For wanting to do a ouija board?

[WeirdHandDryers]

I’m going through a weird time in my life. I just want to know if there is anything else out there, anything unexplained? Supernatural.
I’ve always been fascinated with ghosts etc and I want to do a ouija board. I’ve done one once, but I did it alone and nothing happened.
My husband refuses to do one but I’ve found a mate who is willing.
I’m simply curious. I know, logically, nothing can or will happen but I just have to try it.

Has anyone done one? Did anything happen or aibu to give this a second thought?

Ever heard of the phrase..curiosity killed the cat.
If you don't know what you are doing...dont do it.

The only thing you will experience when using an ouija board is the well-attested ideomotor effect. Unless you’re friend is a joker in which case you will be told the date of your own death (next week) by a malign spirit called Pongo.

YOUR friend.

It’s just a boardgame. It can’t tell you anything.

I've done them a few times they can be really interesting and a good experience.

Don't do it with someone who doesn't believe though, there is nothing worse than someone who keeps accusing you of moving the planchette on purpose.

Visit a psychic and get useful info if you want to see what’s out there, don’t invite random spirits into your home.

Watch videos of people doing ouija boards blindfolded - pretty comprehensively debunks them.

And there are much more enjoyable board games out there.

You need to question why you have a change of how you feel about life. It may be a genuine curiosity or a restlessness with life generally . That's the actual issue.

Yeah it's just a game. It can't tell you any more than a magic 8 ball. Wooooooooo

"Visit a psychic and get useful info if you want to see what’s out there, don’t invite random spirits into your home."

A psychic is about as "useful" as a boardgame for predicting the future.

"don’t invite random spirits into your home."

It's a boardgame. An inanimate object. Not a portal to hell!

Don't do it. It is not a board game.

It’s not a board game what is it then?

Nothing will happen.

I have one, seriously nothing happens unless I’m pushing it.

It’s good fun if you know someone who is a complete believer and you get them to play it with you though, people are so easy to wind up.

It's a boardgame. An inanimate object. Not a portal to hell!

You've clearly never played Monopoly with my family...

AnotherOriginalUsername

Don't do it. I don't know how it works and I'm an atheist cynic but when I did it, it did work and I didn't like it.

what is it then.

Well right back at you, how is it a game?

if you believe in it then there is definitely no game about it and you would know that.

If you don't believe in it then how is sitting around a board asking if there is anyone there or whatever, a game? What is the objective of the game? How do you win? What are the rules?

@EurekaStreet - is that you, Miss Climpson?

Shh, @Bertrand, the poor, earthbound spirit of Cremona Garden is trying to come through, and I’m having to do a lot of knee-rapping and table-jiggling.

Brilliant!

This has made me disproportionately happy......

Well right back at you, how is it a game?

www.amazon.com/Winning-Moves-Games-Classic-Ouija/dp/B00EFDXAB4?tag=mumsnetforum-21

It started out as a board game and used to be played as regularly as Monopoly. There’s nothing genuinely supernatural (or ‘woo’, as MN would have it) about it.

Use one if you want to. It's just a board. It won't tell you anything. Because it's just a board and it can't.