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Ouija question

  • 07-07-2006 1:36pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭


    hi


    first time reading through the posts in here, some very interesting stories indeed.

    I have a quick question regarding anyone whos ever used a Ouija board.

    I'm not entirely sure the best way to ask this - but has anyone ever encountered a spirit on the board who names itself "it's me"?

    I'll explain why I ask the question when I get a few minutes, has to do with a strange experiance I had a number of years ago.

    thanks


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    No.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    No.

    Edit: Sorry am not being short, just waiting to hear the full story.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭eas


    6th wrote:
    No.

    Edit: Sorry am not being short, just waiting to hear the full story.



    I guess it’s a pretty silly question without any context – so quickly here it goes :

    A good few years ago when I was 14-15, myself and a small group of others would get together and “play” with a ouija board in a friends shed. I don’t think anyone really had any idea of what we where doing, just fooling around really.

    Anyhow, as we did this quite often, there seemed to be a “spirit” (are they spirits?) that would be a bit nasty, and when asked to identify itself it would always spell out “it’s me”. It/he/she would come and tend to stick around for a long time, sometimes trick us at first by lying to be someone else…..I don’t know much about this TBH so it may sound foolish. I still get chills thinking about this story.

    Like I said it was a bit nasty, I can’t remember exactly what it said to be nasty, but just remember it was. I’m sure anyone with experience in these things would say not to challenge these things, but that’s what we did. Kind of like “if you’re a real spirit show us a sign” type of thing.

    I remember the candles flickering or something like that and some people remarking this, but a minute something very strange happened. The phone rang.

    I just have to set this next bit up a bit – the owner of the house was expecting a call from someone so she put the telephone out the back door (this all happened before mobiles) which was about 20-30 feet away from the shed we where using the ouija board.

    As she (the girl who lived at the house) opened the door to get the phone she noticed her younger sister had reached the phone and picked it up. After a second two the sister put the phone down and looked confused. As the older sister asked who it was, of course the little sister said the voice on the other end said “it’s me” and hung up. SHIVERS.

    So, I’ve tried to rationalize that any way that I could. And if I’m honest I never really 100% believed it actually happened until about 10 years latter.

    I was driving home with a college friend (completely separated form those in the ouija sessions). It was Halloween, so we decided to tell a story or two. I said I had a great ouija story – he said he did. I told him to go first. To my surprise, his story had “it’s me” as it’s central character as well.

    Anyhow, whenever I tell that story I tell myself I should try and if there are any other “it’s me” ouija stories out there.

    Sorry for the long post, hope it all makes sense, don’t have time to proof it now..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭kshiel


    God that would have scared the sh*t out of me. Dont have anything that would help on this matter. I was always to scared to go near a Quija borad from tales I was told years ago. I do think somethings are best left to those who know what they doing with them. Have you used a board since? Did your friend get a phone call aswell or did something else happen to him?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭eas


    kshiel wrote:
    God that would have scared the sh*t out of me. Dont have anything that would help on this matter. I was always to scared to go near a Quija borad from tales I was told years ago. I do think somethings are best left to those who know what they doing with them. Have you used a board since? Did your friend get a phone call aswell or did something else happen to him?

    ya, bit scary at the time. But like I said I tried to work out how someone could have hoaxed it. Really though, the timing was so good I'm not sure if it could have been. I suppose there's an outside chance that it was a setup. Not to sound like a complete cynic, but you know.

    Either way, no, never used the ouija since, now that I'm a bit wiser never will.

    I can't remember his story exactly, only that it was similar to mine in that it had a pesky spirit by the name of "its me".


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    who was the house ownder expecting a call from?

    If you'd met "it's me" before that, could the owner have set up the call?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭eas


    psi wrote:
    who was the house ownder expecting a call from?

    If you'd met "it's me" before that, could the owner have set up the call?


    It's possible. The owner was my girlfriend at the time. If she had something do with it, she didn't tell me and did a very good act of being hysterical.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    Well i'd say convince yourself it was the girlfriend and you'll sleep better at night ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭eas


    it did happen 15 years ago, so i hardly think about it anymore.

    Are you suggesting I probably don't want to know how a knowledgable someone would explain this? As in it wouldnt be good?

    maybe I should just forget about it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    Ouija Boards arent the best thing to be playing about with, sure they can be a bit of craic when you're young and having a laugh with mates but theres always the chance that something will happen and someone will come away the worse for it.

    If you've gone 15 years since then that makes you lucky, plus you seem to not want to go near them again.


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  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,461 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Did the girl say what the voice sounded like i.e. Male or Female.. Young or Old??

    Its hard to believe an actual toy company (MB) used to make these.. I mean how did they come up with it? Must have been invented by some lunatic or devil worshiper or something... Do MB still make them does anyone know???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭eas


    xzanti wrote:
    Did the girl say what the voice sounded like i.e. Male or Female.. Young or Old??

    good question - that's a detail I should remember, but don't. Not even sure if she was asked. :(


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    I have to pose this question, because its been bugging me.:D
    When you are expecting someone to call, which you said is the case, it could be quite normal for the person making the call to simply say 'its me' when you pick up. And then be very surprised when you yell and hang up...

