Ouija board

[BlueSeagull]

Reading another thread where OP daughter believes she is seeing a ghost, lots of the advice was it a medical issue there’s no such thing as ghosts etc. OP updated that her daughter disclosed her and her friends had used an ouija board and they were all upset as a result. I have never used one I am too skeptical (people close to me and I have had experiences that have no logical explanation) intrigued if anyone has used one ? Did anything happen?

It’s so ridiculous isn’t it. “The bishop performed an exorcism” - yeah. Course he did 🙄

Whether you believe or not they do work as a portal to bring negative entities/spirits through, these spirits can impersonate people close to you who have passed over and usually say horrible things, also if someone is depressed or low or ill they can attach themselves to you....and yes teenagers can get themselves at it but the board is a place where you are inviting them and then you cant always get rid of them...

When I was a teenager a friend convinced me it was a good idea. Yes, the glass moved and spelled out a name and answered various questions. It was quite unsettling and afterwards things started happening in the house, items moving, seeing things, etc, although nothing that couldn't be explained by heightened teenage sensibilities.

However, a short time later I was putting up a poster on a freshly painted wall in my newly converted attic bedroom; it was one of those reversible ones from a music magazine. I'd put it up earlier that day and decided I preferred the other side. Looked away from the wall to move the blutack onto the other side and when I went to stick it up again the name from the Ouija board had appeared on the wall in a child's handwriting! Nobody else could have entered the room without me seeing them and the wall had been blank a few moments earlier.

To be honest I rarely think about it now, although I did learn things about the house, many years later, that matched what the "spirit" told us; things I had no way of knowing at the time. Am not sure what I think really. Although fond of ghost stories for entertainment and having had other experiences that come within the remit of the paranormal, I am in general a sceptic.

Have never been near one since, mind, and would refuse if the opportunity arose!

My friends and I messed about doing ouija boards in our teens. I remember being freaked out by it for a period of time, one of my friends wore a crucifix for a week because it had terrified her so much. It was common place among teens in the 90's, not sure if its as common now.

Don't do it.
When I was 17 my friend made her own ouija board while her parents were away and we were all hanging out at her house.
She was obsessed with it and was doing it multiple times a day. It was Terri g ridiculous to be honest.
I was there a lot when others were doing it but only did it once myself. I wasn't pushing the glass. I was obsessed with boys and romance and asked if I'd met my soulmate and it said no, and it said my soulmate was "S".
One night (I wasn't there) the glass flew off the table and smashed against a wall.It spooked everyone there and they stopped.
A few days later I was over at my friends house. Her parents weee back from their holiday and both at work.
Suddenly we heard what sounded like something very heavy crashing down the stairs. It made ys jump out of our skin! We both rushed in to the hall and there was nothing.
We ran upstairs and there was a bat flying around on the landing, and the over head heater/fan in her bathroom (if wax the 80s) was on despite neither of us being up there prior to this.
Sceptics will scoff but it was very weird.
I married a man with the initial "S" but we divorced a few years later.
I've heard so many stories about bad juju after doing them I personally wouldn't ever go near one. x

I think something else worth remembering is how stories get embellished and exaggerated over time with the retelling. (My mother has a story about a spider she saw in Africa as a young woman and admits that every time she tells it, she remembers it being bigger and bigger.) It's not necessarily lying, it's a known psychological phenomenon.

On here once in a woo thread, a woman told a story of how she was staying at a campsite on holiday and went to the local shop to get some bits. On the way back, she felt it was taking longer than before and couldn't see a river she used as a landmark, though she did see a frog. She then found a local who set her on the right path and she arrived back a bit late.

To me, it's bloody obvious what happened. She went shopping in an area she didn't know well, got lost and a local set her right. But she was absolutely unshakably certain that she entered a time warp and was briefly wandering around in the past. And every time she retold the story on the thread, she embellished and changed things to make it look more like a time warp. For example, initially she said she had been to the shop at least once before. After people suggested she just got lost because she didn't know the area well, she retold the story and this time she had been there a full week and gone to the shop every single day. She also took evidence that she was actually near the river as evidence that she wasn't (rather than seeing the frog as evidence that she was close to water, she took it as evidence of woo because she had already decided that she wasn't).

There were several examples of this and people copied and pasted lines from her posts to show the changes in her story from just 20 minutes earlier. She absolutely denied it even though it was right there. And I don't think she was lying. I think she genuinely did not realise or recognise the contradiction because, well, that's how the psychology works. God knows what the story is now after several years of retelling, it changed enough times over one evening!

Absolutely. I remember that thread. It was a very good example of both unconscious embellishment and how invested someone can get in there being a supernatural explanation for something.

Yes but the thing is, it won't turn out that there's anything more to them as they're just bits of tat with no ability to 'summon' anything, because that's not a thing that actually happens. So there's no need to worry about it.

You've as much chance of summoning a herd of Sub-Saharan Hippos when playing Hungry Hungry Hippos.

Anyone telling stories about something bad happening are either lying, mistaken or mad.

No they don't.

It's is literally make believe.

I don’t know about the boards but I did it when in high school, nothing untoward happened but I do believe there’s things we don’t know about and can’t sense.
We don’t know the universe, we don’t know what technology is coming in the future. Not that I think technology is going to reveal anything but I’m convinced there’s something. And I think some people are susceptible, maybe these things aren’t people who have passed but something else, and latch onto people who believe and are open to it.
I would never do these things now, not because I do or don’t believe it’s because I just don’t know, and that’s what I’m nervous of.

