Carla Moran

Carla Moran is a character in the 1981 horror movie, "The Entity". There has been speculation as to whether the character is based on a real person, either named Carla Moran or with a different namefact|date=April 2008. A re-make of the movie filmed in Japan was scheduled for release in 2006.

Book and film

In 1978, author Frank De Felitta published a novel titled "The Entity". A movie version (by director Sidney J. Furie) was released in 1981, and despite receiving bad reviews from some movie criticsfact|date=April 2008, the film subsequently became a cult classic. Doctors Barry Taff and Kerry Gaynor, who have written about this case as representing real events, served as technical advisors on the film.

The actions of "The Entity" depicted in the film and described in the book mirror those in the stories of unseen yet apparently physical paranormal forces or beings such as poltergeists and demons. The depicted events are also very similar to the Smurl haunting, with a shadowy man-like apparition being witnessed and the sexual assault upon the victim(s).

During the years after the movie, various women have appeared on television, claiming to be Carla Moran. The last such person as of 2004 was an elderly woman who, in 2001, told news reporters that she had cancer.

In a live interview with George Noory on Coast to Coast Am November 17, 2006, Dr Barry Taff verified that Carla Moran had died in July 25, 2006 from multiple myeloma thus ending research in the attacks. [ [http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2006/11/17.html Coast To Coast Am With George Noory: Shows ] ]

In a live interview with Todd Bates on Haunted Voices radio on March 3, 2007, Dr Barry Taff claimed that Carlotta Moran is a pseudonym and that he has no knowledge as to her current situation, nor whether or not she is alivefact|date=April 2008. Clearly there is a conflict of information.

References

Further reading

*Taff, B.E. & Gaynor, K., “Another Wild Ghost Chase? No, One Hell of a Haunt”, in Wescon Special Session: “Psychotronics, 1975”, 1975 Wescon Professional Program, Western Electronic Show & Convention, San Francisco, September 16-19th, 1975 (Proceedings of the IEEE) [Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.]

*Taff, B.E. & Gaynor, K., “Another Wild Ghost Chase? No, One Hell of a Haunt”, in ELECTRO/76, Special Session: Psychotronics III”, Electro 76/Professional Program, Boston, May 11-14th, 1976, (Proceedings of the IEEE) [Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, INC.]

*Taff, B.E & Gaynor, K., “A New Poltergeist Effect”, in Theta: A Journal For Research On the Question of Survival After Death, Journal of the Psychical Research Foundation, Durham, N.C., Vol. 4, No.2, Spring 1976, pp. 1-7

*Vance, Adrian (West Coast Editor), “UCLA Group Uses Camera to Hunt Ghosts”, Popular Photography, May 1976, pp. 102 & 115. First and only time Popular Photography published an article, which included photographs, on anything paranormal, more specifically, The Entity case."'

*Taff, B.E., “The Real-Life Entity Case”, in Aliens Above, Ghosts Below: Explorations of the Unknown, Available as download from netbooks, 1998-2000. Updated “Entity” case file includes excerpts from supplementary commentary published in Fate Magazine, “The Entity Case Reconsidered”, June 1996, p. 30 & Fate Magazine, “The Entity Man”, November 1998, pp. 20-21."'

*Taff, B.E., “The Real-Life Entity Case”, available at www.worldoftheunknown.com. Other available articles from Taff at this website are; “A Hazardous Haunting” (from the San Pedro case a.k.a. Barry Conrad’s An Unknown Encounter), “A Haunting Thought”, “An All Too Human Haunting”, “Life With Poltergeist Agents” and “Poltergeist Agents Revisited”, all from Dr. Taff’s book: Aliens Above Ghosts Below: Explorations of The Unknown.