Haunted Rosenheim

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A series of events that took place in a law firm in Rosenheim in the fall of 1967 is referred to as the Spook of Rosenheim . The case also attracted a great deal of international attention in the mass media. It is considered to be one of the best-studied and documented cases of incidents that parapsychologists classify in the area of ​​so-called haunted or telekinesis . The approach of the lead parapsychologist was heavily criticized and, according to skeptics, the case was exposed as a hoax.

Events

In the Adam law firm in Rosenheim , the fluorescent tubes attached to the ceiling at a height of two and a half meters initially went out constantly . Craftsmen found that they were rotated 90 degrees out of the bracket without any external influence being observed. A number of witnesses kept hearing loud popping noises, circuit breakers triggered for no apparent reason, fluid of a photocopier was sprayed in the room, and within a short time the firm made was up to 50 times a day, the then the telephone connection time announcement elected without anyone the operated four office telephones. The operation of the office became temporarily impossible and so the technical inspection office of the Rosenheimer Stadtwerke was commissioned with a thorough investigation. Permanent recording voltage and current recorders were installed under the direction of the later director of the Stadtwerke, Paul Brunner. The suspicion of power disturbances initially seemed to be confirmed. Then pictures on the wall began to rotate, lighting fixtures swung and exploded, drawers and a cupboard moved.

A total of around 40 people witnessed the strange apparitions, including police officers, technicians, physicists, psychologists, doctors as well as clients and employees of the firm.

clarification

On December 1, 1967, the Freiburg Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene got involved in the investigations under the direction of Hans Bender . After extensive technical and physical investigations could not provide an explanation, it was noticeable that all phenomena only occurred when the nineteen-year-old trainee of the law firm, Annemarie S., was in the vicinity. Bender examined the girl and found conflicts that, according to him, often arise in the context of haunted cases or the people who trigger them ("focus persons"): current problems, psychological instability , high short-term excitability and low tolerance for frustration . The events suddenly disappeared when the girl gave up her employment in the law firm in January 1968, but according to Bender they should have reappeared at her new employer at short notice. Bender saw it as evidence of "psychokinetic effects" . "Spontaneous psychokinesis" was "objectively registered for the first time" . Annemarie S. herself denied having supernatural abilities.

This metaphysical approach and Bender's approach were criticized as unscientific. For example, Bender suppressed the fact that in one case the manipulation by Annemarie S. could be proven. Science writer Kendrick Frazier criticized the fact that a detailed report by the parapsychologists had never been published, which is why it was unclear whether and how natural causes had been ruled out. In addition, the magician Albin Neumann (Allan), together with Herbert Schiff and Gert Gunther Kramer, found several clues in the law firm that the public had been deceived by tricks. Allan, Schiff and Kramer recorded this in their 1969 book Falsche Geister - Real Schwindler . They found nylon threads on various objects, including a pendulum lamp, a gas pipe and a wire frame of a "jumping" wall plate, which could cause the objects to move in a ghostly manner. Behind a cupboard they found a rubber baton with which one could produce the supposed ghost knocking by hitting the wall, which the housemaid confirmed. Previously suspicious black wall traces could also be reproduced with the rubber stick in this way. Attorney Adam, however, stated that he had the stick for self-defense. The electro-phenomena could have been caused by an X-ray machine in the same house at the time or by intentionally caused short circuits. Hot lightbulbs could have burst loudly by splashing them with certain liquids.

Adam's injunction against the publication of the book by Allan, Schiff, and Kramer was denied.

At Annemarie S.'s new job - contrary to Bender's claims - there were never any ghosts.

literature

  • Hans Bender: Our sixth sense. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 3-421-02228-3 , pp. 108-115.
  • Hans Bender: The Rosenheimer Spuk - a case of spontaneous psychokinesis. In: Journal for Parapsychology and Frontier Areas of Psychology. 11, 1968, ISSN  0028-3479 , pp. 104-112 online
  • Hans Bender: In: John Beloff (Ed.): New ways of parapsychology. Walter, Olten et al. 1980, ISBN 3-530-60710-X , pp. 175-199.
  • A. Karger, G. Zicha: Physical investigation of the haunted case in Rosenheim 1967. In: Journal for parapsychology and border areas of psychology. 11, 1968, ISSN  0028-3479 , pp. 113-131 online
  • Andreas Resch : The Rosenheim I, II and III case. In: Frontier Areas of Science. 16/17, 1967/68, ISSN  1021-8130 , pp. 241, 289 and 337.
  • Andreas Resch: The case of Rosenheim IV and V. In: Frontier areas of science. 18/19 1969/70, ISSN  1021-8130 , pp. 1 and 49.
  • Herbert Schäfer: Poltergeister and professors. About the state of parapsychology. Schäfer, Bremen 1994, ISBN 3-925730-18-4 .
  • Allan, H. Schiff, G. Kramer: False spirits - real swindlers. Ghost hunt through three centuries. Zsolnay, Vienna 1969.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Allan, H. Schiff, G. Kramer: Falsche Geister - Echte Schwindler , Zsolnay 1969.
  2. ↑ a b c Kendrick Frazier: Science Confronts the Paranormal . Prometheus Books, 1986, ISBN 978-1-61592-619-0 , pp. 35ff ..
  3. ↑ Unheimlich: In this Rosenheim residential building 50 years ago it was haunted at merkur.de
  4. ↑ Spuk von Rosenheim / Geisterjäger, please come , SPIEGEL ONLINE article from November 17, 2013
  5. ^ Herbert Schäfer: Poltergeister and Professors. About the state of parapsychology. 1994, p. 278.
  6. ↑ a b c d Alexander Adrion: Rosenheimer Spuk back in court - ghosts or nylon? , Time, April 10, 1970
  7. ↑ a b c d e f Hans Joachim Bogen: Magic without illusions , Aurum Verlag 1982

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