THE POLTERGEIST GIRL: The True Story of Tina Resch
Paranormal Activity with Yvette Fielding
adam.foster@createproductions.com
4.6 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to paranormal activity with me, Yvette Fielding. |
| 0:07.6 | This week's episode takes us to a suburban home in Ohio during the mid-1980s, a case that would |
| 0:16.7 | explode across television screens and newspaper headlines around the world. A teenage girl, |
| 0:24.4 | a quiet house and a series of disturbances that seemed to defy every law of physics. Telephones |
| 0:32.2 | flew across rooms, lamps toppled over without warning, household objects appeared to leap from tables |
| 0:38.6 | as though thrown by invisible hands. And at the centre of it all was 14-year-old Tina Resch, |
| 0:44.3 | a girl who would soon become known internationally as the Poltergeist Girl. |
| 0:50.9 | What makes this case so compelling isn't simply the number of witnesses or the strange events |
| 0:55.9 | themselves? It's the fact that journalists, police officers and paranormal investigators claim to |
| 1:04.3 | see objects move in front of their own eyes. And I love it, as you know, when journalists and |
| 1:09.8 | police officers see something that |
| 1:11.8 | they just cannot explain. Some believe Tina was the focus of a powerful psychokinetic force. |
| 1:19.5 | And others believed the entire story, of course, was an elaborate hoax. And then, years later, |
| 1:26.7 | Tina's life would take a terrible, tragic and deeply unsettling turn |
| 1:33.2 | that would cast a long shadow over the mystery. And when I read about this, I was like, |
| 1:38.2 | I can't believe it. So you'll have to hang on towards the end to find out exactly what the |
| 1:43.6 | can't believe it thing I'm going |
| 1:45.7 | on about. So, in this episode, we're exploring the strange, controversial and haunting story |
| 1:52.4 | of Tina Resch. This is one of the most famous poltergeist cases in modern history. And even |
| 1:58.7 | today, decades later, the question remains what really happened |
| 2:03.4 | inside that Ohio house. Welcome to another episode of paranormal activity. And as you know, |
| 2:13.9 | I like to start the show with a tickle of fact or fiction, listen out for the answer at the end of the show. Now, as this week's episode is all about the case of Tina |
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