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Thanks for the AWESOME post!
Regarding demons and Ouija boards: I listened to a fascinating Coast to Coast AM podcast featuring an interview with Robert Schneck about his exploration of a modern urban legend called the "bye bye man".
Robert Schneck is a journalist but after hearing the story around a campfire, he decided to do some research and actually traced the origins of the story back decades to real people who insisted their paranormal experience was real.
The urban legend is so over-the-top that I thought it was just fun and I found it fascinating was how a modern urban legend can be created, one which almost certainly inspired Slender Man seems. What I really enjoyed was learning new lore about Ouija boards during the interview.
I won't spoil the story in case you want to enjoy it for yourself... (Coast to Coast AM, 30 May 2016 and is still available to torrent) and I sure you would love it just as much as I did, but the basic premise was about a group of skeptical friends (these are the people Robert Schneck tracked down and interviewed) who, over a period of many months, used the Ouija board to contact the "spirit of the board" and ask it some very taboo question about paranormal dangers.
Over time, the "spirit of the board" reluctantly explained that the Ouija board could be used to contact entities that were never human, yet existed within our physical plane of existence... so the group tried it... and the entity they contacted was made aware of who and where they were and it slowly started to travel across America... speaking through the Ouija board... until it found them.
The story had some parallels with the claims of Barbara McBeath from the Ghost Investigators Society about all of the EVP voices of children they have collected over the years. Art Bell once asked Barbara why there were so many spirits of children at abandoned prisons and mental asylums and Barbara, in her matter-of-fact style, explained that she's confident the voices of children aren't made by anything that has ever been human... I can't recall if this is that same interview, because Art Bell interviewed GIS members many times over the years, but here's a good link anyhoo.
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[–] guinness2 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Thanks for the AWESOME post!
Regarding demons and Ouija boards: I listened to a fascinating Coast to Coast AM podcast featuring an interview with Robert Schneck about his exploration of a modern urban legend called the "bye bye man".
Robert Schneck is a journalist but after hearing the story around a campfire, he decided to do some research and actually traced the origins of the story back decades to real people who insisted their paranormal experience was real.
The urban legend is so over-the-top that I thought it was just fun and I found it fascinating was how a modern urban legend can be created, one which almost certainly inspired Slender Man seems. What I really enjoyed was learning new lore about Ouija boards during the interview.
I won't spoil the story in case you want to enjoy it for yourself... (Coast to Coast AM, 30 May 2016 and is still available to torrent) and I sure you would love it just as much as I did, but the basic premise was about a group of skeptical friends (these are the people Robert Schneck tracked down and interviewed) who, over a period of many months, used the Ouija board to contact the "spirit of the board" and ask it some very taboo question about paranormal dangers.
Over time, the "spirit of the board" reluctantly explained that the Ouija board could be used to contact entities that were never human, yet existed within our physical plane of existence... so the group tried it... and the entity they contacted was made aware of who and where they were and it slowly started to travel across America... speaking through the Ouija board... until it found them.
The story had some parallels with the claims of Barbara McBeath from the Ghost Investigators Society about all of the EVP voices of children they have collected over the years. Art Bell once asked Barbara why there were so many spirits of children at abandoned prisons and mental asylums and Barbara, in her matter-of-fact style, explained that she's confident the voices of children aren't made by anything that has ever been human... I can't recall if this is that same interview, because Art Bell interviewed GIS members many times over the years, but here's a good link anyhoo.
Incidentally, Robert Schneck's research inspired a film of the same name in 2017 (I haven't seen it).
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[–] guinness2 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
If you PM me, I'd be more than happy to explain how you can torrent that show for free... and plenty of other great shows too.
Here's my list of The Best Art Bell Shows of All Time... all of which are mind-blowing classics that nobody should be deprived of experiencing!