Case file · Haunting
The Entity house, Culver City
In August 1974 Doris Bither told UCLA parapsychology researchers Barry Taff and Kerry Gaynor that invisible beings were attacking her in her Culver City house. Over ten weeks they reported lights and moving objects.
1974 CE · 34.02, -118.40 · status: account
The account
The case inspired Frank De Felitta's novel 'The Entity' (1978) and the 1982 film.
The sceptical view
Photographs of 'lights' are ambiguous; other researchers suggested psychological causes and the family's troubled circumstances.