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The paranormal

Ouija board

125 replies

HennyPenny1234 · 02/09/2023 19:13

I'd love to hear from people that have done one, what happened?

I wouldn't ever do one but I can't get over always thinking that somebody in the group must be pushing the arrow instead of it "guiding" you

When I was about fifteen a girl in my Science class suddenly stood up and started screaming. It turned out that she'd done a ouija board a few days before and had seen something/somebody in the classroom and then freaked out

I think there's certain things you shouldn't mess with and that this is one of them. Too big a risk

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hdbs17 · 13/09/2023 14:57

I was tempted as a teenager but I'm so glad I never actually did.

I know someone who recently did an escape room and the final puzzle was a ouija board that needed to be used. They point blank refused to do it and the puzzle master had to let them out of the room without completing. I don't blame them in the slightest.

LordSalem · 13/09/2023 15:00

I have one in my bedroom, have done for years. It's never "worked". Like the photo posted above, my DD used to do letters and numbers on it when she was little. The only negative was that it lost my mum a potential house sale when people came to view and spotted it in my then teenage bedroom. The couple left immediately.

CurlewKate · 13/09/2023 15:12

Does anyone read Dorothy L Sayers? In one of her Lord Peter stories-Unnatural Death- there is a fantastic and very detailed account of a fake seance, including a ouija board. Worth seeking out....

OnAFrolicOfMyOwn · 13/09/2023 18:23

Off topic but @BirdiePlantaganet I love your username - terrifying child memories 😁

RubaiyatOfAnyone · 13/09/2023 19:15
  1. if there is life beyond death, why would so much of it have nothing better to do than hang around giving people the creeps? Is this the ghosts of people who had secretly wanted to perve into people’s rooms before death but been prevented by their corporality? Seems a bit of a niche market.

  2. why can they start appearing ONLY after they’d carefully applied a drinking glass upside down to a piece of cardboard first? Has anyone done a blind study with different types of glasses? Is water more effective than brandy glass? Does the gsm of the card influence the quality of spectre assigned?

  3. can you really be that creeped out by something created and still copyrighted by Hasbro?

TheFormidableMrsC · 13/09/2023 20:01

I did draw my own Ouija board out on a bit of cardboard when I was a kid and nothing happened with it. I did wonder if that was because you needed the official one rather than making your own

Further to my post about my own experiences, the "board" I used was actually a coffee table and cut out numbers and letters. You don't need an actual official board. Probably best not to use either.

TheFormidableMrsC · 13/09/2023 20:03

When I have had my finger on the glass, in a group or alone, I have felt an underlying vibration, which is very weird and very real

Yes I also experienced this.

FindingMeno · 13/09/2023 20:06

Never done one and I have always impressed on my dc's they are never to do it under my roof.
They are equally as respectful of not messing about with such things.

StaySpicy · 13/09/2023 20:15

OnAFrolicOfMyOwn · 13/09/2023 18:23

Off topic but @BirdiePlantaganet I love your username - terrifying child memories 😁

Oh! I just made the connection! I used to hate that part. Prrrrrick!

DragonScreeches · 13/09/2023 20:16

I just read this about William Flud who was responsible for the very succesful marketing of the ouija board:

In early 1927, he went up to the roof of the building to supervise the replacement of a flag pole. According to the Baltimore Sun, “he was standing near the edge of the roof, grasping an iron support of the pole to study himself, the workmen said, when the support suddenly pulled away and he toppled over backward.”

As in a movie, Fuld initially grabbed hold of the sill of an open window, which suddenly closed, sending him crashing down to the sidewalk below. He broke several ribs, but was expected to survive, until a bump in the road on the way to the hospital sent one of the fractured bones through his heart and he died.

😱

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/30/ouija-board-mystery-history#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16946321722275&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Flifeandstyle%2F2016%2Foct%2F30%2Fouija-board-mystery-history

Banana1979 · 13/09/2023 20:17

I did one on my own like a twat , as soon as I felt a vibration under the cup ( my glasses were too big ) I stopped
an hour later, I went to bed and woke up to what sounded like crying . Inside my room. I’ve put it down to a dream . About 20 minutes past and I had a massive bang in the front room. Both of my sofa cushions were slashed, and my clothes airer was hanging upside down off of my ceiling light . I lived on the 13th floor . Door was double locked on the inside
I ran out of the flat at 1 am in my nightdress and had to get my dad to come over. I stayed at my dad is the next night and we had the priest come round and bless the flat and nothing happened after that
i was a huge skeptic before, but not now

Florenceatemycake · 13/09/2023 20:21

My parents' priest once gave them some advice: don't mess with anything occult, ever. You have no idea what you're dealing with.

Seems like pretty sound advice to follow.

MariePaperRoses · 13/09/2023 20:23

Why is it always evil dead people that make contact and things go missing or people have horrible accidents?

It's never Aunt Betty who loved cats, was in the Salvation Army and wishes you only love and peace!

