Ouija
Board Warning -
Don't Open The Door
To Strangers...
- By Bevy Jaegers <USPsiSquad@aol.com>
- 10-31-99
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http://www.rense.com/ufo5/unknown.htm
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- COMMUNICATING WITH THE UNKNOWN
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- The questions exist - Can mediumship or spirit
communication lead to 'possession'? Is automatic writing a dangerous
pursuit? Does danger exist 'out there'?
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- What is the controlling force behind such things as
the Ouija Board? Experts find it difficult to agree on answers to
these questions. Early researchers in psychology and psychiatry
refered to ouija-type devices and to spirit-writing with pencil or
planchette as a form of automatism.
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- Following the lead of noted 'psychic medium' Eileen
Garrett, modern research tends to regard 'guides' and so-called spirit
controls as secondary personalities, which lie deep within the
subconscious mind - only to surface when some form of parapsychic
'spirit' communication is attempted.
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- ACTUAL RESEARCH CASES
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- A 34 year old woman had been experimenting with
Ouija among other means of 'communicating' with the spirit world.
Under observation, she was seen to suddenly change from an awake to a
sleeplike state. Over her face, some sort of misty, unfocused field
seemed to appear, looking much like another person's face. It appeared
to be male. She later awakened and reported that she believed herself
to be in contact with a brother that had passed away some time before.
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- While at a meeting, a woman approached researchers
and told them that her husband, she thought, was going mad. He had
lost much weight and was always feeling ill. He also had played with a
Ouija type device. In speaking to him, he reported that during a
daughter's pajama-party some years before, they'd been playing with a
Ouija Board device, and had encountered some strange phenomena. The
'board' had told them to call the father and ask him to take control
of the planchette which spelled out the 'messages'. He had no
experience with the Ouija, nor any form of the mysterious at the time.
He took control reluctantly, to show the girls it was all a 'bunch of
hokum' and the 'board' provided a gaggle of information, none of which
could be checked out. After the party he continued off and on to play
with the board and one night it 'told' him he would not need it any
more, but he was to get a pencil and sheets of paper. With the pencil
and paper, he began doing 'automatic writing' and eventually he
produced reams of material, mostly high-sounding information and
messages that actually were meaningless. After several years of this,
he was 'told' by the pencil that he did not 'need' it anymore, but was
to just sit down and get sleepy, then he would hear the 'voices' of
'Bob and Steve' (father and son) his so-called communicators talking
to him. Before going any further, the researchers obtained a King
James Bible and read to the man a passage from 2nd letter of John
referring to a question to be asked of any 'spirit' to test them. The
passage was read aloud to the man twice. Following the Bible text,
which directed that the question "Who is Jesus, Christ" be
asked, the researcher was careful to read slowly the question and the
answer. Then the man was asked to prepare himself to 'listen' to Bob
and Steve, and to 'channel' their voices for the group. He sat in a
chair, became somewhat sleepy, and finally what sounded like another
voice was heard, greeting the researcher. It gave the name 'Bob'. He
was asked "Who is Jesus, Christ" and admitted after some
time that he did not know. He volunteered to go and get Steve, his
son, who he felt sure would know the answer. When 'Steve' was asked
the same question, he also had to admit that he did not know the
answer, and after some meaningless platitudes in his voice, the man
was awakened. The 'channeler' was amazed to hear that the so-called
'spirits' he'd been communicating with did not know the answer to the
question, and thus failed the test. He was advised to go home and
cease communicating with the voices or to do any other form of
'spirit' contact. Several weeks later, he returned to the home of the
researcher and reported that he was feeling very much better and that
he had regained ten pounds, plus he was able to sleep at night without
being bothered by any 'spirits'. His wife was ecstatic. The man
promised never to attempt any kind of communication again. _____
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- A married couple had been communicating with a
board, and were told to sell their home and move to Arizona. The board
insisted that they would be taken care of and would become rich. They
were retired and had no extra source of income. They had only a small
equity in their home. Following the 'direction' of the board, they
sold their home (at a loss) and moved to Arizona, where they promptly
found no property they could buy and within a very short time they
were penniless. Financially devastated. At this point, there was
little the research team could do for them. _____
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- The research team was contacted by several
individuals who belonged to the Church of the A......, in Northern
California, and were taking Courses from this Church. They were
somehow 'told' by the 'spirits' while there, that the researcher's son
was the reincarnation of St. John, and that their job was to guard and
honor him. (he was 8 at the time) Several weeks later, they appeared
again, along with a Counselor who'd flown in from that Church, who
communicated with her own 'sources' and verified that the child was
indeed the reincarnated St. John. Some months passed without incident,
but one morning, the researcher received a telephone call at six a.m.
