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When unfortunate things happen in our life our brains can overthink and lead us to do irrational things. When losing a loved one sometimes you want to do a Ouija board to speak to the one that has passed away but it is just illogical to think you can speak to someone who has passed away through a piece of painted wood.

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This website have several stories with people explaining their experiences with Ouija boards. It questions what experiences these are, is it a negative or positive spirit? Do you honestly get the response from a loved one or is it simply just a demonic presence taking over.

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WHY DOES THE Ouija board have such a sinister reputation? It may be because the stories of the negative experiences with them are the ones that get the most attention. Rarely do people publicize the Ouija sessions in which little or nothing happens, and the sessions that are positive or benign in nature... well, they don't make good stories to tell your friends. But make no mistake: negative, frightening - even terrifying - things can happen as a result of a Ouija séance.

The unanswered question, however, is: What is the source of this kind of experience? Is it from a demonic or negative spirit realm, as some believe? Or does it arise out of the dark recesses of our own fears in our subconscious?

While you're mulling those questions, consider these chilling Ouija experiences.
THE OUIJA BRINGS DREAD
Last year my best friend and I decided to experiment with a Ouija board, just to see if it worked. We made our own out of paper and used a regular drinking glass as a pointer, so we were pretty skeptical. We were in for a shock.

It took a while for the board to "warm up," but once it did, it became apparent that we were surrounded by relatives who had passed away. The glass moved extremely slowly and there was nothing scary being said or done. However, half way through our session, two of our other friends came bursting into the room laughing and joking. Once they calmed down, we got back to the board.

This time the glass moved extremely fast. We could hardly keep our fingers on. It started spelling out names and words without us even asking questions. The words spelled out included MURDER and LUST. We ended the session immediately as we were pretty freaked out.

After that, everything went back to normal for a few days, but then I started waking up at 3 a.m. every night with an unexplainable feeling of dread.

This waking up continued for a few weeks and I started becoming depressed for no reason.

Then one night at about 1 in the morning, my friend was walking me home. As we were walking up the road, he claimed he saw a black figure of a man leaning on a fence staring at us. We laughed and joked about the place being haunted. We did used to hear bells chiming every night on that road. That night I woke up again, but this time I was being pinned face down on my bed by what felt like a man. I tried to struggle, but I couldn't move. I tried to scream, but nothing came out. He started speaking in my ear, but I don't know what he said. Then he was gone. I hid under my covers (like that would help) and soon fell asleep. When I woke up the next morning, I put it down to a nightmare, though it felt so real.

A few days later, we had family visiting. My gramma, who claims to be very perceptive, came in and said she felt there was a presence in the house. My mum said she thought so too, ever since I'd done a Ouija board in my bedroom, but she didn't think it was harmful. My gramma disagreed and said she thought it was evil.

The next bit is really hard for me to explain as I don't really know how I felt.

As they were arguing, I began to get the same dreadful feeling I had so many other nights, and I began to feel something was wrong. It felt as though I was being pulled into a tunnel further and further away from the room I was in. I tried to tell my mum I didn't feel right, but I couldn't make myself talk or move. It felt as though something was trying to control me. I finally managed to make myself talk, but I screamed it: "There's something wrong with me!" The next thing I knew, my sister was beside me, hugging me, and I was crying and shaking uncontrollably. My family said I'd had what looked like some kind of seizure.

We got a priest to bless the house, and while he was doing so, all the pipes in the house made a huge screaming noise. They didn't stop till he'd finished the prayer. After that, everything went back to normal.

I still can't explain what happened to me. It scares me to think of it. - Jessica M.
OUIJA PRANKSTER
This happened in Mobile, Alabama in 2008. One afternoon, some friends and I decided to make a home-made Ouija board. We tried it out a couple of times, but nothing seemed to happen.

A few weeks passed and a friend, who lived with me at the time, and I were looking at some photos of us at a club on my computer. We started to talk about how some orbs appeared only around us in the pictures. Then we got on the subject about ghosts. She got up from the computer and sat on the couch with my brother. When I got up and walked toward them, my computer screen suddenly shut off and turned back on. Then the light next to the couch faded and turned a darkish red. Everyone got the chills!

We shrugged it off until a few days later. I lost $100 that I had sworn I put in my dresser drawer. My mom and I looked everywhere around the house, including countless times in the drawer. Then out of nowhere my mom found my money in the same drawer on top of everything in it!

