[Locked] On the Fucking of Bears
[OOC: This post is ICly friends-locked to the following people: Dash, Dot, Jules, Omar, Wade]
For people immediately worried: I'm unhurt. Pissed off to no end, but unhurt. I'm still too livid to go into huge details, but here's the short form of what happened:
* After setting up cameras, I used the ouija board on my own. Results were...interesting, to put it mildly. I'd like people to view it unprejudiced by preconceived expectations or my version of what happened, but both Omar and I have copies at this point.
* After verifying recording worked, I burned the video captured from all three of my webcams to DVD-R. I then made a backup for myself of the video recorded on the camera Dot, Jules and I borrowed from Omar.
* After locking the board back up in my desk drawer, I left Astor, crossed campus to Bartos, and delivered the DVDs and Omar's camera back to him. He already had copies of the earlier footage, when the board first went on 'walkabout' in the room, so that he could do some analysis of the whole week of footage for anything out of the ordinary.
* I returned immediately to Astor, and needed something else out of the drawer.
This is when I discovered that some son of a bitch had stolen the board. It's gone. Poof. No sign of break-in, no sign of tampering with locks on either door or my desk, nothing else out of place that I noticed, though I want Dot's confirmation on her side of things.
I...am looking for advice. And blood, but mostly advice from you folks. Do we think someone on the Hysteria Squad decided the Official Skeptic had had the thing too long and boosted it? Do we concede to spiritual activity and blame ghosts...in which case, why did they go moving it? And for any who haven't, I suggest reading Wade's post about the conversation we had. I...I don't know. I want people to watch the video before saying anything else.
But I'm pissed off, and tired of someone fucking with us, be they alive or dead. And I think it's time we did something.
For people immediately worried: I'm unhurt. Pissed off to no end, but unhurt. I'm still too livid to go into huge details, but here's the short form of what happened:
* After setting up cameras, I used the ouija board on my own. Results were...interesting, to put it mildly. I'd like people to view it unprejudiced by preconceived expectations or my version of what happened, but both Omar and I have copies at this point.
* After verifying recording worked, I burned the video captured from all three of my webcams to DVD-R. I then made a backup for myself of the video recorded on the camera Dot, Jules and I borrowed from Omar.
* After locking the board back up in my desk drawer, I left Astor, crossed campus to Bartos, and delivered the DVDs and Omar's camera back to him. He already had copies of the earlier footage, when the board first went on 'walkabout' in the room, so that he could do some analysis of the whole week of footage for anything out of the ordinary.
* I returned immediately to Astor, and needed something else out of the drawer.
This is when I discovered that some son of a bitch had stolen the board. It's gone. Poof. No sign of break-in, no sign of tampering with locks on either door or my desk, nothing else out of place that I noticed, though I want Dot's confirmation on her side of things.
I...am looking for advice. And blood, but mostly advice from you folks. Do we think someone on the Hysteria Squad decided the Official Skeptic had had the thing too long and boosted it? Do we concede to spiritual activity and blame ghosts...in which case, why did they go moving it? And for any who haven't, I suggest reading Wade's post about the conversation we had. I...I don't know. I want people to watch the video before saying anything else.
But I'm pissed off, and tired of someone fucking with us, be they alive or dead. And I think it's time we did something.