If they really worked then you’d have ghosts and Demons etc invited on This Morning to talk Crap with Cat Deeley.

I'm a non believer, but went along to a "ghost hunt" at a supposedly haunted location with some family members who enjoy that kind of thing. It was absolutely hilarious bollocks. They asked at the beginning who was sceptical, and I raised my hand and they smugly laughed and told me they'd convince me otherwise by the end of the night. Couldn't have been any further from the truth. I even dozed off on a sofa in the "haunted" room at one point, that's how scary it was. One of the hosts convinced my family to try a board and guess what happened? Absolutely nothing. He was standing over us excitedly and we all just sat there for 20 minutes staring an an motionless planchette. We made sure we were polite and didn't piss on anyone's good time, but it was very silly. One of the seance bits they did called through a boy who had a name and job description that wouldn't have even existed in the time period he was from. It's definitely easy to freak yourself out as a teenager doing these things. Hopefully, in time, she will see it's nothing to be scared about.

Why would you want to use one?
if you’re a skeptic you don’t believe they work and any spiritual person who knows anything genuine about that world will know that they’re they’re not something to fuck about with
I saw one internet hun trying to sell ‘angel board’ readings and teaching teens how to use them. Honestly, who would let their child get involved with that

Because it’s about as harmful as letting your child ‘get involved with’ a Cluedo board.

I saw one internet hun trying to sell ‘angel board’ readings

Smart enough to avoid summoning a copyright claim from Hasbro. Bloody spirits never warn you about how Hasbro trademarked the name Ouija. They can predict your death and your true love, but fuck with copyright and you're on your own!

In year 8 at school (2000-2001) my English Teacher got sacked for letting the class do one in lesson 😂😂 I can’t remember any thing bad, or good, coming from it to be honest! Apart from her being sacked!

Did them a few times yeah. I suppose the one that stands out was when I did it with a lad I met on holiday as a teen and we asked whatever came through if they were in the room with us and it went to "yes" and then we asked where they were and it spelled out "behind the girl"-that was freaky and I definitely found it hard to sleep that night!

I've done it on my own a bunch of times and the glass moves but it spells out total gibberish most of the time. It's just the subconscious I guess. The glass doesn't really move until I "will it" to move and then it starts to move and you're always unsure if you are moving it or not-but obviously you are!

I'll look up the ideomotor thing, but I've done two.
First was with a bunch of other young teens on a residential course - nothing happened.
Second was with my dad and his then girlfriend; she was into spirit stuff and thought there might be a message for me after a bit of a tough time in my mid teens. The glass shot across the table so fast that our fingers didn't keep up, every time. It always stopped right at a letter, which makes me think it wasn't one of us shoving it, because that would've caused random distances, plus I don't think one finger from one person could give that much movement energy, with the speed it moved. All that said, it didn't spell out any words, it was just random letters that made no sense.

On another note, I lived in my boyfriend's nan's house, when I was aged 16 to 19, where I saw small items flung across a room on three separate occasions, and all three were witnessed by my boyfriend (who couldn't possibly have done it). We couldn't come up with any explanation. I'm not sure I believe it was a poltergeist/dead people, but there's definitely more going on than science can currently explain.
I hated being in that house after the second time it happened (the first was just kind of 'weird, but a shrug of the shoulder', the second was 'okaay, there's something going on, here, and I don't like it'); always wondering if the next thing would be the fridge or a chair, instead of a little thing like nail clippers.
I left that house aged 19, and have never seen anything like that, in the decades since.

I'm a skeptic but I wouldn't mess around with it. I know a teenager who did and it answered a couple of questions about future events. One was a neutral event, the other was far from neutral and rather horrifying. Both came to pass. Self fulfilling prophecy and coincidence maybe? I've never actually told anyone about the details of it and I don't know that it should be shared.

The glass shot across the table so fast that our fingers didn't keep up, every time. It always stopped right at a letter, which makes me think it wasn't one of us shoving it, because that would've caused random distances, plus I don't think one finger from one person could give that much movement energy, with the speed it moved.

It really, really could, especially with people subconsciously going along with it. There's a reason it uses a glass on a smooth surface or a planchette that slides easily. It's very easy to move. The average human can push a brick across a table, it's not hard, and yet ouija boards never use an object that is hard enough to move that you couldn't feel like it was happening by itself. If the ghosts can move a glass with superhuman speed, why can't they push a brick?

Agree with this.
Never ever have I gone near one or intend to.

You might believe in the spiritual side of it but any sensible person would understand that even if it’s a ‘toy’ , teenagers can become hysterical and scared when using them as documented here

Totally. I certainly remember a bunch of us freaking ourselves out when babysitting in our early to mid teens. Entirely normal developmental stage, to have your heart in your mouth because the ouija board that you were doing with your friends (in our case a coffee table with the letters of the alphabet and ‘yes’ and ‘no’ written out on bits of a torn out page from someone’s copybook and a shot glass from the drinks cabinet) knew the name of the boy you fancied and predicted that Gemma Long was going to die young.

My best friend is up for anything but that! When she was younger her family moved because of a politgiest. It made their lives hell. They are atheists and very down to earth. They would never touch an oujia board.