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??

^^omg ive had this happen ALL THE TIME! Once i went into my bedroom in the middle of the night and found a flashing fibre optic sword on my bed. Kids had been asleeo for hours. Regularly hairbrushes etc turn up right under my nose. It definitely wasnt there before.
Is that a ghost?
Also, why is tarot bad?

katyatide

Cornettos all the way for me, then!

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?

They just do - and it's no good borrowing one - you have to OWN a Ouija board because possession is 9/10ths of the lore.

@cactusplant No advice unfortunately but your post is terrifying. I've had some unreliably creepy experiences but nothing as sinister as that. I feel really for you and your family

*undeniably creepy I mean

i have a ouija board tattooed across the back of my hands. i remain, so far, unmolested by Evil.

I don't believe in ghost, demons, evil not created by man, God, life after death etc.
But when my DD asked if she could do ouija board at a sleepover, I said no.
I read few articles saying that our belief in the supernatural and our superstitions are something that is rather natural and has evolved with mankind so it made me feel less of a hypocrite.
I still run up the stairs and tuck my feet quickly into bed when I get up and go to get some water in the middle of the night.

"Because they just do" ah, well that makes perfect sense then

cactus you should be bloody ashamed of yourself exposing and involving your young children in your silly delusions. It sounds like you and your DP have worked yourselves up into a right state and your poor DCs are also dragged into it.

I mean, come on, "the door slammed and we saw the handle move up and down". Doors slam all the time for various reasons, and if it slammed it's no wonder the handle moved. A door handle where I work often suddenly drops down. No ghost, just a faulty mechanism.

You say a spirit has moved your DDs door handle? No doubt the poor girl has been listening to your nonsense and God knows children have over reactive imaginations at the best of times.

"A soldier from the Korean war with PTSD"? Oh, purleeese. How the fuck did the 'mediums' know he was from the Korean war, as opposed to say, a little known skirmish in Aden/Sudan/wherever?? It's always a place, person or event that virtually everyone knows about isn't it? As for him having PTSD that isn't an acronym 'he' would have known or used FFS. Shame 'he' didn't tell them his name, rank and number isn't it, and what unit he served in? You know, something actually verifiable? But I expect the 'mediums' could only 'sense' very vague generalities about 'him' yes? Handy that

You do realise that 'mediums' have a vested interest in peddling and perpetuating this sort of shite don't you?

You do not need a bloody spiritualist church FFS. You need to get a damned grip. Start acting like a rational adult. Stop exposing your children to your hysteria and frightening them. And bloody work hard at being a damned sight better at thinking.

Just watch the Derren Brown "Seance" programme - fabulous!

It demonstrates and explains exactly how all this stuff works.

It's all psychological rather than "Woo" and those taking part have no idea what they have been doing and act surprised by it!

It explains the items moving, brilliantly! People want to believe it and thus they do not see the rational explanations.

I have no fear now!

Yes, it's fascinating program isn't it tistheseason.

Reminds me of a diet documentry where they asked dieters to keep an accurate food diary. The dieters were adamant they had recorded every single bite they'd eaten. Except they had been filmed eating tonnes of stuff they hadn't logged. You could see the dieters were genuinely astounded that they had forgotten so quickly and completely.

The human memory is notoriously unreliable. Even trained observers regularly miss obvious details (speak to any police officer about the reliability of witnesses).

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??*

Yes.

If your house isn't haunted now, it will be after. Get a professional in to do/sort it.

"Because they just do" ah, well that makes perfect sense then

It appears that irony is not your strongest suit, Penelope

Have been to the spiritualist church this evening which was very interesting and now have the number for the emergency mediums we used last time, thank you for the genuine comments.

