The Entity Case

Between 1974 and 1976, Doris Bither reported being repeatedly attacked by invisible entities in her Culver City home. The case was investigated by UCLA researchers and adapted into the 1982 film “The Entity.”

The Attacks

Doris claimed that three male entities would physically assault her while she was in bed. She displayed bruises and bite marks attributed to the attacks. Her children witnessed some phenomena.

Investigation

Kerry Gaynor and Barry Taff of UCLA’s parapsychology laboratory investigated. They witnessed strange lights and during one session, approximately thirty people claimed to observe a greenish mist form into a humanoid shape.

Controversy

The psychological complexity of the case makes interpretation challenging. Some researchers theorized Doris’s psychological state generated the phenomena through psychokinesis.

The case remains one of the most disturbing poltergeist accounts in modern history.