then someone shows up and is like, OK, we're going to take a look at this. You can believe in ghosts all you want as long as it doesn't cost us money. Exactly. But it's clearly an act of god the pre the the the insurance company doesn't have to pay out under those circumstances. Yeah. Wouldn't you say god is paranormal in some way, shape, or form well that's yeah that's why it was an act of God. They didn't have any control over it. oh yeah, we can't well god wanted this. I'm sorry, uh It was b paris psychologist william rolls documented observations versus the accidental video foota
