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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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HPLikecraft · 31/08/2018 10:27

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

This^^ x 100000

Ouija was a parlour game unrelated to the occult, and now belongs to Hasbro. The only scary thing about it is that people actually believe it has some sort of power. Confused

sorries · 31/08/2018 10:38

An ex's family member committed suicide not long after doing one. He was convinced something wouldn't leave him alone. He was young, It was very sad, clearing out the flat there was a lot of religious paraphernalia, (even symbols painted over the bed and doors) it had clearly really messed with his mental health.
I wouldn't recommend it, as the experience can play with your mind.

liz70 · 31/08/2018 10:52

Since MN seems to love a crappy diagram, I did one to try to better illustrate what happened when that tub came off the shelf in my bathroom that evening. I hope it makes clear that there is no way that that tub fell off the shelf and "rolled" towards me.

To do a ouija board on my own?
headinhands · 31/08/2018 12:33

Ooh I like it @liz70. I've not seen one from the side before. You're definitely upping the game here 👍🏾

headinhands · 31/08/2018 12:38

Could the tub have bounced?

(What was it a tub of? If it's something like L'Occitane I denounce your whole story as a stealth boast.)

liz70 · 31/08/2018 12:40

I suppose strictly speaking it's a drawing rather than a diagram, but I thought that angle would better show what actually happened.

areyoubeingserviced · 31/08/2018 12:40

A few girls at my catholic secondary school used one during their lunch break and they were traumatised for the rest of the term .
They didn’t want to discuss what they had seen

TheGlitterFairy · 31/08/2018 13:02

I'd be staying away from a ouija board OP - they're not to be messed with (and I speak from experience too - a scary one!)

SchadenfreudePersonified · 31/08/2018 13:03

liz70

GASP>

That is truly woo!

SchadenfreudePersonified · 31/08/2018 13:04

So WOO it turned my little arrow round on the

(And yet there are still those who do not believe . . . )

liz70 · 31/08/2018 13:05

It was just an empty Kandoo wipes tub, so no stealth boast, I'm afraid. It was empty because I hadn't got round to refilling it with cheaper wipes yet.

"Could the tub have bounced?"

Absolutely 100% no, not a chance. It was on a shelf of a height of approximately 3.5 feet up from the tiled bathroom floor. Had it dropped from that shelf onto that floor, 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, and every time it fell it landed and toppled over to its side, ending up no more than a few inches away from directly beneath where I was holding it when I dropped it. It absolutely did not hit the floor "bounce" up and travel four feet away, to the place where I was standing.

As my drawing shows, on the evening it happened, the tub touched the back of my leg, very lightly, and only then fell to the floor just behind my feet.

MsForestier · 31/08/2018 13:16

Nice diagram liz70

JessicaJonesJacket · 31/08/2018 13:22

liz your drawing is very impressive as is your magic/haunted bouncing tub. They made it worth persevering through this thread.

liz70 · 31/08/2018 13:24

"bouncing tub"

Just in case you missed it, the tub did not bounce. As stated umpteen several times before.

CoolCarrie · 31/08/2018 14:59

Don’t be daft, hth!

Hertha · 31/08/2018 15:20

Sorry Liz, is that diagram of the incident with the moving object you were telling us about before? Or is this another incident?

liz70 · 31/08/2018 15:37

It was this particular incident- it's probably easiest to just C and P an excerpt from my post on the other thread:

"I once witnessed myself whilst rationally standing at the sink, rationally brushing my teeth, in a bathroom with a bolted door, and closed double glazed window. I felt something touch me lightly on the back of my leg, then turned to see a plastic tub, that had been on a shelf four feet away, now on the floor behind my feet. Yes, it had "flown" off that shelf, then four feet across the bathroom towards me. No, there were no draughts, no I hadn't been drinking or taking drugs."

Other incidents, like the two occasions when things dropped down out of the air in front of me, involved other objects.

Hertha · 31/08/2018 15:52

Was the other incident you told us about on this thread the same incident or in the same bathroom?

HPLikecraft · 31/08/2018 15:52

Not sure if I sped-read too quickly, or I'm being stupid Liz but have your flying objects got anything to do with ouija?

liz70 · 31/08/2018 16:12

No, not ouija, I've never used one, just a tangent that this thread went off on a bit, regarding inanimate objects moving etc.

Hertha · 31/08/2018 16:28

@liz70 ?

PenelopeShitStop · 31/08/2018 16:48

I'm fascinated how eeeevil spirits can tell the difference between, say, a triangular chopping board bought in Asda and a plastic Ouija board bought on line??? Is it the special shape of the 'board' that calls to them? Or the materials it's manufactured from, you know say, MDF or a nice bit of cherry wood or some bog standard PVC composite?

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?

Have always wondered.

liz70 · 31/08/2018 16:48

Do you mean this post, Hertha?

"Not one of you who keep going on about power of mind...doesn't make it "unhappen"."

If so, with the object moving from the window ledge to the middle of the floor, that was in the same bathroom.

Hertha · 31/08/2018 16:56

Okay, I was confused because you told us a story about an object moving in (what sounded like) a bathroom in this thread, then you did a diagram of an incident of an object moving in the bathroom, which was very similar to the story you had already told us but with a few differences. I didn’t realize you were better illustrating a different story from a different thread.

You should definitely lead with the story about when the object that hit your leg; your original story in this thread was a lot more pedestrian.

Spilledmycoffee · 31/08/2018 17:03

Penelopeshitstop its about whats written on there, and the use of a planchette. The board and planchette can be any material.

I used to draw one onto paper and use a 2p as a planchette. So yes, you could use a chopping board. Just write on the relevant information. You can probably make your planchette out of an onion.