Realizing how ineffectual he was a spirit, he allowed the B.P.R.D. It taunted him by leaving a loaded gun on the table, challenging the ghost to shoot it. He changed his mind after failing to rescue a wayward soul from being devoured by a demon.

At first, Johann was conflicted, unsure whether to stay as a ghost or move on to the afterlife. Johann's ectoplasmic form having survived his body's incineration, and knowing he would soon dissipate without a physical body, Kraus sought the best paranormal minds on the planet for help: the B.P.R.D. Kate Corrigan had said of Kraus that, 'He's not dead. The shockwave conducted through the boy, then through Krauss, killing the entire Wagner family and destroying Johann Kraus's body. The spirit of a recently deceased Chinese boy reached through the etheric plane, asking Johann for help from the Chengdou disaster. At that time Kraus was hosting a séance in Heidelberg for the family of the late Heinrich Wagner. The thief unwittingly opened a small Jade figurine, releasing a massive burst of psychic energy, killing everyone within a hundred miles, and sending a shockwave across the etheric plane. In February 2002, in Chengdou, China, a warehouse containing occult artifacts seized by the Chinese government was broken into. She promptly rejected Kraus, disgusted that he as a living man would seek love among the dead. At one point, he fell in love with the deceased wife of one of his clients, growing desperate to invite him back just so he could manipulate the two into opening up their hearts and deepen the grief of loss to get them to move on from one another, all so he could just swoop in to confess to the woman. In 1971, Kraus opened a small office in Munich, where he established himself as a well-respected medium before relocating to the town of Heidelberg. He then taught himself to communicate with the dead, and eventually mastered the ability to send his own ectoplasmic form out of his body and into the etheric plane.

Ultimately he did not like the direction of the group and severed his ties with his mentor. Through Stiener, Kraus met many other spiritualists and was exposed to a variety of occult studies. Johann was frustrated that he could not communicate with the ghosts and this frustration eventually led to him studying spiritualism under an elderly German woman named Anneliese Stiener. He began to be aware of his psychic abilities when he was ten years old, when he started to see people that others could not and slowly realized that these were ghosts. Johann Kraus was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1946.

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