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797: Ouija Boards | Skeptical Sunday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Is Your Ouija Board Really Moving?
If you've ever used a Ouija board and the plan chat moved, but you swear it wasn't you, it doesn't mean the other person is lying. It's a response known as the idiomotor effect. In 1852, physician and psychologist William Benjamin Carpenter published a report explaining what he called automatic muscular movements that take place without the conscious will or the volition of the individual. The principle makes dowsing look like a real thing.
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