from someone who identified themselves as God. 'God' commanded the
researcher to appear at her home, immediately. The researcher did not
want to go, but finally awakened her husband and took the child along
as 'God' had directed.
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- When they arrived, the woman who was 'channeling'
and believed that she was speaking for 'God' had completely lost her
mind. She had built an altar of some kind on top of the television
set. She was pacing, stiff as a board, back and forth around the room.
When she passed the 'altar' she would suddenly fall to her knees with
a resounding 'boom' on the bare wooden floor. In addition, she was
shouting some sort of commanding language. Her face was blank and
mindless, her skin ashen though she was normally a black person of
medium complexion. Her friend Carol, who shared the communal house was
watching her in distress.
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- Finally, after trying to talk to the woman and not
succeeding, it seemed impossible to get through to her.
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- At some point, she stopped shouting commands, and
said that she had just been told that the researcher's husband was the
Devil, and she was to kill him. She headed toward the man and boy with
mad eyes, hands raised like claws.
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- The researcher had to jump between them and,
shouting something remembered from the Bible herself, finally
succeeded in backing the woman against the wall long enough for the
man to grab his son, and go outside. Instructing Carol 'Call 911' the
researcher was somehow able to keep 'Sarah' flattened against the wall
until the ambulance arrived, and the EMF team was able to take
control. The woman was led away in handcuffs.
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- After a year or two, Carol was met on the street
downtown, and reported that her friend 'Sarah' had spent two years in
the hospital, and had now been released on medication. They were no
longer Members of that Church and had given up all attempts at
communicating with the Spirit World. ____
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- A woman contacted the researchers and explained that
she had visited a crystal ball reader who communicated with the 'other
side.' She gazed into the ball and told the woman she was under a bad
'spell' and that her deceased husband had been a crook - stealing
money from his clients. The money he had left his wife was 'tainted'
according to the 'spirits'. It must be cleansed. The cleansing method
was to take it to a specific graveyard (which had a high stone wall)
at midnight, and to bury it behind a certain headstone. The next day,
the woman could come back and retrieve her money, which would then be
'clean'. The older woman knew she could not climb that wall,
especially in the dark of night. It would not be physically possible
for her. The 'spirit communicator' then told her that she would be
happy to do that job for her client. All she had to do was to withdraw
the money, in cash, and bring it to the reader's home the following
evening at 8 pm. Following the spiritual advisor's advice, she
withdrew all her money - thousands in cash, and brought it, wrapped in
a white handkerchief as she'd been instructed by the 'spirits'. She
never saw the money again. ____
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- A woman in Meridian, Mississippi wrote to the
researcher after reading an article in a New York Publication, and
related that she had tried to use a ouija-type device, and was later
told that she should try automatic writing. She had continued to use
this mathod to contact 'the other side' and after some months had
found nothing of value coming from the writing. However, when she
attempted to quit, she would shake uncontrollably. If she would sit
down and begin writing automatically, or using the board, she could
keep herself from this shaking, which began in her hands and arms,
then her entire body. If she resisted, it would begin and continue
until she sat down. She was almost afraid to write the letter for help
as the shaking began while she was writing it. Finally, after some
commonsense counseling and several telephone calls, she was able to
stop both the 'spirit' communication and the shaking ceased forever.
