Ouija Boards

No * Blondiescot* not a cynic, I think it’s natural to question ,

I'm disturbed by the number of people on here who are scared by ouija boards. Unfortunately, I don't have much advice to give to them except to learn about how these boards operate. The glass isn't guided by spirits, but by human hands, so ether somebody is deliberately guiding it (easy to get away with if the lights are turned down, which tends to happen when somebody suggests using one), or someone's tiny unconcious movements are spelling out stuff.
As for mediums and psychics, I shall add to my previous post that most of the mediums I encountered during my Spiritualist phase were decent people who genuinely thought they were helping. What they were actually doing was 'reading' people - making guesses from a person's appearence, voice etc. This, BTW is called 'cold reading'. There is 'warm' or 'hot' reading, when the psychic already knows things about the person. For example, many of these mediums I saw travelled regular ciruits from Spiritualist church to Spiritualist church, so would have encountered the same people again and again. Some mediums were evidently old friends of some audience members, greeting them afterwards and stopping to chat. So it was pretty obvious to me where they were getting their information from.
And these days, you don't even have to have met somebody to know a good deal about them - you just look at their Facebook page!

If you're planning to visit a psychic for a reading, my advice would be give a fake name, and record the whole reading; if the psychic says she can't work if you're recording, walk out.
My wholly non-psychic prediction is that if you listen to the recording a few weeks or months later, you'll realise that those accurate predictions you remembered weren't all that accurate, and that you gave the psychic far more information than you thought.

A creepy happening......I was walking down a usually busy street near my house when it all went quiet and there was a strange warm breeze . I saw a playing card face down and I knew it was red 6 of hearts.. I turned it over and indeed it was. It was very strange.

Can you explain this Grumpygran ?

Over coffee with a friend who was a medium she gave me a sealed envelope for my husband , who most certaintly didn’t believed in that sort of thing ! We were in a coffee shop not giving or having a reading,

The envelope contained a sketch , a road, a lay-by , car in lay by. We had no idea where this lay-by was, so many country roads here. She had written - I don’t know where this is , when you pass there act quickly .

About two weeks later my husband had to give evidence in a court 20 miles away, he and a fellow police officer started the drive to the court, bad accident had blocked the road, they took a route over a narrow mountain road, got to the court. After the proceedings my husband told the driver to go back over the narrow mountain road, something was niggling him. They came to a lay by, a car was parked there, it had been there when they drove past earlier in the day. They stopped, checked the car, climbed over a gate ( as in the sketch), in the field was a body in a sleeping bag, the poor man had taken an overdose, he was dead. My husband did say to me ‘ if I had checked that morning we may have saved him’. Where I live we have so many narrow country roads going over the mountains, many hill farms , vans, cars, tractors not unusual in lay bys by fields.

My friend had even drawn a tree to the left of the field gate.

Many country roads in Wales, many lay-bys, many trees by gates near lay-bys. Many cars parked in lay-bys...even in Surrey.

When something unusual happens it is very easy to then start to remember another occaision when something strange happened and recall that.
Toots experience may well be that of a rug moving as the pile on a rug "creeps" when you walk on it.
We have had that with our, rugs it moves on top of another particularly as one ends up getting pushed against the wall.
Sorry to disillusion you.

And many dead bodies in sleeping bags in fields

And many dead bodies in sleeping bags in fields

Your friend's envelope made no mention of a dead body though did it? Or even anyone in distress. If she'd been more specific maybe your husband would have stopped earlier in the day when he saw the car.

Your husband was a police officer in a rural area - any crimes/incidents would likely involve, fields, laybys, gates, trees, fields, etc.

But, Gettingitright, this rug creeps when no one has walked on it or been in the room with it! Or did I misunderstand?

My husband would have driven the usual route the A470 if it hadn’t been blocked, not a narrow road over the mountain

Fact, rugs creep about the floor. I had persian rugs that would be lying flat at bedtime and when I entered the room on a morning the rug would be climbing up a chair or table leg. This can be stopped with cat claws but I took the rugs up as they were a trip hazard.

Mine does, NFKD The day before yesterday I moved it to lie right next to the hearth. I have just looked and it is now an inch away from it. This carpet does that to any rug. No-one has walked on it. I went into the room to open and close the curtains but I could do that without crossing the rug. The south-facing windows let the sun shine in for most of the day.

Thank you, Harrigran I was beginning to think I was considered a bit loopy to believe that the rug had moved at all!

It's our spirit guide, the Persian called Rug!

He goes wherever he likes.