Skeptoid #591: Ouija Boards
Skeptoid
Brian Dunning
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2017
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Real effects far more interesting than spiritualism claims are behind these famous talking boards.
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| 0:00.0 | So there's nothing about Weegee boards that you don't already know. |
| 0:06.8 | It's a game and the little pointer moves around, and either you or your knucklehead friend |
| 0:11.1 | is moving it, either consciously or unconsciously via the idiomotor effect. |
| 0:16.7 | But what you may not have heard about is the controlled scientific testing that's been |
| 0:20.9 | done to gauge the accuracy of the Weegee boards answers to a certain question. |
| 0:26.0 | And it may be that we still have a mystery on our hands. |
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