Ouija Board Weirdness!

[Vincitveritas]

Since we've just had Halloween...

I should start by saying I have personally never used one of these and never plan to. There's a lot of information out there at the moment trying to debunk and pass these off as 'just another board game'.

The only thing I've heard indirectly was when some local teenagers ran to the Vicarage in the early hours of the morning in a lot of distress after playing with a OB.

Has anyone here used a Ouija board? What was your experience and what do you believe caused it? Do you think they're just a bit of harmless fun?

It's a board game made by Hasbro.
Less exciting than Mousetrap; more exciting than Risk.

That is a load of bollocks.

Following though

Personally wouldn't risk it!

I used one with 2 friends many years ago. I would never ever use one again and I’d advise people to avoid!!!

It's a board game made by a company that makes board games for children. The mechanics behind how it works are fully known and understood. There is nothing other than basic physics at play.

That said they can be fun if you are with a group who all want to be creeped out and are willing to play into it.

Debunk what?
It's woo-woo, prove otherwise.

I've seen The Exorcist.

When I was a kid me and a friend made one.

I asked "is anyone there? Knock once for yes and twice for no"

Yes. You read that right. I actually said knock twice for no 🤦 aaand that's about how bright you need to be to believe these things are real.

Anyway, there was an almighty bang and me and my friend ran downstairs scared to death. Into the kitchen where my sister was there with a broom (or mop or something) in her hand, a huge grin on her face and a dent in the ceiling that is there to this day.

There is actual proof that these things are moved by people.

I think penn and teller got a group of people around a board, blindfolded them then quietly turned the board over / round.

The glass or planchet or whatever it was moved.

To where the participants thought the letters were.

I'm not religious at all, I have never used a OB as I don't think things I don't understand should be messed with.

Some colleagues did for a laugh in the office, many years ago and I did see the plachette move about, seeminly freely. That was enough for people to freak out and take their fingers off. Another colleague refused to have anything to do with it as she'd had disturbing experiences with Ouja when she was younger and said nothing good would come from messing with a Ouja Board

I was happy to take her word for it.

We'll exactly @DogInATent
It's funny how in cases of woo it seems there is a burden of disproof; in fact it should be on those making those extraordinary claims (e.g. that a board game can summon the dead) to prove them, not challenge others to debunk.

I'm not religious at all, I have never used a OB as I don't think things I don't understand should be messed with.
Oddly enough, I have the same attitude to the engine of my car. I leave it to the professionals.

Watch Witch board it will put you off for life!!

I love it all but it’s a load of 💩

My sister used a Ouija board once and believed it because she asked what’s my sister’s middle name and it correctly answered.

Except that my middle name is a very generic middle name from the 80s/90s and literally half of the women I know have the same middle name!

😆

She also went to a psychic who forgot she was meant to have an appointment with them…

And when everyone took their fingers off it - did it continue to move?

www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322863#One-Ouija-board-user-always-predicts-letters

Ouija boards as a concept are much older than any boxed game version and you can make your own.

FWIW I've used one a few times in my gothy teen years and never seen one do anything. My parents used to swear blind that they were at a party once where someone got possessed after using one, but I suspect it was the drugs talking as they both did a lot of cannabis.

Not as far as I recall, I was 20 at the time and I'm now 51.

And when everyone took their fingers off it - did it continue to move?

I think we all know the answer to that!

We used one as teenagers, my friends and I. I bought it from an occult bookshop and blush now to remember asking the owner if they worked (he said yes, as it happens).

It didn't work of course, but the planchette upside down glass tumbler moved around and told us something cryptic about the deceased aunt of one of us participants, coincidentally his finger nearly slid off the planchette when I momentarily pressed down firmly to stop it moving!

I've outed myself now in the unlikely event they're reading.

My dad used one once. He said that he pushed it around and everyone freaked out. He thought it was hilarious.

So, the general consensus so far seems to be it's a load of old baloney.

@ITriedToStopSwearingButICunt Love a game of Mousetrap!

@Nongatron If it's not too outing I'd love to know what happened.

Yes, and didn't she use one of the Waddington board game versions of a ouija board!

It’s the living evil people that are more frightening than someone’s grandma who passed twenty years ago popping up to say hi.

@Vincitveritas I’m going against the grain here but it was a genuinely terrifying experience and none of us 3 got away unscathed. Would never use one ever