Case file · Remote viewing & psi research
Wolf Messing
A Polish-born stage telepathist who fled to the USSR in 1939 and became a Soviet celebrity, about whom many legends grew.
1940 CE · 55.75, 37.62 · status: claim
The account
Stories that he impressed Stalin by walking out of the Kremlin, or by cashing a blank sheet of paper as a cheque, made him a symbol of Soviet psychic power.
The sceptical view
Most Stalin anecdotes come from a ghost-written memoir and lack corroboration. His act is consistent with mentalist techniques such as muscle reading.