Part 1
The
early days
For many years I visited mediums and clairvoyants. You may ask why I did
this? To put it in a nutshell, I was interested, and I wanted to find out if mediums really could speak to the
spirit world and I visited clairvoyants because
I wanted to know my future. Did it become a bit of an obsession? I think it
did!
From an early age, I was interested in
ghosts and other worldly things and would
go out of my way to watch or listen to any programme on the television or radio
devoted to this fascinating subject. I adored reading ghost stories, any book
or magazine that published a story about the world of the supernatural would
soon be in my eager hands. As a youngster,
I became addicted to the subject.
Other young
people of my time would be addicted to different television programmes, a pop
singer, or dance, or the latest fashion or hairstyle.
Not me, ok, so I knew what was happening in the world, but my obsession did not allow me to pursue different avenues. I
focused my world on the supernatural.
In fact, I saw my first ‘ghost’ when I was about 7 years of age. I was walking
back to school after lunch, head down looking at the floor when, for
some reason or other, I glanced up. Not far ahead of me, I saw a young
girl around my own age walking in the same direction. She was dressed in
a similar dress to the one I was wearing. I wondered who she was.
The street was deserted apart from the two of us. I tried walking faster
to catch her up, but the distance between us remained the same. Try as I
might, I couldn’t shorten the distance. It was strange to say the
least.
I watched her intently, determined I was going to catch her up. I
started to run and she promptly disappeared in front of my eyes.
I rubbed my eyes not believing that someone could disappear like that -
but she had. I knew I had seen a ghost; there was no other explanation.
This incident did not frighten me at all. Despite being young, or perhaps
because of it, I accepted that ghosts existed. My family would have
scoffed at me if I had told them, particularly my three brothers. So I
kept the ‘girl ghost sighting’ to myself. I never found out who she was,
but I have never forgotten her.
Over the years, my interest in ghosts deepened. I read everything I
could on the subject. At times, I must admit I questioned whether I had
actually seen a ghost and wondered if it had been my childish
imagination. Who knows? But it began a life-long interest that has never
diminished.
When I started
work, and later met my husband to be, I did not forget about my interest, but obviously, my focus shifted dramatically! A few
years later -I was married and had children by this time- I heard talk about
something called a Ouija Board. Apparently, this board enabled people to
contact the Spirit World. Of course, I just had to have one.
The day I bought
the board I organised a get together with a few friends so that we could try it out.
The board is self-explanatory. Instructions
and a planchette are provided. Two people place a finger on the planchette, ask the
question, ‘is anyone there,’ and if there
is the planchette will move swiftly across the board to the word yes.
We did not
receive a response at first, but after a while, the planchette
glided effortlessly to yes, no or to spell
out messages from the alphabet. It even gave dates.
At first, it was simply good fun. The trouble was its
thoughts, or maybe someone in the room began thinking somber thoughts, whatever, the board began leaving death messages.
Time to pack it away or throw it away.
The messages it
originally gave were written down, and
many of them were predictions that came true during the following few years.
After the
episode with the Ouija Board, I wondered if there was another way of contacting
the spirit world. Indeed there was! I found out that by writing the letters of
the alphabet down on paper and placing them in a semicircle, also adding yes
and no, a glass or any object that will slide over the surface where the
semicircle is answers to questions can be received.
I tried this
method, sometimes I must say that although
it did seem as if the glass was guided by some
other force the messages received were never as dramatic as we received
via the Ouija Board. It was very interesting though. Perhaps I should have pursued it more.
A
word of warning. At the time that Ouija Boards were popular, there was a lot of
controversy surrounding them. They were said to be dangerous, in particular to
the children. Despite being marketed as a game. Personally,
I do not think youngsters should use them.
Photograph
below of the Ouija Board
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