14. Even a Ghost Clock is Right Twice A Day + A Ouija Board in Daddyo's Haunted House | Two True Scary Stories

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AM E Can a clock hold secrets

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from beyond the veil?
And would you dare to use a

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Ouija board in a house you know
is haunted and that you have to

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sleep in every night?
Hi, it's me Madam Strangeways,

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back with some new true spooky
stories for you.

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And as always, solicited or not,
usually not.

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I share my thoughts and
observations after each spooky

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tale.
Now it's time for you to dim the

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lights, get cozy, and maybe even
get yourself a little snacky

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snack while I read you these
true strange stories here on

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Madam Strange Ways.
The Anniversary Clock by Tim I

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was 10 years old, watching TV
with my older sister, who was in

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her early 20s, who would often
babysit me while our mom was out

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of the house.
It was just another benign

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evening when a small anniversary
clock, a clock about 12 inches

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tall, all encased in glass with
the small brass fixture at the

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bottom, caught our attention.
The clock had been in our family

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for years, and as long as I
could remember, it never worked.

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The clock stayed on top of the
TV as more of a decorative piece

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than anything, as were a number
of other things as this was in

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the 80s where big boxy TV's took
up large spaces in the living

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room.
Anyway, my sister and I were

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watching TV when suddenly we
both noticed simultaneously that

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the hands on the clock started
moving, Slowly at first, but

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accelerating quickly until it
was hard to make out which hand

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was which.
After about a minute watching

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the hands spin, bringing the
clock back to life for the first

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time in decades, the hands came
to a jolting stop.

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My sister, being the brave adult
she was, examined the clock and

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found no batteries inside.
It wasn't plugged in or anything

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and both of us were totally
mystified at what we both

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experienced.
When our mother returned later

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that evening, we told her
everything and were met with

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some scepticism as one might
expect, not having seen it

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themselves.
The next day my mother received

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a phone call from a distant
relative.

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The call was to inform all of us
that our great aunt, one that

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had been really close with my
sister early in her childhood,

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had passed away the day before
after a short illness.

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Saddened by the news, we also
couldn't help but link the

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passing to the abnormal
experience the night before.

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We asked our mother what time
our aunt had passed the day

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before.
She said 5:30 AM we raced over

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to the clock where there, clear
as day, the hands stopped at

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exactly 530.
In another circumstantial twist

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of fate, 15 years later, I would
end up meeting my future wife on

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May 30th, 2005 or 530 and ended
up getting married on May 30th,

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2009 or 530.
Tim, thank you so much for

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giving me permission to read
this heartwarming story.

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Unexpectedly heartwarming and
odd and strange and possibly

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unexplainable.
I do think my grandparents had

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that exact same anniversary
clock, and I don't think it ever

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worked.
So what's up with that?

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But that would be so scary,
watching that happen while

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you're watching television, just
minding your own business.

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And then the hands are moving so
fast that you can't even tell

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which hand is which.
And there's no battery inside

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and it's not plugged in.
And that's crazy.

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That would be so scary.
And of course, you know, we see

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this as a common, as a common
thread between a lot of these

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stories is parents dismissing
what their children have seen.

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So I'm sorry that your mom
didn't believe you.

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But I'm sure after after y'all
learned about your great aunt's

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passing, I feel like she
probably came around.

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I wonder your sister who was
really close to your great aunt,

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I wonder if she felt more scared
or more comforted or like would

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be the case if that happened to
me, I would feel both.

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I would feel scared and
comforted.

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Come comfort scared scare.
It's not scared scare fruited.

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I just, I think it would be both
That'd be really scary.

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And you know, how else do you
explain that?

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I can see look, batteries,
batteries power things.

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Yes, you take the battery out of
something generally doesn't

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work.
That doesn't mean that there's

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not some, you know, juice left
in the thing.

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However, I'm imagining that that
clock has not have battery has

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not had batteries for quite some
time.

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So probably unlikely that there
was any clock juice left except

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for potentially some ghost juice
in the clock.

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Now it's a ghost clock.
Did you did one of y'all keep

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the clock?
Did the clock just stay there

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for forever and now you don't
know where it is?

