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by William G. Roll
Paraview Special Editions, 2004
ISBN: 1-931044-69-4
Paranormal, 238 pages
Trade paperback, $13.95
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ABOUT THE
BOOK
One bit a woman, leaving puncture wounds all over her body. Another lifted
furniture into the air, then sent objects flying in another house. These are
some of the strange and sometimes terrifying cases collected by poltergeist
investigator William Roll in The Poltergeist. A parapsychologist, Roll
studies these “noisy ghosts” to understand what they are and why they do what
they do. In this landmark book, Roll recounts the history of poltergeists around
the world, details cases in the U.S. and Europe, and takes you behind the scenes
of his experiments with a poltergeist in Miami. He offers up a possible
explanation for poltergeist activity that focuses on the living witness -- not
the ghost -- as the source of the psychokinetic energy or “psi field.” Roll also
provides a questionnaire for those interested in conducting their own research
on these noisy apparitions.
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WILLIAM G. ROLL, Ph.D., is an Oxford-educated parapsychologist
on the faculty of the Psychology Department of State University of
West Georgia in Carrollton, Georgia. Over the course of his
extensive career he has written three books and more than two
hundred scientific articles. He has appeared on numerous segments
of Unsolved Mysteries, as well as the Discovery Channel and
other television documentaries. In 1996 Roll received the
Outstanding Career Award from the Parapsychological Association
and in 2002 he received the Tim Dinsdale Memorial Award from the
Society for Scientific Exploration. He is the author of
Unleashed: Of Poltergeists and Murder: The
Curious Story of Tina Resch.
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