I was starting to think that we attracted a ghost through the Ouija board. My suspicions were correct when one morning my favorite stuffed animal was missing. I thought maybe someone was playing a prank on me because I knew I put it in my mom's room next to the bed. I looked everywhere and still could not find it. I asked my friend, who was in the shower, if she moved it. Of course, she hadn't. I became so frustrated! I knew that it had to be because of something paranormal because these things did not occur until we made that Ouija board.

I decided to take the Ouija board to the dumpster and get rid of it for good. When I walked back inside, my friend was out of the shower and said, "I found your stuffed animal." I asked, "Where was it?" She replied, "Oh, I saw it when I got out of the shower. It was right next to the door in the empty laundry basket." My heart dropped. Nothing strange has happened since. - Jessica
OUIJA TRIGGERS A POLTERGEIST
This happened around 2002 in Potsdam, Germany. I was 11 and this was my first experience. My sister, who was 12 years old, decided to try a Ouija session with little self-made cards on which the letters were drawn, a table and a glass. She and two classmates were in the living room of our little apartment. (My mother had a Ouija experience when she was young and was fine with my curious sister's idea, and she took me and my little brother to the kitchen to not disturb my sister.)

We waited for some minutes in there. I stared lazily at the door to the corridor. The door was mostly glass and I could see everything that was going on behind it. Then I saw a person walk past the kitchen. He could only have come from the living room and seemingly was heading for the exit. I was puzzled. First, the "man" was pitch-black and as tall as an ordinary grownup. Second, there was no audible sound of the living room door, nor footsteps. He could not have been there. I brushed it off. I believed my mind was playing tricks on me.

Then my little brother, who sat across from me, asked, "Did you see that shadow, too?" I was astonished and we shared impressions.

Shortly after that, my sister and her friends came into the kitchen and stated that the session just ended because the spirit left. This was the start of paranormal activity around us. Even as we moved on to another house it went on. Because of my sister's innocent curiosity in the Ouija board, our home became haunted.

It started, in most cases, when it got dark and our parents went to sleep, so they never witnessed anything and thought we were kind of nuts. It was hard. Lights switched on when my sister and I headed for a dark room. (That was actually polite of the spirit!) There many things, from shadows, to lights going on and off, to knocks on doors, to doors that flew open, to footsteps and cold spots.

There was also an extremely nasty smell in one of the bathrooms. It came without warning and quickly left. It was clear that this was no "normal" smell that you could imagine existing in the bathroom. It was like something foul had lain in the tub for a long time. Once, something pushed on my mattress from beneath while I was lying on it and reading a comic.

When we were 16 and 15, it all ended because we started to ignore every unnatural occurrence. We had no nerve or power left to stand any more of this game. Fortunately, the spirits cooperated and I haven't seen or felt any more paranormal activity. - Jeannette K.
OUIJA PREDICTION
My story took place in Cambridge, Minnesota in 2006 when I was 12 years old. I had just started 7th grade. I had a combination of two types of paranormal things happen. It was a Saturday afternoon and I was bored. My best friend Becca was over. We took out the Ouija board I got last Christmas. I had asked the board, "What was I in my past life?" I was joking, thinking that these things didn't really exist. The board started to spell out REBECCA LYNN PELTZERMILLER WAS THERE. That's all it said.

We tried asking another question. "Will I meet anyone else in my past life here?" It spelled out YES. "Who?" we both asked. VINCENT DANIEL DOUGLASS.

Two years passed add I had met no Vincent Douglass. I just joined the musical Annie and - you guessed it - the guy I acted with was named Danny Douglass. It was very strange. We had never met before, but I felt like we had known each other all our lives. That was when I remembered the forgotten Ouija board. So I asked him if Danny was his real name. He laughed and said his first name was Vincent, a family name that had been passed down through generations. I was definitely shocked. - Inez M.
THE WINGED SHADOW
This incident occurred about 13 years ago when I was 15 in a city near Perth, Western Australia. At the time, several strange things were happening, which I believed had to do with a séance my friend and I had played around with. Nothing much exciting happened during the séance, and to be honest I thought my friend was pushing the glass and never thought much of it - until I began waking up at 3:15 a.m. every morning with a genuine sensation of total terror.

