The Rosenheim Poltergeist: 1967, a Law Office's Lights and Telephone

Rosenheim, Germany, late 1967, something strange happened in a law office.

First, the light tubes went out one by one, or light bulbs exploded for no apparent reason; new ones were replaced, but they still exploded; then the telephone, no one dialed, but a long string of records of calls to the time service appeared on the bill, too many to have been made by a person; then pictures on the wall turned by themselves, drawers slid out by themselves, some said a filing cabinet weighing dozens of kilograms moved its position by itself. The lawyers in the office called the power company to check the lines, but there was nothing wrong.

Later, police, engineers, and physicists also came. The physicist Hans Bender was a famous figure in Germany researching parapsychology; he observed the scene and believed these things were related to a nineteen-year-old young female clerk in the office—wherever she went, strange things happened; when she walked down the corridor, the lights above her head would sway.

She later left the office and changed jobs, and the strange things stopped.

This incident was reported in many newspapers at the time, and TV stations did specials on it. This kind of thing later came to be called a “poltergeist” in Europe, explained using the “energy” on a person.

However, critics say Bender's investigation was not rigorous; voltage fluctuations in the office itself could explain some things, some incidents could be explained by magic tricks, and most strange occurrences had no third-party video. The female clerk later said she herself had done nothing, and after changing jobs, she never encountered similar things again.

To this day, it is one of the most famous “poltergeist” cases in Europe, with no explanation accepted by everyone.

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