How does a Ouija board work?

How does a Ouija board work?

Chris French (Anomalistic Psychologist) gives expert video advice on: Can all paranormal phenomena be explained by science?; What sort of fakes and hoaxes have you come across?; How does a Ouija board work? and more...

You know lots of people believe in paranormal because they think they have a direct personal experience of it and well have common report you got for those people who use Ouija boards. Ouija boards essentially involve the people taking part put in hand on an upturn glass with letters in a circle around it and used the word yes or no and is claimed that you can talk to the spirits this way. So, if someone would ask a question and everyone rest a finger lightly on the glass, the upturn glass. And it is move across the table and spell out to answer the question that time the spirit will tell what they're talking to. Now, there is almost certainly a non-paranormal explanation for this and that's in terms of what we called the ideomotor effect. Well, that's how we deal the situation where, although, no one is consciously aware of the fact that they are pushing the glass, that is in fact what they are doing. You cannot detest this very easily because spirits that would maybe in the glass. Then try to get blindfolded where somebody wear a blindfold and will hold your hands but the people will actually put their finger on the glass and blindfolded and can't see whether it lasted there. I guarantee you that you can't get any sensible messages or whatsoever.