Have you used a ouija board?

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Just curious whether you had any experiences, good or bad?

Try the search option because there was a huge post about a year ago. Some very interesting responses!

Yes. Three times. Once alone and the other two occasions I had one other person with me.

In spite of flowing the ‘procedures’, the planchette didn’t move at all.

I’m now convinced that any movement of the planchette or counter is ‘autonomic’ (unconscious micro movements of participants placing fingers on the counter).

But, at the same time, the considerable reading I’ve done on the subject does suggest that an ouija board is a genuine portal or conduit.

So I’m a little disappointed I’ve never had any activity or result. Perhaps I just wasn’t doing it properly? More likely, it’s nothing more that a parlour game.

Following this thread with interest.

You do realise that ouija boards were invented as a game and sold as such?

Also, Google ideomotor effect

I have, and the planchette moved, but apart from spelling out a name - think ot was "John" - it was just a load of gibberish as far as I can tell.

Yes, but based on much older versions. As far back as ancient Egypt, they had planchettes they'd use for contacting the dead., Not that I believe it actually works or anything, but it has a long history before the boards were turned into a gimmick.

Yes I’m aware of this and tend to think it’s true.

Yes, but I was a teenager and we were all very drunk on home-made wine, so I am not inclined to believe the results (if I could remember them, that is 😁)

Ouija boards are very popular in The Litter Tray at the moment.
Although I can’t be certain whether my cat’s actually made contact with anything yet.

Many times and in the company of some TV paranormal "names" too.

I've never seen anything to convince me that they work.

No, but a sister and a brother have. Neither though anything had happened, but sister (a student at the time) was petrified by an old wardrobe in her old-building flat moving around in the night. She never used an ouija board again.

Brother was still at school, a boarder in a cathedral school with a good many very old buildings. He and his friends had seen/heard nothing, but some of the younger boys started freaking out about things they’d seen.
Eventually the bishop performed an exorcism, and it all stopped.

I bought one in a thift store years ago, right before starting university. It didn't work for me, but my mother and grandmother tried it one afternoon and were surprised that the planchette? was moving around like crazy. Mostly it was garbage that came out, but they asked it the birthdate of my first-year college roommate, and it spelled out a month and a date. We had not met yet (in the US, you generally share in the first year.) I was shocked when we were registering together for classes and found it was correct.

She ended up being the reason I was really pleased in the UK most first years don't share and my own DDs could swerve that experience!

No idea what was going on - we really had no clue about her birthday.

Wouldn't buy or be involved in a Ouija board again.

I wouldn't describe myself as a 'believer', fundamentally, in this sort of thing. I get that somehow there must be a rational explanation, but I have to say I do have some sympathy for people who have been through really scary experiences (especially when the find out similar things happened to others in the same places). It must feel like gaslighting to be told they are basically nuts or making stuff up.

my brothers and I played it when the parents were out. I moved it to spell things out because there was no way that thing was going to move on its own.

Yes, as a (drunken) student. Said I was going to die when I was 49. Well, I'm still here.

Yes, twice, once with others (at school) and once on my own (as a young adult, who had decided my previous experience was teenage over imagination).
Both times the glass definitely moved while only my hand was on it.
Both times it had only spelt out a few letters (first time four, the second time nine) before I stopped because I was so terrified.
Either my subconscious mind was doing something very bizarre, or something else was moving it.
I am generally a very rational, scientific, non-woo type of person, but something happened that I cannot explain, and I would never do it again.

My cousin and I were about 14.
We made our own.
Waited till their parents were out and started it.
Nothrrally happened at first just us messing about.
Then the dior opened and slammed shut.
Curtains on the window blowing like mad.
We were scared witless.
Left the room,flew down the stairs, into the sitting room.
Where we found their gf sitting there,only problem he was dead years by then.

Ran out of the house and for weeks we saw a black shadow following us.
Went to the priest he blessed us and the house and never felt or seen that black shadow again.

wow, @Worried198423. Had the granddad lived in the house before his death?

I knew a couple about 30 years ago who used a ouija board in a very old house they owned and they claimed that all sorts of scary things happened afterwards (sound of footsteps on stairs, dog racing downstairs as if being chased, candles lit in empty rooms). I was a bit sceptical at the time as they were both quite enthusiastic wacky baccy smokers (not that it causes hallucinations) but your story has given me pause for thought! They had to get an exorcist in, and I think it stopped after that. I also remember my RE teacher at school telling a story about his childhood house being haunted and his father placing a Bible in the middle of the stairs and the footsteps suddenly stopping at that point!

Yes the granddad died in the house.
It was a very active house,pots and pans that would be put away would be o. The draining board when my aunt came back from the school run.