Morbid - Episode 497: The Haunting of Doris Bither

Episode Date: September 25, 2023

In the summer of 1974, paranormal investigators and UCLA students Barry Taff and Kerry Gaynor were approached in a bookstore by a woman who’d overheard their conversation about the supernatural and said she had a friend who needed help from someone with their expertise. The friend in question was Doris Bither, a middle-aged single mother of four who claimed she and her family were under attack from unseen entities in their Culver City, California home. According to Doris, the attacks began several months earlier and included, among other things, objects moving on their own, the presence of inexplicable foul odors in the house, unusual noises with no point of origin, and most distressingly, multiple physical and sexual assaults that were increasing in frequency and intensity. Thank you to the lovely David White for research assistance :)ReferencesBiddle, Kenny. 2021. "A Closer Look at the Entity Photographs." Skeptical Inquirer 45 (6).O'Keeffe, Ciaran, James Houran, Damian Houran, Neil Dagnall, Kenneth Drinkwater, Lorraine Sheridan, and Brian Laythe. 2019. "The Dr. John Hall story: a case study in putative “Haunted People Syndrome"." Mental Health, Religion & Culture 22 (9): 910-929.Ortega, Xavier. 2011. The Real Entity Case, Part II. August 6. Accessed August 23, 2023. https://www.ghosttheory.com/2011/08/06/the-real-entity-case.Radford, Benjamin. 2021. "The ‘True’ Story behind The Entity: Untangling Hollywood Horror." Skeptical Inquirer 45 (6). https://skepticalinquirer.org/2021/10/the-true-story-behind-the-entity-untangling-hollywood-horror/.2005. The Entity Files. Directed by Perry Martin. Produced by Anchor Bay Entertainment. Performed by Barry Taff.—. 2011. The Real Entity Case. August. Accessed August 24, 2023. http://barrytaff.net/2011/08/the-real-entity-case-2/.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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where you can listen to even the royals exclusively and add free right now. Hey, weirdos, I'm Elena. I'm Ash. And this is morbid. I'm not a fan of the song, but I'm not a fan of the song. Yup, that's fine. That's it. That's it. That's the episode.

Keep it later. Keep it weird. Keep it weird. They're like, girls. Like, shut the fuck up and tell me a story. Girls. I realize that whenever I have a ponytail in my hair and I tell you a story, I do weird shit like this with it. Yeah, I'll be talking and I'm just like, and then the guy was like, and I just do like this a lot, we can post it.

I just like, I'll be doing like this or like sometimes I'll do a little bit of this and I'm just like, yeah, you know. So I'm gonna post that. I'm quiet because I'm taking photos. And we actually just talked about this. I cannot multitask. Nope. I can't do two things at once. We just had that conversation.

I also pulled my hair. If I'm concentrating on something, I cannot do something else. I can't listen to you. I can't. Nothing. That's funny, because. Oh, god damn, the tangles in my hair just ripped a piece out.

Wow, fuck, my hair brought to you by that. I can multitask. I can multitask in the sense that I can have a lot of things going on at once, and I can take care of them. I think it must just be like a focus thing. I can't focus on. OK. Or maybe it's a hearing thing.

I don't really know how to describe it, actually, because I can't listen to somebody while I'm doing something else. If I'm going to pay attention to somebody, or I need to hear something, I need to focus on that thing. Okay. Otherwise, it's just like, want, want, want, want, want. Want to know?

Yeah, because earlier, I was playing her the Andy Milanoca song,, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won't, won, won, won't, won, won't, won't, won, won't, won, won't, won, won, won, won, won't, won't And I was like, bitch. It's Andy Milanochus. It can be something totally not like interesting or needing of my full brain power, but if I'm reading something, I'm not gonna hear you. It's just the way it is. Facts about you. Yeah, that's why I need to like, when I go downstairs, I put my phone away,

and I really don't, I try not to look at it again, because if I won't be able to pay attention to anyone else if I'm even reading the smallest of things. Even the breaking headlines. Yeah, can't do it. That's weird. Sorry, I was just looking because my wave looked small, but I'm fine.

You're good. I'm fine. You're good. It's my narration today. So I just wanted to make sure that my waves were waving that you could hear her beautiful voice. All you audio production people out there. So I have a haunting for us today. Yeah. And it is the haunting, actually. It is our research assistant, Dave. It's his favorite haunting. Oh. It is the

haunting of Doris Bithur. Oh, I'm ready. Which, that's a fun, that's a fun name in your mouth. Doris Bither. Doris Bither. So it all starts in the summer of 1974. Ooh, your time, my time, your time to shine. It's not like Super 70s, but I mean, it is, because it's like in the middle of the 70s, but it's not Super 70s feeling. Oh, okay. But it starts in the summer of 1974,

two paranormal investigators and UCLA students, Barry Taff and Carrie Gainer, were approached in a bookstore by a woman who overheard their conversation that they were having about the supernatural. Ooh. And she went up to them and she was like, listen, I have a friend who needs somebody

with you guys as kind of expertise. Now the friend in question was Doris Bitter. She was a middle aged mama. She was a middle-aged mama, she was a single mama of four kids, and boy was she going through it. She claimed that she and her family were under attack from unseen entities in their Culver City, California home. Now according to Doris, the attack started a few months earlier, and they included, among other things, objects moving on their own, random and inexplicable foul odors in the house, unusual noises with no point of origin, typical.

And most distressingly, and this is like a little bit of a trigger warning moment, multiple physical and sexual assaults that were increasing in frequency and intensity as time went on. Oh, yes. That escalated quickly. All right, it did. Yeah. So all of those things were of interest to these two paranormal investigators who were just vibing in a bookstore a moment previously.

