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The Occult Interests Of Earth’s Most Elderly Man
Mysterious Universe
This weekend, with the passing of the man recognized as the world’s oldest, friends, family, and admirers of the late Alexander Imich said farewell as the 111-year-old New York resident passed from this world.
And with little doubt, Imich believed that there was another life beyond this one: He was also the world’s oldest occultist.
Described as a “psychic researcher” by news outlets that include the New York Times, Imich had compiled and edited a collection of works pertaining to the supernatural in 1995 titled, “Incredible Tales of the Paranormal.” However, his academic history went much further back, which included his interest in the occult.
Imich was born in Poland in 1903. He attended university as a young man, following a brief period of service in the Polish Forces, and in 1929 Imich was awarded his Ph.D. in zoology from Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Three years later, Imich would publish his first academic paper on the occult, dealing with his research into a Polish medium known as Matylda, which appeared in the German publication Zeitschrift für Parapsychologie.
After struggling to find work in the field with his background in zoology, Imich switched his career interests and became a chemist, finding employment during the Second World War in the Soviet-occupied Białystok, where he lived with his wife, Wela. However, upon their refusal to accept Soviet citizenship, the couple were placed in a labor camp for a period. Following the war, and upon learning that the majority of their friends and relatives in Poland had not survived the Holocaust, the pair chose to emigrate to the United States in 1951.
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