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.
Key Moments
Remote viewers converged on identical wrong answers: Taff describes UCLA experiments in which independent remote viewers locked onto precisely the same information that turned out to be entirely wrong - "as if we all sat down and wrote the same script" - challenging convergence as a quality marker.
Full moons consistently degraded psi performance: Taff reports the only longitudinal variable that reliably suppressed remote-viewing performance across UCLA subjects was the full moon, on a roughly 29-day interval, with a smaller drop during Santa Ana positive-ion conditions.
1975: Uri Geller bends a key after putting it down: Taff recounts Uri Geller's 1975 visit to the UCLA parapsychology lab, where Geller didn't just bend a key in his hand - he put it down and the key continued bending and snapped while he wasn't touching it.
San Fernando Valley doppelganger case linked to epilepsy: Taff describes a case where an epileptic young woman's family received phone calls in her younger voice while she sat with them, and where every flare-up of the poltergeist activity tracked her focal seizures and stopped when she was on medication.
Origin of the Entity case: a 1974 Westwood bookstore: Taff tells how the Entity case began in 1974 when a colleague was discussing their UCLA work in a Westwood bookstore and a woman across the aisle volunteered that her Culver City house - a thrice-condemned shack she shared with her four children - was haunted, and that she had been repeatedly sexually assaulted by three entities.