9/14/26
Newsletter went out yesterday. You can read it here.
Back at the Pennsylvania house this week, until Saturday, when I head to upstate New York to visit the kiddo at college (it’s Parent’s Weekend on the campus).
A new stray has made their presence known here. If I am able to in fact rescue this one, it will be cat number 39 that I have rescued and gotten adopted out to a home, so I have named this one Thirty-Nine. Have seen it three times now — twice before we left for the West Virginia house and then again this morning after we got home.
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Women In Horror Year: Day 123
Ouija Gone Wild by Rosemary Ellen Guiley (with Rick Fisher)
Good or evil?For more than a century, the Ouija has captivated millions of people curious about contacting the spirit world. Ouija messages have inspired writers, artists, and musicians. They have also played a part in murder, suicide, possession, tragic treasure hunting, marriage, divorce, and bizarre behavior. Rosemary Ellen Guiley and Rick Fisher have written the most comprehensive book on the Ouija to date, delving into decades of weird history. They debunk myths and confront the dark side of the board. Ouija Gone Wild features dozens of true stories collected over decades, many told in print for the first time, including tales of unexpected terror.
The author of more than 50 nonfiction books on the paranormal and the occult, Rosemary Ellen Guiley was also a frequent guest on Coast To Coast AM, and sat on the board of directors for the National Museum of Mysteries and Research. She passed from colon cancer in 2019. Her cowriter for this volume, Rick Fisher, is Central Pennsylvania’s preeminent paranormal investigator, and an expert on our local variation of ‘Bigfoot’ — the Albatwitch.
Exhaustively researched, and written in a very casual tone, Ouija Gone Wild is an extensive collection of supposed true encounters people have had while using the popular Ouija Board. While the book does indeed touch upon the history and origins of the device, the “meat” here are the stories themselves, each creepier than the last. The accounts themselves are gathered from a host of sources — first-person, interviews, folklore, newspaper archives, and more. Some are more fantastical than others. Some are easier to dismiss than others. All of them make for fun reading as we head into Halloween, and each chapter is short enough that you can spend a day or weeks delving into it, depending on your preference for such fare. My personal favorite is a chapter dealing with Ouija-connected Shadow People sightings.
Ouija Gone Wild is available in paperback and eBook from Visionary Living.
