Patience Worth

Name:            Rachel
Email:           Lucciola@aol.com
Location:        St. Louis, Missouri
Type:            Channeling
Date:            Saturday, June 10, 2000
Time:            04:52 PM

I was just wondering if anyone here had ever heard of Patience Worth. It is not a personal experience of mine, but an infamous occurrence in my area.

I was born and raised in Saint Louis, and a couple of years ago I got hold of a book about Missouri's hauntings. That's when I first came across the story of Patience Worth.

About 80 years ago, in the late 1920s/early 1930s, a teenage girl (oh, geez, I forgot her name!) and her friend decided to try out a Ouija board for the first time in their lives. So, they started to "play the game"... and when they asked the spirit what its name was it answered "Patience Worth". Then, they asked how old she was. The spirit answered about 300 years old (if I remember correctly). Well, the girls thought this was great so they continued to contact this spirit for the next couple of years, eventually, the girl's friend lost interest. But, the other girl continued on her own.

Soon, Patience started to dictate poetry to the girl... and she told her stories of what God was like and what her life had been like. Patience claimed that she had been in Nebraska with her family (a pioneer family, apparently) and had been killed by Indians. She told the girl that the afterlife was beautiful, etc.

Eventually, Patience Worth's works began to gain notice in the Saint Louis community, here were beautiful works of poetry and wonderful insight that was coming from an uneducated Saint Louis girl. Scholars even researched some of Patience's works and they determined that her work did not contain ONE WORD that had come about after 1660.

It seemed very unlikely to them that someone as uneducated as this girl would have been able to accurately fabricate something like that. Some of Patience's work was even published as she gained notoriety. The Saint Louis girl continued to dictate Patience's words until the day she died at age 60-something. Patience did not appear after the girl's death.

To this day, people are still fascinated by Patience Worth. Of course, the works could have been fabricated.. but only with INTENSE study. Her books are still in circulation. I do not think I was able to fully explain the story to you, and I may been inaccurate on some of the points, but I encourage you to research Patience Worth's story on your own. It is absolutely fascinating.

God Bless.... 
I'm a believer!!