So they got permission from their supervisor at the UCLA Paris Psychology Lab, Phil Mama. I like how you said UCLA. Did I say it weird to say UCLA? UCLA. It I say it weird to say UCLA? UCLA. There's very nice. I just say UCLA, Paris, like college, a lab, and that's a lot of else. How Alexis would have said it. Oh my God.

Thank you for the compliment. See in my head, I felt like it was giving Sandra Lee. Oh, there you go. It's cocktail time. You could have said UCLA. La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la and Barry and Carrie headed out to Culver City and they started what would become a 10-week investigation of what has now become one of the most well-known and most controversial poltergeist cases

in American history. Barry and Carrie come to you lot. Barry and Carrie, Barry and Carrie, they were almost Barry and Jerry. Ooh, and Barry and Carrie are somewhere scary. Ah! Ah! Boogie! So, in the summer of 1974, like we know, buried carrier somewhere scary. Ah! Ah! Spooky!

So, in the summer of 1974, like we know, Barry Taff was enrolled at UCLA and he was studying psychophysiology, which is a pretty broad field of study. It focuses on the mind-body connection. Okay. And when he wasn't studying or taking classes, he worked as an assistant at the UCLA Parapsychology Lab, which was like a niche little offshoot from the university's larger neuropsychology program. So much psychology, all of it.

And the neuropsychology program, like the big whole, it was kind of like a big whole program that had these tiny little programs under it, like an umbrella. Yes, it was headed by Dr. Thelma Moss. So throughout the 1960s and 70s, there were new religious movements and occult practices that gained a lot of popularity across the US. And that gave rise to what were previously little known

or short-lived academic programs like the UCLA app. I can't say UCLA anymore. UCLA. academic programs like the UCLA app. I can't say UCLA anymore. UCLA, that were built around scientific or pseudo scientific study of paranormal phenomena. I like it. So Barry found out about the UCLA program. I literally can't say it. I'm sorry that I did that too.

You did go to my fault. UCLA program as a teenager. And that was when he was volunteering for a study on psychic phenomenon. According to him, this experiment when he was a teenager, it involved being handed a set of Dr. Moss's keys, who would later become his, like, the head of the lab there. So he got a set of her keys, and he

was asked to provide information gleaned only through psychometry, the supposedly supernatural ability to learn information by touching inanimate objects. Oh. Isn't that cool? That's fun. Right, I want to try it.

That's really fun. I'm into it, yeah. Yeah. So he claimed that among other things, he correctly identified the name of Dr. Moss's deceased husband and the name of her best friend, actress Shelley Winters. Oh, wow. Which also, he might have just known, but I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know how he would know the name of her deceased husband. Yeah, I mean, this was in the 70s still, right? Yeah, so he couldn't have just Googled it. He could just Google it. Exactly. Now, I'd be like, all right. The only, like Shelley Winters,

I was like, well, maybe there was like a newspaper where like they got lunch together. That, yeah. But the disease tomment? Interesting. Interesting. So it was the start of something big for Barry and it kind of sparked his interest

in this whole world of the paranormal. Hi, Barry. So after enrolling at UCLA, he lobbied hard to get a position as a research assistant in the Paris Psychology Lab. And by 1974, as we know, he did. He got accepted as a part-time lab assistant. But he did claim that most of his time was spent, quote, unquote,

in the field conducting research. And it was at UCLA that he met fellow student, Carrie Gainer, who was an undergraduate philosophy student, and Carrie also had developed a strong interest in the supernatural. So they kind of teamed up together. I like it. Me too. Do you have to be in spooky? Yeah. It's giving Sam and Colby.

I'm into it, you know? Yeah. So that brings us to August 1974, where Barry and Carrie were in a Los Angeles bookstore loudly discussing the supernatural and loudly loudly go loudly and proudly being like Paris psychology Spirit poltergeist What else? Crick-and-dose Oh

I love it. It's fun. That's what they did. That was their conversation. That was an audio clip of their conversation. Yeah, just so you know. Don't ask us how we got it. Yeah, I can't tell you where we saw it. They were sort of an amazing research assistant.

You got it. Reddable. We told you this was his favorite case. He went back to the past for it. Hell yeah, he did. So yes, they were loudly having that discussion previously inserted in here. And that's when they were approached by a middle aged woman who said, like I said earlier, her friend Doris Bither

was having paranormal activity in her home for months. And at this point, she was very, very desperate for help with the situation. But at the same time, she was also afraid to seek help from traditional organizations because I'm sure she was worried people would take her seriously. Of course.

Now, according to the friend, Doris and her three sons, quote, claimed to have seen semi-transparent apparitions of roughly human shape and size in their home. They had also seen objects move across the room on their own and had experienced other supernatural phenomena that they could not account for. Like, no explanation. Not super fun in their case. No. So their interests were peaked, so the two men,

Barry and Carrie, gave Doris' friend their information, and later they arranged to go out to Doris' house to conduct a preliminary interview. Hmm. Listen up, babies. Hydration isn't just about the summer. It's not just about people training for championships or spooky girls and we need to be spooky hydrated because proper functional hydration is essential.

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Visit betterhelp.com slash morbid today to get 10% off your first month. That's betterhelp.hlp.com slash morbid. BetterHelpHELP.com slash morbid. So when they pulled up to Doris' house on the evening of August 22, 1974, they were surprised by what they saw. Barry recalled this house was a little shack. It was twice condemned by the city. She shouldn't have even been living there.

