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AIBU?

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To not let him bring a Ouija Board into my house?

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MrsMontague · 27/01/2010 12:40

This might all sound a bit silly. But basically, BIL is visiting us this weekend, he is 23.

He called last night to say he had got a Ouija Board, and would bring it with him for us to try out 'for a laugh'.

Was a bit of a shock, as tbh he has never shown any interest in anything gothic...which in itself shows that he just sees it as a novelty toy or something, I don't know.

DH was a bit sceptical, but rubbish at saying no to people. However I am ready to call him up and say for him to leave it behind.

AIBU not to want one of these things in my house? I have heard lots of unsettling things about them, and I am really not sure I want one in my house, especially when my little girl will be asleep upstairs.

BIL is a little immature and will no doubt take the mickey out of me for saying I don't want one in the house, but I can't help but wonder about all the bad things I've heard, and tbh can't understand why somebody would bring this along as a fun Saturday night activity??

What do you all think? Anybody had any experiences?

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SolidGoldBrass · 27/01/2010 19:30

PP: Nah, for yours I got, some trouble with your female parts, and a decision you made that you may not be entirely sure about. Also a surprise change of direction in early adulthood.

FWIW the trouble with ouja boards is there's always one screeching oversensitive twat who gets all upset, and usually, to be fair, one person who wants to play with the board purely in order to freak someone else out. The things are completely inert in themselves (obviously)m the only downside to them is that some people use them to bully others (and some suggestible types give themselves nightmares), but you could say that about anything.

OldLadyKnowsNothing · 27/01/2010 19:44

"...the prediction that my then fiance and I would live together but not die together.we did marry,later divorced and he died in 2008."

Now there's a perfect example - how many couples do actually "die together"?

Those who are scared of ouija boards; how would you feel about The Guiding Light Angel Board? Or the Pathfinder Psychic Talking Board?

Morloth · 27/01/2010 19:48

Personally I like to get worked up over Supernatural, I mean jeez have you seen Dean Winchester?

nighbynight · 27/01/2010 20:06

Hmm. The ouija board is an inert object, it's the twit who brings it into the house that I wouldnt want around!

I would just say he is welcome to have a seance if he wants to, you will be washing your hair.

NanBullen · 27/01/2010 20:10

oooh isn't derren brown lovely

GetOrfMoiLand · 27/01/2010 21:20

DP has made me laugh on this thread - you are like me in that am too scared to watch the Exorcist in case I get posessed by the devil via the telly and ROFL 'it's never Elvis who comes through'

VinegarTits · 27/01/2010 22:34

you got 2 out of three right SBG, very good guess

SolidGoldBrass · 27/01/2010 22:44

Thank you VT. THat'll be the price of a large gin or I'll haunt your underwear drawer .

VinegarTits · 27/01/2010 22:50

can having you haunting my huge knickers smalls can we?

VinegarTits · 27/01/2010 22:52

can't obviously

Lovecat · 27/01/2010 23:05

Our house used to be 2 flats, our bedroom was the front half of what is now the through lounge.

After we'd been there a year or so, I got mildly freaked out by hearing voices whispering in my ear when I was about to drop off to sleep - came up with all kinds of possible rational explanations but it still gave me the creeps.

Fast forward to us converting the flats back into a house, my mate was staying with us and needed some space to wrap a large parcel so she took it into the newly-knocked through lounge. She came back 5 mins later, white with fear, saying something had whispered in her ear. She is the most cynical person I know so this too freaked me completely.

However, after we had finished decorating the room and opened up the old fireplace (no, there weren't any dead bodies or anything in there!), the voices were never heard again .

I happened to mention this to my sister last year in the context of 'God, we were a bit stupid to think our house was haunted for a while' and she very shamefacedly confessed that when she'd cat-sat for us a year after we'd first moved in, her and her friend had done a Ouija board IN OUR THEN BEDROOM one night for a laugh...

Probably a huge co-incidence and mostly my and my friend's imagination (but as I say, she is a total cynic and does not believe in any brand of woo) but I was furious with my sister.

OP, don't let him in the house.

MumtoEliane · 27/01/2010 23:21

My mum and I went for dinner to her friends house and they had one, I was 8 and I saw it (as in they didn't show it to me), I asked them how to use it and they told me "you put a glass on top, go to the balcony and shout 'spirits come!'" They where sooo taking the piss, but I ended taking the board home. I had it in my bedroom for years. And we used to play with it. Eventually got bored/freaked out and binned it. Nothing spooky happened.

SolidGoldBrass · 28/01/2010 00:15

You can get all sorts of funny noises in blocked off chimneys. Sometimes due to a bird falling down them, sometimes just a breeze.

Mumcentreplus · 28/01/2010 00:31

dont want it in the house dont have it in the house..

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