Book description
One scientist's account of the poltergeist case that made headlines
across the country -- and the riveting examination of a child's
mysterious murder.
When she was just fourteen years old, Tina Resch became the center
of the best-documented case of poltergeist activity of the twentieth
century. During the spring of 1984, Tina's home in Ohio was thrown
into chaos: appliances turned themselves on without electric current,
objects flew through the air, furniture scooted across the floor.
Censured endlessly by her adoptive family and thrust into the eye of a
media twister thanks to one reporter's photographic evidence of a
flying phone, Tina was propelled into a downward spiral that led to an
abusive marriage, a divorce, and the birth of a child -- all before
her twentieth birthday. Three years later she was charged with that
child's murder, and she is currently serving a life sentence for a
crime as controversial, mysterious, and complex as the accused herself
-- a crime she maintains she did not commit.
Unleashed is Tina's story as told by a parapsychologist who
witnessed striking paranormal phenomena in Tina's presence. Examining
the destructive powers of thwarted emotions from a scientific
perspective, William Roll sheds remarkable light on the case of Tina
Resch -- and boldly confronts our cultural responses to events that
cannot be easily explained.
Larry Dossey, M. D. author of Healing Words
Unleashed is a gripping account of that strange, unguarded
borderland between mind and matter, where thought and emotion explode
onto the physical world in chaotic, unpredictable ways.
Unleashed should come with a warning label: MAY FOREVER CHANGE
YOUR WORLDVIEW.
William Roll, Ph. D., is an Oxford-educated
parapsychologist on the faculty of the psychology department of the
State University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Georgia. Over the
course of his extensive career he has written three books and more
than two hundred scientific articles. He has appeared on numerous
segments of Unsolved Mysteries, as well as on the Discovery
Channel and other television documentaries. In 1996, Roll received the
Outstanding Career Award from the Parapsychological Association, and
in 2002 he received the Tim Dinsdale Memorial Award from the Society
for Scientific Exploration.
