Kai Muegge

[[File:Kai Muegge.png|180px|thumb|right|Kai Muegge]]
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'''Kai Muegge''' or '''Kai Mügge''' {{lived|1968}} is a fraudulent [[German]] [[spiritualist]] [[medium]] and founder of the '''Felix Experimental Group''' (FEG). He is best known for producing fake apports and 
[[ectoplasm]]
 cobwebs during his [[séance]]s. 

Muegge has confessed to utilizing an LED device to perform trickery during his séances.<ref name="Braude 2016">Braude, Stephen E. (2016). [https://www.academia.edu/23486737/Follow-Up_Investigation_of_the_Felix_Circle? ''Follow-Up Investigation of the Felix Circle'']. ''Journal of Scientific Exploration'' 30 (1): 27-55.</ref>

==Background==
Muegge claims he experienced [[poltergeist]] phenomena at a friend's house when he was 11.<ref name= "Nahm 2014">Nahm, Michael. (2014). [https://web.archive.org/web/20171228003426/https://www.anomalistik.de/images/pdf/sdm/sdm-2014-08-nahm.pdf ''The Development and Phenomena of a Circle for Physical Mediumship'']. ''Journal of Scientific Exploration'' 28: 229-283.</ref> By the age of 15 he had founded his own séance group and experimented in table tilting. Muegge, acting as a medium, later formed the Felix Experimental Group (FEG) in 2005. The group is based in Hanau, [[Germany]].<ref name= "Nahm 2014"/>

Before his career as a fraudulent medium, Kai Mügge made short films with little success about the drug scene in Frankfurt, which he belonged to. Only in this way he could film undiscovered as an insider. 
[http://www.babylon-tv.de/200525.html Babylon TV]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4bAOwzsgUM Babylon TV in youtube]

Mügge was heavily drug addicted and is now Methadone-substituted. This is the reason why he 
does not have his driver's license anymore and doesn't drink alcohol: alcohol, combined with Methadone, will lead to respiratory paralysis. Because of his drug addiction, in combination with his massive abuse of painkillers, Mügge´s pretended condition of trance is abstruse.

==Apports and ectoplasm==
[[‪File:Braude seance.jpg‬|thumb|right|200px|[[Stephen E. Braude]] participating in a bogus table "levitation", at the Felix Circle.]]
Muegge is known for producing {{wpl|Apport (paranormal)|apports||}} (usually small gemstones) from his eye socket.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Simmg5zujw Facial Apports K.M. - RAW/UNCUT Version]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNIbzdelaLc Close Range Eye Apportation of Huge Healing Gemstones with the Felix Circle Medium Kai M.]</ref>

Muegge actually uploaded a video to [[YouTube]] demonstrating an eye apport trick.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9uiQ9TZLuU Eye Apports through German Medium Kai Mügge]</ref> Credulously, some spiritualists still believe his apports are evidence for paranormal activity.

He is also known to use [[Halloween]] spider web as ectoplasm during his séances.<ref name= "Nahm 2014"/><ref name= "Nahm 2016">Nahm, Michael. (2016). [https://web.archive.org/web/20171228015738/https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/30/jse_30_1_Nahm.pdf ''Further Comments about Kai Mügge’s Alleged Mediumship and Recent Developments'']. ''Journal of Scientific Exploration'' 30 (1): 56–62.</ref>

Many of Mügge´s freak shows take place at the [http://www.bpv.ch Basler Psi Verein] (BPV), a place well known for hosting fraudulent mediums. The price for one show is about 180 CHF and it is not clear how Mügge has handled this income, because he used to receive social security from the German government.{{cn}}

==Investigations==
Muegge has been described as a fraud by those in the [[parapsychology]] community. Researchers have suggested that all his séance phenomena can be produced naturally by trickery.

Peter Mulacz, Vice President of Austrian Society for Parapsychology who observed Muegge during séances in 2010 wrote:

{{quotebox|In Mügge's case, we have the fake cobwebs. Where there is conscious and deliberate fraud it is absurd to speculate whether some of the ostensible phenomena might perhaps be genuinely paranormal (although the desire of some disappointed observers ‘to save what can be saved’ is psychologically understandable) and it is a waste of resources — time as well as money — to continue investigations of such pseudo-mediums. From my observations, I conclude that Kai Mügge's 'physical mediumship' is a deliberate deception from beginning to end.<ref name="Mulacz 2015">Mulacz, Peter. (2015). [https://web.archive.org/web/20171228014102/http://parapsychologie.info/spr/Article_Paranormal_Review_74.pdf ''Fall of the House of Felix? An Investigation of the Mediumship of Kai Mügge and the Felix Circle'']. ''Paranormal Review'' 74: 16-22.</ref>}}

Parapsychologist Michael Nahm investigated Muegge's group in a total of 21 séance sittings. In 2014, Nahm published a paper in the ''[[Journal of Scientific Exploration]]'' which concluded "considerable parts of the phenomena were produced by fraudulent means."<ref name= "Nahm 2014"/> According to Nahm there is convincing evidence that Mügge had utilized a [[magician]]'s LED device to produce "spirit" lights, which he later confessed to.<ref name= "Nahm 2016"/> In 2016, parapsychologist [[Stephen E. Braude]] noted:

{{quotebox|For one thing, when Michael Nahm and I published our 2014 reports on the FEG (Braude 2014, Nahm 2014), we already knew that Kai had cheated on at least one occasion (not supervised by me), by using a light-emitting device similar to a magician's trick called the D'Lite Flight. That device employs a diode at the end of a very thin wire attached usually to the user’s thumb, which can make it appear as if  points of light are moving around in the vicinity of the magician. In 2011, regular Felix Circle investigator Jochen S. (pseudonym) took two series of  photographs, (remarkably, in retrospect) at Kai's request, from séances in Koblenz, Germany. From the start, the reddish lights shown on those photos looked suspicious to Jochen, and quite unlike the more convincing lights he'd seen at a distance from the medium. After Jochen shared the photos with Nahm in 2014, Nahm noticed that they revealed how the movement of Kai's thumb corresponded to the movement of these lights, just as they would if Kai had been using a device like the D’Lite Flight. Thereafter, Jochen also revealed to us that he had discovered a light-emitting device in Kai’s travel bag after one of the Koblenz séances. '''Furthermore, he told us that after he confronted Kai with the combined evidence of his finding in 2011 and Nahm’s discovery about the photos in 2014, Kai apologetically admitted to using the device and to having concealed it on the shelves behind his curtained "cabinet" during the séances in Koblenz.'''<ref name="Braude 2016"/>}}

There is another site of a former duped member of Mügge's felixcircle, which shows Mügge's fraudulent activities with the D’Lite Flight in action:
<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141209133740/http://last-exit-felixcircle.blogspot.de/ Mügge´s cheating in action]</ref>

==See also==
*[[Warren Caylor]]
*[[Gary Mannion]]

==External links==
*[http://felixcircle.blogspot.co.uk/ Felix Circle]

==References==
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