The Nicklheim Case of 1968-69. Our most recent case occurred in Nicklheim, a small Bavarian village ten miles distant from Rosenheim. Over a period of four months a small family, comprised of a working-man, his
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Neudorf, Harzgerode, Germany (1952)
The Neudorf Case of 1952. This case occurred in the house of the mayor of Neudorf in Baden. We entered the case at the request of the Department of Public Health. I reported on this
Continue ReadingNeusatz, Germany (1951)
Three years after the Vachendorf Case, the Freiburg Institute was asked by a Catholic priest from the village of Neusatz in Baden to investigate a poltergeist case. An old mother lived with her 30-year-old, weak-minded
Continue ReadingVachendorf, Germany (1948)
The Vachendorf Case of 1948. In Vachendorf, a small mountain village in Bavaria, an old German couple, refugees from Bohemia, were poorly lodged with their 14-year-old daughter [sic] in one room of an old mansion
Continue ReadingPursruck, Germany (1970)
The Pursruck Case 1970-71. The changed attitude towards poltergeist phenomena became symptomatically manifest in the behaviour of the catholic priest, Rev. Jakob Wolfsteiner, who is in charge of the pastoral duties in the small village
Continue ReadingUlm, Germany (1870s)
Mysterious knocking and ringing continued for three years – the police baffled. The correspondent of the Revue Spirite relates, that at Ulm, in Bavaria, spirits have persistently disturbed the town by loud rapping on one
Continue ReadingGrosserlach, Germany (1916)
The apparition in Gross-Erlach (Wurttemberg), described in detail by Johannes Illig in his treatise “Der Spuk von Gross Erlach, Juni 1916” (Goppinger Tagblate, also Psychische Studien, Leipzig), began with untying of cattle-chains in a locked
Continue ReadingMaulbronn, Germany (1659)
From ‘Throwing of stones and other substances by spirits’ by William Howitt. … The disturbance of the monastery of Maulbronn took place in the year 1659-60. It began with the throwing of different things from
Continue ReadingBad Bergzabern, Germany (1850s)
[Another account is of] Phillipine Senger, the magnetic girl of Bergzabern, in the Pfalz, whom Hornung visited in the hospital at Frankenthal. Her story was published by Baron Du Potet in the Journal of Magnetism,
Continue ReadingGröben, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (1718)
In the parsonage of Groben, says Hennings in Geister und Geisterschern, p. 802, the inhabitants were much disturbed in 1718 by the throwing of stones upon the roofs of the house and the outbuildings. The
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