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Odessa American - July 3, 1987

GIRL ENJOYS THE THRILLS

Nashville, Ten - Eleven year old Heather O'Rourke, who'd appeared in "Poltergeist" and it's sequel, sought some thrills at Opryland theme park after completing three months of filming "Poltergeist III".
After Heather rode on the Screaming Delta Demon, a wheeled bobsled ride, ride supervisor Beth Erickson said, "She let out a pretty good yell."

Heather's parents, Jim and Kathy O'Rourke, said they had been in Chicago since April for filming of the third "Poltergeist" film and were touring Nashville, Florida, New Orleans, and Memphis on the way home to San Diego.

Heather, whose line "They're Heere" chilled audiences in the first "Poltergeist" movie role, stopped by the theme park Wednesday.

The latest film, she said, invovles more magic and physical stunts than the first two haunted house films.