So already, it's like got creepy vibes. Now once inside, Barry and Carrie sat down with a noticeably anxious Doris and started their interview. Now from the moment they began asking her questions, it was clear to both of them that she was not comfortable talking about her personal history. So they tried to make the decision to keep the interview focused on the paranormal activity occurring in the home and not getting a ton of background information. Now, Doris elaborated on the experience that they already had learned about from her friend at the bookstore, and then she told them about the worst aspect she believed of was haunting.

According to her, on more than one occasion, and this is a trigger warning, it's like sexual assault. More than one occasion, she had been sexually assaulted by an unseen entity, both while she was alone and while her children were home. Like in front of them. What the fuck? Super fucked up. She told them, quote, the two smaller ones, meaning like the apparitions, held me down and one big one attacked me. I hate this. I know. A lot. In response, Barry said later, we just froze.

Carrie and I looked at each other and I rolled my eyes back and put my hands on my head and thought, oh my God, this woman's psychotic. Wow. His words, not bad. There we go. I was gonna say quote. Yeah, quote.

So at that point, which you can understand why he might think she was like, you know, she was in a, you know, a different state of mind. She was losing it a little bit. So at that point, Barry and Carrie were pretty sure that she was experiencing some kind of symptoms of mental illness. So they referred her to a psychiatric clinic at the UCLA neuropsychiatry department and they left assuming that that would be their last interaction. See, that's interesting, but it started off that way. It is, it's interesting that they didn't immediately

be like, pull to guys, let's go. Like, you know, they were like, you know what? Logic or shore. This seems like you might have some mental illness that's going on and we should get you help. And they try to. And nice that they try to get her help. That was nice.

Especially in the 70s, I'm honestly. But about 10 days later, Barry got a phone call from Doris claiming that since the two men had last visited, the paranormal activity at the house had gotten even worse and was now being experienced by her friends and her neighbors. Oh wow.

So when she mentioned that there were other witnesses outside of the home, their ears kind of perked up again a little bit. So they did agree to go back out for a follow-up interview. So a few days later, they were back at Doris' house on Bratic Street, and they were immediately hit by a terrible odor as soon as they walked in the door. Barry said, it smelled like decomposing organic matter,

rotting flush, a very sour, nauseating smell. Why, why you smell? I don't know. That sucks. Sorry, I was fighting that so hard. And as the three of them stood there talking in the kitchen, all of a sudden a cupboard opened on its own and a heavy frying pan came flying toward them in what Barry described as a ballistic arc. Oh, wow.

That's also very nice way of describing that. A ballistic arc. Wow. He's a scientist. That sounds painful. Yeah, I don't think it had anybody luckily. Would have been. Would have been painful.

Exactly. But imagine you don't believe this woman, and then you walk in, you're like, wow, it smells like shit in here. Like, she trying to trick us, but then a cupboard moves on its own, and something comes flying out of it. Yeah, I'd be like, wow, okay. And I'd be like, we doubted this woman too soon.

Down the wrong path, I guess. And I guess they said the frying pan, moving of its own accord was evidence enough for them that the violent assaults Doris had described on her previous visit, including one where she claimed a fuse box was torn off the wall and hurled at her by an unseen force. Why are they so mad? I don't know, but it proved to Barry and Taft that regardless—or excuse me, that's

the same person, Barry and Carrie—that regardless of the cause, there was indeed something happening at Doris' house and it was worth investigating formally. Wow. Can you imagine you're just standing there? Very bad grusses. It's very six cents. Yeah, it's just like angry. It is.

I'm like, what's your problem? I don't know. So in any investigation paranormal or otherwise, the biographical information about the victim is usually pretty critical in solving the problem or understanding why it happened to begin with. But in the case of Doris Bither, Little is known about her life before the poltergeist activity began other than vague illusions to a traumatic personal history.

Okay. So it seems like she may have been haunted in more ways than one. And isn't there like a a belief system that like trauma can attract this kind of? I think there is. Yeah. Like demonic activity and all that good stuff, all that terrible stuff. Yeah, I've heard that because I think like somehow the demonic force or whatever, whatever have you like praise upon that weakness kind of thing. Okay. And can sense it maybe. Yeah. Or like attach itself to can sense it maybe. Yeah. Or like attach itself to you in some way. Yeah.

And if those things existed, make sense that that would be what they would be attracted to. Yeah. So Barry said, Doris was very evasive and somewhat cryptic regarding her background. So much so that she refused to even tell us her age, which we knew was older than ours, but not by how many years.

Huh. They literally didn't even know how old she was. Wow. But what they did learn, which I do wonder if she didn't want to give them too much information because she was like, almost like when you go get a tarot reading or a psychic reading,

and you're like, you don't want to really kind of reveal anything that's gonna help them. Yeah, you want to keep it up to them. Maybe that's what she was doing. Yeah, that could be it. And she could just be the first, she could be just being smart and being like,

you don't need to have shit about me. Yeah, I'm private. Just figure out my house bitch. Figure it out. So what they did learn mostly from observation was that she was very poor and had an unstable employment history. She had four children at the time,

three boys, age 10, 13, and 16, and they lived with her on the condemned house and on Braddock Street. And she also had a preteen daughter who was living somewhere else at the time of the investigation. Now, they also learned really quickly that she was a heavy drinker, and she drank, she seemed to drink daily. Now, during their time in the house, quote, the investigators observed poor relationships between doors and the children, and there was fighting among the siblings. Oh, this sounds so sad of a house. It sounds super sad and just like a very chaotic environment.

Yeah. And just like the fact that they're living in a condemned house is awful. Yeah, that's a bad news, bears. Now among the most heavily criticized aspects of the better case is Barry and Carrie's failure to collect any personal biographical information or to press Doris for any additional details about her life. writer Benjamin Radford, where a trained psychologist or social worker might have seen a troubled woman needing help.

