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Has anyone used a Ouija board?

129 replies

grannyinapram · 18/02/2021 18:26

Inspired by the tarrot cards thread.

I think I would let my children mess about with tarrot cards but I would always say no to ouija boards. Not sure why. Its the only thing I couldn't get peer pressured into as a teenager Hmm
I'm not woo (well not really woo) but I think that ouija boards would be a 'my house my rules' situation...

yABU ouija boards aren't really going to doom you
yanbu don't mess with that!!

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SquizzaMama · 18/02/2021 23:48

Hubby played around with one as a teenager three times. First two times he was sure someone was moving the glass around. The third and last time, he was in a friends house, 4 of them - asking different questions etc and "taking the piss" out of the "answers received"...whole house went dark and the glass went flying.

The boy who lived in the house said it was a power cut, but ran out into the street and all other houses had lights on. They checked the fuse box etc. All was fine. The lights all came back on after about 10 mins and it freaked them all out so much, they burnt the board.

Not board related - but the second property that hub and I lived in had a really weird energy. I cant quite explain it in the way in which it deserves to be explained. You almost felt like something was enveloping you / hugging you, when you walked in the door.

It was rented - and we were saving up for our wedding. Was an old style maisonette - so we had top 2 floors and there was a flat on the bottom - with an eighties electric fire (this was about 20 years ago lol). We had square ikea foot stools, that we could tuck in under the little nest tables each night (space saving...god bless Ikea!)

After a couple of months of living there, I would come down in the morning, and one of the foot stools would have moved from under the table, to in front of the fire. And having attempted to move it back, it was very warm, even though the fire hadnt been on at all.

This happened solidly for a couple of weeks - and hub and I actually had a huge row one night because I assumed he was winding me up and vice versa.

It stopped for a few weeks, and the one night, we got home from the pub - walked in, grabbed water etc lol...went to the bedroom, popped the water down on the night stands...went to the bathroom and when we came back into the bedroom, our duvet and pillows were all of a sudden at the opposite side of the room and we both screamed and got totally freaked out - we hadnt left each others side.

Hub, being pissed...went downstairs buttnaked and shouted out "come on then...do your worst!!!" Yeah thanks for that....

After that, nothing really moved as such, the footstool did every now and then, but I started having bad dreams whenever I fell asleep in the living room. I would always dream about an old man - but all I could see was his face and it was huge!! Used to wake up really upset.

I found out that someone I worked with used to do investigations/ crystal healing etc. So she lent us some huge cleansed rose quartz crystals and gave us some words to say out loud each night.

After a week, she came to our house and "blessed it" with burning sage and some chants of some sort.

She told us that there was an old man in the house and the he was always cold, hence wanting to be by the fire....freaky.

Everything was fine for about 2 weeks...until very late one night, we heard our downstairs neighbours scream so loudly. We ran down, to check they were ok...and the wife told us that as she was brushing her teeth, she looked in the mirror and could see claw marks being made in the wall behind. These "were visible"... but obviously we have no idea how they got there.

I have a very open mind, but before all of the above happened, I didnt believe in other entities...but I do now.

Teddy1970 · 18/02/2021 23:52

It does give me the creeps, probably because when I watched "The Exorcist" that's how she contacts Satan, I wouldn't personally use one as there are plenty of other board games to play without the threat of Lucifer popping up.

diggetydoolittle · 18/02/2021 23:58

Once. Never again !

Teddy1970 · 19/02/2021 00:01

@Missdotty

Do not mess with them.no good ever comes from them. People who use them are giving a free pass to really bad forces to come forward. Just stay away.... Tarot cards are fine without reversals, angel cards are 100 percent better for young people to use.
I read they can be a portal, I also read somewhere that when bad/evil people die, they go to an awful place and they're desperate to come back to our world and an ouija board is a way back in.. who knows if it's true but I wouldn't like to try! What are angel cards?
ChristmasSexyTime · 19/02/2021 00:08

@diggetydoolittle what happened?

WhoWants2Know · 19/02/2021 00:11

I'm not keen on the idea of them, so I wouldn't probably encourage my kids to play with one.

It's not that I think they let demons in your house or anything. I just find the idea of pestering the dead with unsolicited contact rude. Like when some bastard rings my landline to discuss my energy supplier. Can you imagine reaching your eternal rest and then a bunch of giggling teenagers intrude and start asking for signs that you can hear them? How irritating.

TheMoth · 19/02/2021 00:29

Ds has been a rational little thing since he was v little. I can see him scorning the whole thing.

Dd will buy in wholesale to the hysteria and will convince herself that she and her friends felt something. Like I did. Until I grew up.

bluebellscorner · 19/02/2021 00:30

Never played with one myself but my friend did and she told me that she asked about how the next competition would go (we knew each other from sports) and the board told her she would break her arm.

...and she DID!!! So she missed the competition in question. I was about ten at the time and this scared me - maybe for life, as I’ve never gone nearer one since? Grin

bluebellscorner · 19/02/2021 00:37

Oh and my father in law - rational, educated no nonsense kind of man in his 80s - won’t go near one due to some unspecified experience he had in his younger days. He is not in the least superstitious or anything like that.

