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??

In all seriousness for people suggesting priests do they actually work?

Ours is haunted atm. It was exorcised 6 months ago and all was fine but it has come back.

We used emergency mediums last time but I haven't got their number now and it's a faff trying to find one who will come out. I have txt a few local psychics this week and none have replied. Nervous about asking a priest as not sure if it will work? We aren't married, kids aren't christened, I've never heard of an actual story where they get rid of it? Please help!

Has the op done it yet?

I just tried this with my grandparents’ number.

First google result gave my grandmother’s full name and address. Googling her address turned up a 192.com result showing the full names of current cohabiters (and their rough ages) and her previous addresses with previous cohabiters and their ages (including my dad). A couple of clicks more and there are my and my siblings’ details. Could very quickly and easily map out our family in about a minute (even with my fat clumsy fingers on my smartphone).

Nice theory but it's extremely unusual for children to live in the same house they grew up in as an adult and allow this 'mapping out' to take place. I certainly don't. In my mum's case she didn't live in the same country let alone house that she grew up in (nor did she have a telephone growing up - they were very poor and moved around a lot). Her siblings didn't have the same surname as her and had two sets of surnames (neither of which she shared) and by then she was married with a different name, and one sibling lived abroad. There's no way anything could be traced via caller ID.

What makes you think you have a ghost cactus?

We used emergency mediums

You get 'on call' mediums? . Do they charge for the service?

@londonrach

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

Are you not thinking of the film Final Destination??

I wouldn't - there are supposedly evil spirits about which can be very nasty indeed - or so I've read.

It's always better to be safe than sorry - I'd get a local vicar or the like to come and bless the place so that whatever it is that could be a bother can go away and rest in peace, as it were.

Touch wood, I've heard about these things but have never experienced them and wouldn't want to either.

You’ve read about evil spirits?! 😮😮😮

🙄🙄🙄🙄

Luckily I’ve read that it’s all bollocks so that’s ok.

@PrickWhittington I know we have a ghost but just hadn't thought of using a priest.

Have been in the house 3 1/2 years. About 21/2 years ago (on Halloween ) dps auntie said she saw a soldier stood by me who wasn't really there. She was very very visibly upset but didn't tell us on the night. ( she told everybody else and we found out about a year later)

We got home and started to notice a strong burning smell a bit like cigars coming and going quite quickly but nobody had ever even visited who smokes. Then we noticed when it came and went things were happening and there was a pattern to it.
Started off small things like a door would slam or a light would turn off or you would hear a creek on the landing upstairs long after the kids were all asleep. The taps would come on full blast, occasionally the shower. Still rational explanations for everything.

One day we saw the handle move up and down when the door slammed in the room we were in and we started to notice more after that and it just got more and more. Things escalated at times. This is deffo going to out me as we told people at the time. One day the lights were flashing at the same time as the doors slammed. Another day I saw something get lifted up into thin air, moved about a foot to the left and then thrown hard over to the other side of the room - that was the only thing i witnessed alone everything else both dp and I have seen together. We have had things thrown at us. We have toddlers and there was a lighter on the floor in the bathroom so I put it safe in the bathroom cupboard up high because obviously, the next day both I and dp were the only ones in the house and we were in ds bedroom building an ikea unit and the lighter came flying through the door and hit me. We were both . It was shaking dds door at night and waking her up. One night I went to settle her and dp got up too.

Just to add as well- while all this is happening the boy in the house opposite us who is 5 is obsessed with soldiers. Obsessed. He's in my sons class and he doesn't even answer to his own name when the teacher calls he says no I'm soldier John. One day he didn't say that and I made a joke like oh not soldier John today? His mums face hit the floor. She said he didn't like soldiers at the moment he had had a weird experience and been freaked out. Me and dp were like oh what happened, she said he had come to her and said mummy I don't like soldiers, they kill children and burn houses down, she said he was terrified and he said there were people trapped inside the house and soldier john was there and there was lots of smoke and they couldn't get out. She said she was like this is silly he's not real but little boy takes her to the window and points outside. She says look there's nothing there but he is still pointing saying he can see it. Pointing at our house.
Once she was ok I went for a wee and he went back to bed to wait for me. Big loud heavy footsteps running behind me down the hall and I could feel something was right behind me. I didn't even need to react dp jumped out of bed and came running asking why there were another set of heavy footsteps following mine. I was in the bathroom terrified. Cried all that night with the kids in our beds. We went to a spiritual church and got the number for an emergency medium. It was actually two people who came out and yes they were free. They said it was a soldier from the Korean War with ptsd. We didn't give them any info. They were here about 4 hours and there was an immediate difference it had definitely gone. The whole house felt like home again, light and bright but this week it's come back.

Dp who is less easily spooked than me came upstairs white as a sheet on Monday night saying he had had hands on his arms on the sofa holding him down so he couldn't get up. Then I woke up about 4am on Wednesday morning and saw a man standing over me who had the exact same description his auntie had given of the soldier even down to the head injuries.
I'm quite desperate now. I'm reluctant to just get anybody in as I don't want somebody like a ghost hunter who does it just for fun who might end up encouraging more of this activity. We just want it gone ASAP. I'm not even convinced moving will help as when this soldier was spotted by dps auntie stood next to me we were at somebody else's house. If people have solid recommendations of a priest being able to deal with this kind of thing I'm there.
We are going to our local spiritualist church tonight for help.

