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This post is something I have shared before but it defiantly deserves to be brought back up for spooky Thursday. I'm not going to say anything about this as the video here explains everything you need to know. It's a heavy subject so let's make it light on the reading. As light as the soul perhaps.
Is the soul a real and measurable thing? Does it really weigh 21 grams?
The Hamburger Lady video is meant to have been pulled from the deep web some time ago and has had a lot of speculation over where it comes from. If you are unsure on what the deep web is then this diagram should help make it clear. There are layers to the internet at different accessibility levels. The lower levels are the deep web and are not accessible on a normal browser. These are the Tor networks and you need the Tor browser to find them.
I have seen people saying that it's a cursed video, one of those "if you watch it you will die in three days" things. I have heard some say the story behind it was real and it was made by the orderly or the doctor or even the spirit of the Hamburger Lady herself.
The story is about a woman in a hospital suffering from major burns all over her body. The doctor has written a journal entry about her and the way her flesh looks like hamburger meat. He speaks of taking turns caring for her in her suffering and how an orderly was sick all over the floor from dealing with her.
I have had a dig around and I found a few things out about this video. It is creepy for sure, that we know, but what is the real story of it and was she a real person? Click below to watch my explanation video and see the original video taken from the deep web.
So as promised last week it's time to talk about theories on how the Ouija board works. This one is going to be short and really is more of a 'what do you think?' kind of deal. So the main options are:
It's a ghost moving the glass/planchette.
It's the spirit making the people move to their will.
It's the people moving it on purpose.
It's the people moving it without realising.
The first three don't really need any further explaining but that last one is talked about a lot as to where the information is coming from. If you ask something and the board gives a right reply then is it just you moving it subconsciously to what you want it to say even though you don't think you are? Sometimes the answer is correct and you think you don't know the answer so it could not have been you that moved it, but is that always true? Is it that you do know this information or is it in your head somewhere at the back and it again comes forward subconsciously? Or, links in with point two, did you genuinely not know and the spirit is putting the information in your mind so you will pass it on through the board?
These questions don't stop at just the board. They also apply to dowsing, automatic writing and table tipping to name just a few.
I am very on the fence with all this. I do see that some people force it and cheat results which is totally pointless and defeats the object of what you are doing. But do I believe that it is just human subconsciousness or actual spirit? I can't decide.
So which theory do you go with or do you have one of your own?
Elliot Rodger was from money and fame, being the son of Peter Rodger the film director. He was loved by his family, he had cash, nice expensive things, travelled the world and as if that wasn't enough he was also a pretty good looking cat. Unfortunately he suffered from some major malfunction in the mind department.
Elliot had some kind of problem with speaking to people, especially the ladies, and this led to him being very lonely. He craved for the life of those he saw around him and could not see a way that he might be able to have a slice of it. He blamed them for not letting him have a great life rather than seeing that he was preventing it himself. Other guys were all seen as being 'losers', 'brutes' and 'beasts' who were undeserving of beautiful girls and he found himself to be 'superior' in his money, car, clothing and intelligence. He blamed the girls for not wanting him and said he could not understand why they don't. From all accounts he didn't really talk to girls through shyness and when he did, they found him creepy. From the videos he left behind and his manifesto that is very easy to understand.
Elliot came across as a spoilt, ungrateful, misogynistic child with a hugely over inflated ego in his videos and I was shocked when I found out he was 22. I not only think he looks younger but the strange mind set seems like one of a frustrated teenage boy, which is reinforced by his over use of the phrase 'it's not fare'. He had been in therapy from a young age so it was pretty clear he had some kind of long standing mental issues but no one seemed to know the full extent of what he was capable of.
On May 23rd 2014, Elliot made a few last videos for his YouTube channel, emailed his manifesto titled "My Twisted World" to a few people and then set about his killing spree in Isla Vista, California. He stabbed three male students to death in his apartment, two who lived there with him as room mates and a third who was visiting them. He drove to a sorority house as planned in his final video but could not get in. He got back in his car and shot at three female students around the corner. Two of them died and the third was injured but survived. After this he went by a deli and fired in, killing another male student. He drove around and fired randomly at people on the street, hit people with the car and even ended up in a shoot out with police. Elliot was hit in the hip but drove on until he crashed his car. He then turned the gun on himself.
If you would like to read more in to his story and what happened then the wiki page is quite extensive. You can still view Elliot's YouTube channel but the final video has been removed, however here is a compilation of all his videos made on that day which includes he final one.
You can also read the manifesto here or listen to it read out in the video below. At first I thought it was a 10 minute video and then quickly realised it is actually 10 hours. It's a long read.
Bellow is a 20/20 documentary all about the incident, how his problems were missed and the aftermath.
The feelings on Ouija boards are like the feelings for Marmite, only it's less of a love/hate thing and more of a love/fear thing. I am not going to go through the full history and origin of the board, but if you are interested in reading about it then click here. I will just say it has been around since the mid to late 1800's and sprang up from the love of all things spiritual in that era. One unconfirmed story I really like is about the name Ouija which is said to have come from the board itself being asked what it should be called, it was then asked what Ouija meant and the board replied "good luck".
So why are so many people scared of the Ouija board? This is just my view on it but it seems to be mostly from stories and films, rumours and urban legend. The boards were around and widely used for such a long time with very few people having a problem with them. Then they were used in horror films as an obvious choice because they are very visual and can give accurate messages plus the added factor of the audience being able to do it at home with a home made board and very little know how. This was fuel for the fear and the urban legends got more graphic in people's minds because of the movies. When you hear about how someone did a Ouija board in real life and it said they would all die then the dog freaked out and the light bulbs all exploded, who did it happen to? That's right, a friend of a friend. You don't often find someone telling you this stuff first hand, and the excitement of telling a scary real life story naturally brings on over exaggeration and embellishment. Even if it doesn't it ends up with the Chinese whispers effect of altering each time it is told. So are the stories of Ouija boards greatly over exaggerated? Yes, I would say they are. Big time.
Ouija boards are just one of many ways to try and contact spirits, others including a seance, pendulums and calling out for sounds in return. It all boils down to the same thing. The only difference is what you are asking the spirit or energies to effect, a glass on a board or pendulum in your hand. The board is just the one that has a bad rap. Some people are also quite hesitant when it comes to a seance as they have been shown to be scary in films and stories too but what about the poor little pendulum? Or the dowsing rods? No one bats an eyelid at them because they are famous for finding water underground which is more interesting that scary.
So in conclusion I would say that you have no reason at all to be scared of the board and it can't be used to open portals or summon demons, it won't kill you or curse you. I know some people will still disagree and say they are to never be used for fear of death and destruction but honestly I have used them on investigations so many times I have lost count and you know what? I have never had a good, clear, straightforward message from one yet, never mind a curse placed on me and I am fine as are the rest of the crew.
There is another question about the boards though, a big one. How do they work? Sometimes they really do work and you manage to get correct answers from them, so how do you think this happens? Let's look at that one next week. For now, let us know what you think of the Ouija board. Are you scared of it? Do you have a good story? Let us know on the Haunted Britannia post comments.
