[rlmorel]

Was this some kind of mass hysteria among girls?

It is hard to believe it wasn’t some kind of drug induced thing, but if it isn’t, it says something bizarre about them.

I did read the article. Don’t judge them, it says. Well heck.

If it isn’t environmental, like some kind of exposure to a toxic substance, it might be drugs.

If it isn’t drugs, it might be some bizarre mass hysteria of girls.

If it isn’t some mass hysteria, it might be them staging or faking it.

No matter how you slice it, the only one that makes them look less than idiots is an environmental factor or someone slipping drugs into something they were unaware of.

But they made a point of the Ouija board. Okay, don’t judge them, but they focused on THAT? Really?

Granted, it was in Columbia, but that was just odd.

[BenLurkin]

If it isn’t some mass hysteria, it might be them staging or faking it.

My guess -- a combination of both.

[PGR88]

Something similar happened in NY State 10 years ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/magazine/teenage-girls-twitching-le-roy.html#:~:text=The%20day%20after%20Katie%20and,converting%20stress%20into%20physical%20symptoms.

[JimSp]

It seems important to you that the Ouija board not be implicated here. Am I reading you correctly?

[GingisK]

Those things actually do connect the user to spirits "on the other side". They are a gateway to demonic possession. I normally dismiss the "demon explanation" in other matters; but, have first hand experience with those boards.

They should arrange for exorcisms.