The Relic of Bir Hooker: How It All Started

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The Relic of Bir Hooker: How It All Started

In 1988, disco host Gregor Spörri travelled to Egypt to collect ideas for an ancient Egyptian-style club.

Gregor Spörri at the Giza Pyramids (1988). — Spörri at the Great Pyramids (Giza 1988)

Gregor Spörris Concept Study of an Old Egyptian-style Disco Club (1988)

But Spörri had something else in common: for a not harmless self-experiment, he let himself be locked one night alone in the Great Pyramid. For another daring experiment, he even climbed to the top of the fabled building at dawn.

A Guardian Includes Spörri in the Pyramid of Cheops (1988)

Gregor Spörri meditates during his overnight stay in the pyramid of Cheops in the Royal Chamber sarcophagus (1988). — Gregor Spörri stays in the pyramid of Cheops (1988)

Spörri climbs to the top of the pyramid of Cheops at dawn (1988)

GS photographed from the top of the pyramid of Cheops (1988)

How did the Swiss come up with this crazy idea in the first place? The trigger was two mysterious events. One is about Napoleon Bonaparte. After winning the Battle of the Pyramids in 1798, the French general single-handedly explored the Great Pyramid. When he left the building hours later, he seemed to have been quite distraught. His adjutant was very worried, but Napoleon refused to provide any information. It was not until many years later, in exile on Elba (1814-1815), that he revealed that he had received a bleak vision of his future in the pyramid. The second event concerns Paul Brunton. The English journalist spent a whole night alone in the Great Pyramid in the 1930s. In his book ‘Secret Egypt’, Brunton recounts eerie experiences, as well as how, after he had settled into the sarcophagus in the royal chamber, he had experienced an overwhelming initiation into the immortality of his soul. Are there any unknown forces at work in the Great Pyramid? The reports of the two men challenged Spörri to get to the bottom of the matter on the ground.

Napoleon Bonaparte after winning shaft at the pyramids (1798)

Journalist Paul Brunton at the Giza Pyramids (c. 1935)

Spunrri’s project did not go unnoticed and brought him together with a grave robber from Bir Hooker, who seemed to know more about the pyramid than most Egyptologists. At the end of the meeting, the old Arab allowed the Swiss to take a look at the family treasure, which included a grisly relic …

The tomb robber at the Great Pyramid. — Grave Robber at the Great Pyramid (1988)

GS by taxi on the way from Cairo to Bir Hooker (1988)

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