ThatsnotmyBorishishairistoneat · 19/02/2021 00:45

No way

HemanOrSheRa · 19/02/2021 00:58

Yes, I used to play it most weekends with my cousins while our parents got drunk on home brew. It was a lot of fun. We had 2 cousins who really believed it, we used to spell out all kinds of nonsense.

Grin Good times Grin

DancesWithCatsnDogs · 19/02/2021 01:24

Age about 12/13 - a bunch of mates - local village - dererlic house - ceiling fell in. No one upstairs, all accounted for. We screamed our heads off and ran. No one ever spoke about it afterwards, which was just as weird thinking about it.
I would definitely not let my DC do it.

Also, my ex, in a foreign country, was party to a ouji board experience. Total non believer. It spelt out the name of his (deceased) Great uncle (not sure of the correct term). He didn't realise at the time, as he knew him as Edward and the board said Teddy. I don't know the all the details but it apparently also spelt out 'fire'. He thought nothing of it at the time. He returned home a year or so later and recounted the story. His grandmother went white with shock. Her brother (Teddy) died as a sniper during the WW1 and was burnt out in a barn.

notangelinajolie · 19/02/2021 02:28

Way back in the 80's, on boring afternoons in the office, the ouija board would come out. We'd shut the blinds, turn the lights out, lock the doors and terrify the lives out of ourselves. I'm 99.999 percent convinced one of the girls in the office moved the glass never managed to work out which one but I could hazard a good guess it definitely wasn't me. Harmless fun and we all lived to tell the tale,

janlevinson · 19/02/2021 08:28

@WhoWants2Know

I'm not keen on the idea of them, so I wouldn't probably encourage my kids to play with one.

It's not that I think they let demons in your house or anything. I just find the idea of pestering the dead with unsolicited contact rude. Like when some bastard rings my landline to discuss my energy supplier. Can you imagine reaching your eternal rest and then a bunch of giggling teenagers intrude and start asking for signs that you can hear them? How irritating.

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Clawdy · 19/02/2021 08:50

DS came home absolutely terrified one evening when he was about fourteen. He and some friends had been sitting round an ouija board , and it spelt out DEATH TO YOU. They were so freaked out that he and his friend took the board and ran across the road, and threw it over the fence of the park opposite. He said as they ran back, a car nearly ran them over. I've never seen him in such a state, he couldn't sleep, and kept saying "I keep thinking I'm going to die, Mum!" He said his friend had found an old angel ornament and was sleeping with it on his pillow! In the end, I searched for an old silver cross on a chain and he went to sleep clasping it. He isn't remotely religious, and all these years later, he gets cross if I mention this story!

Emeraldshamrock · 19/02/2021 09:00

Yes it moved too, I was very young and brought up Catholic it was believable ATT.
The commotion it caused, Dad brought me and younger sister to the priest for a blessing.Grin

Emeraldshamrock · 19/02/2021 09:03

I believe in angels still and was genuinely frightened by the board 🤣❤

UrAWizHarry · 19/02/2021 09:30

Grin at the completely made up stories of glasses flying and warm stools.

It's all utter nonsense. A bit of cardboard is not a portal for scary demons.

Aprilx · 19/02/2021 09:37

There was a phase of it when I was in sixth form. It doesn’t need to be an actual board, letters on pieces of paper and a pen in the middle is all that is required.

I absolutely believe that spirits were connecting, even some of the very sceptical sixth form boys were convinced. A couple of times I set a “board” up myself at home, but one time it spelt out “die” and when I asked who is going to die it spelt out “you”.

I ended it then, 34 years ago, I have never touched one since and I never will. I believe in tarot cards too but they are not dangerous.

CornishPastyDownUnder · 19/02/2021 09:42

Its funny back in schooldays in the late 80s we all used to piss about trying to bring up spirits and talk to the dead-trying to scare the shite out of each other on sleepovers..None of us took it seriously so christ knows what we would've done if anyone had shown up. Im totally interested in the occult and voodoo as an adult having spent time in West Africa and having a fairly decent memorabilia collection..I take it seriously though and if my teens were into it (they couldnt care less!) id probs do it with them out of interest.

Yorkshireteaalwayswins · 19/02/2021 09:43

This is something i'm very wary of. Some girls at my school did it and information came out about one girl that none of the others could've known. The girl was hysterical as it was not something to be proud of. Another friend when i was young told me her mum used to be part of a group who did ouija boards until one of the other members was thrown against a wall by a spirit/something that was released and paralysed for life.
I've never done it myself but i like to think that i have a healthy respect for it. No one knows for sure.

grannyinapram · 19/02/2021 09:52

oh I had to stop reading this thread last night. too scary

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Sittingathome · 19/02/2021 10:10

Don't they always spell 'die'? They're not wrong, are they? We're all going to die.

crimsonlake · 19/02/2021 10:12

I am one of those who had an experience I wont talk about. Leave well alone.

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