Has anyone ever preformed a real Scientific Experiment with Ouija Boards?

I'd be interested in hearing about it. As much as I love the stories that people on this board tell I don't trust them because most of the time they are "So and so told me this happened"

That my friends is the same way Urban Legends start. So has anyone conducted a real experiment with them? If so what was the result?

SORRY for the short reponse - they work,
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If you call scientific being under the influence with many other under the influence friends, then YES!

In high school I had a friend who had the pointer thing stuck to his fingers. He shook his hand and it would not come off for about 10 seconds. I suspected a joke but found no evidence of glue or anything! It was weird.

I'm personal online friends with the man who channeled the Cassiopaean Experiment:

The Wave Series

Judging from my talks with him, it seems legit enough.

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Still not a personal experience.

I wish I had the means to set up an experiment on my own but sadly I don't. Would anyone be interested in going out and buying a Ouija Board and using it alone in a closed off room. With a camera running?

I'd be interested in seeing the results. One of these days I plan on launching my own investigations. *Sigh*

It did not work in my experiments.
But, it does seem to "work", in that the plashet does seem to move on the board and answer questions.
I did thin experiment a few years back, and other people, and asked the board for the winning lottery numbers.
We did this a few times, and played the numbers, and it never won. We also used a deck of cards, and shuffled it, and asked what the top card was, and again, it did not answer correctly. So, either it did connect with spirits, and the spirits did not know, and did not tell us it did not know, or the movement of the plaschet was our own subconscious action, and did not know either. Either way, spirits can't seem to know lottery numbers, or read a downturned card.

I have medium tendencies so perhaps this is why it worked for me so well? I made one out of paper and a shot glass. I angered whatever I was talking to so much the glass flew across the table. Another time the planchette you put your fingers on flew across a room and stuck in the wall. I started playing alone and that was when things went too deep for me.I was dabbling in the occult a lot back in those days.

When I was in high school, a group of 20+ people got together and we did an experiment. The results were far beyond what we expected.

We came up with a series of questions and broke off into 2 groups in a friends basement. We had 2 ouija boards with a lit candle for each set up at opposite sides of said basement and separated the basement with a large sheet. One male and one female "controlling" each board. One person asking the questions and one person on each side recording the answers. Everyone else were silent observers.

The results surprised all of us. The answers were nearly exactly the same. They were only off by a few letters here and there. I wish I had the notes or that technology was what it is now so I had some kind of proof. Either way almost everyone was convinced by the experiment that it was real. Of coarse a few people refused to accept what we had all witnessed, but I've had other ouija board experiences that were just as freaky, so I believe.

Wasn't there some scientist or something that did an experiment like this a while back?

It was kind of creepy because the scientists created a ghost story, it wasn't even real, and when they channeled the spirit through the Ouija Board, it was speaking as if it were that exact (fake) spirit (that they made up).

I wish I could remember the name of it...

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The term was first used in a scientific paper discussing the means through which the Ouija board produced its results, by William Benjamin Carpenter in 1852, whence the alternative term Carpenter effect.[1] In the paper, Carpenter explained his theory that muscular movement can be independent of conscious desires or emotions.
Scientific tests by the English scientist Michael Faraday, the French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul, and the American psychologists William James and Ray Hyman have demonstrated that many phenomena attributed to spiritual or paranormal forces, or to mysterious "energies," are actually due to ideomotor action. Furthermore, these tests demonstrate that "honest, intelligent people can unconsciously engage in muscular activity that is consistent with their expectations".[2] They also show that suggestions that can guide behavior can be given by subtle clues (Hyman 1977).
Some alternative medicine practitioners claim they can use the ideomotor effect to communicate with a patient's unconsciousness using a system of physical signals (such as finger movements) for the unconscious mind to indicate "yes", "no" or "I'm not ready to know that consciously".
A simple experiment to demonstrate the Ideomotor effect is to allow a hand-held pendulum to hover over a sheet of paper. The paper has keywords such as YES, NO and MAYBE printed on it. Small movements in the hand, in response to questions, can cause the pendulum to move towards key words on the paper. This technique has been used for experiments in ESP, lie detection and ouija boards. The validity of these experiments has not been proven. This type of experiment was used by Kreskin[citation needed] and has also been used by illusionists such as Derren Brown to test the hypnotic suggestibility of audience volunteers that are called onto the stage.

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There they are, you can google away......