Also fwiw I did a ouija board as a small child maybe about 10 with friends. I don't think we did it properly or anything happened. It said it wanted to kill me but I'm 105% sure that was my brothers friend moving the glass to scare me.
I've never done one as an adult so god knows what comes for you if you do

Whilst these superstitions are obviously nonsense if people believe in them then messing with these things such as ouija boards can be deeply traumatic

There are demons out there who would LOVE to get control of your life through a board

Old skool Cambridge Analytica.

But why exactly do evil spirits need a Ouija board to enter your life? Why can't they just saunter in without the need of something you can buy from Toys R Us FFS?

about asking a priest as not sure if it will work? We aren't married, kids aren't christened

The Church of England is still the official state church. Each parish will provide their services to everyone who lives there, so being unmarried and not having your kids christened makes no difference in this case. I would contact the vicar/parish office and talk to them (in the event you don't like them then you don't have to go ahead, of course). You could also try the ministers from other mainstream churches like Baptist, Methodist or United Reformed.

Whilst these superstitions are obviously nonsense if people believe in them then messing with these things such as ouija boards can be deeply traumatic

Absolutely. But the antidote for this is knowledge, knowledge of the psychology and our suggest-ability also a knowledge of the relatively short history of the game. Not cries of 'leave it alone'.

A person who would find ouija boards harmful would be the very sort of person who would be helped by learning some critical thinking skills. If they're so open to such an obviously absurd practice then chances are their lack of thinking skills are having a detrimental effect in many other areas of their life.

about asking a priest as not sure if it will work? We aren't married, kids aren't christened

That's so sad. So on some level you think there's a host of malevolent spirits that wish you harm, and a god who can prevent them doing so, but he might choose not to help because you aren't married. And he would choose to not protect your children because they haven't had some water put in their head?

Imagine if the emergency services saw fit to behave so monstrously.

Them: 'which emergency service do you require?'
You: 'Police please. Someone's breaking into my house and they have a knife'.
Them: 'okay, before I dispatch a police car can you confirm that you are not having sex outside of marriage'
You:

@headinhands twist my words all you like.
I would just like my house back.

twist my words all you like.

What do you mean by 'it won't work'?

@headinhands I've just read back through my posts. At no point did I say "it won't work "
At no point did I say whether I believed in any god or not either

So shit stir somewhere else im looking for people with actual experience, not sad acts with nothing better to do than sit and manipulate people's wording.

@cactusplant I'm not a woo person particularly (I'm open minded) but reading that just made all the hairs all over my body stand on end. I would be terrified, whatever the explanation. I wonder if it's worth doing some research either into your house or your family to see if there's any history or connection with a soldier?

So shit stir somewhere else im looking for people with actual experience, not sad acts with nothing better to do than sit and manipulate people's wording.

Whoa! You were the one who postulated if a priest would be able to deal with it, then adding that you're not married and your kids aren't christened so it suggests that you feel your marital status may have some bearing on the priests ability to help?

That sounds very scary cactus.

To those who do believe in or say they have had ghosts, have you ever lost someone you were very close to? And did you believe in ghosts/ spirits before the weird stuff?

Totally agree with whoever said that the type who credulously believes this nonsense needs to get much better at actual thinking.

Plus, the human brain is incredibly suggestible which is why hypnosis can be so effective.

I can see how this woo nonsense can take root with some people. You hear a weird noise one night, when you're home alone and it's Halloween (it never happens in the dairy aisle at Asda on a Tuesday morning does it?) and it immediately puts you on edge. Now on edge, you notice that the living room lamps briefly flicker! Suddenly all your senses are hightened and all the hairs go up on your arms, your heartbeat picks up and you go cold (all totally normal physiology reactions. Nothing woo). Then you notice your car keys have moved from where you last left them (maybe you're misremembering, or your DC moved them etc) but because you are now jittery you immediately assume it's a supernatural force etc. And so it builds and builds until every shadow, squeak and whisper is something woo

Do some reading on Confirmation Bias, it explains an awful lot. There are 1001 reasons why people believe in the supernatural. Not one of them is because the supernatural actually exists.

But Penelope, that wouldn't explain the loud footsteps behind her and numerous other things she described.
I really think people need to understand that there's a lot of things we don't know about

Most likely her blood thumping loudly in her ears?

"Then you notice your car keys have moved from where you last left them (maybe you're misremembering, or your DC moved them etc)"

You really, really don't understand what disappearing object phenomenon is, do you? It isn't misremembering where you put something. It's checking a particular place for an item, e.g. a table, even more specifically, a particular spot on that table. The item isn't there. You're alone in the house, with no other people, children, pets, anything else, with you. Just you. You know that item isn't on that table, because you just looked, with your eyes, and felt, with your own hands, and it. is. not. there.

So you leave the room, or even just turn your back to look elsewhere, just for a minute, maybe less. Then you reenter the room, or turn back around, and that item is there, in that exact spot that you'd checked, a minute or so ago.

You near jump out of your skin, because how the fuck could that have happened? It can't happen. It's not possible. And yet it just did.

That is disappearing object phenomenon. Anyone who, like myself, has actually experienced it, will know what I'm talking about. You clearly haven't, so you really don't.