@PenelopeShitStop please do tell me how I have dragged my children into anything or involved them in any way as neither of them are remotely aware there is an issue. Both of my children are infants that on one night were put in between us in our bed for what we felt was their safety. To them it was just a sleep in mummy's bed.
Unless my children have actually seen this man I don't understand how they have been dragged into it in any way it has not been discussed infront of them in any way shape or form.
Whether you believe me or not doesn't concern me but my parenting is not a concern by me seeking help as an adult for something we both feel as educated rational adults is something we do not want to live with. Believe whatever you want but there were people on this thread much earlier on who had experiences with priests, one mentioned her dad was called out regularly to deal with such things and I wanted to know if this situation is something they can confidently deal with and what their experiences were as I do not wish to draw people into our house who might make the situation worse, meanwhile we are quite desperate.

If your house isn't haunted now, it will be after

@PenelopeShitStop
YES! The police witness issue is also massive! Wasn't there another DB experiment where a crime was created but, when interviewed, the witnesses all saw something different and were adamant what they saw.

I find the brain completely phenomenal!

But for those of you that do think this is mine and Dps brains malfunctioning, how do you feel about a house swap for October half term?

But for those of you that do think this is mine and Dps brains malfunctioning, how do you feel about a house swap for October half term?

Well I wouldn’t be thrilled about an unregulated house swap with a random person from MN. The “ghosts” wouldn’t be the reason though.

Indeed, Penelope and Tis , I saw Derren Brown live on stage doing a seance. He told a young woman all about her dead dad: his name, nickname, hobbies, his pet name for her.
If he'd claimed to have "woo" power, half of the audience would, I'm sure, have believed him. But, being DB, he said (I'm paraphrasing) "This is a load of bollocks".

The human mind is indeed, very suggestible. Vision is unreliable (your brain fills in gaps, and often inserts faces and figures that aren't there). And as for memory? Don't get me started.

I cannot decide whether to answer this thread as a Christian whose beliefs about such boards probably differ from most of yours or just with a purely rational answer.

But the answer, either way, is don't do it. On a rational level, what good could possibly come of it?

If you're worried about a possible spiritual presence in your house, please speak to your local vicar.

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.
My dad doesn’t currently live with my grandparents, nor have I lived with my parents as an adult, but I was able to find my grandmother’s name from her phone number and then 192.com displayed every address she had ever lived at and the approximate years of residency. That’s how it was possible to tell she had lived with my dad (who could be presumed her child based on surnames and ages). Then searching my dad’s name showed the addresses he had lived at and people who have lived at those addresses (which is how you would be able to work out that I am his child and my grandmother’s grandchild, even though I now live in a different country).

I think 192.com relies on electoral roll or census data, so your mum growing up without a phone would be irrelevant.

Telephone ‘psychics’ probably have a better idea of what sources to use than I do. That said, have a go at googling your mum’s number to see if you can find her name, then see what you can find from her name.

Well I'm not the religious type at all - however, considering humans are nothing other than flesh, blood and bone I do wonder what makes us alive.

At school, myself and close friends were discussing the ouija board, a teacher nearby frog marched us to the headmasters office who duly summoned our parents. When they arrived, head of RE gave both us and our parents a lecture on the dangers, finished by stating that her friend throughout uni decided to do the Ouija and could never accept what supposedly happened, sent her crazy and she ended up in a mental hospital.

The teacher who was giving the lecture actually broke down sobbing, which frankly scared the shit out of us and caused our parents to threaten us with something far far worse than visiting spirits!!!
Needless to say...we didn't

Have any posters who have these magical events regularly happening in their homes considered setting up cameras to record it? I know the OP in this thread set up a camera but didn’t press record.

Once i went into my bedroom in the middle of the night and found a flashing fibre optic sword on my bed. Kids had been asleep for hours

Oh come, you can't seriously see that as proof of the supernatural?

I was in a parapsychology group. We were not “charlatans”. We never charged anybody for our services, didnt use EMF meters or ouija boards. Nearly 100% of the time we either found nothing or could offer rational explanations to people.

I have used a ouija board with like minded sceptics. Nothing happened because nobody pushed the glass/planchette. I wouldn’t do it again because it’s as interesting as watching cricket.