The famous German ghost hunter Walter von Lucado believes that the ghost is a trick of nature to keep people healthy. In Germany, there lives someone who is busy with the problems of evil spirits all year round, according to Sputnik Germany.
When the legend becomes reality
Dr. Walter von Lucadou is 71 years old and is the head of the Consulting Office for Parapsychology in Freiburg, Germany. Von Dukadu is famous for taking a scientific approach to the study of evil spirits. At the same time, he is a scientist with a doctorate in psychology and physics.
Everyone calls him a ghost hunter, but the scientist himself prefers the term "ghost researcher". He does not believe in magic and scary tales, he is engaged in science.
Ghost stories are told everywhere, and almost all of us know at least one - about a castle in which the spirit of the old count can never find peace; about the swamp, where ghosts rage every night; or how the soul of a young maiden, murdered in a villainous manner in the Middle Ages, returns every year on the night of the murder to the scene of the crime.
But Walter von Lucado knows that there are people with whom inexplicable, mysterious events occur - objects move as if they are being pushed by an invisible hand; in certain rooms, for no reason, people feel uncomfortable, etc.
Many of those who encounter such phenomena turn to the Consulting Office for Parapsychology in Freiburg, the only organization of its kind in Germany.
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No blaster, but with a diary
Dr. von Lucada takes eyewitness accounts seriously.
“Such events happen very often. It surprises me that traditional psychology does not attach any importance to them at all,”von Lucada complains in an interview with Sputnik.
He believes that it is the duty of any scientist to take these phenomena into account, especially since there are many such cases. Some of these Dr. von Lucado included in his book Ghosts Calling Me. But if you think that everything is happening like in the movie "Ghostbusters", where the client calls, says that he has got ghosts, and von Lucado and his team immediately jumps into a special "hunting" car and rushes to the challenge - then you are mistaken.
First, the scientist acts by elimination.
“If someone claims that strange events are taking place in his house, an inexplicable noise is heard, doors open by themselves, and objects fly through the air, then first you need to check for“natural”causes: perhaps there is a draft in the house, in the attic the marten started up, or the friends decided to joke,”explains the physicist.
Then he gives the assignment to the alleged victims of the ghosts - to keep a diary. For four weeks, eyewitnesses of ghosts record all unusual events, indicating the exact time and place. Dr. von Lucado then decides how to end this devilry.
Scientific background
Sputnik asked a ghost researcher what is hidden under the concept of "evil spirits" from a purely scientific point of view.
“A paranormal phenomenon can be compared to a psychosomatic reaction that occurs outside the human body,” the scientist believes.
It is known that if a person is constantly irritated at work, then he may develop a stomach ulcer. When a doctor asks what the problem is, the person often cannot explain himself what he is suffering from.
“There are various problems that lead to illness,” says von Lucado. Therefore, psychosomatic clinics are full of patients.
And there are people who do not receive bodily diseases as a reaction, but radiate disturbances of their mental equilibrium into the environment, explains von Lucada. In this way, unexplained phenomena arise. The scientist calls this process externalization. This is a positive process because these people are in good health.
“How exactly this happens is unknown, but the very essence of psychosomatic reactions is also unknown,” the scientist argues.
The power of love for a husband
Then he cites the following case as an example: a family bought the premises of an old tavern and wanted to "revive" it again. But an incomprehensible devilry began in the building. Beer casks were tipping over. A dog belonging to the family flatly refused to enter this building. And my friends had a child who began to scream heart-rendingly as soon as he was in this room. Then rumors spread around the area that people had once been killed there.
The family turned to a ghost hunter for advice.
After von Lucada ruled out all possible natural events, and the wife of the head of the family carefully kept a diary for four weeks, she suddenly called Lucada and said in a frightened voice: "You need to come urgently!" The lady said that she was in the kitchen alone, when suddenly the knife flew into the air and nearly cut her. The woman swore that in life she would no longer cross the threshold of this inn.
Von Lucado went to investigate the situation. He reassured the woman and asked her to tell in all the details what exactly happened. Hastily flipping through her diary, the scientist found out that such phenomena occurred only in the absence of her husband. Thus, the problem was solved - the lady unconsciously caused the paranormal with the help of externalization. She wanted her husband to always be by her side.