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 😁

Was gonna do one on a sleep over with my cousins at my very catholic nanas old farm house. It was so spooky! She came in as we were about to do it and fucking freaked out. She clapped us all and oh my god, my ears were ringing! At 76 she could still clip your ear real good.

So yes something scary did happen, but not because of spirits.

I've never watched the Exorcist (although it's very much a film of my generation) but I'm too much of a wimp. But it was indeed an actual "game". It was sold alongside things like Cluedo and Battleships and in its first Christmas of manufacture (1966) it actually outsold Monopoly. What were parents thinking!

It was invented as a game and Ouja board is trademarked by Hasbro. It’s literally marketing. And I bet all these same gullible fools are the ones who say ‘I’ve never been influenced by advertising.’

IT IS A GAME

My mum told me that her parents had used it once and they asked it where mum was. It answered “dead in bed”. They ran upstairs in a panic to check on her but fortunately she was just fast asleep. They threw the board out immediately.

Yes, with a group of mates as a teen. Glass was fairly whizzing around and each of us took turns removing our fingers- it still moved.
Stopped it when it spelled out it had something to say to one of us and it was me. One of my DP had recently died, would never do it again.

My older sister was a student at the royal college for the blind in Hereford in the 1980s. I don’t know if it’s the same now, but then, students used to live in the very old building that was supposedly haunted.

They used to do ouija boards all the time.

There was no cheating - they would get the students who were completely blind to put their fingers on the pointer so there was no way they could cheat - they couldn’t see the letters.

It predicted one of thier deaths a few years later. One of her fiends was told they would die in an accident when he was 22. He had a motorbike crash and died the day after his 22nd birthday.

It would say it was looking out of the eyes of the posters on thier walls and describe them.

Like I said, no way of cheating and moving the pointer, the people who did that had complete vision loss.

@BeurialJimberley "It was invented as a game and Ouja board is trademarked by Hasbro. It’s literally marketing. And I bet all these same gullible fools are the ones who say ‘I’ve never been influenced by advertising.’
IT IS A GAME"

It wasn't designed as a game at all. It was intended to be used to contact the dead, in exactly the same way they are used at seances. So whether you believe or not, it's hardly a suitable thing for a child - which was the point I was making.

Wow that's so creepy!

Yes, at University.
We ‘spoke’ to several entities including a French child (in French) and a WW1 soldier who died on a ship.
We learnt that these entities do not eat, drink or sleep, but spend their time ‘playing with our minds.’
One entity became aggressive and pushed out all the paper letters off the table.
I would not do it again because I believe it is potentially dangerous.

But it wasn’t. I was, and is, a game. It was invented as a novelty parlour game in the late 1800’s. Not a way to speak to the dead.

literally, just google it and you’ll see.

Yes I go to paranormal investigations about once a month in castles, prisons, stately homes and old pubs and have my own ouija board.
We've have some good evidence in places I know nothing about, names of previous owners, death dates, what job they did, that sort of thing.
I've also had some nasty messages, been sworn at, with some unexplainable things happening at the same time, someone being pushed over, items falling, bangs etc.
However whilst interesting I kind of take these things with a pinch of salt.
Danny Robins the presenter of Uncanny said there is something called the ideomotor phenomenon, which basically says the movement of a planchette/cup is caused by involuntary muscle movement.
Using a ouija board takes time, your hand gets fatigued or you might press down on the cup by accident leading to it moving.
I do prefer other experiments such as EVP, video footage or just sitting down and asking questions into the ether to see if there is a response.
I also see and feel things quite a lot, even in my own house, and it can be hard to discredit those experiences.

Even though it was marketed as a parlour game it was born out of the 19th century spiritualist craze, where going to seances and the pursuit of all things paranormal were the absolute rage of the era. So to suggest that it was completely disconnected from contacting the dead, or seeking answers from "the other side", is ridiculous. It had no other use whatsoever, so what exactly do you think the "game" involved? How did one actually play it?

yep

My mum did one in the 70s in a room above a pub.They all saw a face at the window one storey up.

I would never do it. Not because I believe it’s opening up a spiritual portal. But because I know humans are fragile. People can be psychologically damaged by what they think they have felt/seen. It’s very dangerous to mess with the mind.

Hi
it was the late 70’s when a crowd of us decided to get together at a party with a home made quija board it was hysterical. Bearing in mind it was fuelled by alcohol.
The table was a coffee table which could wind up to a dining room height so one of the guys slowly wound it up and the rest of us were starting to panic thinking the spirits were at work.
One guy was using his rosary beads praying to keep us safe, another rushed to the toilet in a panic. He put on the sink tap so hard the water it swished round and soaked the front of his trousers and everyone thought he had wet himself.
We are sitting on our holiday balcony still laughing about this years later as I married the guy who I was with 🤣🤣.We all realised later we had been wound up by the guys who lived in the flat. Everyone realised the joke.

Light as a feather stiff as a board I remember worked at our school. I had forgotten all about this game. Thanks for the memories.

I don't know whether there's anything in it or not, but I'm never going anywhere near one.

No need to be rude , obviously I mean I remember them telling me about it because they were still freaked out about it afterwards in school

Using lexicon cards and a wine glass is not quite the same as using a board- tends to be more dramatic.

It wasn't invented in the C19th- how to make a board and planchette is described by a dream interpreter in ancient Greece called Artemidorus I think. So it was invented as a way of speaking to the dead, not as a parlour game.

We had one in my 3rd year uni house. We used to play with it often. Yes, of course, we got messages but we all knew it’s nonsense. I think even as a 20 year old, I knew about the ideomotor effect.

A Ouija board is just a toy - a bit of silly fun like a Magic 8 ball. Believing it contacts the dead is rather like believing a fortune cookie has access to the future.

Well yes, exactly. But I was responding to another poster who said that it was "marketed" as a parlour game in the 19th century. And she is correct. A toy manufacturer started marketing and selling their brand of Ouja boards as a parlour game in the late 1800's. However, it was clearly intended to be used as a means to connect with "the other side" (as it always had been).

Ach she's rude all over the forum I suspect.

We used to play with one when I was a tween/pre-tween. I practiced so I could move the pointer fairly accurately and used to freak my friends out with predictions and tidbits of gossip. Some of the predictions came true, others didn't.