Taff and Gainer saw a golden opportunity to research a real haunting. Which is like see that. But they also, they did try to provide her help. They do not think that's necessarily a fair overview. No, that's absolutely true. Now, Barry, he explained to the lack of information as a simple matter of protecting the case. He said, had we even attempted to secure the type

of background information we currently collect, such as medical, psychological, family, psychodynamics, prescribed medications, as well as recreational drugs and, family, psychodynamics, prescribed medications, as well as recreational drugs and alcohol usage. Doris surely would have shown us the door from the outset. So, you agreed, like, we wouldn't have been able to do this investigation. We tried to get her help. And, yeah, and you can only push so hard.

Exactly. Because you do want to see what's going on in this house. Yeah, and she wanted their help. Like, she was she wanted their help. She was asking for the help. So basically, she was a very private woman and they weren't willing to lose out on investigating the case by pushing her boundaries. Yeah.

I get that. I get. She set up boundaries. Yeah. I get that. Now, in the year since more information about Doris has come to light, that gives a little more insight into her state of mind at the time of the investigation, and possibly some explanation for some of the activity that she claimed to witness.

It should be said that most of the information learned after the investigation came from Doris' son, Brian Harris, who Barry Taff points out also struggled with addiction, and he did contradict himself a few times during the interview. But this is what we do know. Doris was said to have been born in Illinois in 1940 to a very dysfunctional family. And according to the accounts of those who knew her, she had a really, really hard life from the beginning.

As a teenager, she started experimenting with drugs and alcohol to escape her abuse of home life. And she was generally just a rebellious teenager who was acting out more often than not. And because of that, her parents kicked her out of the house while she still was a teenager. And she was forced to fend for herself. So you can kind of see how she became a product of her environment. Yeah, absolutely. No, there isn't much about her life that is known after she was kicked out of the family.

I guess between Illinois and California, there were a couple of marriages that didn't work out. And eventually she had the four children and then ended up in Santa Monica, where she was living just before she moved to the house on Brattic Street in Culver City, the one that we're at now. Now the majority of the paranormal activity occurred in the house on Brotic Street, but the son, Brian Harris, claimed that there were,

quote, some psycho-canetic events and even the occasional apparition, even before the family moved to Colver City. Oh, damn. So this may have been something that followed them. I was going to say so it followed them. And later we'll see that it may follow them when they leave this house. So the haunting activity they said began somewhat suddenly just a few months after they

moved into Bratwick Street. It started with a weird, inescapable feeling of being watched. And then things escalated from there. Again, objects were moving on them or by themselves, a lamp flew across the room at one point. And at that time, Doris and her children had an experience to any violent activity,

but that changed one evening a few weeks later when Doris was sexually assaulted by an unseen entity in her bedroom. In her interviews with Barry and Carrie, she said that whole thing where two smaller entities held her down in one big entity attack her. That's horrifying.

To think about that is literally mind blowing. Just being held down by entities is because you think of like sleep paralysis. Yeah. What that feels like, how scary that is, but then to add that onto it, I can't even imagine. Because like sleep paralysis, you kind of know that your body's doing it? Like I guess? No, you don't. Oh, you don't?

But I mean, like she was seeing two things hold her down. Like do you see something hold you down when you have sleep paralysis? A lot of times you see something in the room coming at you while you're being held down. Or at least that's what I always see. I hate that. Yeah.

But I'm just saying like she saw the things that were holding her down and saw the thing attack her. Yeah, no. That's on at like another level. Yeah, no. But from that point forward, the activity escalated more and more, and then it started to involve the children in various ways. According to Brian Harris, there were times when they were, quote, slapped by an unseen

hand in the middle of the night. Oh. And he specifically recalled an incident involving, quote, one of the boys bumping into an invisible person in the hallway. Oh, imagine you're just walking down your hallway. No, like you bump into a person, but there's no person there. Oh, that like, I don't like that one. Mm-hmm.

And interestingly, Doris and all three boys describe their experience in the house as having been with a male spirit. They never saw a physical manifestation of the entity, but they all alluded to it being a male presence. Okay. Which is, I definitely think you can kind of pick up on that. Yeah, I would say so. But interesting that all four of them felt the same way on that. Yeah. That is interesting. And it seems like obviously there were multiple entities. So it's like a bunch of dudes haunting this place. Oh, I don't know. It's like I don't want anyone haunting me really except for David Bowie. Yeah. It's really all except I feel that. So according to Brian Harris, not long after moving in,

Doris received a knock on the door on the front door one afternoon, and she opened it, and this is a quote, she discovered an old Mexican lady possibly in her 70s or 80s who would come to deliver a message to the new occupants. He said, the woman told his mother, you need to get out.

I used to live here in this old house back when it was just a farm and I was a little girl. There's something very evil here. This place is haunted and you need to get out. Oh, no. Yeah, I just went too much. That's too much. So the woman just turned around and left without saying anything else. And a few months later, that's when everything started.

That shit is straight out of a horror movie. Hate, hate, hate, loath and tired. I always love someone coming to the door, saying he got out of here. I get the fuck out of this house because I lived here once, there's some shit in here. You're gonna die if you don't get out of this house and I love in the movie when the family goes,

thank you so much. And then does not leave that house because of that. That's what it sounds like here. I'm like, what the hell? It does. I think this family could not have gone anywhere else. No, I was gonna say in this situation, it's totally different. But in the movies, you're like, get out of there.

And also, it's like, if somebody comes up to your house and it's like, I lived here once and it's haunted, you need to leave. You're not gonna pack up and leave. No, like, I realize that before I get 100 comments of like, how stupid I am that I don't know that. This is too hard. I was like, let me get ahead of that real quick.

