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Thanks for the link I've read about them when I was a child, was very fascinated, but have never seen one in real

I don't mind discussing it here, but it may take a while to un-fuzzy the memory (it was a long time ago) write the post.

Take as long s you want..

'pulls up chair and gets out notebook'

I just tried sending you an email anyway but it didn't work!

You can tell it here - I won't tellanybody else, I promise

Did it not? thats strange..just to check..its [email protected]

Serephina, I may have mentioned a little of this to you at the meet but I'm not sure.

B'Elana - OK, but only if you promise not to tell

Okay, here we go.

I was about 14 and with 3 friends. One of 'em (Mark) had an aunt who did a bit of palm/tea leaf reading etc and had shown him a little palm reading. Another (Richard) had had an older brother that died a few years earlier. The other friend with us was Simon.

A few weeks earlier Mark had looked at my Mum's hand and told us that there was half a line in the 'sprogs' bit (my terminology, not his) between the thumb and forefinger. This was when I found out my Mum miscarried what would have been my little brother when I was four. Bit of surprise.

Anyway, on this Saturday afternoon we'd been drinking a bit of cider down the beach, but were relatively together, and ended up going back to Richard's parents place (they were out for the day). After a few hours of doing whatever (predominantly) heterosexual 14 year old boys do on a Saturday afternoon (probably involving an Amstrad computer) somebody had the 'bright' idea of having a go with a ouija board.

We didn't really know what it consisted of so just whacked a bunch of letters from Richard's younger brother's toy box around the dining table, turned the light off, drew the curtains and sat round the table.

Actually, the more I think about this the *less* I want to think about it so I'll summarise:

We all touched the top of a glass in the middle, asked a few trivial questions and received a few rumblimgs from the glass which non of us took seriously. Then Richard asked how his little brother was (he was with Richard's parents at the time) and the glass shot over in my direction. The only one that knew about the miscarriage was Mark, and I was sitting to his side - if he'd pushed the glass that hard we'd have noticed. I'm told I went white as a sheet, knocked my chair over and lay on the floor shaking for 5 minutes.

I remember coming round and wondering what the fuss was, then *remembering* what the fuss was.

That is an abridged version - there were more odd things before the 'brother' thing (which was the biggie) but I don't want to go into too much detail as it does my bleedin' head in.

Needless to say I haven't touched a ouija board since.

And no, I'm not and never have been epileptic

- I'm intrigued Sounds quite spooky, though

It was bleedin' spooky, and feels a lot freakier than it looks (if you know what I mean).

Serephina - I've tried sending again from my Hotmail account, and haven't had it rejected yet.

Sounds spookly cool

Might see if i can watch those most haunted webcams tonight

for serephina

Why do you Brits keep all the good stuff to yourselves ? We don't have Dr.Who, or Blake's 7, or haunted somethings

here's a link to the website

http://mosthaunted.interoute.com

The webcams will come on later when the show starts at 9-ish (10-ish German time i think)

You mean I can watch some of it if only I stay up late enough ?

Laurie Anderson has intresting observation about "The Ouija Board"
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~jimmyd/laurie-anderson/lyrics/theuglyonewiththejewels1.html
jus search "The Ouija Board" on the page.

spooky roymondo! Though what strikes me is as your friend was asking about 'his' brother,you perhaps reacted stronger with the new that you wouldve had a brother fresh in your mind?
Supernatural things do happen..powerfulthings..but the mind is very powerful too!

maybe ill readyour tarot cards sometime for you! i wouldnt touch a ouija boardfor anything. i have done before though.
me n my friend Tol did onen her mumn dads living room years ago ,nothing happpened...but after that the stero never worked properly again n would switch itself on when not plugged in! she saw some 'things' too..that i wont go into..then there was the stuff moving in her room n the voices! i hard that more than once..like someone calling your name..you open the door n there no one there!

I need to wake up

pinches and shouts at 2legs!

I think I'll have to get an early night tonight

I think we've all heard that before...

so im guessing all went well then? report to the slapper thread (my ps) and give me all thhe goss now ..'poke'