She was free. _____
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- Another woman called from New York and had the same
thing happening to her. She did not know of the first woman. She
reported that she had contacted eight 'psychic readers' and all of
them had told her she was under some kind of 'evil spell'. The
researcher explained to her that there was no curse, and that she
could stop the whole thing through will power. The woman became angry,
as 'eight psychic readers' had verified the spirit curse. She insisted
that it had to be true. Several weeks later, she called, and said that
she had been thinking the whole thing over and had decided that the
researcher was right; and that common sense had 'cured' her problem.
She now believed that she'd met eight frauds and one real expert.
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- Late one night a call was received from the Dean of
Women at a northern College. It seemed that a 'dorm' party which
involved candles and 'spirit boards' had resulted in a panic amongst
the girls who lived there. They were heard in the background, shrill
screams and odd noises. After counseling the Dean that there was no
'spirit' reason for the commotion; but that the girls were
over-reacting (and may have been taking something other than apple
cider) the Dean should just turn on all the lights and wait it out.
The following day, she called and said that the idea had worked and no
further trouble had erupted. She had also gotten rid of the 'board'.
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- A Public School teacher had become so obsessed with
the use of the ouija-type board that she operated it entirely alone.
Her hands,on the planchette, moved at blinding speed, spelling out
letters so rapidly that even close observation could make little of
nothing of what was being spelled out at that speed. _____
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- A Roman Catholic Priest, on a radio talk show with a
member of the research team, reported that he had 'exorcised' a man
who'd turned into a leopard. The researcher asked him if the man
belonged to the Espiritu religion, and was told that indeed he was a
member of that group. It is a practice of this religion and others,
that those who are taking part in the celebrations and rituals often
are 'mounted' or 'possessed' by one of several 'spirits' - including
that of the leopard. The Priest had to admit that the man did not grow
fur, nor did he really turn into an actual animal. In this case, it
would be illogical for a Priest to use the Church Rite of Exorcism, as
the 'possessed' man was merely acting out a strong belief of his
religion. _____
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- A perfectly logical reporter for the St. Louis Post
Dispatch reported that he'd been assigned to do a series of articles
on "Psychic St. Louis" and had spent some time with a
totally normal-seeming woman who was convinced that she was somehow
communicating with The Virgin Mary on her 'spirit board'. She'd been
doing that for some years. He reported that she 'seemed sort of
weird'. _____
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- After the release of the movie 'The Exorcist' a
young man tried some 'spirit' communication of his own. He became
convinced that he was 'satan' and one night, he hid in the dark hall
of the apartment he shared with another young man. As the other young
man came home and walked down the hallway to hang up his coat, the
first man jumped onto his back and began to scream in an unknown
language. After fighting him off, the 'possessed' man calmed down so
that the other could call for help. The 'possessed' individual was
certain that he'd been 'claimed' by a spirit-tiger, whose picture had
hung in that hallway for some time, until it was taken down and
burned. Having lost touch with both men, it is not known what the
outcome might be. _____
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- The research team was called by a local Pastor and
asked to pay a visit to a house outside of town about thirty miles.
Some very strange things had been going on. When the team arrived,
they were told that the house had apparently become 'haunted'
Mysterious blood would appear on the woman's nightgown - a black spot
would appear on a wall in the bedroom - the family car would start up
its engine in the night and run down the driveway only to crash into a
neighbor's carport. (this had happened twice) There were many other
strange and frightening things going on there. The research team asked
if anyone there had been using some form of 'spirit' communication,
and were told that indeed, they'd been doing some of that 'just for
fun' and had commanded "spirits of the underworld - come
forth". After that time, the noises and disturbances had begun.
