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??

I clicked on this post hoping for a few scary stories. I am disappointed to report that i'm not even slightly spooked.

@PenelopeShitstop

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)?

LOL, this made me laugh!

A skateboard!!!

I guess there is a reason to use a weejie board though.

I am just not sure what it is!!!

A weejie board? Is that for communicating with dead people from Glasgow?

Definitely not if you are untrained and don't know how to recognise spirits then this can only be a BAD IDEA.

Am a wiccan and still wouldn't do a ouija board alone. Definitely not in my house as I've had bad experiences in the past attracting a negative entity. This was before I even believed in this stuff and it was with my room mates for a laugh!!
The negative spirit would not leave I had to move out. We lived in a very old house that I now know to be (thanks to a local priest) a hotbed for spirits.

If you have children you don't want your house to be a dwelling place for spirits as they are more sensitive and unprepared.

The best thing to do is to cleanse your house and protect it with white sage smudging with positive intent. Imagining your light spreading across your house or you can always hire a pro that has a good reputation.

I'm far too girly to use a standard bare wood one. I need this one made by Toys'r'us.

(Seems ironic that they're now themselves 'dead')

Don't. Just don't. Nothing good has EVER come of doing Ouija. You'd be an idiot to try.

quangnot but how do the evil spirits know who speaks their native language? And what if the native English speaking evil spirit inadvertently finds itself in, say, Malta but desperately fancies doing some evilness? Do they have to hurry back to the UK along the astral plane motorway? Or can they stop off at a Saga cruise ship in the Med, filled with British OAPs?

Has anyone taking the piss and despairing at other's beliefs actually ever used a ouija board?

I used one the other week with my psychic medium friend. She only agreed to it because she was pissed. We've had a Ouija board for years due to DD's gothic phase but hadn't used it in years.

We turned off the lights, lit some black and red candles (also from DD's gothic phase) turned off the TV. My psychic medium friend placed a 'protective cloak' around my house.

We opened the board properly with some latin spell and.....

Fuck all happened.

We got more pissed and forgot about it.

I did have a whopping hangover the next day. I would normally think it was all the vodka but this one was definitely evil. It tried to kill me.

`This thread is really interesting.

Plus I got my laugh of the day from the 'Victorian ghost person' tale .

But obviously OP no - don't do it - it will not clarify anything, just fuck your head up even more, regardless of whether it results in something from your subconscious or 'a Victorian ghost person'. (Sorry)

I do find all this power of the mind stuff intriguing though. I remember a lecturer at Uni years ago (Anthropologist) telling us how if a witch doctor condemned someone to death in a certain tribe, they would die, that you could take them to any Western hospital, give them any modern medicine, but still, if they believed they would die, they would.

Never been able to verify that since (anyone?). But it sounded good.

Oh dear headinhands, that pink plastic one says ‘asks the questions girls want to know’. That brings all sorts of weird visions to mind!

What tween-age girl only questions could the spirits be needed to answer?

“Spirit guide oh spirit guide, are lillets or tampax better value in SuperDrug at this moment?!”

Eeeergh...

@HPLikecraft

A weejie board? Is that for communicating with dead people from Glasgow?

LOL!

@PassionFruitPop

I agree with you. Although I am just a bit 'woo' and not massively into it, no WAY would have one of those things in my house!

@headinhands

Toys R Us sold them?!

If you truly believe a spirit is haunting you and your home, don't allow it to come through, visit a spiritualist church - they're all over the place - and seek advice there.

Seriously why would you. I only people i know who playing with this died in weeks...we talking 6 people in their twenties. Avoid!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some things you dont play with ever!!!!!

Not all paranormal investigators (to give us our proper title) are lying, robbing charlatans! Any worth their salt won't charge a penny, and there are some reputable teams around. Whether you believe in ghosts/spirits or not I'd suggest contacting your local Spiritualist church as they can put you in touch with a genuine medium.
In the meantime, sage (doesn't have to be a bunch of sage- joss/incense stick will work just as well) in all the rooms in your house.

Derek Acorah and Sally Morgan have got a lot to answer for ☹ ........

But no, please don't ever mess around with Ouija boards! And that's not even the paranormal investigator in me saying that- I was that 14-yr-old-girl-on-a-sleepover and had a genuine encounter. Thats what got me into this hobby.

Please DON'T do this. As others have suggested, call a priest. They have dealt with these things before and wont necessarily expect you to go their church- so if Roman Catholic call in the Father and if Anglican the Vicar. Hope things settle very soon, and the sooner you call in the priest, the sooner they are likely to xx

Talked about doing one once with a friend. Lights went off, TV went to white noise. We RAN out of the house

Quite possible the lighting power MCB tripped as they do if a bulb blows and the TV aerial amplifier is often wired onto a lighting circuit.

Nothing odd about that at all.
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A weejie board? Is that for communicating with dead people from Glasgow?

Damn you HP - I was about to post that!

We opened the board properly with some latin spell and.....

Those haven't worked since the Second Vatican Council and the decision to stop Latin Masses. Ghosts just laugh in the face of dead languages these days.

Why don't you try sage smudging?

But at least with Latin the evil spirits don't have to worry about mastering the accent. Which is nice.

I mean, you can come really unstuck with an evil spirit that has a strong regional accent, say a Geordie? They might be ill wishing all sorts of bad ass spirit shit on you, but you're just totally confused as to what gannin actually means

In films, the spirits are all able to spell.