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797: Ouija Boards | Skeptical Sunday

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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Ouija Board and the Idiomotor Effect

I bought a Ouija board several years ago to do the test on video for the podcast audience, but my daughter and I are both aware of the idiomotor effect. When you get gibberish or nonsense, people start trying to interpret what's going on. So we tried it last night. We actually pulled it out. We set it down. We said some stuff to spirits. And we ended up just sitting there staring at the planche at with nothing happening. That's why Penn Intellar blindfolded those people and got the result they did by flipping the board around. Those people were still doing it, but swearing up and down that they weren't moving it. And

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