I would lie awake in my bed with the covers over my head as I had a strange sensation of being watched and was afraid of what was in my room with me. I would lie there like that until the sun came up. I was always terrified of looking in a certain direction, and upon inspection I found the glass which had been used in the séance. This took me by surprise as the glass had been disposed of, so I was certain that the glass was the reason for my sleepless nights. I once again disposed of the glass; however, I kept experiencing the same feelings, and once again upon inspection came across the same glass that I had already thrown in the garbage twice. This time I was determined to get rid of it, so I took it outside and smashed it on the ground.

I continued waking at 3:15 a.m. to the minute every night without fail, and I started seeing strange, dark shadows. The shadows started as perfect black balls, which would circle my room, then seem to disappear through my window. I put this off to paranoia and lack of sleep and simply tried to ignore it and go back to sleep, still with my head under the covers.

Other people started noticing the shadow, too, and at normal waking hours, saying that the end of the house where my room was seemed a bit creepy. Gradually, the shadows seemed to get bigger, but I continued to ignore them... until one night.

The family dog woke me, again at 3:15 a.m. He was sitting next to my bed and he was making a crying sound. I figured the dog needed to go out, so got up and let him outside. As soon as I was back in bed, the dog was at my window, squeaking and carrying on, so I got back up and let him back inside. The dog followed me to my room and once again sat by my bed whimpering. I then took him back outside, and even though he sat at my window still crying, I made him stay out there for a bit, because I didn't want him coming back in and waking me up.

I eventually gave in and let the dog back inside. The bathroom light was on, letting light flood the hallway as I walked back to my room, where the dog started growling. I moved closer to the bathroom door so the dog could see it was me, as I was worried he was growling at my shadow. I called him up to me as he was still growling and said, "Hey, it's only me. Come here. What's the matter?" The dog walked slowly toward me, still growling, and sat next to my leg, growling at something behind me.

In a flash, my thoughts raced to, Oh my god, there is someone in the house... and turned around and started running down the hallway. What I saw was something that has never left my mind and something no one has ever believed when I have told them. I saw what seemed like a huge bird. It had huge outstretched wings that would have touched the roof and almost the floor. Its body ended where the wings did and neither seemed to touch the ground. As it followed me down the hallway, the wings stayed outstretched and it seemed to glide as it moved. I did notice a small head in between the wings, but no features that I recall, and the head seemed hooded rather than round and connected to the body without a neck. The creature seemed more shadow like than of flesh, and as much I have tried to put it down to my own shadow, I am certain that what I experienced and saw was real and could have in no way been my own shadow. I remember mostly the wings and the enormity of them as they towered over me and how it moved as it followed after me, until it slipped into another room.

I am not sure what happened to it after this, but my sister, who was older and didn't believe in anything paranormal, had some strange experiences involving a black shadow and some kind of sleep paralysis, where she was surrounded by a bunch of people laughing at her as the black shadow circled over top. - Jo
MY "BROTHER," WIZ
I've been using the Ouija board for almost seven years now and have had very few bad experiences, and none that I would consider evil. I do have one particular entity that I talk to pretty regularly named Wiz. He claims to be my spirit guide. He also claims to be my brother from a previous life - in 700s Scandinavia! He's not really good with numbers. I haven't been able to get any winning lottery numbers from him yet, but he is decent at telling me about events yet to come, at least to an extent.

Sometimes, he would tell me what he thought I wanted to hear, but there is the occasional nugget he does give me. Before May of 2008, my wife had never used a Ouija in a serious attempt to contact the other side. After convincing her that it was safe, in May '08 in Columbia, South Carolina, she and I managed to make contact with Wiz. Wiz and I were old friends by then, and although she had heard me talk about him, she had never talked to him herself.

Wiz told us that she would get pregnant and would be due in June of '09. By October, I had nearly forgotten all he said, my notes tucked away along with notes for the novel I'm working on. We found out at the end of October that she's pregnant, and at the time of the first doctor's appointment she was due July 1st. During the second doctor's visit, the doctor adjusted the due date to June 23! About a week later, I was going through my novel notes and found the ones from the Ouija conversation. I nearly fell out of my chair.

