While still a boy, he had his first psychic experience: “My father sent me to the store… It was already dusk. The porch of our little wooden house was in darkness. Suddenly on the steps there appeared a gigantic, dark figure clad in a white garment. From above came a voice that said, ‘My son! I am a messenger to you…to foretell your future! Go to school! Your prayers will please heaven!’ “

Later, he moved to Berlin, where he developed his psychic abilities. He developed a mind reading stage act that quickly drew attention throughout Europe.

Wolf Messing (1889 - 1974) was a stage magician and self-proclaimed psychic and clairvoyant. 

Wolf Messing was born in 1899 in Poland to a Jewish family. At the age of eleven, according to his own account, he ran away from home to Berlin, where, more by accident than by design, he joined the circus. He eventually became a stage magician, specialising in the variety of magic known as mentalism. In 1939 he fled Poland for the USSR.