In the fall of 1934, the Spanish public was agitated rumors about the appearance in one of the houses in the center of Zaragoza mysterious poltergeist. Learned about the event in government Spanish authorities, and the news of the mysterious voice from the chimney reached even foggy Albion. Case took an unprecedented scope, police and court were involved in the whirlpool of events organs, mysterious people with a military bearing and psychoanalysts. Parapsychologists were denied access to the scene. Tens of thousands the Spaniards, with bated breath, followed the news from Zaragoza. After for a while the mysterious voice disappeared as suddenly as appeared. From laughter to the word So it is tempting to begin the story words: “In this black-black city there is a black-black house. In this black-black house has a black-black kitchen … “. But so a children’s horror story begins, and what happened in Zaragoza is 70 years old back – a real story. Recorded by all the rules, filed in a thick case and kept in the judicial and police archives. At dawn on September 27, 1934, residents of the first and second floor of one of the houses of modern construction on the street Gascon de Gotor was awakened by thunderous laughter of laughter, coming from unclear where. Amazed people running out on the landings, nobody was found, and after a few minutes the devilish laughter subsided. Over the next few days the joker who scared everyone was in the center of the neighbor’s discussions, however, to strange sounds and noises that are from that memorable day began to be heard in the building closer to the morning, not much attention drew. Residents will remember about these sounds only a month later, when a restless voice finally decides to perplex the people in earnest. That the house on the Gascon de Gotor street 
Photos from open sources On the second floor, in the apartment, located on the right hand lived Antonio Palason with his wife Isabel, a young daughter and a young servant. Early morning of November 15 16-year-old servant of Pasqual Alcober, ran to his mistress with a message that a plaintive male voice is heard in the kitchen. Isabel, of course, did not believe her. However the next day, when Pascual closed the stove, Isabel, who went into the kitchen, heard with my own ears, as a hollow male voice cried out: “Ay, it hurts, it hurts, Mary, come here! “. Frightened women ran out of apartments and turned to neighbors for help. Gathered in the kitchen the tenants of the house clearly heard the angry male voice coming from the chimney. Making sure that it’s not a joke, the team is friendly headed to the nearest police commissariat. From this moment, for the first time in the history of Spain, government authorities opened official investigation of the paranormal. Good laughs the one who laughs last With jokes and jokes police agents went to the indicated apartment. However soon they it was no laughing matter. When one of the cops started jailing in the stove With a poker, everyone shuddered when they heard a clear hoarse cry: “Ay-ah, you hurt me, goat !! “. And it began. The house was searched from below to the top, the police cut off the radio antennas on the roof and even dug up moat around the house in search of hidden wires. Plumbers and electricians thoroughly checked their estate. Arrived Architect provided agents with detailed floor plans. Urgently called masons who built the house. Builders checked all the cavities, rattled all the walls and floors. The voice continued to sound at times threatening the “inspectors”. I got the most to the architect. When he ordered the masons to break through part of the stove pipes, brownie menacingly promised that if the order would executed, then he will move to live in the apartment of the architect. Transforming Brownies into “Zaragoza Idol” Agents settled in the house for a week, but could not find material explanation of the phenomenon. Suspicions fell on the unfortunate handmaid: the girl was present at those moments when the voice stated About Me. So, she was the only culprit. Pascual accused in ventriloquism. Well-known psychiatrist, winner of a prestigious award Ramon-i-Cajal, Joaquin Jimeno Riera, upon learning of the allegations, stated that “there are mediums, usually women with unexplained abilities but before declaring a girl a medium, she should have been examined. “Meanwhile, the case was referred to court, an unusual case was reported in the newspapers, and near the building, for several days became famous throughout the country, had set up a picket with security. Crowds crowded at the main entrance curious townspeople thirsting to hear complaints with their own ears “the idol of Zaragoza.” Newspaper publications and broadcasts have turned “stove brownie” into the most popular character. Not without children’s pranks. A few students dressed in sheets and armed with lanterns, bribed the owner of a bar located on ground floor, and climbed the back stairs to the roof of the building, wishing scare haunted police agents. By the way, in the same way meticulous journalists also took advantage. Joke cost parents students at 50 pesetas fine. Journalists for breaking into the forbidden territory was scolded, but not fined. Publications in newspapers about this incident 
Photo from open sources In the evening of November 23, civil Governor Otero Mirelis qualified the case as a “violation” public order “and urged to finish it as soon as possible, otherwise, “the consequences will be very, very regrettable.” November 24 at the cordoned-off building appeared on-duty judge Pablo de Pablos in accompanied by forensic doctors. Judge with the landlord examined the house and interrogated the residents, and the doctors at the same time examined Pascual. By evening, the authorities left building, advising all residents and police to do the same. Only in the enchanted kitchen were two agents left, who testified that while the last people left room, a man’s voice was heard, sadly saying: “Goodbye, goodbye.” Thousands of onlookers who did not leave their observation posts opposite the main door, neither day nor night, with disappointment looked at the empty building. Monday 26 November, Police Commissioner Perez de Soto convened a press conference on which stated that from the moment the house was empty, that is, with on the evening of November 24th, the voice no longer spoke a word. On