A life under hypnosis

2024-01-30T04:08:20.732Z

Highlights: A life under hypnosis. Julia K. was 17 years old when she began a double life. She is nervous, disoriented, her husband no longer recognizes her. She sees a doctor twice a week, who she says helps her a lot. A certain Frantz W. arouses the suspicions of investigators, but how can he prove his influence? For experts, it’s about finding the “keywords” to unlock this hypnosis, says Pierre Bellemare.

[ARCHIVE EUROPE 1 - The extraordinary stories of Pierre Bellemare] Julia K. was 17 years old when she began a double life. Everything changes on a train one day in 1927. Julia has been married for a month. That day, she joined her parents, farmers from the Heidelberg region in Germany. In the train cabin, a man speaks to her but she does not really see him. After this journey, Julia will never be in her normal state again. She is nervous, disoriented, her husband no longer recognizes her. She sees a doctor twice a week, who she says helps her a lot. For seven years, Julia will go to these consultations. However, his condition did not improve and the cost of these interviews put the couple in debt. Her husband wonders, he wants to meet this doctor. But when he follows her to the meeting, Julia is unable to remember where he lives. Not knowing what to do, her husband went to the police. Something strange has been happening all these years... When the experts talk to Julia, her speech is incoherent. The experts' conclusions are clear: Julia is in a deep hypnotic state. The young woman leads another existence, which she does not remember. She feels that a force is pushing her to commit “terrible things”. A certain Frantz W. arouses the suspicions of investigators, but how can he prove his influence? For experts, it’s about finding the “keywords” to unlock this hypnosis. Will they manage to save young Julia from the man who controls her mind? Pierre Bellemare tells this incredible story in this episode of the podcast “The extraordinary stories of Pierre Bellemare”, from the Europe 1 archives and produced by Europe 1 Studio.