Ouija board

[thegoodnameshadgone]

Has anyone done a ouija bored? I haven't. My partner has. Scares the shot out of me. Is it real?

For me it's like crack. Never do, go near, touch, etc etc

SarcasmMode I agree too. Your post made so much sense. Let's leave each to their own.. Calling someone a moron is very intolerant and shallow, I am s cientist and have worked in research for many years. My view has only opened over the years.

I've done them a few times as a teen. We all tried to scare each other and had a good giggle. Nothing happened.

I don't believe in ghosts or spirits.

My mum went through a phase of doing them after going to a seance and did a couple with my sister when she was a teenager who then showed me one evening in our bedroom. It was really basic with scraps of paper and a glass on a chest of drawers. It worked immediately and I was petrified. We both had one finger barely touching and just followed it around the board. A couple just moved around the board with not much to say. One was apparently our man who spelt my name repeatedly hitting one letter that I had changed in my spelling a year earlier but it never felt like a friendly presence and finally we had someone called robert who told me I will die before I leave my job and refused to say goodbye for a few minutes and then shot to goodbye after moving the glass around with no purpose for a while. I remember having such a buzz of adrenaline and wanting to do it more but knowing it felt wrong and couldn't sleep well for days. I felt like my choice to not believe was taken away and had an urge to try again with my friends but nobody would do one with me so eventually stopped thinking about it.
My sister unfortunately died when she was 20 but it wasn't work related so I can't say it had anything to do with the board.

Nan not man

My mum always warned me off them as she did one where the 'spirit' wouldn't say goodbye so they had to throw it into the garden.. I've done a few but always ended up laughing as I can't take it seriously!

Fudgefeet do you actually believe that?

I can't believe people actually think spirits and ghosts are real

Those who think it's a portal for spirits. Prior to some Victorian lady making a board game how did these spirits communicate with the living for the 200'000 years humans existed before the Ouija board?

As for saying 'you've never tried it' etc. If I told you I could fly at what point do you believe me. No, you use your common sense and what you know about physics and biology. I never been harmed by a spirit. I've been hit by a person though. Humans are the only monsters.

Same as Orange we did them regularly on a Friday piss up night, nothing happened apart from one of us pushing the marker thingy to try to scare the shit out of the rest.
I'd do one now but can't see the results being any different, mainly because I believe once you're dead, you're dead. I don't mock others who think otherwise though.

I would never do it. I'm not particularly 'woo' or anything bit I've had some very odd unexplainable things happen to me over the years to make me think that there is very possibly something on the other side, and I'm too much of a wuss to go messing with whatever it might be. Same reason I've never been to see a medium or get my cards read - I just don't think things like that should be messed with. I'm quite an anxious person anyway, I don't need anything to make it worse, real or not!

I did it a lot as a teenager. The glass rockets around the board, spells out some weird shit - it's freaky. I know we weren't pushing it, but I don't believe in ghosts either. And the glass did seem to spend a lot of time focussing on whomever we fancied at the time.

Years later I read about the ideomotor effect, where you honestly don't believe you are pushing it, but you are. And it all made sense!

Did it when we were kids - it made all sorts of frightening predictions - none of which came true (deadline passed for most) which I now realise were made up by my pal (they were pretty good for his age though).

It is utter bollocks.

What the fuck? Is this Mumsnet or a group of brooding teenagers?

i am a witch. Honestly, if you want to culturally appropriate women who were persecuted in the Middle Ages knock yourself out but FFS!!!!

Load of old bollocks.

Tried it once when I was 14 years old at a sleepover, all my friends scared shitless and getting responses on the board. I had a go - but did this thing called 'not bullshitting' and lo and behold, the thing didn't move. Amazing.

I hasten to add that I DO believe in the afterlife, the phenomenon of ghosts and spirits/imprints of people remaining on the earthly plane after death.

But the ouija board is nonsense.

We asked the Ouija board who we were going to marry.
It spelled out the initials of my friends husband and mine.
We hadn't even met them or knew of their existence at that point.

Yes, when I was young for a laugh with a group of kids. My usually quiet and placid grandma burst into the room and shouted at us to stop and to never do one again as they were dangerous. This is the only time I ever saw her lose her temper. My auntie later told me that my grandma did one when she was a child and something so awful happened she could never talk about it even after all those years. Don't mess with what you don't know.

I did them many times as a teenager and became a bit obsessed with it. Through continued use a sort of tapestry emerged of various interconnected stories of people whose untimely deaths were all woven together in one way or another, some of which was verifiable. I was convinced we were communicating with "the other side", including Jesus and the antichrist. I got to the point where I felt like I was "channeling" and to test this I would think things silently to myself and the board would answer.

Intellectually I know it must have been the ideomotor phenomenon via me or my friends or a combination but at the time I found it very difficult to rationalise. If I'm honest, as an atheistic non spiritual adult I still struggle to.

I'm a witch

Oh please. Lots of women died precisely because they weren't witches (Seeing as they don't exist) and to go around pretending you're one is just offensive.

bowie

I'm actually more worried that they let people who believe in this shit have kids

Are you suggesting people with certain beliefs shouldn't be allowed to have kids? Well that's a bit fucked up.

bowie your views are of no significance to me.

As an aside. Why is it mainly women who tend to believe this stuff. Same with psychics/mediums. The audiences are primarily middle aged women. Just something I've noticed and am curious about.

I don't really know what I believe but I do know that neither me or my sister were pushing that glass. Perhaps there is a scientific explanation but it's bloody scary when your a teenager. I tried doing them for years previously with no results and then suddenly it was working every time and instantly. I was laughing and joking right up until that moment and it was shocking. I wish I could just laugh it off like most people and say it's a load of crap but I would be lying. It would certainly be easier to live in ignorance and have that choice to do so.

No tests have shown anything other than other people pushing it. With all due respect you don't know your sister wasn't pushing it.

I have a friend who describes herself as a 'white witch'. It's her 'thing'. She's lovely, generous, kind, kids dote on her etc etc. Her beliefs are hers alone.

However, I also understand why people are upset by the modern day 'appropriation of the term 'witch'. Fine to sit in your semi-detached house with your crystals and never feel the very real terror of having such an accusation thrown at you.

The actual figures on how many women died as a result of this accusation are still unclear, but it is believed to have been in the tens of thousands. Most of these women were not 'practising witchcraft' as we imagine it. Many just differed from the 'norms' of a patriarchal society.

They might be a single mother whose husband had died. They might be childless. They might be particularly intelligent. Sometimes, a man's impotence would be blamed upon a 'witch'. Whichever - the men decided who they took out and they did just that. Not to mention the hideously flawed 'justice system' in which a woman who drowned was deemed 'innocent', and one who somehow survived was then burned.

The witch trials were misogyny at its very, very worst.

Brought up on them every Christmas and a great laugh.

We do it with our kids now they are older. Dd 16 wanted to do it with some friends who were all over 16 so we let her take it upstairs and when thry were all good and scared dh directed the hose jet onto her window. The screams were hilarious and all had a great time.

My sil takes it very seriously though and it's difficult not to laugh.