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Post by elisabeth on Apr 22, 2006 1:29:07 GMT -6
Diane, the writer you mention might be very interested in the article by Bill Rini in the last issue of The Crow's Nest -- if he hasn't seen it already. Recounts a very spooky experience.
DS raises a good question! It was in the couple of decades after LBH that spiritualism really took off, wasn't it? (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and all that.) It seems inconceivable that no relatives of those killed at LBH had a go at contacting them ... And given Custer's fame, he'd have made a great subject for any public displays of mediumship. I wonder if there's something out there in some newspaper archive? Or the archives of any spritualist magazine/society? It could be another seam to mine, if anyone knows where to look ...
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Post by dogsoldier on Apr 22, 2006 7:28:09 GMT -6
I would be interested in other experiences you have had, dogsoldier. One experience in particular, and one that I will never forget, involved driving to a location that the Ouija Board spelled out for myself and my girlfriend (at the time). We didn't know if the address actually existed but thought we'd go there since it wasn't too far away if it really did exist (this was before the days of the Internet when I could have looked it up on Yahoo or Mapquest). When we got there, we could not believe that the address was real (to the letter -- what are the odds of that?), but neither of us was willing to get out of the car and knock on the door (looking back, I almost wish we had). When we got back to her place and sat around the board, the first thing it spelled out was, "I saw you outside my window." This is not a joke -- this happened! My girlfriend got scared and didn't want to play anymore and I've not really touched the board since. Another time we were playing in my bedroom (I mean the game!) and got a spirit. We asked where the spirit was from and when he died and some other stuff. Then we asked for a phone number that we could call to verify. First off, the man used to live in New Mexico and I think he died in prison (if memory serves me right). He gave us a phone number that began 505. Now I am from the east coast and never called New Mexico and neither my girlfriend or myself knew the area code to New Mexico. But we called the operator, and sure enough, 505 is the New Mexico area code. I remember calling, but the number was no longer working. Imagine if someone had picked up the phone! I can't explain the things that happened. I only know that several unexplainable things occurred and that I am telling the truth. I still have the game, it is in my closet. It was actually a birthday gift to my sister when she was probably around 10 years old. The funniest answer the board gave us was this: The board had not been used in years but was in the closet in my family's home. When my girlfriend and I first started to use it, we asked the spirit where have you been all these years and it replied, "In the closet." No fooling. I would love to play this game with some fellow Little Big Horn junkies. It should most definitely be videotaped. Unfortunately, if the mix of people is not right, it just won't work.
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Post by Tricia on Apr 22, 2006 9:00:42 GMT -6
Diane, the writer you mention might be very interested in the article by Bill Rini in the last issue of The Crow's Nest -- if he hasn't seen it already. Recounts a very spooky experience. DS raises a good question! It was in the couple of decades after LBH that spiritualism really took off, wasn't it? (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and all that.) It seems inconceivable that no relatives of those killed at LBH had a go at contacting them ... And given Custer's fame, he'd have made a great subject for any public displays of mediumship. I wonder if there's something out there in some newspaper archive? Or the archives of any spritualist magazine/society? It could be another seam to mine, if anyone knows where to look ... Elisabeth-- I don't why this is running through my head, but I'm thinking Libbie dabbled in it ... after all, the entire subject had a bit of a parlour game aspect to it (which I'm thinking might have been helped by Queen Victoria interest in the matter--correct me if I'm wrong, E). Though this isn't necessarily spiritualism, but rather "pop" science of the day, I know she had GAC sent to a phrenologist during an early trip to NYC (might have been on their honeymoon). Regards, Leyton McLean
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Post by Diane Merkel on Apr 22, 2006 10:38:43 GMT -6
I love those stories, dogsoldier! Are you, by chance, going to the battlefield in June? I would most definitely like to give it a try.
Thanks for the tip, Elisabeth. I'm sure we have that Crow's Nest, and I will contact Bill Rini to see if he will speak with the author.
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Post by dogsoldier on Apr 22, 2006 18:00:36 GMT -6
I love those stories, dogsoldier! Are you, by chance, going to the battlefield in June? I would most definitely like to give it a try. Diane - Oh, how I wish I could go to the battlefield for the anniversary, but due to my wife's job in the school system, we just can't make it until she retires. Her school year ends several days after the 25th. Personally, if Johnny can't read by then, another few days ain't gonna matter, but that's not my call. I feel bad about not being able to attend these annual get togethers but it's outta my hands.
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Post by Diane Merkel on Apr 22, 2006 21:38:12 GMT -6
Too bad, but I understand. Perhaps I'll toss my Ouija Board in the back of my car as I leave for the battlefield. Leyton -- are you up for a seance?
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Post by markland on Apr 23, 2006 1:08:56 GMT -6
Diane, let's don't go there....
I still have rapid heart-beats over a nightmare in which I could actually see and feel an Indian grabbing my hair and .... well, I, not woke, more like launched out of the bed, so at that point so I don't exactly know how it would have ended but at the point I woke up, I was getting scalped.
It was scary and not many things this side of the IRS scare me.
Billy
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Post by alfuso on Apr 23, 2006 3:23:48 GMT -6
the scariest -- and most dangerous thing -- you can do with a ouija board is 1. ask it who it is and 2. take it to a a place of known "hard" death with no closure.
Good luck. But I wouldn't do it!
alfuso
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Post by Tricia on Apr 23, 2006 9:01:45 GMT -6
Too bad, but I understand. Perhaps I'll toss my Ouija Board in the back of my car as I leave for the battlefield. Leyton -- are you up for a seance? Diane-- Sounds pretty (okay, really) fun. I'm one of those die-hard "I don't believe in ghosts" people, though one episode of "Ghost Hunters" almost caused me to re-examine my opinion. But I'm open to being convinced to the contrary! Regards, Leyton McLean
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Post by Melani on May 7, 2006 4:01:31 GMT -6
There are a whole lot of ghost stories on the Friends of the Little Bighorn Battlefield website. If even some of them are true, it's got to be one of the most haunted places in the country. And some of them don't sound like very much fun, either. Ouija boards can be very weird and scary. I'm not sure exactly how they can be "dangerous," but I'm not questioning that possibility either.
In my personal belief system, people who have died and are still hanging around are generally confused, traumatized and unhappy, and really ought to be somewhere else...wherever "somewhere else" is. It sounds fascinating, but I agree that it's probably not a good idea. I would say a prayer for them.
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