I listen to coasttocoast sometimes, and have heard a bunch of "EVP" recordings.....they all sound hoakey to me.
But a Ouija board is something I will NEVER mess with. If you bring one out, I am gone. period.
I've never done one of those Ouija board things. Never much believed in it.
Back in the 1960's I read a few articles written by Tom Knight, a monthly columnist in one of the electronic hobbyist magazines of that era. He stated that he and some friends conducted some experiments with a ouija board and got some startling results. He wrote that they frequently made contact with a guy who said he had been killed on the beach at Normandy, run over by a jeep. Knight got the story out of the guy a little at a time, and when he got the guy's full name, home town, etc, he contacted government sources and managed to track down the dead guy's military records, maybe also through his family. The name, date, place, and cause of death checked out in the records.
I was fascinated by these articles and rushed out to buy a ouija board set. Knight had written that the boards worked best with a male and female operator, so I called up a married couple I knew. When they arrived I explained all this and said I just wanted to see what would happen. So, the wife and I sat facing each other with the board on our knees, and I simply said "I would like to talk to someone".
The pointer quickly began sliding around the board spelling out "hello". I asked who I was talking to, and other details. We "talked" to a man named John who had been a steamship captain in the 1890's out of San Francisco. I asked him how he died and he answered "lung cancer". I asked him if I should quit smoking and he replied "right now". And so on for about an hour.
The whole time I kept accusing my friend's wife of pushing the pointer around, and she kept accusing me of doing it. We were both barely touching the pointer gizmo with our fingertips the whole time, and that thing was really zipping around the board spelling out words. It was totally eerie.
While we were doing this another friend came over, and he was smirking and shaking his head over how phony it was. I proposed a test. I contacted another spirit, for lack of a better term, and asked this one to tell us what my friend had written on a piece of paper in another room. The answer was correct three times in a row, and my friend had tried to be creative on what he had written on that paper in his pocket.
Well, after that all my visitors were shaking their heads and saying they had to go. They were all pretty spooked by what they had seen, and the subject of the ouija board never came up again during the next 35 years.
I know beyond the shadow of a doubt that neither of us was pushing the pointer thing around, and in fact a few times it moved so rapidly that all our fingertips were off of it briefly until we could catch up with it. It was the most bizarre thing I've ever experienced.
Maybe some day someone will figure that thing out, but maybe some things are just beyond understanding.