To do a ouija board on my own?

[LucyDontLockIt]

Got another threat going but wanted to ask a quick question.

I want to a ouija board to determine whether anything is haunting my house. I'm a non spiritual person, non religious, don't really believe in the supernatural but I'm being tested at the minute.

I've been to some of the most supposedly haunted places on Earth (Poveglia anyone?! Look it up) and felt nothing. So I'm not easily convinced but something isn't right. Nobody will talk to me about it and nobody believes me. I'm tempted to just do a ouija board on my own. If nothing happens, I'll tell myself I was imagining everything else.

AIBU to consider doing this??

Okay.

But if for example, you use a Ouija board alone and you only speak English what happens if the eeevil spirit is perhaps French? Or German? How does it communicate with you? Or does it just keep repeating the same sentence in very, v e r y s l o w writing and in ever increasing size in the frustrated hope you will finally understand?

If ouija boards are Bollox then there's no point in doing one

If ouija boards aren't Bollox and you really can contact the dead/undead/ghosts then why the fuck would you want to mess with that shit

So either way don't do it

would have made a sound that would be impossible to me not to have heard. In fact, I still have the tub, and I just tried dropping it several times from that height onto the bathroom floor. It makes a right whack as it hits the floor,

You said you were brushing your teeth in the original instance. Did you make sure you were brushing your teeth when you tried recreating the pot dropping?

The girl out of that ouija film wrote the letters in her own blood

No, I wouldn't.

Not because I'm religious or particularly superstitious but subconsciously you can mess with your head pretty easily with that kind of thing.

Add to that the small chance something could manifest (I do keep an open mind, although I very much doubt it) then it's unlikely to be the very person you were hoping for.

The best way to ward off an evil entity if you believe it is to actually request it leaves. If not, go to a practitioner of your faith and ask them to bless/exorcise the house.

Also on a practical level fill the house with things that make you feel positive. A few planets, some nice cushions, oak panelling whatever it is that makes you feel comfortable.

Honestly I think we’re just getting tall tales.

On page 6 of this thread, Liz told us her story about objects unexplainedly moving. The story was set in her bathroom, with the door locked, window closed, no drafts, etc. An object fell of the window ledge, clearing a sink protruding from the wall, and ending up in the middle of the floor, where Liz found it.

Then, we get a diagram of an object in the same bathroom, featuring the sink and locked door from the first story, but this time the object has fallen from a shelf (not the window ledge by the sink) and it hits Liz in the leg, rather than her finding it on the floor.

After being pressed and going back to read her previous post, Liz clarifies that she is actually ‘better illustrating’ a different story than the one she had told us.

If both stories happened, why on earth would you tell the story of ‘that time I found an object had fallen on the floor’ but not mention the, apparently separate, story where an object flew across the room and hit you when giving an account of objects unexplainedly moving? The first story is a mundane occurrence. Story 2 is much more Woo.

"You said you were brushing your teeth in the original instance. Did you make sure you were brushing your teeth when you tried recreating the pot dropping?"

No, because I was the only person in the house when I tried, and I don't have multiple arms the length of Mr. Tickle's, to enable me to stand at the sink brushing my teeth whilst simultaneously dropping a plastic tub four feet away. Nor am I so noisy at brushing my teeth that I could possibly not have heard said tub dropping onto a tiled floor. And no, before anyone asks, the tap was not running or dripping at the time. No other sound in the room, but that of me brushing my teeth, with a manual brush.

That tub did not hit the floor before hitting my leg. I can't stress that enough.

"Liz told us her story about objects unexplainedly moving. The story was set in her bathroom, with the door locked, window closed, no drafts, etc. An object fell of the window ledge, clearing a sink protruding from the wall, and ending up in the middle of the floor, where Liz found it. "

That was a clock. Different incident, different day.

"Then, we get a diagram of an object in the same bathroom, featuring the sink and locked door from the first story, but this time the object has fallen from a shelf (not the window ledge by the sink) and it hits Liz in the leg, rather than her finding it on the floor."

