To want to do a ouija board?

[CassandraGoth]

I’ve tried to prove to myself that ghosts exist for years. I’ve stayed in “haunted hoteld”, travelled to “ the most haunted island” etc and nothing has ever happened.

I want to do a ouija board ... as final proof that the supernatural does not exist but nobody will do one with me, not even people m that “don’t believe” or people that “want to believe” etc

I’ve done one on my own but nothing happened. AIBU for wanting someone to just humour me with this?

I know not everyone believes but I do, and there's no way in hell I would ever mess with a Ouija Board.

I personally wouldn't take the risk.

Please don't get involved. It's likely to mess with your head, one way or another. A member of my family was involved with this practice, many years ago. Afterwards, she was seriously mentally ill. It may have been coincidence, but I don't think so.

So, basically people here really fear it, but pretend they don't believe. And some have audacity to tell you to "leave well alone shit you don't understand".

Go for it, if you want to. I'd do it with you but chances are we live far apart. Find a group of people via FB.

I read that the effect of ouija board are purely down to the ideomotor movements. I offered colleagues at work to practice in the staff canteen once over a saucer, we tried but everyone was looking and they got a bit shy. I didn't pressure them though. Good luck in your adventures.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideomotor_phenomenon

It always amazes me that people get so hysterical over Ouija boards.

I have used them myself in the company of some very experienced paranormalists.

don't want to share my experience of a ouija but i would NEVER do one again, unsettled and caused problems for several months afterwards.

Join a paranormal group

Loads of local Essex pubs have Pyschic Nights ....................but I knew that already .

I’m not particularly woo but the only time two of my friends persuaded me to try a ouija board when we were all teens, we spent aaages cutting out letters and stuff and painstakingly arranging it all on the dining table and just as we were sitting giggling with our fingers on a glass trying to think of a question, the lightbulb fell out of the ceiling light in the sitting room half of the room (open plan sitting room/diner) making us all scream.

We weren’t completely stupid so we heeded the warning and didn’t continue.

Don't be daft!

So, basically people here really fear it, but pretend they don't believe

No, I'm pretty sure that most of us saying you're more likely to attract demons through the Unearthly Portal by playing Monopoly or backgammon actually mean it.

Note that several of the 'don't do it -- here is a frightening, if unverifiable anecdote' people are referring to 'experiences' they had decades ago when they were suggestible teenagers.

The reason that none of the stuff you've tried has worked is because there's no such thing as ghosts. Why do you want there to be? It's all woo bollocks.

So, basically people here really fear it, but pretend they don't believe

Wait, so you actually think that anyone who says they don't believe really does believe but is scared?! Priceless!!!

I’ve done one. I believe it worked and I’ve never been so frightened in my life. My late nan was very “woo” and I’ve asked my dad about things before and be clams up and goes white as a sheet so I don’t ask anymore. I don’t think they should be messed around with whether you’re a believer or not!

I don’t think they should be messed around with whether you’re a believer or not!

That makes absolutely no sense. You believe that an arrangement of cut-up paper and an upturned glass can summon supernatural entities.

For the rest of us they're just cut-up bits of paper and a glass. Neither Great Auntie Mags and her message from beyond the grave about Cousin Mavis's lost brooch being down the sofa, the Demon Yog from Beyond Time, or levitating ornaments are going to feature.

Not on your nelly!

Why are you so determined to prove that ghosts don’t exist? Surely the lack of science is the most proof, the the million dollar prize for anyone who can prove it. If the boards worked someone would turn up and walk away with the million dollar

In all likelihood, they're a load of nonsense. In which case you shouldn't waste your time.

Alternatively, they could be real. In which case you shouldn't mess with them.

Either way, steer clear.

When I'm asked to go to houses with an atmosphere or other weird stuff going on one of the standard questions to ask is whether anyone has been using a ouija board. In the vast majority of cases we are dealing with human emotion but sometimes it is more than that and we have specialists who can advise on what to do next.

My question would be why do you want to know of ghosts exist? I've done the haunted hotel thing quite by accident and had words with whatever it was lurking about. It wasn't dramatic but sad really.

I love wathcing the Derrin Brown programme - think it was called the Seance - gives you all the info you need to show it is bunkam!

Do you find all squares of wood/cardboard terrifying?

Nope. But I've watched The Exorcist and I really don't want Captain Howdy to come visit me.

Grow up.

Who’s ‘we’, @mostlydrinkstea? The Association for Houses With Atmospheres and Bad Hotels?

Can’t believe some of the 💩 that’s been written on this thread.

People will truly believe any old bollocks. It’s actually pretty depressing that adults, who may be parents, have had at least a reasonable education and hold down a job believe such ridiculousness.

It’s a board game licensed to Hasbro. Always has been. Mousetrap is more thrilling.

Or Buckaroo.

Ah yes, of course! Buckaroo can really make you scream!
We seem to have a super sensitive version... I’m always shitting myself when putting that blooming frying pan on.

Played it

Never again

Yeah, well, as @Lycanthropology says, Buckaroo can be pretty intense.