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

How is a Ouija board like crack.? Its like saying snakes and ladders is like weed?

If you could get high on a kids game I would be be banging the hell out of monopoly.

Clearly never played Operation, Quorn - always gives me a buzz...

"and she still had the original ouji board up in her loft when was was eventually moved to a nursing home. It would have been made in the 1800's"

Well, the very late 1800s- considering they weren't manufactured until the 1890s!

Honestly, Google "ideomotor effect".

Talking boards with planchettes were around before 1890s

But you are correct, its all a explainable by science

If you could get high on a kids game I would be be banging the hell out of monopoly.

Do it buy yourself! It never moves.

Oh clopy

Hope one of the lads wasn't your lad.

. Mind you if he was trust me we all had a really good laugh and really you need to warn your kid to fear the living not the dead.

Derren Brown has convinced me it's all a load of baloney.

There are some great reviews on Amazon

'Don't buy this unless you are willing to deal with the consequences. We summoned something dark which took our kids and made the walls bleed. Our dog grew bats wings and spoke in ancient aramaic.

Quite disturbing.'

(not the hasbro one)

headinhands, We both were barely touching it. It was literally a case of fingers hovering over and the way the glass moved was fast and grating. It was not physically possible to move the glass that way with the pressure of our fingers. Not only that, we both had moments where our fingers were not quite keeping up. I am not making it up, it was scary shit.

I did one with my friends once. A girl called Elizabeth came through, with a whole big spooky backstory. Friends shit themselves

What can I say, my finger slipped

If you could go back in time, Fudge, you would see that it was very different to how you remember it.

Ideomotor movement is very powerful, especially when people are in a suggestible state, which they are if they're taking that silly mass produced board game seriously. It certainly does feel as though you're not moving the glass, and if you believe in it on any level it can be profoundly disturbing (and, of course, this prompts you to move the glass more, get more scared because you think you're not, so the glass moves more, etc etc). You do feel as though you're not moving it. But you are.

If, however, you can prove under laboratory conditions that you are not under ideomotor movement and the planchette really is moving of its own accord (begging the question of why you need to touch it at all, or why the fucking thing doesn't work when participants are blindfolded and the board turned upside down without their knowledge), James Randi has a lot of money for you. Why has nobody ever claimed it?

It's interesting how many spirits come from times when most people were illiterate, yet can spell out sentences in perfect modern English.

I don't know, if I were a powerful evil spirit, able to curse and kill people horribly, I think I'd have a way of doing it that didn't necessitate a recently invented parlour game produced by Hasbro.

Or here's a plan. Get a friend who speaks another language, one where you wouldn't recognise even the letters, to set up a board using those characters. Get other people who have no understanding of the language to hold the planchette with you; your friend can speak to the spirits aloud in that tongue bur must not touch the glass. See if a bunch of people who speak only English can be successfully guided by a spirit speaking Mandarin or Arabic.

That would be interesting, no?

I though all spirit guides were native Americans...........

Yet they communicate in English when the participants don't speak Navajo or Cherokee....funny, that!

But they use a funny accent so that's OK.......

When I was 14 I got freaked during a ouija session on a sleepover (it doesn't take much to scare me) and decided to sit out the rest of it and just watch. Lucky I did, because the others were so engrossed that they did not notice a candle fall over and the curtain catch fire!