That was the wipes tub, which moved from the corner shelf, opposite the window, to touch me on the leg four feet away, as described above. Again, entirely seperate incident on a different day.

"Honestly I think we’re just getting tall tales."

Oh well, feel free to ignore if you think I'm telling porkies.

Did you hear the clock fall?

catinboots9, nope. Completely true. She was 15 years old.

@liz70
You said you were “rationally brushing your teeth”....

How does one brush their teeth irrationally ?? 🤔

(Completely misses point of thread)

But if for example, you use a Ouija board alone and you only speak English what happens if the eeevil spirit is perhaps French? Or German? How does it communicate with you? Or does it just keep repeating the same sentence in very, v e r y s l o w writing and in ever increasing size in the frustrated hope you will finally understand

PenelopeShitStop (great name!)

"The first story is a mundane occurrence"

It looks like another diagram is required. This time as seen from above.

The clock, despite its position on the window ledge, being in direct line of the sink, somehow did not fall into the sink, but instead was found on the floor, forward of the sink and pedestal? And how an object with a weighted base, somehow manage to move from its position, hard against the window frame, at the back of an eight inch deep window ledge, then travel over a sink of 19 inches projection, to end up a further 15 inches forward on the floor?

As I said, no mice, no pets, nobody in the bathroom when it happened. I was awake in the bedroom directly opposite (doors facing each other) at the time, so I know that nobody entered the bathroom between me using it, clock on window ledge, then me reentering the bathroom a short while later, to find the clock on the floor.

And no, it did not fall into the sink and bounce up out of it onto the floor. It's made of plastic, not rubber.

I did not hear the clock "fall", despite being awake a few feet away. I simply found it on the floor.

I don't call it a mundane occurrence, far from it.

I don’t think an object has to be rubber to bounce out of a sink. Was confused as whether you were in the bathroom or not because when you were telling the first story you seemed to suggest the bathroom door was locked (which would have indicated someone was inside it).

"the first story you seemed to suggest the bathroom door was locked (which would have indicated someone was inside it)"

That was the wipes tub incident. I was in the bathroom, hence the bolted door.

"I don’t think an object has to be rubber to bounce out of a sink."

I don't have the time to do it now, but I still have that clock, and the same sink. I could drop the clock into the sink from the same height as the window ledge a thousand times (bear in mind that there is the back ledge of the sink and bridge mixer taps - see photo - before it could fall directly into the sink) and it would not bounce out of the - pretty deep - sink and out onto the floor.

Besides, that still doesn't explain how the clock moved six inches from the back of the window ledge to the front, before "falling" into the sink.

Penelopeshitstop why should a spiritual being be any nationality?

Perhaps by being receptive, we are allowing a spirit to communicate through us so it would make sense to be in the language we know.

Bizarrely, some kind of entity seems to be compelling you to add e's onto the word evil while on this thread. Please consult your nearest chopping board.

Just type 'Derren Brown Ouija board revealed' into You Tube. Very interesting how it all works. Good to check out the science behind these things.

No. Never.

So what did dead humans do to communicate either before the game was invented last century, or in fact going back to before we had developed language?

Also on a practical level fill the house with things that make you feel positive. A few planets, some nice cushions

exactly how big is your house??

Do the more middle class eeevil spirits prefer artisanal wooden ouija boards hand crafted by a women's collective in Botswana? I presume the more chavvy eeevil spirit can make do with a plastic bit of ouija tat available on a 4-6 week delivery from China?

As per my post of Tuesday, they're in The Range right now. It's so tat it has LED's built into it. Batteries not included.

Go for it, I play scrabble by myself all the time. Same diff.

How coincidental that British people always channel an English speaking evil spirit, and that French people always channel French speaking evil spirits. Handy that

And why do they need a piece of triangular plastic tat to 'communicate' with us? Why not, say, a skateboard (that's an ovoid of plastic on wheels)? Or, a baby walker (a roughly rectangular piece of plastic which also has wheels)?

Why would a spirit bother to speak to someone who wouldn't understand their language though?