A board for contacting the dead, and a thread running through three hauntings in this archive. February 1897. At Ballechin House, investigators under the Society for Psychical Research tried one alongside hypnotism and crystal gazing. It gave names, Ishbel and Marget, and sent them to the glen at dusk. In 1949 the boy known as Roland Doe had learned it from his spiritualist aunt in St. Louis. Later his school desk moved like its plate. In Madrid, the family of Estefanía traced the Vallecas Poltergeist back to a session at school in 1992.
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