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?

And supernatural corporate espionage, NiLunNiLautre. Followed shortly by corporate contractor GhostBusters.

These threads are always the same, unbelievably credible people saying 'Oooh, don't touch it -- it will let in The Entities!' on the grounds that their long-dead private school headmaster's second cousin's gardener's friend's rugby team once saw Something Strange during an encounter with an ouija board. Or so the poster heard, they're not sure of the details because, obv, it didn't happen to them, and the person in question would never speak of it...

And my dear, The Entities are the dregs of the spirit world, into the bargain! Slurp their soup, say 'pardon' and hold their knives like pencils! The horror.

Could see the creation of a whole raft of new jobs, @Gronky... the establishment of a whole new military service organisation: The Woo Force. The manufacture of weapons grade planchettes and crystal balls...

It’s a board game.

Make an afternoon of it with Cluedo and Risk too.

Ouija boards are like holding political power. Wanting to use a ouija board makes you automatically unfit to use one.

Whenever you have a group of people getting a ouija board out, you will find people who believe or want to believe in the supernatural, who have already halfway freaked themselves out into hearing demonic apparitions, and you will find the 'pranksters' who are happy to push them the other half of the way.

It's not a good mix.

Frankly, you sound completely batty in a delightful way

Batty but nice. Like Mr Kipling.

To people saying that it's an invention of hasbro, it actually has a long history. The earliest recordings of plachette writing is in 1100 AD China. Hasbro just cashed in on a vogue for spiritualism.

I'm not saying that lends it any more credibility, I'm just correcting the idea that it's a modern invention.

When we did it we consumed copious amounts of wine and then asked if my friend "Leanne" would ever get good dick.

The maturity level pretty much bombed from there.

It's complete rubbish, so fill your boots. You don't need to buy a board, just reconstruct one with letters etc written on pieces of paper, it still works. It's rubbish in the same way as astrology, which was invented by a journalist to fill an empty column in his paper. Just look how much store people put in that. Sad really.

One reads about the witch hunts of yore: the ridiculous things they believed then, and the horrors that were committed as a result.
We might like to think that people no longer believe in such ludicrous stuff, but there is evidence aplenty on this thread that people do. It's perturbing.

Though I can imagine that in the absence of good dick, Leanne may have been desperate enough to try anything.

No, please don't.

I did this with a few friends at school and a couple of our classmates, in their words, grassed us up. In hindsight, they did the sensible thing as a couple of things spooked me.

I find them fascinating, I'm not sure I'm a believer but I probably wouldn't use one now - just in case!

@xsquared so they grassed your up?
To who? And why? Nobody can punish you for it 😂it's not illegal. Or are there sanctions on monopoly and cludo now?

@itsallthedramaMickiloveit being the 90s, grassing just means telling someone higher up.

Like I said, a couple of things happened that we weren't expecting which spooked me.

Form tutor gave us a telling off, not even a detention but we didn't do it again.

@contentedsoul

You were suspended for talking abut a ouiji board?

I guess they were just uncomfortable with it happening in our form room and just wanted us to stop.

@xsquared JFC I know what grassing up means!! But you can't grass someone up when they're not doing anything bad. It's all BS. If that form tutor tried to tell me off I'd tell them they had no right and I'll be doing it again if I please.

We handed ours to one of the girls nieces for a sleepover.

No need for that itsall. I've explained why they told on us. We were in year 8 and not really self assured enough to challege our form tutor who was quite a dragon.

But you said they did the sensible thing. They didn't. Because would they have grassed on you for a terrifying game of monopoly 😂

Don't do it, you will regret it. Really not a way you want to prove ghosts exist

I think it was sensible to stop. I don't think you can compare the ouija board with Monopoly and the rest of the class were frightened.

Anyway, have a good evening itsall.

I've got to be honest I can't believe people still believe in this stuff. As someone above said if it was all real somebody would be on TV a multi millionaire.

I've used them a few times. I go to paranormal events and these are used as a communication tool. Nothing really to worry about as long as you are respectful to the spirits.

itsallthedramaMickiloveit

I doubt many teens have given themselves nightmares, or worse, over Monopoly. Adolescent mental health can be quite fragile.

That's one thing. But that's not what people are saying. They're talking about actual danger from things that don't exist.

And if those teens accepted that it wants real it wouldn't negatively affect them so much. Grips are to be had.