Anybody ever used a ouija board?

[joash]

I posted this thread under the chat section last night. 'Met' some interesting people - but didn't really get much by way of answering my questions. There was a suggestion that I re-post under this topic - so here goes;

Has anybody on here ever used a ouija board?

Did it work?

what happened?

would you do it again?

[amynnixmum]

Yes I have when I was about 8 or 9. A friend had read about it and told me and another girl that it was just a game and said nothing about spirits etc. We played it and it worked. We asked it questions about who was whose best friend etc. Later me and my best friend played it on our own to see if it really did move without anyone pushing it and it did.
Went home and talked about it and my mum went mad and told me some stories about people she knew who had played it. Had nightmares for weeks and would never ever play it again. I have even left a party when others started playing. Confronted my friend about why she hadn't told us what the game was really about and she said that if she had told us we wouldn't have done it.

[joash]

Amynnixmum - Sorry, not being nosey - just interested, Did you feel okay about it before your mum knew and if so, why walk away from other people using one?

[amynnixmum]

I did feel ok because I didn't know how the game is supposed to work. I was only young and TBH it didn't occur to me that 'ghosts' might be moving the cup to answer my questions. Thought it was like a magic trick. When I told my mum and she explained why the cup moved I was really scared. She didn't actually need to tell me the horror stories as i don't think I would have played it again anyway once I knew 'ghosts' were involved. As it is her stories left me terrified. I don't think she really had any idea how much they would scare me. I had nightmares for weeks afterwards thinking that an evil spirit or the devil amight come and get me or possess me or something. As a result my 'fear' of the ouija board is probably a lot greater as an adult than it would have been had I not been so scared as a child.
Why are you asking? Have you played it or are you planning to play it?

[boudicca]

Hi Joash, yes I've used a ouija board.Had pretty frightening results too !

[joash]

This might sound odd. I'm not just being nosey about people experiences. I have been involved in learning about and experiencing various forms of divination over the years, and this seems like the next step. DH bought me a gorgeous board last August and I haven't got around to trying it out yet.

The problem is that there is a lot of scary, stuff (not to devalue anyones experiences, but much of it is rubbish - I may add) that stems from the many and varied portrayals of what began as a parlour game, that come from the media. So I was wondering what peoples experiences were. it does seem to me that it's peoples expectations that cause many reactions.

[joash]

boudicca - would you be willing to go into detail?

[expatinscotland]

No way would I touch one of those! I grew up a Catholic, but my grandmother was 100% Mayan Indian from Mexico. Though these people have been Christianised for centuries, they still cling to a lot of practices that have roots in paganism. My gran came from a long line of shamans, midwives and healers. She made it clear that these boards act as portals between the world of the living and the spirit world. You have to take care around portals, b/c it's difficult to control what comes through - it takes an experienced person w/a strong spirit. These boards allow low-level spirits (those who don't realise they are dead, insane dead or those who don't want to move on) and even demons to come into your life and even your own body. Demons have to be invited in s/how, and a ouija board is one of the commonest ways to do it.

[boudicca]

Sure, here goes-
I was working at DH Evans at the time ,I was a window dresser and we had a small changing room in the basement.One of the other girls suggested it, so we used to use our home-made board.We got quite obsessive about it ,every coffee/lunch/tea break we were 'calling up the spirits'.We had some very interesting conversations with various 'spirits'. Then someone mentioned that the room we were using felt rather cold, as the room was surrounded by huge heating pipes this was a bit spooky. But worse was to come....

[Fastasleep]

Come on boudicca...suspense or what!! enthralled now!

[amynnixmum]

Me too and I've got to put the bin out, have a bath, make lunch etc and I'm glued to mn

[Snugs]

taps fingers impatiently .....

[boudicca]

One of the boys was into all sorts of drugs and stuff, he also said he knew Alex somebody or other, who had told him he was a witch ! Anyway during the course of several conversations with this Alex guy, my friend was told that I was also some sort of witch !!!And that I would take over my friends mind !!! The only way to save himself was to kill me, preferably with glass(?).The first I knew of all this was when said friend started avoiding me and getting really distressed if he was in the same area as me. My friend(?), then had some sort of minor breakdown, stayed away from work for several weeks. When he did reappear he told the display director what had been going on, who relayed it back to me.

[Snugs]

think that might have had more to do with drugs than the ouija board

[boudicca]

Ooo! didn't realise I had an audience
Hope it was worth the wait !!!

[amynnixmum]

Mmm, thats what I was thinking too. Was Alex a real person or someone you communicated with via the ouija board?

[boudicca]

Yes Snugsb just goes to show how they can mess up your mind
I blame the Alex person most though, he was really messing with my friends head.

[joash]

Sorry - don't mean to be patronising, but that just made me laugh. Probably more to do with the friends impending breakdown - or someone putting you on.

[boudicca]

Alex was real, I'd heard his name,and knew of his reputation.

[boudicca]

Joash, I must have missed a post !
haven't seen anything patronising

[joash]

Good - didn't want you to take it the wrong way. I hate it when people laugh at things that scare me.

[boudicca]

Have a look


here

[boudicca]

I think laughing's a really good antidote for scary stuff

[amynnixmum]

When I was at school a friend of mine's big sister used to play it. It started off as a bit of fun at school, she was pretty, outgoing and popular. Then she started playing it all the time and when the others had got bored of it and no longer wanted to play she would do it by herself. One weekend she played it on her own in her room for hours and something must have happened because she didn't come out of her room for days after this and it was a couple of weeks before she came back to school. When she came back she was quiet and withdrawn and nothing like the girl she had been before. She point blank refused to talk about what had happened, in fact she hardly talked at all and afaiw never played it again. She wouldn't even discuss it with her sister and although I'll never know what happened to make her so scared I know that she really was scared. She was so scared that it could make your hair stand on end just looking at her- it was spooky and definately didn't make me change my mind about wanting to play.

[Snugs]

joash - I think the answers on this thread demonstrate why I reacted in the way I did last night!

Emphasis on the word 'play' - all the bad experiences seem to stem from those who play with the board. I know you are intending to use the board with serious and responsible intent.

[Snugs]

oops - sorry, now I sound patronising, really don't mean to.

boudicca - my one comment on the link - aaarrrrgggghhh.

(crossing fingers hoping joash isn't Alexandrian/Gardenerian)