Poltergeist is still haunting ... The monstrous tree that rips through a bedroom window. And the angelic little girl, pressing her hands against a whispering, static-filled TV screen and calling ...

Heather O’Rourke was the angel-faced child actress who rose to fame as Carol Anne Freeling in Poltergeist. But her breakout role came with a terrible curse. Op Sindoor: How world leaders reacted ...

Poltergeist II star Will Sampson also died shortly after finishing the film. Carol Anne Freeling, who played the iconic little girl, Heather, in the original movie died when she was 12.