the same day a forensic report was published Pascals. Doctors who examined the handmaid claimed that by the girl has nothing to do with the phenomenon: “we did not find penchant for invention, neither for lies, nor for simulation. Impossible prove that Pascual is a medium or hysterical ventriloquist. In addition, when the girl was taken from the kitchen, a voice continued to talk from the stove. ” The news appeared on the pages of the foreign press. Journalists The The Times nicknamed the voice from the Gascon de Gother Street an “ironic brownie.” The publication of Londoners, with relish describing crowds in the center of Zaragoza near the building with a brownie, did not go unnoticed in the government of Spain. November 28 at the police commissariat, who investigated the incident, a phone rang. DGS Director – The Directorate General for Security demanded all information about strange incident. The case took a nasty turn. One of expert commissions in the house 
Photos from open sources As if having heard about this, in midnight a chimney voice reappeared. This time the brownie was obviously out of sorts. “I’m here again. Cowards. Cowards. I will kill everyone the inhabitants of this damned house, “he shouted irritably. The report was urgently telegraphed at DGS, and in the damn apartment Security agents were stationed. November 29th, police refused to let into the building the famous Aragonese soothsayer and clairvoyant Thomas Menes and the filming that accompanied him a group. Alas! Security fighters did not think about descendants. IN As a result, the only thing that we have at our disposal is yellowed pages of newspapers, photographs, police and judicial reports. And not a single movie inside the building. Growing international fame scared officials: the governor turned to newspapers asking stop writing about the incident. The Stove Brownie Case was transferred to higher authorities. Judge Pablo de Pablos succeeded District Judge Luis Fernando. New broom chalked in a new way: from 30 November, the authorities were silent. Journalists ended up in information vacuum, which, as you know, leads to rumors. They said that they brought back to the enchanted apartment for some reason, Pasqual claimed that the new judge and his team carried out some secret experiments in the kitchen. All free the space in front of the building was filled with a crowd craving for spectacles. The unknown oppressed and aroused at the same time, creating explosive situation. The authorities decided … Finally, on December 3, Luis Fernando issued a final sentence: “At first I wanted to hear a mysterious voice. Experiments clearly demonstrated that the voice is a psychic phenomenon, arising under certain conditions … so I hear a voice when I want to. In the kitchen of the apartment we were with the servant of the former tenants and two witnesses. A voice has been heard as many times as I wished … From a scientific point of view, the phenomenon can not be interesting … Such cases have occurred in the history of medicine … The case will be handed over to archive, because the responsible was not found. Mysterious phenomenon fully clarified. “That’s it. In fact, Luis Fernando blamed handmaid in “unconscious ventriloquism”, and since it is – “unconscious,” then the responsible is not found. It cannot be clearer. The governor spoke in the same spirit: “Everything is clear with the deed, and who does not I agree – just takes the wrong position, wanting to withdraw all from myself. “Guest psychiatrist Jimeno Riera heard for the first time voice December 3: “Finally, I heard a voice … considering how events are unfolding, the best I can do is to count the matter complete and keep silent … the position that I occupy in business, dangerous … “. One thing was clear, the political pressure exerted on investigators from the center turned the investigation into a farce. If the first forensic examination claimed that the 16-year-old the maid does not possess any extraordinary mental abilities or abnormalities, and police recorded that they heard a mysterious voice when a girl already left the apartment, why did the new judicial investigator bring her to the kitchen for experimentation? The girl continued to serve with Antonio Palazona in the new house, and no paranormal phenomena on a new place of residence has not been registered. Everything is very simple: the matter had to be hastily completed and cleaned up at all costs crowds of onlookers from the street. The switchman was needed, and Pascual approached this role is the best. If you declare that the maid is guilty, then as she moved, the crowd finally dispersed to their homes. And if you declare that the mystery remains unsolved, then street congestions and disturbances in public order may end unknown by what. Yes, still these British poke their nose with their comments, but ironic. Arturo is a friend of the brownie. So, officially the case was closed. In the apartment on the second floor the new tenants are the large Grichalba Torre family. December 1934 – January 1935 four-year-old Arturo truly became friends with invisible furnace interlocutor. Even decades later, Arturo worried, recalling his conversations with the brownie: “The only thing he did – he chatted nonstop and loved to guess riddles. One day my father asked him how many of us live in an apartment. Brownie replied: “13”. “You were mistaken, there are twelve of us,” the father rejoiced. On the that the brownie shouted: “And here it is, you 13, you 13!”. When father counted us, it turned out that, however, we were 13, just the first time he forgot to count the newborn. “Grichalba Torre with child 
Photo from open sources It seems that Arturo has become the only friend of the brownie, and when the police came to once again listen to the mysterious voice, the boy was always put in front of the stove. In January 1935, the stove house silenced forever. Witness of the first case from the X-Files of Spain Arturo Grichalba does not forget the time when the poltergeist kept in stress the whole country. Seventy years passed since the memorable fall-winter, turned Arturo into a living legend of the XX century. A reminder those unforgettable days in the place where once was a house with enchanted kitchen, now stands a modern building, proudly titled The Brownie Building (Edificio Duende). 
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