Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board

My friends and I who grew up together during the 70's used to get together often for slumber parties. Halloween was a given, and we had a bunch of innocent games we used to play, such as flashlight tag and haunted house, and the obligatory "pick on the first one asleep", (which was always me... but they usually gave me a break because I threw such a duck fit!). Our favorite game though, by far, was "Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board'.

I had two friends who almost always took up the head, which meant they were the ones who had to come up with the story of the dead girl we were supposed to be calling on to help us lift our friend. (For the record, I always participated, but was too chicken to be the one being lifted)

One of our friends whose name I will not mention out of respect for the dead, was one of the ones who usually took the head. This means she sat at the head of the girl being lifted and told the story. She was a very spiritual person and told some really spooky, and believable stories. She died in the late 90's. I still sometimes wonder if she did not have some clairvoyant tendencies. It is so ironic that she died so young, as she was the one who had the most convincing ghost stories. I wonder if she somehow knew of her fate and had contact with the other side, even as a young child. She did own a Ouija board, which we sometimes "played with", but honestly it was a bit freaky and we usually put it away fairly quickly.

At any rate, my experience of playing this game are many and powerful. I hope you get as much enjoyment from this lens as I have writing about it.