{"id":3406,"date":"2024-06-24T16:06:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T16:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/garrett\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/06\/Borley-Planchette-Scripts-.jpg"},"modified":"2024-06-26T15:39:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T15:39:48","slug":"borley-planchette-scripts","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/garrett\/hauntings\/borley-rectory\/borley-planchette-scripts\/","title":{"rendered":"Borley Planchette Writing"},"author":36,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"description":{"rendered":"

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Planchette writing is used in s\u00e9ances as a means of communicating with spirits. To do this, a person places their hand on a planchette, a small wooden board with two wheels and a pencil holder, and a spirit is said to move their hand to write. Planchette writing has the same mechanism as a Ouija board. This writing from a s\u00e9ance at Borley Rectory reads as follows:<\/p>\n

1. Please continue your message?
\nget [illegible]
\n2. Please repeat carefully. We cannot understand.
\nget help
\n3. Who do you want to help you?
\n[illegible]
\n4. Will you please repeat carefully as we wish to help you?
\nglem…[illegible]
\n5. Which one. Spell name.
\nSidney
\n6. I am not able to hold a mass – what can I do for you? [illegible]
\nget [illegible]
\n7. I do not understand – please try to tell me more clearly.
\nget a priest
\n8. Can Father Henning help you?
\nyes
\n9. Did you write the messages on the walls at Borley?
\nyes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From “The Alleged Haunting of Borley Rectory,” The Planchette Scripts, Book 22, Box 3, Eileen J. Garrett Parapsychology Foundation collection, Collection 331, Special Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, MD).<\/p>\n

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