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\n“The State Supreme Court of Connecticut, on August 12, agreed with a lower court that it had been right in ruling against a will that would have awarded a $150,000 estate to a ‘ghost.'”<\/p>\n
\n“The State Supreme Court of Connecticut, on August 12, agreed with a lower court that it had been right in ruling against a will that would have awarded a $150,000 estate to a ‘ghost.'”<\/p>\n
That is from the beginning of a 1958 Parapsychology Foundation newsletter article titled: No $150,000 for “Ghost”<\/strong>. A woman named Mrs. Helen Dow Peck of Bethel, CT, had left most of her estate to John Gale Forbes, a name of a dead person that she had gotten from a Ouija Board. Her will stated that a thorough search must be made for Forbes and if he couldn’t be found the money was to be used to research telepathy instead. <\/p>\n What I haven’t found out yet is, after Forbes couldn’t be found did the money go to telepathy research? Oh wait, the article said that six nieces and three nephews contested the will on the grounds that Forbes was “the product of mental delusion,” and this was confirmed by the Supreme Court. I’m guessing that if the decision was made that the will written by someone who was incapacitated they weren’t bound to any of it? I have to say I agree with the court’s decision. I mean, even if she believed John Gale Forbes once lived, what was the point of leaving money to someone who was dead? It doesn’t make sense. <\/p>\n Ouija Boards kept coming up while I was doing my research and I was just fascinated by them. Mostly because so often the messages were malicious and the personalities coming through malignant and never mind the implications of that, people continued to consult them even when the whole experience was frightening and not at all helpful. Although I guess it’s not so surprising that people are drawn to what frightens them. <\/p>\n John Palmer published a very interesting survey he did of them: \u201cA Mail Survey of Ouija Board Users in North America,\u201d International Journal of Parapsychology, Volume 12, Number 2, 2001.<\/p>\n