I mean in the movies when you watch it, you're always like, why the fuck do you get out of that? Exactly, but this is real. But here, you're like, I can do one. I can do one. But that's still really scary. But still, and also you said some, we were just saying horror movies this became a horror movie.

Oh, it did. I think it's, I'll say it later. I think it's the entity. So once Mary and Carrie were convinced that there was more to Doris' story than they originally thought, and they got that permission from Thelma Moss to conduct the study on behalf of the lab, they began that 10-week investigation. Now, similar into the investigation into Doris' personal history, the story of the paranormal investigation at the House on Bratwick Street is light on the details with the exception of one well-documented incident. I guess in a lot of ways Doris' description of the activity in her home was similar to countless other stories of haunted houses and haunted people at the time. You got the yucky smells, things moving on their own weird noises,

violent assaults by unseen hands, and given the commonality of those experiences, it is worth noting that Doris' report came less than a year after the release of the exorcist, where all of these things also happen. Yeah. It's worth mentioning. Yeah. Yeah, you got to give both sides here. You do. You got to be double-zavakit and you decide. Dear, listen up. This is 48 hours correspondent, Aaron Moriarty.

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Oh, I've never heard of that before. I have not either. But I'm glad that there's a name for it because you say sexual assault and you're like, well, it's even more than that. Yeah, like what's happening really here? It's scary. Now, Doris claimed that on multiple occasions she was spectrally raped by the invisible entities of three men, the largest of whom the kids

came to refer to as Mr. Who's It? Mr. Who's It? Mr. Who's It? Mr. Who's It. Shut the fuck up. Isn't that absolutely terrifying? Mr. Who's It? Mr. Who's It? Like, w-h-o-s-e-dash-it.

I don't know why, but I don't like that at all. No, I hate it. Like, there's nothing innately menacing about that, but somehow it is. It's the most menacing in my body. It's not like classically menacing, but when you listen, you're just like, no. No. No. No. That sounds terrible. When you put it into the, yeah, the context. It's like, text to your, yeah, I'm glad that we just have skeletal. Skeletal. Skeletal just went home to his family. No, that great, you know? I hope he stays there. Oh, he was nice though.

Yeah, she started talking about her closet the other day and I got real freaked out. I was like, is it Skeleton? Skeleton? Did he come back? No, I missed Skeleton. I know, one's top hat. Yeah, he just seemed awesome.

He did. Well, he's with his friend. Every time we talked about Skeleton, I just pictured somebody being like, blah, blah, blah, blah, and was like, you know, correct. He feels very jazzy. He does.

It's the top hat. Yeah, and like the way he poses blah, and you know, correct. He feels very jazzy. He does. It's the top hot. Yeah. And like the way he poses. Yeah, you know. But in these events, Storis claims that she was held down, pushed, and even thrown across the room, and then assaulted by at least one of the attackers.

Barry Tafro in 2014, according to Doris' testimony, this event took place on several separate occasions, each time leaving behind large, indistinct, black and blue wounds, especially around the ankles, wrists, breasts, and groin area of the inner thighs. Oh, so she was literally covered in black and blues? And that's like very classic, like areas where you would have losing after an assault. After being held down and assaulted. Yeah. You would have been losing after an assault after being held down and yeah, so given the sensational and

lured nature of the assaults, it would be very fair to say that they were the aspect of the case that kind of elevated it above the more common reports of hauntedness and pulter-graced activity of the type. I'm just like, oh yeah, like things are getting thrown around and you know, it's smelly in here. Right. It's like it's smelly in here. Right. This like is up to the end. Yeah. But it is worth noting that these attacks were only experienced by Doris and her sons. So there were no witnesses to the assault outside of the family. Okay.

And there wasn't any documentation of the physical evidence that had been left on her body. She just said what had happened. Okay. But I'm not doubting her. I'm just saying there's no evidence if you look for it. It's not there. It's just the happened. Okay. But I'm not doubting her. I'm just saying there's no evidence if you look for it. It's not there. It's just the reality. Yes.

Now, according to Barry, the physical and sexual assault stopped altogether once the investigation began. And there were a large number of people coming and going at the Bother House. Okay. So I don't know if maybe the ghosts noted like the demons, spirits,

notice that there was people and we're like, we're not gonna be able to get away with this. I don't know. I don't know. And what you have shame is that, what the, I don't think they have that. I don't know. I don't know about that.

I think more people there to help her. Yeah. Perhaps, you know? Yeah, I guess. So despite the abrupt and kind of curious end of the physical and sexual assaults upon the introduction of potential witnesses, Barry and Carrie maintained their belief that Doris really was

experiencing what she said, a genuine poltergeist activity. In 2011, Barry wrote that Doris' case quote was not in my professional opinion the result of spectral rape, but rather a disturbingly real poltergeist outbreak. Oh. Okay. And he kind of became like the unofficial spokesperson for the investigative team. And he claimed the real focus of the investigation was the moving objects and the frequently reported balls of light that manifested around Doris during this time.

Okay. Because I mean, very in carry, they saw one of those pans fly out of yep. Okay. So they were like, we want to investigate the moving that should that move and flies on its own and like the foul odors and stuff. That honestly makes more sense to me and it makes me feel like they were at least there to really get the real deal here because they were like, we witnessed with our own eyes this pan fly out of this cabinet, so we're gonna follow this and not what the other stuff. Because we,

that we're not there for that we've never seen. Exactly. I think that's a smart way to go about it. So at the time of the investigation, the UCLA Parapsychology Lab was among the most underfunded programs on campus. And because she herself was skeptical of Doris' claims, Dr. Thelma Moss refused to direct any resources,

substantial resources toward the investigation. So because of that, Tafe and the team of mostly student researchers relied on pretty basic techniques for collecting their evidence. They did, you know, traditional photography, temperature gauges. I believe it's a Geiger counter. Yeah what I think it's a Geiger counter?