Wiz has given me the whole backstory for my novel - my life in 700s Scandinavia - and has, I feel, kept watch over me as I work on it. My novel is currently on HarperCollins' online slushpile, but Wiz has told me that HarperCollins will not like it but it will be picked up by another publisher. Whether or not he's right about that, I don't know. Whether or not he's right about anything, I don't know. Whether or not I'm just reading too much into coincidences, I don't know. Is it my subconscious that has told me these things? I don't know, but if it is, wouldn't that be an amazing thing in and of itself? - Kenn Phillips
OUIJA SENDS MOM TO THE HOSPITAL
I live in Marion County, Fairmont. West Virginia. This is also the city where my experience took place. I am now 49 years old, but I was 12 years old when this happened.

In 1978, my mother (deceased from cancer 2006) bought me a Ouija board thinking it was a game we could play together. So one evening while dad was at work (coal miner), we got out the board, lit a candle and put it in the middle of the table. We placed our fingers lightly on the planchette.

Mom asked if there was anyone there that wanted to speak to us. I was giggling. She asked again. The planchette then moved to YES. I told mom she was moving it and she said she was not. Mom asked, "Who are you?" The planchette then went to each letter and spelled JACKSON. We did not know anyone by the name of Jackson, first or last name.

Mom then asked, "Are you a good spirit?" The planchette moved to YES and then NO. Mom asked, "How did you die?" The planchette did not move from the middle of the board. I was getting scared at that point. So mom said, "Since you are not going to tell us, we are going to say goodbye now." The planchette slid to NO. Mom said, "We have to go." The planchette then went to GOODBYE.

We took our fingers off the planchette and it was sitting in the middle of the board. The planchette flew off the board and the round plastic piece where the middle pointer is was cracked. Mom put it all back in the box and put it up in my closet.

Where we lived, the floor was close to the ground and my room was at the end of the house. And that night there was a growling sound coming up through the floor in the corner of my room. I went and got mom; she came in and it stopped.

My mom smoked cigarettes and that night her cigarettes smelled like sulfur; she said they tasted like sulfur, too. My dad could not smell it or taste it. I could smell the sulfur strong.

Three nights later, the growling started up in the same corner of my room. I again went and got mom. dad was home and mom told him to get the flashlight and go out and look. While the growling was happening, dad come in and said that nothing was under there. My mom proceeded to yell at it and tell it to stop. It got louder and sounded more like a guttural growl, like it was going to come through the floor after my mom. It finally stopped that night.

The next morning my mom felt sick. We took her temperature and it was 102°. Dad took her to the hospital and they admitted her. She was diagnosed as having an infection clear through her whole body. She was in there for a week. The doctor told my dad that if he had waited one more day to bring her in, it could have killed her. The whole time she was in the hospital, my room and the whole house was quite.

Mom and I truly believed the spirit of Jackson died from having an infection in his blood and was never treated for it and died from it. That is my first and last experience with a Ouija board. My dad threw it away at the dump yard. I warn others now about the dangers of having and using a Ouija board. - Carol

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WHY DOES THE Ouija board have such a sinister reputation? It may be because the stories of the negative experiences with them are the ones that get the most attention. Rarely do people publicize the Ouija sessions in which little or nothing happens, and the sessions that are positive or benign in nature...

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Things that have been noticed and talked about but have no proof. Being unable to explain things. Examples can include aliens, UFOs, area 51, life on mars, etc.

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This article in Daily Star reveals images that COULD prove that life exists on Mars but there are is no real evidence that life flourishes there. Also on this website is 13 signs of alien life. These are all just thoughts and peoples words we are taking that alien life exists.

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The Red Planet was covered by huge bodies of water within the last three billion years.

And scientists now can say with confidence there were periods within that time when alien life could have emerged.

They found greenhouse gas methane poured out from below the surface of the planet.

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"It's sufficient for lake-forming climates"
Professor Edwin Kite

This warmed it up and allowed lakes to last for up to one million years at a time, a study shows.

Studies of the surface of Mars, currently being explored by NASA's Curiosity Rover, suggests liquid water existed later than three billion years ago.

Daily Star Online yesterday revealed plans for a space station orbiting the Red Planet.

The surface of Mars: could these images prove LIFE exists on the Red Planet?

These images released by NASA show the surface of Mars. They have been pored over by boffins and truthseekers looking for telltale signs that water once flowed on the Red Planet, which would mean that alien life could once have flourish there

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This has puzzled experts because the planet ought to have been largely cold and dry.

Now computer simulations suggest ancient Mars was warmed by powerful bursts of methane trapped in its subsurface.

It sheds light on how an otherwise freezing planet could have had episodes of wetness.

And it could help in the search for life on planets outside the solar system.

