[rachMiel]

Cool! Spooky ... Thanks for sharing. :-)

I've had a few experiences that I can't explain in consensus reality terms ... at least not with any kind of certainty.

The most dramatic was with a ouija board.

Years ago I used to hang out with a young woman -- she was 16 at the time -- who claimed to have seen ghosts on a regular basis when she lived in England.

One day she made a makeshift ouija board: drew letters on a piece of paper, cut them out, arranged them on a glass table, used the plastic top of a container as a planchette. I asked if I could try ouija-ing with her. I asked several questions, of increasing obscurity ... and the answers were all correct.

Finally, as a test, I asked for the name of a friend from my childhood that I had forgotten, and closed my eyes (so I couldn't subconsciously lead the planchette to letters). The planchette moved a few times, then stopped. I opened my eyes and Vanessa told me the name it had spelled out. It was the name of a guy I used to be best friends with through junior high school, then had grown distant from in high school.

At this point I got kind of spooked, so we stopped. Vanessa was btw unimpressed. She expected results like this. In fact, she thought it was kind of dull because the planchette hadn't jumped around or moved on its own.

The next day we tried again, but this time the board gave very nasty and malicious answers to everything. So we stopped, both of us kind of spooked. I've never done ouija since then.