Okay. A Geiger counter, and that can detect differences in radiation levels. And of course, sound recording equipment. That's the whole gamut of what they had. Okay. Yeah. First, they tried to communicate with the entity, quote, asking spirits to create sounds or manipulate lights and response to questions.

Now they occasionally got responses to their questions, but Taff admitted, quote, the answers we received could not be confirmed and never really made any sense. So they made other attempts to communicate with the spirits and they relied on Doris' friend who claimed to be psychic, candy. Actually candy was...

Candy. Candy, candy. Candy psychic candy. And actually candy was... That's a candy. Candy, candy, candy, candy. She was the one who originally approached Barry and Carrie in the bookstore while they were talking about the clip above candy, candy, candy, candy, it's rust and nail. Now aside from occasionally screaming out, quote, that there was something in the corner,

not that she could see but sense, these attempts at communication were also pretty unsuccessful. Okay, unfortunately. Unfortunately. Unfortunately. So in an attempt to document the presence, the investigators started taking photos with their Polaroid cameras. There were a bunch of photos taken, but the images didn't really show any kind of ghostly presence. But then, as they were assembled in the kitchen, Doris' friend Candy shouted, it's right in front of my face. Carrie turned quickly, directed the camera toward Candy, and took two photos that the investigators claim are evidence of the entity's presence in the home.

I'm going to show them to Elena right now, but I'm going to make sure that we post them so you guys can see them. No, we're not going to. You can't see them. You would never see them. Oh. Okay. Yeah. All right. Interesting. This photo, which I'll talk about in a second,

is supposed to be the control photo that they took. And I think that thing across her face is like a scratch on the photo. I don't think it's the entity. That's interesting. Okay. So we'll talk about those. According to Carrie, the two images,

in there are two images in the series that show candy who was slightly obscured by what she said the entity was. And she claimed it was right in front of her at the time that the photos were taken. And then the third image that I just showed Alina was the control image. And it's included for comparison. It shows an unobstructed image of candy just after the entity photos were taken.

But as writer Kenny Biddle points out, there is an obvious problem with the control image in that the other two photos were taken using the camera's flash. Thank you. I was literally about to point that out. And the third was not. Yeah.

Obviously. He writes, in the two entity photos, we can clearly see hard shadows cast by candy silhouette. Both hard shadows are consistent with the use of a flash bar on the Polaroid camera, which features single use bulbs, five on each side.

However, the quote-un unquote control image is dark overall. In a nutshell, the three photographs were not taken under the same conditions. No. Making comparisons difficult or impossible and invalidating their use as quote unquote controls. I was just going to say that invalidates the control completely. It does.

Because when you showed me, I was like, that's the same day. Same day, same place. And also, to me, it doesn't look like the same place. Because they even took it at a different angle, it feels like. Yeah. But I daily step back. It's hard because you guys will see it once we post

the images. To me, it doesn't look like she's in the same room. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Because it really looks like two different photos. Yeah, because in the third photo, which is the control photo, there's like a Ouija board in front of her. If you look closely, you can see like a curtain and like some, I think what's wood-paneled walls.

But the curtain in the photos that she claims the ghost is in front of her, the spirit or whatever, there's different curtains. And she seems like there's like another lamp behind her. It just doesn't look like it's the same room at all. Yeah, it's a little strange. But it'll also notes, and he's the one that's like, I don't know about this, that in addition to the use

of the flash and the two original photos of Candy, the images are overexposed. That is another thing that it looks like, they just look different. They do look like something was done there. And because they're overexposed, it caused the overblown yellow hue, that investigators claim as evidence of the entity

to be present in those photos versus the control. It's blown out. It looks like. The first stoop photos look blown out completely. And the third one just looks like a dark, bad photo. Exactly. So Barry Taff admitted on multiple occasions that they were not very familiar with the cameras

and made mistakes with the settings quite often during the investigation. And he did say it rendered most of the photos useless regardless of their content. I mean, at least he admits it. Yeah. And I do imagine in the 70s, I mean, even now it's hard to take a, like, hats off to photographers because I don't know the settings for a camera that like make, like I don't need to do with exposure, what to do with like any of that stuff.

No. So in the 70s, I'm sure it was even harder because you're like, I don't know what to do with exposure, what to do with like any of that stuff. No. So in the 70s, I'm sure it was even harder because you're like, I don't fucking know what any of this does. And the cameras when you were like a Polaroid camera had them been around forever, yeah. So according to him, as we spent more time there, we began observing balls of light.

So now we're moving on to something else. He said, what we call, corpuscular masses of light. Ooh, I like that. I know. That look like. Cpuscular masses of light. Ooh, I like that. I know, that look like... Puscular masses of light. That look like plasma, which is the fourth state of matter. Ooh.

He's getting scientific here. I was just gonna say, let's talk science. The word corpuscular, I like. It's one of those that could go real wrong, real fast. Like, because it's got pus in it. Yeah, and when you think like, post-jule, yeah, I think a post-jule is not fun. But, but, but, post-jule.