Professor Edwin Kite, of Chicago University, used complex mathematical equations to work out the new theory.

He said the shifts in the tilt of the planet's axis caused its ice cover to shrink and methane to release.

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Ice then melted to produce lakes which stayed for millions of years - time for life to flourish.

Prof Kite added: "Using numerical simulations we found outgassed methane can build up to atmospheric levels sufficient for lake-forming climates if it initially occupies more than 4% of the total volume in which it is thermodynamically stable.

"Such occupancy fractions are consistent with methane production by water-rock reactions due to hydrothermal circulation on early Mars."

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"We further estimate photo-chemical destruction of atmospheric methane curtails the duration of individual lake-forming climates to less than a million years - consistent with observations," he continued.

"We conclude methane bursts represent a potential pathway for intermittent excursions to a warm, wet climate state on early Mars."

The study published in Nature Geoscience adds to evidence Mars is the one planetary environment - outside Earth - where scientists can say with confidence there were periods where life could have emerged.

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Alien life on Mars? Scientists in shock admission about Red Planet

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The Red Planet was covered by huge bodies of water within the last three billion years. And scientists now can say with confidence there were periods within that time when alien life could have emerged. They found greenhouse gas methane poured out from below the surface of the planet.

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He may have been crucified 2,013 years ago today (ish), but when you scarf potato chips, he's watching.

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This is just believing in seeing things that either truly aren’t there or its just a coincidence. Examples would include seeing faces in cooked food.

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This post on BuzzFeed shows 22 people and how they found Jesus in their food. Again, you can carve the burnt off your toast and make it seem as if there is a face there but we all know it is just a coincidence otherwise.

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All natural products promote heavily that they contain no harmful substances and that they are extremely good for your body. However, all natural products could also have harmful substances in it that you as a consumer may not be fully aware of.

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This website brings you to “The Honest Company”  that provides you with 100% natural products. They have products from beauty and skin care to food, snacks, vitamins and supplements. They are all safe and responsible products from Jessica Alba (another celebrity endorsed product). Of course it is always healthier to consume products that were created without any harmful products but how can you be so sure that it was 100% made that way. Going “All Natural” can also include ingredients that aren’t healthy for you either.

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To our understanding the red flag “appeal to authority” is giving the impression that a product is good by using convincing slogans or even celebrities to promote it. Examples can also include “doctors” that recommend products. How do you necessarily know that they are even certified doctors? We take the word of people that we see as a higher authority more than ourselves. A quick example that you see repeatedly on television is “real people” coming in to see the new vehicle a company has released. They are beyond impressed with the new model, again how do yow if they aren’t just actors? All over the world people take the word of celebrities and people who they believe if they use the product it must be great.

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This video relates to the red flag “Appeal to Authority” because Jennifer Aniston is showing off her flawless skin to promote Aveeno. This is basically trying to tell the public that they won’t have good skin unless they use Aveeno. This is just one of the many celebrity endorsed products of the world. Jennifer Aniston is also used in the advertisement of Smart Water as well.

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Suppression by authorities is where it is believed that people such as scientists and doctors keep information from the public due to conspiracy theories that they want to keep people sick. Which in a sense could be true. Due to the fact the government makes more money if there is no cure for a disease. This seems completely logical so why not believe it?

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This video relates to the red flag “Suppression by Authorities” because Edward Griffin is talking about his book “World Without Cancer.” The conspiracy theory is that the government keeps these potential cancer cures a secret because they make more money off of you being sick rather than curing it. If there was nothing to cure then they wouldn’t make much money.

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Video Transcript: The Real Reason Why Potential Natural Cancer Cures Are Kept Secret
Ty Bollinger: Tell us about the book "World Without Cancer."

G. Edward Griffin: "World Without Cancer" is, on the surface, it's about a specific alternative cancer therapy called laetrile, that's its common word. Its common title. The substance itself is really called amygdalin.

But on the surface it appears to be about that and, in fact it is, but it's also about the bigger picture. The fact that the medical establishment, in the Western World at least today, is oriented very strongly toward drug therapy and radiation of course and some very expensive procedures, which in my view and the view of the doctors and researchers that I have relied upon for my research, it's not the best treatment at all.

So it's about the bigger picture about how the industry, the cancer industry, particularly the pharmaceutical cancer industry has dominated that field and not necessarily consciously, but as a result of that it has certainly filtered away all of these natural approaches for cancer treatment.