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That's just so sweet to hear.
Also that 5:30 then also applies

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to meeting your wife.
Well, going on your first no

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meeting, meeting your wife and
then marrying your wife.

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Aw, that's so sweet.
Time is strange time.

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Time is really strange.
And I think typically, like I've

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said before on the show,
typically when you hear crazy

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stuff happening with time,
people do associate it with

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aliens.
I think in this case, aliens

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probably didn't have anything to
do with it at all because it

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wasn't lost time.
It was ghost time.

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The ghost of your late great,
great aunt, Late great great

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aunt, late great aunt would
imply he was an aunt.

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You got to do the double great
because you do the late, great,

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late great great aunt.
So thanks for sharing with me if

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anyone has any similar stories
about signs that their loved

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ones have have given them,
especially before you know that

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your loved one has passed.
I would love to hear those if

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you would be kind enough to
share them with me.

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Thank you.
Ouija board in Haunted Childhood

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Home by Daddio At the end of May
1987, while my parents were on

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vacation, I was taking care of
the haunted house I had lived in

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from 1979 till 1985.
By this time, the poltergeist

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activity had decreased to almost
nothing, but I was still scared

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to be in the house alone,
especially at night.

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I called a friend of mine and
asked him if he would mind

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staying there with me when he
could while my parents were

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gone.
I had told him quite a few

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stories about the activity in
that house and barn in the past,

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so I used the possibility of a
paranormal encounter to lure him

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into staying.
He, fortunately for him, had

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never experienced anything he
would consider paranormal

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before, but was still interested
and not skeptical, so he agreed

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to stay the night.
While I was waiting for him to

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arrive, my brother called to see
if I was going to be staying

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there that night so he could
hang out with his friends.

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I confirmed that I was and also
told him I was having my friend

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over to possibly have his first
paranormal experience.

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My brother thought that was a
good idea, so he decided to

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mention that to his friends to
see if they wanted to join for

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an experience of their own.
One of his friends had a Ouija

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board and thought that was a
great place to try it out so

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they agreed.
My brother arrived with his two

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friends 1st and we walked around
outside telling his friends

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about experiences we had there
and in the barn.

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One of his friends was a skeptic
so he wasn't believing anything

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me and my brother were talking
about.

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The other was like my friend, he
hadn't experienced anything in

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his life but still had an open
mind.

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While we were talking, my friend
finally arrived so I went to his

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car to greet him.
He had his girlfriend with him,

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so I asked if he was still
planning on staying the night.

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He said yes as long as his
girlfriend could stay as well.

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I didn't mind as long as she was
aware of my reason for having

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him stay.
I told her that strange things

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may happen that night that might
be scary to someone who has

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never had those experiences
before.

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She was also a sceptic, so she
agreed to stay, saying nothing

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was going to happen anyway.
While my brother and his friends

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were still outside, I took my
friend and his girlfriend

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upstairs to show him where they
could sleep.

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After showing them, I started
telling stories about the house

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to prepare them for what could
possibly happen during the

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night.
The only thing I was expecting

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would happen was the attic door
would shake and make noise like

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it had done almost every night
while I was living there.

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We went into the attic so I
could show them what was in

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there while still talking about
past experiences in the house

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and barn.
There was a stack of old

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encyclopedias on the floor that
was in disarray with one on the

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floor.
I picked up the one from the

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floor and placed it on top of
the stack and then straightened

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up the stack while finishing my
stories of past experiences.

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Afterward, I went back
downstairs to see what my

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brother was doing.
My friend stayed upstairs with

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his girlfriend so they could be
alone.

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When I got downstairs, I saw
they had already set up the

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Ouija board on the table and
even had a few candles on the

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table around it.
The table was in the dining room

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at the bottom of the stairs.
I closed the stairway door and

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sat down in the empty chair in
front of me, facing away from

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the door.
My brother and his two friends

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were already sitting in the
other chairs.

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We lit the candles, put our
fingers on the planchette, and

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began asking questions.
The planchette was moving with

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all our hands on it, answering
our questions.

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I wasn't moving it, but I did
think someone in our group was.

