The disturbing mystery of Angelique Cottin, the «electric girl»

This story begins on a January night in 1846.We are in La Perriere , a French population that at that time and in that season of the year, undoubtedly invited the gathering before a fire to perform work , to speak, to share some hot food and to have a cold winter night.

Our protagonist is Angelique Cottin , a girl of just over 14 years old who was with her friends knitting silk gloves.That was when that kind stillness, when that meeting between teenagers, surely in their conversations, dreams and laughter, was suddenly interrupted by a phenomenon that they could not understand and that, immediately, took their breath away.

The wheels began to work by themselves, without any hand guiding them.When they got out, they ran for adults and when they entered the room, they looked at the girls in disbelief. spinning wheels no longer moved .Now, at the time when Angelique Cottin returned to the room, all the wheels began to turn frantically and violently.It was her.There was something about that teenager who was driving the movement of the gadgets...

Today at Mysterious we invite you to learn about the curious case of the Angelique Cottin girl.

Angelique Cottin, the electric or poltergeist girl

With the naked eye and After reading these first brushstrokes, you will surely have a quick idea of what was really happening.We have those two clear foci that define a poltergeist phenomenon: adolescent and objects that move , are propelled or activated Alone.Science would say that the movement of the wheels could be due to electromagnetic fields, wind effects or, why not, to a human hand that wanted to play a joke on the young girls.

The disturbing mystery of Angelique Cottin, the «electric girl»

However, that was not the first incident in which various objects were moving alone before Angelique.His parents had already seen him days before and had shut up as expected, but when the spinning wheel incident was seen by the whole community so openly, they could not deny the obvious.The girl had "something", she was able to do things that others they could not even accept.The experts in parapsychology know that these types of events associated with adolescents are almost always signs of unconscious telekinesis derived from stress or emotional tension, but what happens when these events occurred in full XIX century? Obviously, the first thing they thought was that the girl, were possessed by some demon.

The parents could no longer hide the "qualities" of Angelique, they decided to go to the priest of La Perriere to subject her to an exorcism. Fortunately, the religious did not give way to such drastic practice, first asked to see in person what the girl was able to do, and then request a report doctor .The priest could see with his eyes the same thing that Parisian doctors like Dr.Tanchou saw.The objects approached the girl without her touching them, she could drag large-sized furniture just by looking at them.of sitting in a chair and crawling on it without any man being able to stop that movement. It was incredible.

The disturbing mystery of Angelique Cottin, the «electric girl»

The doctors re They recorded their pulsations, discovering that when the phenomena occurred, they reached up to 120 beats per minute and suffered seizures.Likewise, when they were many hours demonstrating their abilities and powers of telekinesis, the young woman was exhausted, and in 5 days she did not show any phenomena again.Personalities of the time such as Francois Arago, eminent doctor, astronomer, mathematician and politician, together with other specialists from different areas, reached the following conclusions:

The phenomena they happened at the end of the day.
Her abilities were inexplicably related to magnetism and elecricity.
The girl attracted small objects like leaves, through the static electricity.
When Angelique lifted her feet from the ground, her abilities lost strength and she was barely able to move any object.The same thing happened if they put her on surfaces with insulating characteristics.
The girl had the ability to dominate electromagnetism.
When she carried out her faculties and moved objects, the left part of her body acquired high temperatures.

The disturbing mystery of Angelique Cottin, the «electric girl»

The French doctors wanted to protect Angelique from the press and public opinion, but her parents, humble peasants, suddenly saw in her girl a opportunity to make money .So acting against the decision of the doctors, they decided to expose the girl at public events to make her powers known and thus, win d inero.

You could never know the origin of why those powers, the lucrative eagerness of the family separated Angelique from that context of care and research...Two somewhat selfish scenarios that perhaps, did not worry too much of the emotions and the opinion of the girl herself.However, on April 10 of that same year, the phenomena ceased .Forever.It was only a few months in which Angelique was the girl Weirder and at the same time, "powerful" in the world.Amazing!

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