Post-jule. It's just on the other side of that. It's a high brow, you know? Yeah, you know, this was, you know, words. Word, that's, thank you for tuning in. But while many of the things Doris claimed to have experienced before the arrival of the investigators were never really witnessed by anybody outside of the home,

Taff claims that the balls of light that manifested around Doris were seen by many people on the investigative team. Interesting. In a summary note prepared by Barry and Carrie, they described the orbs of light as, quote, displays of small, rapidly moving balls of light on several occasions, which occurred in the presence

of a woman in herb and to late 30s, Doris. The lights were reported to change their motion, size, and intensity in response to the investigators' requests and to the occasional emotional outbursts of the female agent, Doris. Attempts to photograph the lights were reportedly met with no success on most occasions, although in a few rare instances, the lights were reportedly met with no success on most occasions, although in a few rare instances, the lights were captured on film as curved arcs of light,

akin to the trails that can appear in photos of lighted objects. Let's show you a picture in a minute. Okay. So given the lack of other tangible evidence, the orbs of light quickly became the focus of the investigation and would go on to be the most heavily documented and most controversial aspect of the bit their case. So they were determined to capture the orbs on film, and about halfway into the investigation, the team decided they were going to set up several cameras in Doris' room, because that

was where the orb-based activity seemed to be the heaviest. Okay. So at first, nothing happened, but the team kept checking in and sure enough where the orb-based activity seemed to be the heaviest. Okay. So at first, nothing happened. But the team kept checking in and sure enough, the orb activity increased in intensity. Years later, Barry Taft described the lights as, quote, moving pulses, pulsing flashes of light, lime green in color,

three-dimensional in nature, which were not stable in size or luminosity. Now eventually, I guess the lights became so bright that they illuminated the entire room. Damn! Isn't that crazy? And during one of those incidents, Taf says, the orbs collected in the corner of the room, forming the shape of the upper torso of a very large man. Ooh. He said, it was an apparition made out of, not bathed in, lime green light.

Ooh, I like how he worded that. Yeah. That he was made out of, not bathed in the light. Ooh, I like how he worded that. Yeah. But he was made out of not being done. Not being done. Like the light made him. Lime green light. According to Taff, two of the assistants at UCLA, quote, big hulking guys, passed out

because they were so traumatized by what they were seeing. Their brain just wouldn't accept it. Holy shit, right? So while the first experiment with the Orbs yielded some results, the Orbs proved really, really incredibly challenging to capture on film. And when they did capture the Orbs in a photo, there was nothing else in the photos

that would allow for perspective to really show the trajectory or the true identity of what it really was. OK. And so they realized that they needed to alter their approach in order to properly document these orbs. So Taffin's team devised a new plan, and he describes that in his final report writing.

Our fifth visit to Doris' house resulted in large-scale magnification of all phenomena. We began by duct-taping large-black poster boards up on the walls and the ceiling of the bedroom, all of which were numbered and identified with a magnetic orientation. White duct tape was placed between the dark panels that formed a grid network, a grid network, like graph paper. They're in providing us with a reference for further attempts at photographing the lights. Black poster board were also used to seal off all light entrances into the bedroom that rendered the environment almost pitch black. Wow. So basically, they set up like a fucking hypothesis here and really executed a science experiment.

They set up a hypothesis. They go, you know, they had a hypothesis. They did the scientific experiment on it. Boom. And that's science with Ash. You're welcome. And that's science with Ash. Yeah. You're welcome. And that's science with Ash. That's how it works.

So it was during this visit that Taff and his team managed to capture a now pretty iconic photo of Doris sitting on her bed with an arc of light streaming over her head from what they say as one of the orbs traveling through the frame. And I can see it. You got it? This one?

Yep. So in his description of the event, and the photo more specifically, Taff notes that had the streak of light been a projection from a light source rather than an independently moving object in the frame, the arc would have bent when it hit the corner of the room where the two walls met an angle.

Yeah. In his report, he described Doris as quote, cowering on the bed beneath the lights that were flying around turn a mad fray. So that's his take on it. And I can see what he's saying about the corner there. Definitely I get what he's saying about the corner. She's, I don't think she seems to be cowering very much.

She just kind of looks like she's looking at it. She's holding like the side of her head and of looks like she's looking at it. She's holding the side of her head and she looks like she's looking back at something. Yeah, and it almost to me looked like she was moving her hair. Like out of, or she was covering her ear. Yeah, exactly. But photo analyst Kenny Biddle, who is a bit of a skeptic on this case, points out the photo does not in fact show Bidther c cowering but instead sitting on the bed looking if anything a bit

uninterested as the other team members sit idly. I don't think you can say she looks uninterested. Well I think that's the thing I don't think any of us can look at this very grainy black and white photograph where you can't see her face. That's the thing you can't take anything from it. She's sitting there. She's looking at it. That's all I can tell't take anything from it. She's sitting there. She's looking at it. I can tell you she's looking back at something that looks like when she's looking at the light. But I can't say whether she's interested, uninterested, sick, healthy, sad, happy, scared, any scared. I can't say anything. So I'm not gonna. She's sitting there. She's looking at something.

Exactly. Now, Biddle also points out, well, to have described having hung black poster board with duct tape grids around the room to adequately document the phenomenon and do the scientific experiment, the picture clearly shows bare walls with no hint of poster board or tape. That's what I was gonna ask,

because at first I was like, oh, maybe like, because it's black and white, we can't really tell that those are like covered, but then there's like decorations on the wall. Yeah, you can see. You don't see any of that. Yeah. That's the thing. Now, according to Taff, a few days after they set the room up with the poster board, but before they started taking pictures, they got a call from Doris who asked that they return as soon as possible. And he said, when they arrived at the house, they discovered that the poster board they hung

had all been torn down. And that's when they got this photo. Now, Doris, very convenient. Doris claimed that it happened one afternoon while she and the kids were out of the house, also convenient. But Tath even acknowledges the possibility that she had torn everything down

in order to bolster her claim and get some more attention. Okay. If this is what that was. So after 10 weeks of investigation in Doris' home, Felma Moss came to the house to witness what very uncary head claimed was happening because she's like, you're spending a lot of time on this, what are we getting out of this?

