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Moving a wooden planchette is driven by muscle twitches

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Teenagers desperately terrifying themselves in basements are just experiencing the ideomotor effect. Their own subconscious micromovements push the little wooden triangle toward scary letters while they swear a demon is doing it.

Moving a wooden planchette is driven by muscle twitches
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