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I didn't believe Ouija boards
were anything more than a

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novelty.
While playing with the board we

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heard someone walking on the
stairs which caused all four of

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us to look at the stairway door.
I didn't think anything of it

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since my friend and his
girlfriend were still upstairs.

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I just figured they were coming
down.

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But after a little time he
hadn't opened the door.

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So I opened the door and saw he
wasn't there.

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I then went up and asked him if
he had gone down the stairs and

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he told me that him and his
girlfriend hadn't moved from the

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couch they were sitting on.
He told me that he thought one

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of us was coming upstairs
because they heard it.

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Also, six people heard someone
walking on the stairs when there

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was no one on the stairs.
My brother's skeptical friend

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was getting really spooked.
After that, we had to convince

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him not to just leave.
His other friend was intrigued,

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like it was the coolest thing
he'd experienced up to that

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point.
My brother and I were used to

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that sort of thing, so it didn't
faze us at all.

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After convincing his friend to
stay, we went back to playing

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with the Ouija board.
It was answering questions

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again, and I still thought
somebody was moving the

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planchette.
Then the intrigued friend asked

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whatever was answering to put
out one of the candles.

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Within 5 seconds, one of the
candles just burned out.

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There was no moving air in the
room, plus all the other candles

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were still burning without any
motion indicating moving air.

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The spooked sceptical friend
screamed and started running for

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the door, still screaming.
The other friend followed him

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and my brother after that.
I shouldn't have been, but I was

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laughing at the guys reaction.
Even though it was spooky, I

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never expected a big guy like
him to scream like that.

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I went outside to find my
brother's friends getting into

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the car to leave.
I said we can't stop without

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saying goodbye on the Ouija
board just in case the

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superstition is true.
My brother's friends were not

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willing to go back in the house
though, so my brother and I went

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in and said the goodbye.
They left right after that

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without the Ouija board.
I went back inside and blew out

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the remaining candles.
Then I went upstairs to tell my

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friend and his girlfriend what
just happened, since I knew they

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had to have heard the screaming.
We sat upstairs talking until

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night time.
Nothing happened until after

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midnight when the attic door
began moving.

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Like I mentioned before, this
was a usual occurrence in that

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house, so I was used to it.
My friend's girlfriend was

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getting really scared by this
though.

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She didn't believe things like
this could happen, and here it

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was happening.
It took a bit of convincing to

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get her to stay, but she did.
At that point, the attic door

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was shaking and making noise the
whole time.

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After a bit of time there was a
loud noise that came from inside

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the attic that sounded like
something being dragged across

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the floor.
Then the sound of knocking from

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within.
Once again we had to talk his

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girlfriend into not leaving even
while the door rattling and

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knocking was still going on.
After a few minutes there was a

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loud thud that sounded like
someone had dropped a book

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flapped onto the wooden floor.
That was it for his girlfriend.

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There was no talking her into
staying now.

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She ran downstairs with us right
behind her.

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She told my friend she would be
back to pick him up in the

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morning and she left.
We went back inside and slept

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downstairs.
When we got up I just had to

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look in the attic to see where
that loud noise came from.

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When I looked in, the first
thing I noticed was the stack of

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encyclopedias was no longer
straightened up, and the one I

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picked up was right back on the
floor.

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I can't say for sure if any of
this was brought on by the Ouija

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board, but that was more
occurrences in one day witnessed

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by more people than there had
ever been in that house before.

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Daddy O thank you so much for
giving me permission to read

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this story.
I love all of your stories.

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There's something just so just
so chef's kiss about scary

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stories that happened in the
90's, the 80s, and then earlier.

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Something about the analog
nature of life back then and how

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it just those kind of ghost
stories are different.

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Those kinds of scary stories
just hit differently for me and

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I, I love them.
I love a modern story too.

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There's just, it's a new, it's a
different vibe.

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And I also happen to love Ouija
board stories or Ouija board

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stories.
I love them.

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They have always fascinated and
terrified me.

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So this was this exact it.
It lived up to everything I was

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expecting when I saw it was
about Ouija boards.

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So I cannot even begin to
imagine that I would have ever

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agreed to stay in that house.
So your friend's girlfriend who,

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who she held on for a while.
I'm going to give it to her.

