One year in the early nineties when I went to Mansfield, Missouri, for Rocky Ridge Day, two friends and I set up a ouija board at Friendship House and the two of them summoned Rose Wilder Lane while I watched. I can’t remember what they asked and what was answered, but I remember that the board was talkative that night, and it scared me a bit. That was before I really knew anything about Rose.
It turns out that Rose was quite interested in the occult and the summoning of spirits. She apparently held table-rappings from time to time at Rocky Ridge Farmhouse while living there. While persons sat around a table with their hands placed lightly upon it, the spirits were summoned and asked to respond to questions by making tapping noises on the table top or legs. Sometimes the table itself would rise, or the persons seated around it would be pushed backwards by the spirit.
Shortly before Norma Lee Browning Ogg died, she spoke at another Rocky Ridge Day I attended. Mrs. Ogg was a close friend of Rose Wilder Lane’s. There had been many activities held on the stage prior to her talk, including musicians and other speakers. But when Mrs. Ogg stood up to talk about Rose, there started being “problems” with the microphone, which was on a stand beside the speaker with a long arm holding the microphone itself. Repeatedly, the microphone fell from its proper position and had to be raised by Mrs. Ogg. She seemed not to pay any attention to it.
But the strangest thing occurred a few minutes later. While Mrs. Ogg was talking about Rose and her spiritual gatherings in the farmhouse in the background, an amplifier or speaker suddenly shot off the back of the platform and fell to the ground behind the tent. Nobody was near it; nobody was touching it. The platform was perfectly level, and it was as if someone simply pushed that box off the stage to get our attention.
I truly believe Rose was visiting her old friend that day.
