The Wonders of the Ouija Board

In a dim, candlelit room, a group of curious teenage girls gather around a small wooden board, with their eyes wide open as a small, upside-down heart-shaped object slowly travels along the dark black printed letters. Their fingers lightly make contact with the object, yet it still moves as if another force is pushing it. With pounding hearts, the group watches messages sent across the board and a sense of mystery and amazement unfolds. They are bubbling with many questions. What’s making this mysterious board spell out words and phrases- the spirit world, or your subconscious mind? The ideomotor phenomenon holds well-developed history and studies, uses similar to the Ouija board, and many professional sources behind it. Overall, the quantity and quality of proof to support the science behind the boards is extremely sturdy and provides interesting theories, studies, and history.

The Ouija board is first publicized in the late 1800s, right in the midst of the spiritualist movement, when Ouija boards were just popular parlor games. The spiritualist movement was a time when personal seances and summoning the spirits became popular. This controversial board game was believed to be created by either Elijah Bond or Charles Kennard. Elijah Bond’s name was listed as the Inventor on the original patent documents., but it also may have been Charles Kennard because his Kennard Novelty Company would be responsible for this new mysterious “game”. The company named the creation Ouija, because he has claimed that the board told him that Ouija was Egyptian for “Good Luck”, although that is not true. Basically, the board contains a set of numbers, 0-9, all of the letters in the alphabet, “yes”, “no”, and “goodbye”. The planchette is the teardrop-s...

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...an, and Discovery {Channel}. There are absolutely no reliable sources that support the spiritual theory. Many include edited photos, videos, and faulty stories. In a simple overview, the theory that spirits control the board cannot be validly proved, and the idea of the ideomotor effect can be proven through studies, has reliable sources, and has many applications.

In conclusion, the Ouija board can be proved through science with the ideomotor effect. There aren’t spirits controlling the board, it’s you. Without even knowing it, you are the cause of the planchette giving you answers about you and the other players. Science is the reason the board moves. For a while now people have wanted to know the cause, so with this knowledge from a compilation of reliable data, there is a conclusion that you are the “spirits” supposedly controlling the mysterious board game.