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She held on for a while.
She held on longer than your

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brother's friends, which I mean,
I really can't blame them for

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running.
I do love how the skeptic is

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like, Oh no, I got to get out of
here.

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Like then it's the animated like
scooby-doo running sound like

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this is running in place trying
to get out quickly.

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I love that.
OK, the the attic door, just a

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daily occurrence that it's
rattling.

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I know you have told us about
the hauntings, the the activity

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in your house and the barn.
I know and everyone that's

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listening, please go back a few
episodes because Daddio has had

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a story and I think this is.
The 3rd or 4th episode he's had

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a story in.
So go back and listen to some of

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the crazy stuff that happened in
his house growing up and

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especially in the barn on the
property.

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But I know Daddio, that you have
talked about all the crazy stuff

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that happens and yet I don't
know how you lived with a

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rattling attic door every single
night, especially every night.

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That's crazy.
And then as soon as you were

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telling us about stacking the
the encyclopedias, as soon as

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you mentioned stacking them, I
was like, Oh no, what's going to

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happen with the encyclopedia?
It's going to fall on me really

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loud.
And then that did happen.

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Super scary.
So here's what I find especially

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interesting about Ouija boards
is when they first showed up in

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the late 19th century, which is
like 1890s, they were really,

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and it was a novelty.
It was just a fun game.

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Nobody, I mean, if they took it
seriously, they took it

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seriously through the lens of
spiritualism, which was around

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the mid 19th century.
So mid 1800s, that was, you had

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spiritualism, you had seances.
It was totally normal.

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Nobody thought it was from the
devil of the devil.

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Nobody thought it was demonic,
nobody thought it was satanic.

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I mean, even if you look at
there's an I Love Lucy episode,

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so it was like in the 50s,
there's an I Love, I Love Lucy

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episode where they have a
seance.

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I think there's even a Ouija
board.

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So it it wasn't satanic back
then.

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What made it satanic along with
a lot of other things.

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And this is a whole nother
conversation that I will happily

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delve into at a future date.
But what made us associate Ouija

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boards with demonic activity was
the movie The Exorcist 1973.

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And so if you haven't seen The
Exorcist, the main character, I

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don't know, is she the main
character, Reagan?

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She plays with a Ouija board in
the beginning of the movie, and

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she talks to who she says is a
person called Captain Howdy.

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And then from there she becomes
possessed.

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And then yadda, yadda, yadda,
split pea soup, spinning head,

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you know the drill.
So from that point, which was a

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really scary movie.
Like I still think it's scary,

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especially those like flashes of
that face in the darkness.

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It was especially terrifying to
me when I was younger.

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And I was not young.
I was not born yet when the

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movie came out, but I was a
teenager when I first saw it and

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it terrified me.
And I think it probably

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terrified a lot of other people.
And so that might be why we

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associate.
Maybe that's why it happened.

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It was so scary.
So The Exorcist comes out.

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We then associate Ouija boards
with evil entities.

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But prior to that it was just a
fun game.

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Like I don't.
I would be curious to know if

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anyone has stories from their
parents or their grandparents

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about playing with a Ouija board
and having an experience like we

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hear now.
Nowadays someone uses Ouija

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board or even mention a Ouija
board.

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Listen, get a group of people
together, just a random

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assortment of people, and ask
them if they would play Ouija

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board with you if you brought it
out.

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If you had a Ouija board, would
they touch it?

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And I guarantee you, you are
going to see visceral reactions.

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And people, even people who
aren't necessarily religious,

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even people who may call
themselves skeptics, they do not

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want to mess with a Ouija board.
They're terrified of it, and

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they probably can't really tell
you why.

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And of course you can't talk
about Ouija boards.

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Or at least I can't talk about
Ouija boards without talking

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about the idiomotor reflex,
which is what the scientific

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explanation is for how a Ouija
board works.

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So it's basically miniscule
unconscious movement that you

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are not even aware of, but you
are primed for it and your brain

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is expecting an answer.
And so it moves your muscles

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without really asking you.
You're not even aware of it.

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That's probably a terrible
explanation, but you know what?

