That was some freaky shit. It felt like I was being controlled. It was me and 2 other friends. I was so freaked out, we had to turn the lights and t.v. on.
"Damn kids and their damn Ouija boards!" Did you summon a whaling spirit in your adventure?
Last edited by Cyrax-Sektor (2008-01-18 22:22:33)
Iunno, I never believed in this crap, but after doing it, it seems so real.Cyrax-Sektor wrote:
"Damn kids and their damn Ouija boards!" Did you summon a whaling spirit in your adventure?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideomotor_effectThaReaper wrote:
Iunno, I never believed in this crap, but after doing it, it seems so real.Cyrax-Sektor wrote:
"Damn kids and their damn Ouija boards!" Did you summon a whaling spirit in your adventure?
Wikipedia wrote:
Scientific explanation
People believe the motion of the planchette is explained by the ideomotor effect. A typical session with the board has two or more people touching the planchette with at least one hand each, so that no single person need apply much force in order for the group as a whole to cause it to move. Each person experiences the illusion that the planchette moves under its own power.
Skeptic and magician James Randi, in his book An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural, points out that when blindfolded, Ouija board operators are unable to produce intelligible messages.[7] Magicians Penn & Teller performed a similar demonstration in an episode of their cable television show Bullshit! in which the operators moved the planchette into what they thought was the positions of "yes" and "no" without knowing that the board was turned upside-down, which caused them to move the planchette into blank spaces on the board.