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Power of the Mind: Power Source Power of the Mind: Power Source One explanation for paranormal occurrences is that they might be the result of a connection between the known physical world and unknown powers hidden in our own minds. If this theory is correct, could te turbulent thoughts of confused youngsters be responsible for one of the most frightening unexplained phenomena - the poltergeist? In March 1984 John and Joan Resch were living in a well-kept house on a quiet street in Columbus, Ohio. John and his wife were an attractive couple, pleasant partners in a union of opposites. He was dark and rather quiet, although friendly when you got to know him. Joan was blond, easy-going, and with a ready smile. The couple had four young foster children living with them, as well as their adopted teenage daughter, Tina. Their youngest without his seeing them. time she was cowering on the floor neat to the son, Craig, who was 25 years old, and Pete, the When candles, lamps, and ornaments seat. black Labrador dog, also shared their home. In began moving, seemingly of their own accord, “As she was sitting there, the love seat addition John and Joan Resch had four grown- Joh Resch called the police. The incidents moved two or three inches to the right. When up children who lived away from home. continued while the police officers were in the Tina sat on the seat again, it moved anther six Over the years Joan Resch had taken house, but they were unable to provide and inches.She leapt to her feet and together we care of more than 250 foster children, many of explanation or solution to the Resch’s problem. pushed the seat back to its original position. whom had special problems, and her family and The source of the unnerving events was N"2D6B @? KC2D G:D9 *:?2 :? D96 5:?:?8 friends maintained that she could have won a not clear, although the incidents appeared to room as she changed one of the foster children. prize as Foster Mother of the Year. In October center around 14-year-old Tina. The next C KG2=<65 @ED @7 D96 5:?:?8 B@@> 2?5 :?D@ D96 1983, the Columbus Dispatch had devoted one morning, according to the story, the family hallway a crystal glass landed on the floor in of its columns to Joan Resch’s fostering care. experienced a brief respite when Tina went to front of me. The hallway light was swinging church, but when she returned and was getting back and forth. Tina was nowhere near to any of Innocuous beginnings ready to scramble up some eggs, the eggs flew this. Things wer becoming really chaotic. On the evening of Friday, March 2, 1984, the straight up into the air and smashed against the Glassware was flying about and we were happy family atmosphere of the Resch home ceiling. continually cleaning up the debris that followed. was shattered by the onset of increasingly That afternoon, Tina’s niece, together Everything was just happening so fast. strange and destructive activity.The bizarre with Joyce Beaumont, a family friend, dropped “Tina didn’t have to be in the room for events started on a small scale, when the door of in at the Resch home to see if they could offer things to happen. She was in the family room the clothes dryer. which stood in the corner of assistance. They arrived just in time to witness @?46 G96? K?@D:465 8=2CC6C 3B62<:?8 :? D96 the dining room, suddenly slammed shut, the eggs shattering on the kitchen ceiling. This 5:?:?8 B@@> C KG2C 4=62?:?8 EA C96 42>6 :? starting up the motor. Every time Joan Resch is Joyce Beaumont’s account of what happened: and said, ‘I didn’t throw it.’ Then she was hit by tried to stop the clothes dryer by opening the “I was invited to come over on Sunday. a tape dispenser that was on the microwave. door, the motor would start up again. K2BB:F65 B:89D 367@B6 DG@ @M4=@4< =D9@E89 Everything was hitting the back of her head. It had been told what was going on, I didn’t really got to the point where she was just holding Electrical fault believe any of it. As Tina’s niece and I came into herself, protecting herself back there on her The next day even stranger events occurred: the the house, I saw some eggs flying out of their neck. lights in the house began to switch on by container. The eggs were sitting beside the stove themselves. The family called in the Columbus and they just started flying. Breaking glass and Ohio Souther Electric Company to deal “We went and sat down. At the Reschs’ “The breakages continued. A red coffee cup with what they assumed must be a power surge, request their Lutheran minister came to see smashed in midair in the kitchen. And the but the maintenance men could find nothing Tina. He prayed with her and then left. Things glasses that were sitting on the table kept flying. wrong. When the trouble continued, John Resch were calm while the minister was there, but You could see the liquid start to shake and you called in Bruce Claggett, the owner of a local soon after he had gone things started happening. thought ‘Oh, here it comes,’ and the glass would electrical contracting firm. According to Tina was sitting on the love seat in the family go flying. Claggett, he tried tapping up the light switches, room where a brass candle holder that was “Tina was sitting in one fo the chairs in but the lights continued to flash despite the fact standing on the microwave flew and hit her on the family room. The phone was on the table that everyone in the house was present and the back of her head. Another candle that was in next to her and kept her lap. It happened two or nowhere near the switches. a holder on a shelf behind her went flying across three times. She wasn’t touching it. Tina was After three hours, a bewildered and D96 B@@> *:?2 4@E=5 ?@D 92F6 B624965 :D K925 just sitting there with her arms crossed, upset somewhat frightened Claggett left the house. By 366? G2D49:?8 96B 4=@C6=I 3642EC6 KG2C because everyone was blaming her for what was this time the water faucets in the upstairs tub beginning to wonder if she was throwing the going on. and sink had began to turn on by themselves. At objects around herself. Continued on Page 9 first John Resch thought that someone had “And then the clock fell of the shelf, “The only difference between a dream and forgotten to turn th faucets off, but they came on hitting Tina on the back of her head. It just reality, is simply doing it.” again while he watched the stairs to make sure seemed like everything was coming toward her Rob McConnell that no one could go up into the bathroom and she was understandably frightened. By this January 1993