Poltergeist. Spain

A mysterious voice sounded in the kitchen in the Spanish city, caused a riot in the streets and caused a police investigation. News about "house of Saragossa" appeared even in the Soviet press.

On the morning of September 27, 1934, the residents of the home on the street Gascon de Gotor in Zaragoza (Spain) was awakened by loud laughter. The astonished people began to look out of the Windows, and then went to the stairs, but nobody was there. Coming soon is unclear how the laughter died down. Since then, the tenants had heard in the morning, strange noises, but stopped paying attention to them.

One of the apartments of the second floor was occupied by Antonio Palazon with his wife and daughter. They have worked as a maid, 16-year-old Maria Pasquale. On the morning of 14 November, she complained to the hostess that the kitchen heard a male voice. Isabelle Palazon first didn't believe her, but the next day she heard a voice. When the servant slammed the door wood burning stoves, there came:

- Oh, it hurts, it hurts!

Isabel and Maria were invited to the kitchen of neighbors to check whether they're imagining it all. Neighbors heard an angry male voice coming from the chimney.

He was particularly interested in the servant girl, called her by name and laughed loudly. The chimney passed through eight apartments and went on a sloping roof where it is difficult to hide, and launch on it from the attic securely locked. Antonio went to the police. When police arrived, the voice was still clear.

The officer reached into the stove with the poker, trying to find the source of the sound. Suddenly there came a cry:

- You're a dick! That hurts!

Police searched the house from top to bottom, and then turned it off from electricity, suspecting that somewhere hidden radio transmitter. But the voice remained.

- You want money? - asked one of the policemen. - Maybe you need a job?

- No!

- What do you want, sir?

- I don't want. I'm not sir. I'm not even human!

After this short dialogue, the invisible silent. The next day, the police brought into the house of the architect, and several business tools. The house should be checked, but the secret room is not found. Workers cut off all antennas on the roof and dug a ditch around the perimeter of the house trying to find not reflected in the drawings of the wire. Then they opened the floor in the kitchen at Palatana. The voice politely and ironically released comments. When the architect was disposed to punch a hole in the chimney and measure its width, a voice said,

Don't bother, the size of the chimney - exactly 20 inches, and he was right.

While there was an inquiry about the house began to gather onlookers. The crowd blocked the street. The voice continued to broadcast. When someone turned off the light in the kitchen, he shouted:

- Turn on me the light! I can't see anything!

Taking advantage of the excitement, some students decided to make fun of onlookers and the police. They bribed the owner of the bar on the first floor of the house, and down the back stairs up to the attic. There they were dressed in sheets, picked up the flashlights and went out on the roof, pretending to ghosts. The crowd rushed to the house, there was a stampede. Police put positions both stairs to the attic, and jokers are trapped.

The draw has cost the members 50 pesetas fine. On 24 November, the authorities have gone on unprecedented measures. All the tenants were evicted, and the crowd in the street dispersed with batons. From all sides of the house cordoned off, dozens of police and volunteers, not allowing anyone closer than 30 meters. Inside includes doctors, psychologists and the priest, akropovic kitchen with Holy water. As if in retaliation, a voice began to speak even more. Relish mocking the scientists, the invisible man said that the present is not worth his attention. Silence. Two days later, the police Commissioner pérez de Soto declared at a press conference that the voice is no longer heard. Residents were allowed to return to their apartments. The respite proved to be temporary.

On the evening of 28 November, the voice came again. At this time, "brownie" was clearly not in the spirit:

- And here I am. Briefs. You are cowards. I will kill all of the inhabitants of this cursed house.

The threat was taken seriously. Two days before, when the Commissioner told journalists that the voice was silent, the spirits organized the session. In the house they were not allowed, and they settled in the neighborhood, trying to call the "spirit of the Gascon de Gotor". Medium Asuncion Alvarez went into a trance, but did not utter a single word and fell face down. Doctors, hastily summoned to the rescue, could only say the death of Ms. Alvarez.

Another reason for fear was made in the basement of a creepy picture. In the right corner of the passage etched something similar to a very ugly face peeking right out of the wall. Skeptics declared it a game of light and shadow. Spiritualists claimed that similar faces can be created from ectoplasm (a viscous substance arising from the body of the medium) during contact with the spirit world. Antonio Palazon decided that enough was enough and moved with his family from the city. The apartment was left frightened Maria. The police came to the conclusion that it has nothing to do with the accident - when it led away from the kitchen, the voice continued to speak from the oven.

In the discussion of the mysterious events on the street Gascon Gotor participated, and the Soviet press.

"We have invited the three investigators from Scotland Yard, wrote the newspaper "Soviet Siberia." - In the city gathered by reporters, cameramen and pilgrims from all countries. Barcelona's broadcasting station asked the owners permission to put in the kitchen microphone".

The mob became even tighter. On 30 November, the Governor of the province of Zaragoza, Mirelis Otero on the radio urged people to disperse, but his treatment caused the opposite effect. About the same responded to journalists on request nothing more to write about "the house" to bring down the passions. The Bishop of Barcelona, addressed the congregation with a sermon in which he spoke about the "end times" and wonders before the end of the world. Luis Fernando, the new attorney (the old one was fired for what made the riots), took matters into their own hands. On 3 December he issued a statement to the press. It said that the source of the voice was a maid, depicting it with "unconscious ventriloquism". Mary herself supposedly not aware that trewavasae, as falls into a trance.

- I personally saw what was the matter, said the Prosecutor. Our experiments clearly proved that "the voice" is a mental phenomenon that occurs only under certain conditions.

From a scientific point of view, this phenomenon is not of interest, as such cases are known in medical history. Because she can't control it, it will not be prosecuted. The doctors tried to argue, but they said that the main aim of medicine is to assist in restoring order. Psychiatrist Joaquin Gimeno Riera wrote in her diary:

"Given the way things are going, the best I could do is to consider the matter completed and to remain silent".

Everyone knew that the maid was simply framed: the voice sounded like her, and in her absence. When the house temporarily settled, the lack of girls did not stop "brownie" to bring researchers to distraction with their comments. Poor Mary was not arrested, but the threats and condemning the views of people forced her to leave the city. Because family Palazon refused to return the landlord terminated its lease.

In the empty apartment entered certain Grijalva Torre with his wife and children. Of course, he knew about the incident, but believed that the mystery of the "house" is revealed. However has not passed also several days as the voice rang out again. He didn't threaten anyone and entertained the many children Torre. Four-year Arturo made friends with the invisible man and talked to him for hours on end.

- "Brownie" loved to make and riddles - recalled Arturo Grijalva, as an adult. - One day his father asked, how many people live in the apartment, and brownie replied, "Thirteen." "You made a mistake, us the twelve,"- happy father. This house screamed, "Oh, you are thirteen!" When the father once all counted it turned out that the voice is right. The first time he forgot to count the newborn.

The police continued to secretly observe the apartment. Officers soon learned about an unusual friendship between a boy and an otherworldly entity. When they were brought into the kitchen the next device wanted to hear "brownie", the presence of Arturo invariably unleashed his tongue. In January 1935 the voice was silent forever. Zaragoza's citizens still remember about the events that shook the city. In 1977 on the site of the demolished house, where he heard the mysterious voice, built modern building. It received the official name of "Building a house".

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»