In the years of World War I and II, there was a man who harnessed the mysterious power of the human spirit, opening new research directions for what was once considered superstition.
Wolf Messing Grigorevich is one of the psychics, hypnotists with the ability to read people’s minds and prophesy. During World War II, he was well known by both Adolf Hitler and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
Wolf Messing was born on September 10, 1899 in the small town of Gora Kalwaria near Warsaw, Poland. As a child, Messing suffered from sleepwalking.
His parents had to put a basin of water next to the bed so that every time Messing sleepwalked, when he put his feet down, he would wake up.
Messing once asserted that his mental abilities began to develop at a very young age. When he was just a teenager, Messing performed magic tricks on the street. According to Messing, he can change the perception of others.
“It’s not brain intervention, it’s more like ‘muscle reading’. When people think a lot about something, brain cells send impulses to all the muscles in the body. Their movements are invisible to the naked eye, but I can easily feel them,” Messing said in an interview. “Normally, I perform mental manipulations without direct contact with the affected person. The signs I look at are their breathing, heart rate, tone of voice or gestures, attitude”.
The hypnotist Wolf Messing can read people’s minds. (Photo: Clipmass.com).
As a child, Messing’s parents wanted him to become a rabbi, so they sent Messing to a seminary, but he didn’t like it, so he tried to run away.
At the age of 11, Messing decided to jump ship to escape to Berlin, Germany. Messing vaguely realized his unique ability also on this train. Because there was no money, Messing had to escape the ticket. Despite hiding under a bench, Messing was still discovered by the ticket conductor.
At that time, for some reason, Messing gave him a piece of old newspaper to pretend to be a ticket. When the conductor saw the newspaper Messing handed him, he immediately shouted: “You are so weird, why do you have to hide when you have a ticket?” This is when Messing realizes that he really has a special ability . Messing can make people believe anything he says, just give the right suggestions.
Going to Berlin, Messing did not have a stable job, so he was often hungry. Once, starving, Messing fainted on the street. People thought Messing was dead, so they took him to the morgue. A medical student discovered that Messing was still alive, so he gave immediate medical attention.
When he woke up, Messing heard a voice saying that “this boy must be handed over to the police to be sent to an orphanage”. Messing’s pleas made the doctor surprised: “I didn’t say that, I just thought it through in my head.”
That doctor was the famous professor of neurology Abel at that time. Professor Abel was the first to recognize the rare mental power in Messing. He was amazed to see that Messing was able to read and manipulate the thoughts of others, executing precise mental commands. The professor also decided to teach Messing pain management skills .
Later, thanks to his natural ability, Messing joined a circus, touring everywhere. He performed acts such as finding hidden objects, reading people’s minds or making predictions. Messing quickly became famous.
Messing’s fame became more widely known after he agreed to let two prominent scientists of the time, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein, do experiments with him when Messing was only 16 years old.
As a first test, Freud asked Messing to do what he thought. Messing went to the bathroom and took out a pair of tweezers and pulled out three strands of Einstein’s mustache and whispered: “Freud wants me to.”
Surprise was evident on Freud’s face at that moment. The two scientists were confused and Einstein was puzzled why Freud wanted his three mustaches.
On a second attempt, Messing quietly handed Einstein a violin. The scientist accepted the piano and happily played a piece of music. Freud now had nothing to say, only clapping his hands in recognition because indeed, he thought of what Einstein had just done.
The human body also has mysteries that have yet to be discovered. (Picture taken from the internet).
After Hitler came to power in Germany, Messing returned to Poland and made one of his most famous prophecies: “If Hitler goes to war with the East, death awaits him” . The incident made Hitler angry, offering a reward of 200,000 marks (nearly 110,000 USD) for Wolf’s head.
The Nazi Gestapo forces then captured Messing while entering Poland. Once again, hypnosis saved him from death. According to legend, while incarcerated in the prison, Messing focused on hypnosis to control a guard to open the cell door. He quickly escaped to the Soviet Union in October 1939.
Hearing about Messing’s reputation for a long time, then Soviet leader Joseph Stalin sent a letter asking Messing to come to his residence to show off his rare skill. However, Stalin did not grant access to Messing because, according to him, if he was so talented, Messing must know how to bypass the security fence. Not letting the Soviet leadership down, Messing overcame the challenge with ease. Messing led the bodyguards to believe that he was the leader of the Soviet Union’s national security Beria.
Another time, to further test Messing’s mind control ability, Stalin asked him to carry out a bank robbery but must use his mental capacity, not use any papers or documents. . Messing went to the Moscow Gosbank, alone, unarmed, and returned with 100,000 rubles. Plainclothes spies were stationed both inside and outside the bank to witness.
“I walked up to the banker and handed him a blank sheet of paper torn from a notebook,” Messing said.
According to the Soviet agents, the elderly banker looked at the paper and then went to the safe, took out 100,000 rubles, and gave it to Messing, completely normal as if nothing happened. Messing stepped outside, waiting for Soviet agents to verify. They count the money then return it to the bank.
When Messing returned to the counter, the banker looked at the money in amazement, then at Messing and then at the blank sheet of paper. He fell to the ground from a heart attack.
In the following years, Messing continued to live in the Soviet Union. He spends time studying science, the spiritual aspect, telepathy. However, during this period Messing’s field of study was not focused, so many of the secrets of his method were no longer preserved. In 1974, Messing died.