carlan Moran

Carla Moran is pressumably the fictional name of the main character in the 1981 movie The Entity and a book of the same name about a mother of four, who experienced violence and rape by an unseen force.

In 2007, japenese film director, Hideo Nakata has confirmed, that he is working on a re-make of the movie.[1]

Background

In reality Carla Moran was psydonym for Doris Bither (or Carlotta Moran), who resided in Culver City, California in the mid-1970s. She was a single mother of four, born in 1939. In 1974, her house in California was supposedly attacked by a number of ghosts or unseen creatures; about twelve different ghosts would have visited her with an average of about three per visit, apparently with one more powerful being as their leader among the unseen creatures. She was the victim of repeated and apparently violent attacks that felt like rape.[2][3]



She sought psychiatric counseling and books on the subject, and while in a bookstore, she incidentally met Barry Taff and Kerry Gaynor, two parapsychologists specializing in haunted-house and poltergeist cases. Gaynor and Taff volunteered to investigate her case. They visited her home and took some Polaroid photos of Moran's room. When the paranormal figures were in the room (as reported by herself), Taff and Gaynor would attempt to photograph them; they claim that these photos did not develop properly, as though they had not been exposed. When Moran said the figures had left, they would take photos of the same area, which supposedly developed normally.[4]



Although the doctors did not have the chance to photograph every phenomenon they witnessed, they agreed in description on the sighting of floating "ball of light" seen in one room. Taff described the lights as "three dimensional, greenish-yellow to-white balls of light."[5] One of the doctors supposedly witnessed a dark shadowy figure that disappeared. The same apparition was reportedly witnessed by the eldest son.



After feeling the presence of Taff and Gaynor, the unseen minimized their visits to Bither. Bither since relocated to Texas, but she would allegedly still be visited, and sexually assaulted by them from time to time.



She was later diagnosed with cancer. In a live interview with George Noory on Coast to Coast Am November 17, 2006, Taff verified that Carla Moran had died in July 25, 2006 from multiple myeloma, thus ending research in the attacks.[6]



Interview with a family member

In 2009 Ghosttheory.com conducted an interview with the son of Doris Bither, the purported victim of the events that the movie is based on.[7]



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 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 events 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 and the sexual assault of the victim(s).



Following 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.



Apart from Doris Bither some argue that the woman, who died in 2006 of multiple myeloma was, in fact, Lisa McIntosh, Barry Conrad's girlfriend. Conrad has worked with Taff for 19 years (see worldoftheunknown.com)