    Could this have been the case?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 247 ✭✭IrishAirCorps


    Are they really a way of contacting the dead?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    Are they really a way of contacting the dead?

    Two trains of thought on that. Either No they aren't but they are your subconcious mind projecting out so they can be very very dangerous in unlocking things that are normally kept shut up in your head (you have to imagine for good reason). Or yes they are in which case you're unleashing forces we don't know or understand.

    Either way it isn't particularly good news.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭eas


    KatieK wrote:
    I have to pose this question, because its been bugging me.:D
    When you are expecting someone to call, which you said is the case, it could be quite normal for the person making the call to simply say 'its me' when you pick up. And then be very surprised when you yell and hang up...

    Could this have been the case?

    I'm not sure how clear it is in my story above, but it was the younger sister of the girl who lived in the house that answered the phone. The younger sister was not involved in any way with the ouija session(s).

    In any case, I suppose it could be an explanation. Again I can't remember the exact details of the day 15 years ago, so don't know if the expected caller called in the end.

    I had a hard time understanding what happened that day and I was never 100% convinced that there could not have been some sort of explanation. But, the fact that a friend of mine who I met 5 years later had ouija story similar to mine with a spirit of the same name made me think about it in new light.

    If it is the subconcious at work as psi mentioned, maybe that could explain the "it's me" character.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Shame that there wasn't caller id or a call back function :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,517 ✭✭✭axer


    Thaedydal wrote:
    Shame that there wasn't caller id or a call back function :)
    Ya the caller id would show "666"! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    Back when there was #boards.ie if you went on it and seemed like you hadn't a clue what you were doing most people would have ignored you, and bubbles would have tried to trick you into looking at tubgirl or to scare you by implying he could hack/had hacked you.

    Pretty much the same thing happened here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    I've drawn alot of similarities between the dangers of the internet and the dangers of Ouija Boards before, they are soooo similar.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭Pink Bunny


    I'd put it down to coincidence TBH. You said someone was expecting a call therefore the caller knew they were being expected and announced "it's me" when the phone was picked upI've done the same thing myself. Also with the story years later of your other friend also having a response of "it's me" I think it's more of a generic phrase as opposed to a specific name.

    Not that I don't believe those boards work, I think they harness a power that I don't quite understand. I feel they are best avoided. I posted what I feel about Ouijia boards the last time there was thread about them. I don't know how to quote from a different thread so I just copied and pasted what I wrote earlier:


    "It's just my non expert opinion, but I've always likened the idea to walking down a dark alley alone at night. You try to avoid doing so to begin with, but if you find yourself there the last thing you want to do is draw attention to yourself by waving at the men in the shadows shouting "look at me, look at me!"

    I don't really understand how it works, but I do believe it can act as an open invitation and those spirits that are predisposed to gravitate towards things like this are the very ones who's attention you are wise to avoid "


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    6th wrote:
    I've drawn alot of similarities between the dangers of the internet and the dangers of Ouija Boards before, they are soooo similar.
    Yep... and if you ever agree to meet up with a spirit you have been chatting to on the ouija board be sure to do it in a public place and let your friends know where you'll be.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭11811


    Sounds like a good wind up to me to be honest,did anyone leave before the phone call?or did anyone who knew that you were using the board that night not show up or stay at home?its a great story tho!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 403 ✭✭mysteria


    I've in the past used Ouija for experimental reasons and got the "its me" response quite a few times. In my opinion one or more of the other people using the board usually controls what's being written, usually intentionally but often without realising it. So "it's me" could refer to any one of the users. On the rare occasions when information appears to come from an external source, if you get "it's me" ask clearly "Who are you", or "what is your name". If you still don't get a name, then ask the board "Are you John" for example, in other words name everyone at the board and in the room, ask if it's them by name and see what happens. I'm not recommending using Ouija, but many of us have been tempted at some stage.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 247 ✭✭IrishAirCorps


    why does it only work if everybody is holding the piece you place over the letters? has anybody just used it by themselves and gotten the "Its Me" etc? ? ? ? Can the piece not move by itself? surely a spirit is strong enough to move that piece everybody holds considering spirits and others ( polters! ) can throw ****.....


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    why does it only work if everybody is holding the piece you place over the letters? has anybody just used it by themselves and gotten the "Its Me" etc? ? ? ? Can the piece not move by itself? surely a spirit is strong enough to move that piece everybody holds considering spirits and others ( polters! ) can throw ****.....
    Yes one person alone can make it work, and if theres more than one people can lift their hands away one or two at a time. Not much experience of it tho, as I dont use the things anymore. Dunno about moving by itself.


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