So that's the real picture because it's not just that the laetrile is necessarily the most effective treatment. I think there are many different types of treatments that are very good, but they all have one thing in common and that is that they come from nature.

Now that may not seem like a big deal but when you understand how the industry works you realize that if anything comes from nature it cannot be patented. It has to be invented before you can patent it, which is why the pharmaceutical industry is not interested in anything that comes from nature.

What they are interested in is to find out if something works in nature, take it to the laboratory, pull it apart, look at that molecule, see what the active ingredient is and then see if they can reassemble it and call it "ours." Now they can patent it and that's the bigger story.

I think once people understand that there's this commercial bias that's built into the industry and that bias is not just about money, but it's about their lives and their health. Then it becomes a very, very important story and here comes the crusader galloping on his white horse. He's got to tell his story.

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Video Transcript: The Real Reason Why Potential Natural Cancer Cures Are Kept Secret Ty Bollinger: Tell us about the book 'World Without Cancer.' G. Edward Griffin: 'World Without Cancer' is, on the surface, it's about a specific alternative cancer therapy called laetrile, that's its common word. Its common title.

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Proof by verbosity can be taken in many different ways.  It is a study or a product that has an incredible amount of evidence, facts, and reviews that to the public, it has to be true. Many examples include detox recipes, detox teas, weight loss pills and many more. The evidence that people post could be things such as before and after pictures, etc. Amazon also gives away free products for giving a review. But how do we know they aren’t just giving away a free product to get a good review on something when in turn the product is awful.

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This is a picture of a detox or “teatox” that is supposed to make you slimmer in 28 days.  You are to drink one cup in the morning and one at night. They even have Kylie Jenner on board to help promote skinny tea. They also have Skinny Mint Super Fat burning Gummies. These gummies include garcinia cambogia and green bean coffee. Off the top of my head I know that is not everything that is in these gummies. You want to be 100% sure of what you are putting in your body. This also relates to the red flag appear to authority.

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Some people live by ancient wisdom theories. People go back decades to believe that ancients had more wisdom and knowledge than todays scientists  and doctors. Some examples include but are not limited to, rain dances, burning witches, etc.

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The red flag Ancient Wisdom connects to this article by going through the different cultures that participate in human sacrifices. The slide show goes through different sacrifices such as the Maya Sacrifice, Aztec civilization in Mexico, Egypt, and even the Ancient Romans. Human sacrifice does not happen in modern day to our knowledge, it is not accepted. But the ancient wisdom dates back to many different cultures participating in this event.

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Human sacrifices

From prehistory to the 21st century, human sacrifice has been practiced around the world by numerous cultures. Live Science takes a look at 25 cultures that practiced, or still practice, human sacrifice.

China sacrifice

Human sacrifice was practiced in China for thousands of years. At a 4,000-year-old cemetery near modern-day Mogou village in northwestern China, archaeologists found hundreds of tombs, some of which held human sacrifices. One sacrificed victim was around 13 years old. Archaeologists have also found thousands of human sacrifices at Shang Dynasty (1600 - 1040 B.C.) sites in the modern-day city of Anyang.

The practice of human sacrifice seems to have stopped or become very rare by the time China was unified in 221 B.C. by Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. The first emperor's Terracotta army, made up of thousands of life-size clay warriors, allowed him to take an army with him to the afterlife without sacrificing real-life warriors.

City of Ur

The Great Death Pit at the ancient city of Ur, in modern-day Iraq, contains the remains of 68 women and six men, many of which appear to have been sacrificed. Dating back about 4,600 years, a variety of fantastic treasures, including a statuette known as the Ram in the Thicket, which is made of silver, shell, gold, lapis lazuli and carnelian, were found in the death pit. Archaeologists believe that the pit was used to bury Ur's rulers.

Mound 72

A 10-foot (3 meters) mound called Mound 72 by modern-day archaeologists holds the remains of 272 people, many of them sacrificed. It is located at Cahokia, a city located near modern-day St. Louis that flourished from A.D. 1050 to 1200.

The archaeology of the mound is complex, but it appears as if people were sacrificed gradually in a series of episodes. In one episode, 52 malnourished women ages 18 to 23, along with a woman in her 30s, were sacrificed at the same time. In another episode, it appears that 39 men and women were clubbed to death. The mound also holds the remains of two individuals who were buried with 20,000 shell beads. It's possible that some or all of the sacrifices were dedicated to the two individuals.

