Have you ever done a Ouiija Board? And did anything happen?

[MapleCutie]

Just wondering as I never have due to horror stories. Have you ever done one and did anything weird happen?

Just for fun stories and curiosity 😁

Ah, the disbelievers have woken up.
You are wrong.

I'd never do one but I'm definitely curious. My very un-woo parents did one when they were younger and have never talked about what happened, but both said 'never again'.

My incredibly supernatural-sceptic husband refuses to do one, saying there's no need to go looking for trouble.

I'm surprised to see how many presumably otherwise rational people on this thread genuinely believe you can invite evil spirits or demons into your home via use of a ouija board I thought the science behind the phenomenon was quite well known now. IIRC, Derren Brown has showcased the ideomotor reflex a fair bit.

I did one with friends when I was in my teens. It did move around but I've always assumed it was one of them making it move.

I love this thread, so interesting.

I am a very level headed person but I would never do ouiji board, I’ve always found them terrifying.

I think you've missed the point that vulnerable people struggle to believe it "is horse shit". I also know a teenage girl who tried to commit suicide after taking part in séances and ended up being sectioned.

Early 70s five of us did it at a friends house, the glass was very strongly moving despite very little pressure on the glass from all of us, it started rapidly moving around and flew off of the table and smashed to piece's on the floor, at the same time one of the teenage girls stood bolt upright and fainted backwards out cold, we stoped immediately, never to do it again.

When I was a student and was away from home in student accommodation a group of us tried this. None of us knew each other as we were all on different courses.
We used the usual glass tumbler and letters written on bits of paper.
We got a message from someone who told us what his name was, how old he was how he died and where he came from.
One of the lads, who was just watching started to go very pale. Then he suddenly left the room.
When he came back he told us that the details we had been given identified the 'contact' as a school friend of his, who had fallen in a Lincolnshire river and drowned.
We were miles from Lincolnshire.
We never did it again after that.

This is the only correct response to this post!

Same here… but it was me moving the glass!
Its all a load of old bollox.
As for those charlatans who claim to talk to the dead….absolute frauds, every single one of them.

Like the PP that said the coin was lifting up as if it was an air hockey puck, I have witnessed this.

I didn't take part but I and two other girls at college witnessed some male students taking part in a ouija session.

We three were sitting on their beds in their dorm while they were sitting at a table playing it, all with one finger on a poker chip.

All three of us could see that the chip was up off the board as there was a bedside lamp on the far side of it and we could see the light from it under the chip as it moved around the board.

We left them to it when they started getting some upsetting stuff. It all scares me shitless. I do believe there is a factor to it that is not fully understood.

I know all that (and have tried the pendulum experiment myself, many years ago) but it’s so funny what the power of suggestion can do. I’m getting the creeps just reading through this thread in broad daylight!

ETA I most definitely don’t believe that the ouija board does anything supernatural. But I also wouldn’t go near one because it would totally freak me out. Again, despite knowing rationally how it works.)

Haha, true! I definitely get the creeps from reading about it! I love stories of the supernatural/paranormal because they spook me so effectively - and yet I'm not bothered by actually doing something like a ouija board, because I know it's not real. It is funny how the human brain works 😅

Did it in college, we all acted as if we were talking to a little boy who died in a plane accident 😂

Yes, have one at home that usually comes out at Halloween, watch the Derren Brown episode about it, that explains how it ‘works’. It’s just a board game but the psychology around it is fascinating.

I remember my friends doing one on a school trip (it was a sports trip so I wasn’t there luckily). They got completely freaked out and there were noises in the room, they tried to get out of the hotel room but none of them could open the door even though it was unlocked. Someone heard the commotion and opened the door easily from the corridor.
I’m not woo so put it down to teen girl mass hysteria, but still scared the life out of them

My school friends and I decided to do one together so we made our own and got a glass. I decided that I’d move it and spook my best friend. Unfortunately I have possibly the worst polka face in the world. I got told off and they made me sit outside my friends dining room. They told me the glass moved by itself but I think they’re all lying to make me feel like I missed out. 25 years later and when we meet up they love to talk about the time I missed out on their ghost experience. These little bastards will take it to their grave that nothing happened. I’m absolutely a non believer but they’ve spent so long telling me I missed seeing the glass move independently I would love just one to admit they’re all big fat liars.

I did it early 70s. A model ship on the sideboard fell off, nobody was anywhere near the ship. I do think this was a coincidence now but at the time it was terrifying.

I've posted this before. I bought one in a charity shop, tried it, and nothing whatsoever happened.

My mother and grandmother were playing around with it on their own and they asked it what my future freshman in college's birthdate was. I was due to start in three weeks - we didn't know as I hadn't met her yet. We only had a name and her address. It gave the correct date day and month. This is the late 80s - no Googling/social media etc.

I've never done it again and don't know where the board is now.

I am sympathetic to those who say it's bollocks, the science behind it. But I also can't be bothered to risk introducing unpleasantness into my life with a 'message' or an 'encounter' so also avoid for that reason.

It’s entirely possible that the glass moved “by itself”, as discussed earlier in the thread. We can do it without realising.

I wouldn't do it unless I was with a group of Derren Brown fans (or visiting @Miyagi99 for Halloween!🎃) because I would find the dramatic reaction to anything happening completely irritating.

The Hungarian words has tickled me deeply. How did all the other non Hungarian speakers know it was Hungarian if the one person who could speak Hungarian wasn't in the room. All the accents are missing for a start.

I like the collective invention of a little boy who died in a plane crash. That's the kind of stuff that my husband would have done as a teen

My DM was very insistent that we never try it.

She did one one with her sisters and a few friends one night when the adults were down at the pub.

It kept saying the same name over and over again 'Josie' and 'tell Anne about Josie'.

As the one of my mums sisters was called Ann, and they had a neighbour called Josie, they just laughed and told everyone to stop messing around. They were joking and assumed everyone was in on it. DM said they fell silent when the glass flew off the board and smashed above the fireplace.

A week later, one of the friends aunts was taken ill to hospital and her and her unborn baby lost their lives. The friends grandmother was called Anne too, and the aunt was called Josie.

I remember my friends doing one on a school trip (it was a sports trip so I wasn’t there luckily)

Something amusing about remembering an event you weren't present for not even being remotely close to being the most ludicrous claim in this thread 😂

I'm extremely skeptical about all things ghost and ghoul-related, but I did meet a medium once who was a member of a spiritualist church. She didn't do paid readings or anything and she was vehemently against ouija boards, when someone mentioned them. She said they're very, very dangerous and that was enough for me!
Two friends of mine joined in a session at a party and a dog lead hanging on a coat peg started swinging madly. I wasn't there, so can't say it's true.

As a student I did one with 4 friends. The glass flew across the board, I 100% believe it having seen it, our fingers were only resting lightly on it. It spelled out hapless fop which wasn't wording any of us were familiar with.