The Quiet Twin by Dan Vyleta

Author:Dan Vyleta
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-02-03T23:00:00+00:00

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Rudi Schneider was eleven when he first manifested supernatural powers. The year was 1919: March. His sixteen-year-old brother, Willy, who had already begun to draw the attention of Schrenck-Notzing and like-minded researchers, was performing a seance in his father’s house in Braunau am Inn, the birthplace of Adolf Hitler. When in trance, Willy gave himself over to a ‘trance personality’ called Olga, whom some identified as Lola Montez, the Irish-born dancer and erstwhile mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. On this particular night Olga demanded Rudi’s presence. The parents, concerned for their child’s sleep, refused to wake him. When Rudi stepped out of his room a few minutes later – with tousled hair, no doubt, wearing a nightshirt handed down from his sibling – he was in a state of deep trance. From this day forward, Olga attached herself to the younger and more gifted Rudi. In a Munich facility purpose-equipped by the Baron von Schrenck-Notzing, he was subjected to one of the most intense and scientifically rigorous testing cycles ever developed for a spiritistic medium. Separate test series took place at the Institut für Radiumforschung der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Vienna and at the National Laboratories for Psychical Research in London through the 1920s and ’30s. Large numbers of interested laymen, including doctors, scientists, artists and professional stage magicians, were invited to attend the seances. The young medium was particularly adept at the telekinetic manipulation of objects and the manifestation of ‘teleplastic’ limbs that bore only a rudimentary resemblance to human arms and legs. In his spare time Rudi completed his apprenticeship as an engine mechanic. By the mid-1950s he was living in Meyer, Austria, working as a driving instructor and running his own driving school. He died in 1957, a young man of forty-nine.

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