Inca child mummies

The Inca flourished during the 15th ccentury A.D., conquering large swaths of territory in the Andes and connecting it with a vast system of roads. The Inca also practiced child sacrifice; their mummies have been found by archaeologists, often near the summit of mountains or volcanoes.

In one famous example, three child mummies were found near the remains of a shrine at Mount Llullaillaco - a 22,100-foot-tall (6,740 meters) active volcano on the border of Chile and Argentina. Researchers found that in the year before they died they were "fattened up" with a diet of maize and dried llama meat; and before their death, they were given maize beer and coca leaves. How exactly they were killed is unknown.

Maya sacrifice

The ancient Maya practiced human sacrifice on special occasions. These sacrifices were sometimes conducted in their temples, and many of the victims may have been prisoners of war. At the ancient city of Chichen Itza, victims were painted blue, in honor of the rain god Chaak, before being sacrificed and thrown into a well.

Some archaeologists believe that Maya ball games would, on rare occasions, end with members of the losing or winning team being sacrificed. Evidence for these sacrifices is mainly found in depictions of Maya art, and not all archaeologists interpret the images as representing the sacrifice of a ball team.

Ancient Israel

The Hebrew Bible mentions human sacrifice being carried out by Israelites several times; however, researchers do not agree on how often the practice occurred or whether it took place at all. Perhaps the most famous biblical story is that of Abraham who, in the book of Genesis, was told by God to sacrifice his son Isaac. Before the deed is done, God stops him and tells Abraham that he was only testing him.

Whether the stories in the Hebrew Bible indicate that human sacrifice actually occurred in ancient Israel is a source of debate among researchers. Unless clear archaeological evidence is found it's unlikely that the debate will ever be resolved.

Aztec civilization

The Aztec civilization in Mexico was centered at the ancient city of Tenochtitlán, in what is now Mexico City, and flourished during the 14th and 15th centuries A.D. Artistic, archaeological and textual records indicate that human sacrifices occurred with some regularity at Tenochtitlán, particularly at the Templo Mayor, one of the largest temples in the city, where the remains of Tzompantli (skull racks) have been found.

The Spanish conquered the Aztecs during the 16th century, bringing with them diseases that decimated the population. The Spanish sometimes used the Aztec practice of human sacrifice to try to justify their conquest of the Aztecs.

Ancient Egypt

Human sacrifice occurred around 5,000 years ago during Egypt's early history. Human sacrifices have been found by the graves of early pharaohs at Abydos, a city in southern Egypt that served at times as Egypt's capital and was the cult center for Osiris, the god of the underworld. The practice appears to have become less common or completely phased out by the time the Giza pyramids were built around 4,500 years ago.

Stonehenge

The skeleton of a man found buried in a ditch at Stonehenge has been interpreted by Jacqueline McKinley, an osteoarchaeologist with Wessex Archaeology, as a sacrificial victim. The man, who McKinley said was 5 foot 10 inches and had a robust muscular build, was shot repeatedly with arrows. McKinley interprets the location of his burial and nature of his execution as indicating that he was killed as part of a human sacrifice. Her research was featured in 2014 in a Smithsonian channel documentary showing a re-creation of his sacrificial execution.

Stonehenge was constructed between roughly 5,000 and 4,000 years ago, and was part of a sacred landscape that included shrines, burials and additional circles made of stone or wood. Not all archaeologists are convinced that human sacrifice took place at Stonehenge, but future research into the nearby landscape and its burials may help resolve the debate.

Hitobashira

Depending on how the term human sacrifice is defined, the kamikaze pilots who tried to crash their planes into Allied ships during World War II could be defined as human sacrifices. Their planes sometimes had images of cherry blossoms, which historically symbolized a samurai who gave his life for the emperor.

Another examples of human sacrifice can be found in the stories of Hitobashira - human sacrifices found within the walls or floors of important structures like castles. How often this practice occurred and which structures actually had human sacrifices built within them is a matter of debate. According to legend, Maruoka Castle (constructed in 1576) contains the sacrifice of a peasant woman named Oshizu, who agreed to be sacrificed so that her son could become a member of the samurai class.

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25 Cultures That Practiced Human Sacrifice

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From prehistory to the 21st century, human sacrifice has been practiced around the world by numerous cultures.