The couple were worried and frightened. They were afraid their two
small children would be harmed. During the following investigation, at
a time when the children were being cared for in another home, the
research team were interviewing the couple, in the living room, as to
events that had occurred. Within full view of the team, in an empty
kitchen, a washing machine turned itself on and began to fill, then
swish its blade. There was no timer, no possibility that anyone had
tried to play a trick. After a few minutes, one of the researchers had
an impression of a harmonica and asked if one was in the home. The man
vehemently denied that he owned a harmonica; although the wife
reminded him that they indeed did have one and that it was at that
time in a drawer in the kitchen. Getting up, she went to get it
although her husband was protesting loudly. She gave it to the
research team and while they were examining it, suddenly a very large
black shadowy field was seen to move down the hallway and into the
place between livingroom and kitchen. It was icy cold and very strange
in appearance. When the agitated husband saw this shadow, he began to
break down. Finally the story came out in bits and pieces. It seemed
that he'd been a member of a Special Forces group in Viet Nam. He'd
had an uncomfortably bad relationship with another soldier. The
soldier was African American. This man had used his harmonica to play
tunes such as "Old Black Joe" and 'Dixie', as he knew the
would aggravate the other soldier. Finally, one day, the African
American soldier said "One of these days, we're going to go out
on patrol - and only one of us will be coming back". Several days
later, the group did indeed go out on patrol, and only the man talking
to us came back. As he told this story, his face tightened and he was
pouring sweat, knowing that the shadow was still in the doorway.
Talking this over, we decided that the best course was for him to ask
forgiveness of the shadow. He kept insisting that he hadn't done
anything. But the shadow would not go away and the room became even
colder. Finally, the man got on his knees, crying and shaking, and
begged for forgiveness. As he did this, the shadow slowly dissipated
and was gone. Such a case cannot be explained fully, other than the
attempted contact with the 'spirit' board had opened some door that
should have remained closed. This could not be just the imagination of
the man involved, as the research team had seen too much to believe
that. Events such as the last episode are uncommon, naturally. There
have not been many over the thirty-odd years the research team
operated as a 'rescue' squad. Spirit boards, writing and other devices
to contact 'the other side' do not automatically result in reaching
their goal. More often, they seem to open a door into the hidden
depths of the mind of the person trying to communicate....where many
strange and frightening thoughts and memories may be contained.
Metaphysical experts have for years warned against such practices, and
agree that any form of trance may be dangerous. The practice of
'spirit' communication may indeed not lead to contact, nor to
'possession' - but certainly may lead to obsession! No form of
'protection' has been found to be helpful in averting such things from
happening.
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- Experimentation in the parapsychic is not
recommended. _____
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- Some of the above cases are related in the book
Ghost Hunting - Professional Haunted House Investigation By Beverly
Jaegers with Ray Jaegers
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- Originally published 1979 by Aries, Inc. Available
from Amazon.com or from:
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- Aries, Inc. Dept L, P.O.Box 29396 St. Louis, MO
63126
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- Comment
- From: Chris Poteet <chris_poteet@hotmail.com
- To <USPsiSquad@aol.com
- 11-2-99
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- I have a story to tell you. About 15 Years or so ago
my sister and some of her friends played with a ouija board game.
After an experience she had, she eventually had mental problems.
Things around the house kept getting worse and worse. My alcoholic
father went mental and had many episodes that were hard to explain.
Everything led up to a Fire in April of this year. My father was badly
burned. After many operations and treatments and prayers, He finally
is ok.
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- In July of this year at the house My sister was
helping me unload a lawnmower I jumped off the truck and the ramp came
loose
- and fell on me. I broke my leg. I have prayed and
prayed for my father and sister. Miraculously my father has since
stopped drinking and is joining church. My sister has made amends with
her husband and maybe our lives are back on track.
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- I can't help but believe that the Ouija Board caused
our
- home to be possessed. It may still be?? Just a
couple of weeks ago the
- furnace in dad's home blew up and smoked up the
entire house he told about the awful nightmares he has had.
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- Chris Poteet
- chris_poteet@hotmail.com
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