Johann Kraus is an accomplished scholar in occult lore and, since he no longer requires rest, works constantly. Where once he could speak with the dead, now he can grant them temporary physical form. His psychic abilities are greater than ever, due to his non-corporeal condition (similar to a musician's hearing improving after the loss of his eyesight). Kraus soon proved himself an invaluable member of the team. He just doesn't have a body anymore.'ДЄfter the loss of Hellboy, Kraus was tasked to replenish the Bureau's pool of 'enhanced talents'. Kate Corrigan had said of Kraus that, 'He's not dead. Eventually the technology was scaled down into a more specialized containment suit. At first, his ectoplasmic form was contained within a transparent tank apparatus originally developed by the B.P.R.D. His 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. 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 sГ©ance 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.

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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