The Ouija Board comes into play in this story – and in an odd way!
This story was referenced in an article in Psychology Today called the Sixth Sense and it undoubtedly outraged skeptics, lawyers and judges. It involves a jury and how a few of the members investigated the case on their own. We found it hilarious. After all, jurors are given strict guidelines, but apparently no one told these jurors that seances were off-limits.
In 1994, Stephen Young, an insurance broker, went on trial in England for the shootings of Harry and Nicola Fuller at their cottage in Wadhurst, East Sussex, in February of the previous year. Young was deeply in debt and the newlyweds had lots of cash stored in their house.
On the night of the first day of trial, several jurors had drinks together and afterwards four of them created a makeshift Ouija board and attempted to contact one of the victims. To their surprise, Harry Fuller joined their party and told them that Young was the murderer. “I was crying by this time, and the other ladies were upset as well,” one juror later commented. The next morning they reported their findings to the other jurors. When the judge found out about the Ouija session, he ordered a mistrial.
Young was retried later that year and found guilty, this time by evidence only from living witnesses.
I’ve often wondered why mediums and psychics aren’t legitimately consulted more often……I think of Alison Dubois in Phoenix.
As far as Ouija boards go, I agree with Math above. I tend to think strange spirits are attracted to the things, and don’t like the idea of children playing with them. I myself created a Ouija board with a group of girls when I was 17, and I remember the sense I had of a really menacing presence entering the room. Several of us felt it and pulled our fingers off the glass we were using………and the glass fell over and broke! So I haven’t played with one since.
Having had a very sinister, extremely damaging and destructive experience many years ago with a Ouija Board, and subsequently burning it outside in a huge bonfire and then “cleansing” our home in every possible way, I think they are dangerous. Whether the “messages” evolve from the subconscious of the people whose hands are on the planchette, or from discarnates, for me either/or is definitely not desirable.
I’ve witnessed cases where the message absolutely could NOT have come from the humans, unless the humans had major telepathic and telekinetic abilities. Nope. No Ouija for me. Good post though, guys.
How very strange! I am never sure how I feel about Ouija boards, but this one made me shiver!
Reminds me of the Cadaver Synod, a morbidly hilarious medieval episode in which a corpse was actually exhumed, put on trial, questioned, and pronounced guilty! 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod
Haven’t heard this story before – guess the Ouija board was right all along.