Tina Resch (born October 23, 1969) was a central figure in a series of incidents that came to be called the Columbus poltergeist case.
In 1984, alleged telekinesis events at her Columbus, Ohio home drew significant news media interest.
A series of color photographs taken by photojournalist Fred Shannon, and published by The Columbus Dispatch, were purported to show Resch sitting in an armchair with a telephone handset and phone cord flying in front of her, from left to right.
Resch's story, and Shannon's photography, were featured on a 1993 episode of Unsolved Mysteries.Skeptics and debunkers pointed out that much of the proclaimed evidence was anecdotal and thin and declared the case to be a hoax.
Paul Kurtz wrote that Resch was "a disturbed teenager" who faked poltergeist phenomena because she "craved attention".Resch was married and divorced twice, and had a child named Amber Boyer.
In 1994, facing a potential death penalty if she agreed to go to trial before jury, Resch instead accepted a plea bargain with prosecutors to being responsible for the death of her three-year-old daughter that had occurred while the daughter was being looked after by her boyfriend, and she was sentenced to life imprisonment.