From January 22 to March 30, 1722, a supremely unusual mischievous spirit lived in the home of the peasant Hans Joachim Dunkelmann from the village of Sandfeld in eastern Germany.
Many household items jumped, bounced, toppled, fell, turned over and flew as if alive. Some flew smoothly through the air and even went around corners. Things inexplicably disappeared from the chest of drawers, while someone was sitting on it, and ended up in the middle of the room.
Once Frau Dunkelmann heard an unknown voice say: "Your health!" - and a beer mug full of human excrement was immediately thrown into the house.
And once in an empty room, one after another, and before the eyes of eyewitnesses, a variety of objects appeared, as it turned out a little later, necessary for a picnic: a self-assembled tablecloth spread on the floor, there were dishes with food on it, and from clothes the figures of two participants in an outlandish feast were formed. Witnesses said it was an unforgettable sight!
Not without ghosts, which only children saw. Children were often questioned separately, following fresh traces, but they gave similar testimony. The Dunkelman couple had five children, and what they saw became more and more grotesque. On February 12, 1722, an invasion of mysterious cats began in and around the house, and the ghost of a dog with short ears was also seen.
On February 20, the children met a ghost of a large yellow dog with a huge ugly head, eyes the size of a plate, with a cow's face and on three legs. This terrible creature, according to the children, brought several oversized barrels and placed them in front of the doors from inside the room. The adults did not see the "dog", but because of the barrels, they could not immediately enter the room to save the children from this horror.
On February 21, the children saw a ghost of a child in the garden and, following the advice of their mother, began to call various names. The phantom responded to the name of Eleanor and asked for an apron, which was done. He tore it into four pieces and gave it to the children so that their mother could make kerchiefs and a hat from those pieces …
On March 5, the couple's three-year-old child was found lying face down on the table, almost strangled to death. He said a little white girl had done it to him.
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On March 10, the same child rose into the air several times in front of his parents. Other children sometimes simply disappeared, but soon reappeared in the same place where they disappeared. Once, in front of the mother's eyes, a son standing next to her disappeared, but soon appeared in the same place.
All the disappearing children told that they had been underground, where they met small people who offered them to live with them for money; when the children refused, they were sent back. Is it because of such incidents that the stories of the fairy-kidnappers went?
And "Eleanor", who declared herself an angel, instructed the children how to drive out evil spirits. Following her advice, the parents hunted these invisible creatures throughout the house, piercing them with pitchforks.
Judging by the fact that on March 31, 1722, the house became calm, this method of fighting evil spirits should have been adopted.
