2. The Ouija board also known as a spirit board or talking board, is a flat board marked
with the letters of the alphabet, the numbers 0-9, the words "yes", "no", "hello" and
"goodbye”. It uses a planchette, a small piece of wood with a hole in) or some times a
tumbler glass to indicate the spirit's message by spelling it out on the board during a
séance. Participants place their fingers on the planchette and it is moved about the
board to spell out words.
While Ouija believers feel the paranormal or supernatural is responsible for Ouija's
action, it is normally explained by unconscious movements of those controlling the
pointer, a psychophysiological phenomenon.
3. Six teenagers break into an abandoned building whilst drunk and decide to try out a
spirit board that one of the girls found in her attic. One boy takes the lead and claims
he knows how to use the board safely, the others drunkly agree to join in, although
none believe anything will happen, and let me him the lead. They set up the board
and one girl decides to film it on her phone to put up on YouTube.
Whilst doing the Ouija board the teenager get a spirit through who claims he can tell
them their future. He mentions the word ‘doctor’ and one of the teenagers mentions
that she’s always wanted to be a doctor. The Ouija board then spells out ‘help’ which
confuses the teenagers into thinking the spirit wants to help the girl be a doctor. It
spells out help once more and suddenly there’s a loud bang and the camera turns to a
plank of wood fallen from the ceiling between the group and the door. They start to
panic and ask the spirit what is happening. The spirit lands on the ‘goodbye’ and the
six are left to escape the building.
4. Cherry Knowle Psychiatric Hospital
• Victorian Building built in 1895 as The Sunderland County Lunatic Asylum
• Some areas within the Cherry Knowle site remain active and the hospital found itself at the centre of a media
scandal in 2002 when a 29 year old patient named Kevin Knowles was found dead in his room from
suffocation. An enquiry soon followed investigating the running of the hospital and 10 other death cases
within the hospital were re-investigated as a result. Sadly another patient, Paul Spence also met an untimely
death in the grounds only hours after having walked out of his ward. The reasons for his death even though
declared as accidental still remain unclear and shrouded in unanswered questions.
“Its no wonder that paranormal investigators and many locals
believe Cherry Knowle to be Britain's most haunted hospital.”.
5. “One never knows who or what is waiting behind those doors,
waiting for a chance to come into your life and your home to take
up permanent residence with you, watching you, touching you,
whispering in your ear when your not aware of their presence.
Once that door is open it can never be closed, once you have
crossed the line into their dimension.”
6. “The Ouija is a great mystery, and we do not claim to give exact
directions for its management, neither do we claim that at all
times and under all circumstances, it will work equally well, but
we do claim, that with reasonable patience and judgment it will
more than satisfy your greatest expectations.”
