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To do a ouija board on my own?

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LucyDontLockIt · 23/08/2018 13:11

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??

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Loopylou6 · 29/08/2018 18:02

@lucydontlockit any update?

ClaryFray · 29/08/2018 18:19

Don't do it. It's beyond dangerous. I have a medium friend the amount of calls they get for people playing with this type of thing.

AuFinch · 29/08/2018 18:44

dont do the ouija - i know a lot of people find it a bit of fun, joke, etc but you dont want to encourage activity in your home. We havent done any of that stuff.

We have had a lot of glass objects move - and I know people say it could be this or that, but we have a large glass theremometer the galielo type with balls of glass in a huge water tube about 16" tall well right in front of me it rocked from side to side as if someone had moved it but too far of an angle for it not to fall over (but it didnt fall over). There was also a pair of glass ornaments in another room a few weeks later and I heard this almighty noise like they had smashed down and I ran in and found they had both moved from a verticle position to horizontal but not smashed. I was very uneasy about this as for a while we had only what i can describe as a shadow walk past our patio doors on a number of occasions and each time i look there is no one there. Then i started to be woken at night. I am not usually scared of these things but being woken in the still of the night I did not like at all and I was really scared.

I saw a "medium" and he told me without prompting not to worry about the glass objects being moved it was a relative letting me know they were there and that when I am woken at night I must tell "them" to go away. He then went on to describe lots of things that had happened and will happen and its not things like you will go on holiday, it was you will get this and this will happen obscure things you could not guess, describing in detail where I had been and what I had been doing there, where and when I had cried and who was there behind me so I was not alone at the time.

Although the objects moving are meant to be from a relative, it is not really of comfort and if you are suddenly suprised by it it can be quite a shock, i am not woken as much thesedays, but i do see only what i can describe as disturbed air if that makes sense at any time of day or night and the dog goes bananas sometimes barking at the empty chair, or the table as if someone is there and a lot of times I hear noises so I think someone from my family has returned home but they are not there.

I know most of the people reading this will think I am bonkers or something, but I assure you I am just a normal person and when my man is away I dont sleep very well so I would definately not recommend you do Ouija, tarot, crystal balls or any of that kind of thing to encourage anything, they dont need encouragement. It might sound like fun but if you are woken in the early hours and feel like there is someone leaning over your bed it isnt scary, its bloody terrifying at the time. Dont do it.

MurunBuchstansagur · 29/08/2018 22:58

It really is depressing and slightly scary that so many supposedly intelligent adults actually believe things that are obviously and demonstrably bollocks.

These people are teaching our children and sitting on juries and countless other positions where you’d expect them to have good judgement.

Terrifying.

onetimeposter · 29/08/2018 23:09

Would it be terrifying if they practised a religion? Not much difference. People believe what they believe.

Hertha · 30/08/2018 00:58

But most key religious claims can’t be debunked.

There no scientific evidence supporting the existence of ghosts but equally they can’t be debunked.

Ouija boards can and have been roundly debunked. Believing in their effectiveness is not a case of believing despite an absence of credible evidence, it’s a belief contrary to all credible evidence.

headinhands · 30/08/2018 01:00

It really is depressing and slightly scary that so many supposedly intelligent adults actually believe things that are obviously and demonstrably bollocks.

We're just not taught critical thinking skills at school, or at least I wasn't. I was a Christian for a good 20 years and it wasn't a lack of intelligence I think it just came down to not really understanding what constitutes as evidence

I also think it's appealing to push 'evil' out of us and onto some other realm, or 'other' it so it's removed from us rather than something we're all capable off.

The whole thing is fascinating.

QueenAravisOfArchenland · 30/08/2018 07:53

I certainly wish they taught something about the scientific method and controlled testing at school. I despair of the number of people who don't understand why anecdotes about sugar pills curing something isn't the same as evidence they work, especially when both companies and charlatans are exploiting that ignorance. And the psychological explanations are so much more interesting and rich than the woo anyway.

hooochycoo · 30/08/2018 13:10

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

NutElla5x · 30/08/2018 13:27

Don't do it.All you'll do is open up a gateway for any evil spirits.Why would you want that?Religious or no,t I'd get a priest in if I were that worried.

Hont1986 · 30/08/2018 13:32

can anyone help, i used a haunted Boggle and i think an evil spirit has entered my house. it spelt out "devel" (almost "devil")

MarianneAgain · 30/08/2018 13:43

Don't do it OP....... you don't know what you're messing with.

headinhands · 30/08/2018 14:09

There were 1.3 million instances of paranormal violence reported to the police last year where a spirit had attacked a human....oh god sorry got that wrong, that's 1.3 million instances of human in human violence.

It's insane that posters are warning people away from a game when if we really want to protect people we'd be telling them to keep away from humans!!

headinhands · 30/08/2018 14:10

Argh human on human

SchadenfreudePersonified · 30/08/2018 15:20

I never ,mss with the Other Side:

I donùt kno zhqtùs Over There; but there is Something:

9Qnd qs you can see fro, these ridiculous qutocorrections; Zhqtever IT is is trying to stop me warning you!

That is all you need to know:

SchadenfreudePersonified · 30/08/2018 15:21

See headinhands

The Spirits are giving your autocorrect a warning kick in the knackers, too!

JacquesHammer · 30/08/2018 15:28

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

Yeah. Lots of times. I also have a vintage one as decor.

can anyone help, i used a haunted Boggle and i think an evil spirit has entered my house. it spelt out "devel" (almost "devil")

It’s also almost “revel”. Maybe it enjoys a good time. Or likes chocolate.

Quangot · 30/08/2018 15:48

If it doesn't work it won't be any use to you. If it does, it won't be the good guys who answer. Therefore best to avoid it.

AcrossthePond55 · 30/08/2018 17:04

Remember that simply waving sage around doesn’t mean a thing. For those of us who are Native American it is a sacred ritual involving prayers and belief. Simply waving it about would be the same as me waving a crucifix around my house and yelling “Scat ghosts”.

headinhands · 30/08/2018 17:55

The Spirits are giving your autocorrect a warning kick in the knackers, too!

Oops. Read this and giggled in the queue at the till in Asda. Women in front of me span round as if I'd just shouted something offensive!

SchadenfreudePersonified · 30/08/2018 18:24

Simply waving it about would be the same as me waving a crucifix around my house and yelling “Scat ghosts”.

I tried that once Pond.

Didn't work.

Turned out the ghost was Jewish

Hertha · 30/08/2018 18:25

Scat Ghosts sound even worse than the spunking ghost from that other thread.

psychedelia · 30/08/2018 19:36

This was parked in my road tonight Shock

To do a ouija board on my own?
Adviceplease81 · 30/08/2018 19:55

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

brizzledrizzle · 30/08/2018 20:17

I took part in one about 35 years ago. I haven't forgotten it. Don't go there.