Supposively this is possible. I have actually tried this, and got it working. I was writing on a notepad with a pencil and I wasn’t consciously controlling it. I started asking questions, my heart raced, i was shaking all over except for my writing hand (out of excitement, not because the "spirit). However, all the answers to the questions I asked turned out to be completely wrong and in retrospect, I probably was in some kind of different mental state, maybe some kind of meditated state or partially hypotized (it took a whole lot of relaxing before I started writing). Maybe the weirdest thing about the whole experience was that once I got it going, in between questions, my hand started drawing that infinity sign, the horizontal figure eight, so after I got done doing the questions there i sat for about five minutes going over the same infinity sign, about the size of a page over and over. I cannot explain how weird it felt, I knew i could stop at any time but I also knew that I wasn’t trying to do it, it was just happening. I could think of different shapes in my mind, and without telling my hand to do it like you normally would, my hand would just do it automatically… I know it sounds crazy but im serious.
So whether this was some spirit who liked to fuck with me by giving me wrong answers and making my hand draw things, or I was in some subconscious mode where my deepest thoughts were coming out, either way its pretty damn interesting.
I had a firsthand experience somewhat similar to the one fauxpas described. I was sitting in my dorm room with my roommate in my first year of college. No doubt, I was doing something brilliant and scholarly…not watching TV.
Anyway, we started to hear these eerie, low, odd voices coming through the window. They were not human voices; it was very strange. I only caught one part, something about being the “Chosen One.” The roommate and I were both rather concerned. A short time later, a woman from down the hall knocked on the door. She mentioned that she was using her homemade Ouije board and that she had made contact with a malevolent spirit.
As young and naive as I was at this time, even I was skeptical. This woman and my roommate had played tricks on me before… They mainly involved things such as drawing pentagrams on the ceiling with glow-in-the-dark paint. I decided me roommate was “in on it all.”
The next day, I was walking down the hall, coming back from class. My roommate was on the phone in the hallway with somebody. (The hall phone was mainly used when you wanted to have a conversation that your roommate couldn’t hear.) Anyway, she did not see my passing by and she had no way of knowing that I would be coming by at that time. She was very frightened and whispering into the phone, “…they were not human voices. It was terrifying, etc.” If it was a joke, she didn’t seem to be a part of it.
Anyway, this either proves that odd things happen, or that college is brutal place for nerdy girls.
No, I did not think it was for real. I also did not think the big “scary face” they drew on the ceiling in glow-in-the-dark paint was real…or the many little pentagrams they drew over my bed.
I mentioned it to illustrate the types of things these people did for fun.
