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Ouija board

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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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HotSince82 · 13/09/2023 21:38

I have no wish to invite demons to convene with me, so it's a no from me.

AllOfThemWitches · 13/09/2023 21:38

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.

Yes, take advice from a fantasist.

continentallentil · 13/09/2023 21:40

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.

Exactly.

We spent many happy hours playing with them as teens… until we figured the more satisfying pastime of making convincing crop circles 😀

continentallentil · 13/09/2023 21:43

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!

It’s like past lives.. no one is a kitchen maid, everyone is Cleopatra..

slobro · 13/09/2023 21:43

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!)

Were you not a little suspicious that one of your male friends was behind the sex suggestion rather than entity?

HotSince82 · 13/09/2023 21:45

AllOfThemWitches · 13/09/2023 21:38

Yes, take advice from a fantasist.

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Out of interest, are Rabbis and Imams also fantasists or is it just the Priests?

AllOfThemWitches · 13/09/2023 21:47

HotSince82 · 13/09/2023 21:45

Out of interest, are Rabbis and Imams also fantasists or is it just the Priests?

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If I think a Priest is a fantasist, why would I not believe it of Rabbis and Imams too? I didn't realise I had to list every type of religious leader when quickly responding to a post on mumsnet.

LadyOfTheCanyon · 13/09/2023 21:48

@slobro

I was vaguely suspicious at the time, but we never fancied each other, and they both seemed just as freaked out as I was by the experience. It's a very roundabout way of asking for a shag I guess!

HotSince82 · 13/09/2023 21:51

AllOfThemWitches · 13/09/2023 21:47

If I think a Priest is a fantasist, why would I not believe it of Rabbis and Imams too? I didn't realise I had to list every type of religious leader when quickly responding to a post on mumsnet.

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You don't.
But it wasn't at all clear that you thought that all religious leaders were fantasists from your quick comment.

I'll take it you're an atheist from here on in.

JudyGemstone · 13/09/2023 21:57

are they more like a tool for revealing the unconscious mind than anything supernatural?

There’s a book called Aleister Crowley and the Ouija Board by J Edward Cornelius that explains this.

I think they look cool af aesthetically but I still wouldn’t have one in the house!

Pocketfullofdogtreats · 13/09/2023 22:03

Talking of Aleister Crowley - he is a very good advert for not messing with the occult. IIRC he had tried to summon spirits and was found dead, eyes staring, inside a locked room.

Prescottdanni123 · 13/09/2023 22:08

My friend moved into a new house that was furnished. Right from the start, she had a really eery feeling, especially in the guest bedroom. She is usually the least woo person ever. In the end, she contacted her friend, a pastor and he came yo do a spiritual cleansing of the house. As soon as he walked in, he agreed that there was a bad feeling and seemed to be worse in the guest bedroom. He said it seemed to be radiating from the chest of drawers. So they pulled all the drawers out to see what the cause could be. On the bottom of one drawer, someone had drawn a ouija board. Friend burnt it and hasn't had an issue since.

I'll never, ever take part in one.

ShitMermaid · 13/09/2023 22:13

I did one in my break in secondary school. We sat in the smelly alcoholic history teachers cupboard waiting for a meaningful message however the ‘ghost’ we contacted told us to ‘fuck off and piss off’ which we thought was hilarious and scary.
We must have told everyone at school what happened, someone bought me a donut as they thought I might be upset. I wasn’t but I liked the donut (I used to spend my lunch money on ciggys from the corner shop so I never had enough money left to buy one).

clashok · 13/09/2023 22:23

Pocketfullofdogtreats · 13/09/2023 22:03

Talking of Aleister Crowley - he is a very good advert for not messing with the occult. IIRC he had tried to summon spirits and was found dead, eyes staring, inside a locked room.

Actually I'm pretty sure he died of bronchitis.

CurlewKate · 13/09/2023 22:28

"Out of interest, are Rabbis and Imams also fantasists or is it just the Priests?"

Yes they are. See? We WOULD say that about Islam!

CurlewKate · 13/09/2023 22:32

@Pocketfullofdogtreats. Crowley died in a boarding house in Hastings. Of bronchitis.

TheFormidableMrsC · 13/09/2023 22:52

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

What a horrid experience and I believe you!

Pocketfullofdogtreats · 14/09/2023 09:30

CurlewKate · 13/09/2023 22:32

@Pocketfullofdogtreats. Crowley died in a boarding house in Hastings. Of bronchitis.

Ah, he must've recovered in this incident in Paris. My apologies.

Gurthnamuckla · 14/09/2023 09:55

misssunshine4040 · 13/09/2023 13:30

How do you explain @TheFormidableMrsC experiences if there is nothing to them

All of the ‘strange things’ @TheFormidableMrsC lists are hearsay.

And you’d have to be extremely gullible to discount the most obvious reasons an ouija board ‘works’ — the presence of other living people with their finger on the glass and the ideomotor effect.

Though I’m loving the lecherous ‘spirit’ suggesting someone shag one of the conveniently-present men in order to reincarnate him, resulting in a water splash stain in the exact shape of a uterus.

Aleister Crowley was a longterm heroin addict — his death was not mysterious.

CurlewKate · 14/09/2023 09:59

@Pocketfullofdogtreats "Ah, he must've recovered in this incident in Paris. My apologies."

He was a heroin addict. There were many "incidents". Probably many involved "staring eyes".

TheFormidableMrsC · 14/09/2023 10:19

@Gurthnamuckla Of course, I am just a person on the internet relaying my own experience that happened some 30-odd years ago but left a significant scar. As I stated, after the group board, I carried on alone. Nobody was pushing the glass but I can't explain my experiences or the ordeal that followed. I know what happened and I would never ever do it again and would not advise anybody else to do it either. I remain open minded about everything because not everything is always explainable 🤷🏻‍♀️

Cocoalover · 14/09/2023 10:20

MaybeSmaller · 13/09/2023 14:12

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

Exactly, has no-one seen The Exorcist?👻

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.

I also made my own, and some weird stuff happened, so I don't think you need a proper one

DragonScreeches · 14/09/2023 10:26

CurlewKate · 14/09/2023 09:59

@Pocketfullofdogtreats "Ah, he must've recovered in this incident in Paris. My apologies."

He was a heroin addict. There were many "incidents". Probably many involved "staring eyes".

He was fairly starey eyed generally!

MarilynBoo · 14/09/2023 11:00

"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?"

That's got me thinking. No one ever does a Ouija board with an upside down Emma Bridgewater mug do they! 😂

LastTrainEast · 14/09/2023 13:07

The best argument against these things being real is that it assumes another world full of spirits with awesome power over this one who only use it to knock things off shelves and spell out 'Lucifer' etc.

And apparently all with speech defects as they are ok at moving a glass to spell out words, but when 'mediums' ask for messages you get "I'm getting a D sound.. Derek.. David or maybe Adam?"

Are they meant to be people who died? Maybe they died old and don't have their teeth in?