‘Ghost’ was on tape.
A shop assistant who made world headlines 13 years ago in a famous ghost case has admitted that he faked manifestations of a spirit world by using a tape recorder. Heinrich Scholz, then a 14-year-old apprentice in a West German grocery shop, was acclaimed as a medium with accounts of how crockery smashed mysteriously to the ground when he was at work in the shop above. But now Scholz has revealed all to Bremen police, according to the city police chief. He hated his work and the discipline, so one day he made a tape recording as he smashed china in the cellar. He hid the machine there and returned upstairs to the shop. When the sounds of breaking china sent the shopowners scurrying down to the cellar, Scholz was busy at work on the floor above.
Wolverhampton Express and Star, 3rd May 1978.
This makes no sense – why didn’t they come running when he smashed the crockery in the first place? Maybe he loved work so much he came in really early. I can’t find any world headlines yet.