Yes. But during her visit to the house, she didn't witness anything unusual at all. Now, until that point, the majority of the activity doors claimed to have experienced had been relayed to the investigators after the fact with no way to verify the accuracy of their claims. So given that Thelma Moss had an experienced anything unusual during her visit, and the best that Barry and Carrie could come up with was a couple blurry photos.

She pulled the plug on the project and the investigation. Yeah, I don't blame her. I don't either. I think she was like, listen, this is supposed to be legit and like you guys aren't really getting along here and you've been here for 10 weeks. Like, this isn't worth it.

No. So the investigation into Doris Beathers haunting came to an abrupt and uncermonious end. Now, by the time investigators had exited Doris life, Doris's life, excuse me, she had managed to save enough money from working part-time jobs, to move from the house on Braddock Street to a new house elsewhere in the city. Oh, that's good, but she didn't leave a forwarding address with Taff or his team of investigators. So luckily by the time Doris had started working with writer slash director Frank DeFelitta, DeFelitta, it's hard to say.

He was working on the fictionalized account of her experience, a movie called The Entity, and it would later be adapted for a film starring Barbara Hershey, I think, as Doris. But at that point, he helped Barry Taff and Carrie Gainer get in touch with Doris for a follow-up interview. Oh, that was nice of him. It was. So she claimed that things were quiet in her new house for a few weeks, but not long after moving,

the activity had started up again. Uh-oh. And by the time the investigators reached out to her, she claimed it was affecting the houses on either side of her. Oh. Mm-hmm. Talk to those people. Talk to them. So they arranged to visit to Doris' house that brought some basic recording equipment with them to document the interview. According to Taff, the three were standing in Doris' living room just chatting when all of a sudden a vase flew off a nearby table and landed right next to where they were standing.

Oh damn, much like the frying pan. Now obviously frightened by the flying vase, the trio turned toward the direction it had come from and realized they were not alone in the room. Ooh, taff claims they began hearing heavy breathing, getting closer as they stood their motionless, followed by a kind of shuffling coming in their direction. He said, quote, we could hear a footstep,

another footstep, and then a drag. Oh. And then all of the sudden, the real to real recorder that Carrie had been running was turned off by an unseen hand, and they decided right then and there to conclude their interview and get the fuck out of that house. But they were recording when that happened? Yes.

Okay. That's what they said. Oh, I don't know whatever came of their way. Roll the tape. I know, I don't think they ever did. Because according to Taft, Doris did move again a short time later and this time to San Bernardino and the paranormal activity supposedly continued

but they lost touch with her a couple months later when she moved to Texas. Jesus. And she didn't leave any contact information that time either. So Barry Taf said, the last time I ever heard from Doris Bither was around when the film came out in 1983

and she was at a screening at Fox with all of us. I think she felt threatened by all this attention, but at another level, I think she appreciated that we were trying to help her come to grips with what was going on. This is wild. It's crazy. Now in his assessment of the case, skeptic Benjamin Radford wrote, quote, as is often the case with haunted people, the introduction of psychics, paranormal investigators, and other self-styled ghost hunters escalated, and arguably exacerbated by their situation. So he's saying, I don't know,

I think it all kind of got worse once she got a tantrum. Yeah, I mean, you can see that happen in cases. Totally, though. But regardless of whether someone believes Doris Bithers, a count of spectral rape and demonic assaults and everything else that she went through in her house, everyone who knew her or came into contact

with her during this period agreed that she was a very fragile woman who was desperately just seeking any kind of polysad. So no matter what, it's really unfortunate. Yeah. Now, unfortunately, some people feel like what she found was two opportunistic college students who were hoping to make a name for themselves. And become like big-time paranormal investigators. Allah!

Exactly. The horns. Mm-hmm. I'm like big time paranormal investigators. Allah. Exactly. The horns. And I guess they, and like those people feel like one Barry and Carrie had gotten all they could from her, they walked out of her life and never really offered much help or explanation for her experiences.

Oh, yeah. Now sadly, she died from respiratory failure in 1999. Oh, wow. At the age of 59. Oh, she was young. And according to her son Brian, she was plagued by paranormal harassment until the day that she died. Wow.

So I don't know what I think about this case. Wow. I don't, that picture with the light is really interesting, but I don't know if there's a way to make that happen. That's the thing. I don't know if it's like, because it almost, there's like a little other part of the picture where there's like a slight bit of light in there. Yeah, on the top of the arc, like to the left of the...

To the left, it's like an upside down arc. Yeah. And I'm like, was something shined at the camera that made some kind of reflection that didn't need to be bent in that corner because it wasn't directed towards that corner. Exactly. I don't know.

I don't know how those cameras work. I wish there was just more evidence than what we got. Yeah, I wish there was some, you know, it's for what fucking tape recorder on. Let me hear some stuff. Exactly. Like I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. Yeah, just I don't know. I don't know. I think the lack of evidence here kind of makes me feel like, maybe they were just hoping to make it big. And they saw this as an opportunity. Yeah. But the fact that her son said that she was,

he was, or she, excuse me, was haunted until the day that she died. And like this activity even started before that house. Yeah. But then I was, in my head, I'm like, why would they leave the second house when the curious paranormal activity started? Yeah, that's true.

I'm like, you just suddenly decided to leave? Yeah, I don't know. There's a lot of thing about this one. There is, so let us know what you think. Yeah, interesting. And we hope you keep listening. And we hope you keep it weird. But also weird that your house is that fucking haunted

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