CurlewKate · 13/09/2023 20:29

@Florenceatemycake "My parents' priest once gave them some advice: don't mess with anything occult, ever. You have no idea what you're dealing with." Yep. Leave it to the experts like him, huh?

LadyOfTheCanyon · 13/09/2023 20:32

I did them a lot when I was in my teens with some close friends who were all quite into woo. We had quite a few odd experiences, one night a ‘spirit’ or ‘entity’ spent a couple of hours trying to tell us about the universe and how everyone had a purpose; that we all had a specific skill or ‘gift’ that was more pronounced. I remember mine, because ‘it’ said “People have different frequencies and you hear them.”

We were using a glass on a coffee table with cut out bits of paper for letters and it was moving so fast - when it got going it moved with a rhythm that was smooth and felt very energised; I understand what the PP said about a vibration in the glass. It was certainly not being pushed by me: often someone’s finger would slip off the glass, or one of us would take our hand off to carry on writing down the messages as they came through and the glass would just flow around the table with this swooping, gliding certainty.

One night I was doing a board in my bedroom with two male friends. I think I was about 18. So just the three of us. We got into a long conversation with an entity who said it had taken his own life, and was angling to be able to come back to the physical plane. We asked how he planned to do this and he said that if I were to have sex with one of the men, he would possess him during the act and the resultant baby would be him, reincarnated. We closed that conversation down real quick. The creepy thing was, we were in such a hurry to stop, one of the guys knocked over their glass of water, which spilled onto the carpet. When I looked down, completely freaked out and in a hyper aware state, the wet stain was in the perfect shape of a uterus. I know that sounds completely nuts. That was the last time I did it, because the feeling I had during that session was just naggingly uneasy- it felt strangely plausible that something like that could happen.

I had several months of terrible dreams after that in that room: I would often wake up to find a large raven on the end of my bed, or in the middle of the room standing in a circle of undulating mist. I’d never had nightmares or hallucinations before or since, but it also coincided with a presence appearing in the dining room. Nothing visual, but even my Mum commented on it several times and we both hated going in there alone. There was a definite cold spot in one particular place and an awful, greasy, brooding feeling just by the door. I never told her about the ouija and after about a year the presence just wasn’t there one day.

I can’t really explain my experiences apart from attributing it to an overactive imagination (which I really don’t have!)

CurlewKate · 13/09/2023 20:35

@MariePaperRoses "It's never Aunt Betty who loved cats, was in the Salvation Army and wishes you only love and peace!"

Well, to be fair, with psychics it often is - someone with initial j...or is it m? yes-that's right, Betty! She had a dog- no a cat? She wants to tell you that she's happy and she's with.....can't quite hear.... yes, Alf! That's what she's saying!

TammyJones · 13/09/2023 20:40

No
Absolutely not.
My mum said - do not mess with a Ouija board.
This is one thing I took on board.
Ex once said of 4 people who did mess / one went insane, one committed suicide and the others never spoke of it again .....

Gall10 · 13/09/2023 20:45

Did this loads of times as a kid/teenager.
It was always me pushing the glass!

SirVixofVixHall · 13/09/2023 20:48

I have never played with one even though a friend suggested it when we were teenagers.
I read a horrifying account ten years or so back, I have forgotten who by but it was someone fairly well known, and it made me feel so uneasy and spooked that I would never try it.

Invalidusername88 · 13/09/2023 21:01

Gall10 · 13/09/2023 20:45

Did this loads of times as a kid/teenager.
It was always me pushing the glass!

Lol. Mystery solved.

DragonScreeches · 13/09/2023 21:28

Gall10 · 13/09/2023 20:45

Did this loads of times as a kid/teenager.
It was always me pushing the glass!

I knew it! 😅

MumOfOneAwesomeHuman · 13/09/2023 21:30

We used to do them as teenagers and felt the glass move as if independently. If someone consciously pushes it then it feels different. But I think it's likely everyone's energy unconsciously moving it. That said my very down to earth DH witnessed his then GF doing one with some other girls and he saw the glass explode. He can't explain what he saw.

I'd never do one now and warned my DD never to do it (though I still have my board in the attic somewhere!)

I do believe I've had communication from people I was very close to who've died but I'm not sure a board is the way to achieve it.

If you haven't listened to the podcast Uncanny, give it a go for some true spooky stories to creep you out!

TheFireflies · 13/09/2023 21:31

There’s something in it, if that something is ideomotor reflexes. Quite clear scientific explanation.

Physiologicalmalfunction · 13/09/2023 21:32

We did it once as kids in the garage with an upside down wine glass. As soon as we started the glass exploded and we scarpered in all different directions. Never touched one since.

AllOfThemWitches · 13/09/2023 21:36

OnAFrolicOfMyOwn · 13/09/2023 13:00

Ouija boards were created as a toy. They have no special 'powers'. Without getting into a debate about whether it's possible to communicate with the dead, if you believe it is, you don't need a commercially produced piece of cardboard to do it.

Yeah, this. The teen magazines I used to read told me NEVER to play with ouija boards so I didn't but I struggle with the idea that they 'do' anything.