An interesting article by Gerhard Mayer can be read here. It summarises the incidents, and highlights the media circus and the fact that the case was Solved after a teenage girl ‘confessed’. Hans Bender investigated.
It reached the UK papers:
Ghost faces prison…
The ghost that haunted Dr Kurt Bachseitz’s dental surgery in West Germany has turned out to be human and faces earthly justice which could run to three years in jail.
Regensburg public prosecutor Mr Elmar Fischar said yesterday several people had been involved in a practical joke using voice projection. The ghost, known as “Chopper”, scared patients by croaking disembodied comments from the dental spitoon, the wash-basin, the telephone, electrical sockets and the lavatory of the dental practice in Neutraubling.
Aberdeen Press and Journal, 5th March 1982.
How a practical joke by a ventriloquist would merit jail time I have no idea.