Victims of the Ouija Board

Ban the Ouija board

By: R Roy Blake

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins

Publisher's summary

For at least two hundred years the Ouija board has been marketed by toy makers as a harmless children’s game. Unfortunately, multitudes of the boards’ users, their families, mental health professionals, religious leaders, police and others have found that the board is often far from harmless. The sensational case that inspired the movie, The Exorcist, is well-known. Less well known are hundreds of lesser known cases, including the case that caused the city of El Cerrito, California to outlaw Ouija boards, multitude murders, other violent acts, sudden onsets of often incurable mental illness, and strange encounters with the board that apparently only resulted in users being frightened. The Penn and Teller claim to have “debunked” the Ouija board is discussed in detail, and is found to be based on their atheism and the very likely flawed assumption that the human mind is the highest intelligence in the universe. The so-called “Philip Experiment” is also discussed in detail. Also discussed are the warnings of mental health professionals, who, even if they reject the supernatural explanation for the phenomenon related to the Ouija board, warn against its use pointing to its apparent contribution to mental illnesses including bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and the unique diagnosis of Ouija board onset psychosis, known as “mediumistic psychosis.”