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I'm not a scientist.
I am a Madam of the strangest of

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ways.
So we're going to just leave it

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there.
That's how it works.

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So you're not purposely moving
it.

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No one is purposely moving it.
Well, maybe your jerk friend is

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purposely moving it, but let's
say everybody's on the straight

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and narrow.
They are all saying they're not

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moving it.
No, they're not.

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And I read something about this
fascinating study that was done

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by researchers at the University
of British Columbia's Visual

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Cognition Lab.
So in a Ouija nutshell, what

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they did was they had
participants blindfolded playing

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the Ouija board with another
person.

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However, the other player was
working for the researchers and

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quickly and quietly the quote UN
quote other participant would

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take their fingers off the
planchette.

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So it was only the test
participants who were actually

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playing on the Ouija board.
There was no one else with their

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hand on the Ouija board.
And the people that were part of

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the test actually complained
that the other person was

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pushing the planchette too hard.
So clearly they really thought

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the other person was playing
Ouija with them.

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So OK, so here's that's not the
test, right?

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But that is actually terrifying
if you consider that actually

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there were spirits talking
through the board and that's

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what they were feeling pushing
on the planet shut.

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So that's scary.
So here's what happened in the

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research, though.
Here's what happened in the test

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was they asked them questions
that had answers that they could

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actually prove, you know, like
is the capital of Brazil, Rio de

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Janeiro.
And when the participants

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guessed verbally answers to
questions without the Ouija

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board, they got the answers
right about 50% of the time,

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which is what you would expect
in a guessing scenario.

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That's pretty standard, totally
normal.

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However, when they are asked the
questions, different questions,

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when they're asked different
questions and they're using the

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Ouija board to receive the
answers from some other plane of

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existence from beyond the veil,
let's say, suddenly their

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guesses are correct upwards of
65% of the time.

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That's an increase of 15%
accuracy purely because they

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believe that they are getting
the answer from somewhere else

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where the answer would be right
and where the spirit would

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actually have the correct
answer.

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Is that not just wild like, so
there's two, there's two ways to

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look at it. 1 is that, well,
they actually were communing

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with spirits using the Ouija
board, and these spirits just

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happened to be trivia pros.
And they did actually know what

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the capital cities of South
American countries are, which I

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would have to wager most
American ghosts probably don't

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know.
I mean, I'm just going to say

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they probably don't know, but
assuming that they do know or

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that spirits just have access to
trivia at their fingertips,

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maybe they can access the
Internet quickly.

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So maybe that's a possibility.
So that's one option is that

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actually they were commuting
with spirits who do just

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actually happen to know world
geography and or trivia or that

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we know more than we think we
do, but we just don't trust

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ourselves.
And we do put trust in the

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thought that something bigger
than us or something outside of

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us has more wisdom, carries more
weight is is more right.

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We don't trust ourselves, but we
do trust in some other some

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other capital O other trademark
symbol.

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We trust the capital O other
trademark symbol more than we

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trust ourselves.
So bringing this back, Daddy O

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to your Ouija experience.
I, I doubt we'll ever know what

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questions you asked because
having played Ouija board when I

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was a teenager, I don't remember
what the questions were.

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But the fact that when y'all
asked her to put a candle out,

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that the candle went out and
then you heard something on the

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stairs and the people upstairs
also heard something on the

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stairs and then no one was on
the stairs.

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I mean, that's not the idiomotor
effect.

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I don't know what that is
besides very scary.

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But very smart of you to
remember to go end the session

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and say goodbye, though,
considering the activity that

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you already had in that house
and in the barn.

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To me, whatever that Ouija board
might have woken up, to me, it

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would be like when you introduce
a fish into a tank of other

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fish.
And among those other fish are

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fish that eat the fish that you
just put in.

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So I think that I think the
spirits that were already in

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your house would have eaten.
They would have eaten the spirit

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that the Ouija board let in,
like for lunch, I mean.

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So maybe worst case scenario,
the spirits that were already

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there got some energy because
they they got a little demon

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snack.
Luckily, no demon snacks here.

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Thank you so much for joining me
for such a lovely spooky time.

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