Ouija Boards.

Caoimhgh1n

Was just wondering how many of you used one and if you have any interesting stories. Used one with a group of friends today and was pretty freaky!!

coffeepls

Too weirdy for me. I leave that sorta thing well alone!

aaronjumper

Ouija Boards.ie - Now yer seancing.
I've never used one, don't really believe in that kind of stuff.

Did you have fun?

Custardpi

It's just the power of suggestion plus the ideomotor effect. Combine over active imaginations & (I'm guessing here) a few drinks & it's amazing what you can convince yourself of. In reality ouija boards are a load of parlour trick bunkum.

Buona Fortuna

When we were 13/14 me and a mate played one with two girls. We were trying to convince them that playing hide the sausage was a great idea.

Loada shoite then and haven't changed my opinion

Caoimhgh1n

aaronjumper wrote: »

Did you have fun?

Yes, there were 3 different entities we kept coming across and all but one seemed positive..

crazygeryy

Cindy was only thirteen. She was the middle child within a large, devoutly Christian family. She had three older sisters, a younger sister and a younger brother. At some point during the eighth grade, a friend let her borrow a Ouija board one weekend, and that weekend Cindy and her older sisters played with the board. They did so in secret, late at night, because they knew how strongly their parents would disapprove. That weekend, the mysterious talking board mesmerized Cindy. Cindy became obsessed with it. She could think of nothing else and soon had a list of questions that she wanted to ask the board.

Cindy had an hour every day after school where she was alone in the house before her older sisters returned from high school. So Monday afternoon right after getting home from school, she cautiously crept up to her room, set up the Ouija board on her bed and gently laid her fingertips on top of the pointer. After just ten minutes of sitting quietly, the planchette started to jerk softly across the board. It spelled out, "H-I". Cindy's breath caught in her throat.

"Hi," she answered. "Who are you?"

"J-A-K-E"

A shock ran through Cindy. Jake was a friend of hers who had died in a car accident in the fourth grade.
Jake, is it really you?" Cindy sat up, her arms shaking with excitement. The pointer moved quickly up to "YES".

Over the next hour, Cindy held a conversation with "Jake". Every day after school, Cindy would race up to her room and have a conversation with Jake about her life and about her future. But after a few days, the conversations became darker and angrier. By the second week, Cindy had the impression that she wasn't talking with Jake, but instead with a dark and terrible imposter. Finally, by the end of the second week, the entity revealed itself as a demon and threatened Cindy that if she told anyone about their conversations she would die. That Friday night, when her sisters got home, they found Cindy curled up in a corner crying. It took a week in a mental facility before Cindy could recover from the emotional damage that the "entity" caused her during those two fateful weeks of her childhood.

theres loads of stories like this and very very few are positive ones.

stay away from it would be my advice.

aaronjumper

Caoimhgh1n wrote: »

Yes, there were 3 different entities we kept coming across and all but one seemed positive..

Have to hate dead pessimists.

Custardpi

Do you have a verified source for that story? I'd say the parents' filling her with Christian claptrap probably did Cindy just as much if not more harm than the ouija board.

me_irl

Caoimhgh1n wrote: »

Yes, there were 3 different entities we kept coming across and all but one seemed positive..

Did you manage to get the lotto numbers off any of these "entities". :rolleyes:

thelad95

Caoimhgh1n wrote: »

Was just wondering how many of you used one and if you have any interesting stories. Used one with a group of friends today and was pretty freaky!!

So emmm what happened?

Ruu

I have a story...oh wait no that was where we had a game of Hungry, Hungry Hippo.

Custardpi

me_irl wrote: »

Did you manage to get the lotto numbers off any of these "entities". :rolleyes:

Never mind predicting the future, I'd be impressed if these "entities" could tell us something about the past. For instance, has anyone ever been able to contact a murder victim & got them to reveal who their killer was? How about the spirit of someone who went missing & was probably dead. Surely a sceance could pinpoint the location of their body.

The fact that there's never anything more interesting than spelling out of names & yes/no answers shows what a load of nonsense this stuff is -there's never been any actual findings from sceances/ouija boards that can be verified in the real world.

Caoimhgh1n

thelad95 wrote: »

So emmm what happened?

We talked to a child who apparantly died at the age of 4, one that would switch between langauges and one that said it was evil but wouldn't hurt us..

Day Lewin

There was a craze for these many years ago when I was at college.

Did it quite often with a group of friends - we all used to put our fingers lightly on it.
It often felt creepy but I think - I hope - that it was just "groupthink" working together to create an illusion. We all seemed to want to get messages from the Beyond!

I did hear one slightly unsettling story connected with it but the person it happened to was superstitious so, maybe, it was imaginary.

Even if NOT supernatural, group experimentation with expressing things from the subconscious is likely to be risky. Proceed with caution!

Fleawuss

Been using one for years. Have regular chats with the dead. Entities regularly turn up trying to drive me insane. Very scary.





I just made all that up.

The real problem with ouija boards is the sort of freaky living human beings it brings you into contact with.

Cunny-Funt

Caoimhgh1n wrote: »

Was just wondering how many of you used one and if you have any interesting stories. Used one with a group of friends today and was pretty freaky!!

Do you actually believe you were talking to entities?

Think about it, if these things were actually real it wouldn't be some silly board game people play with and invent stories about. There would be entire religions based around it never mind science would now have evidence of ghosts or whatever. All they'd have to do is bring the thing into a lab and talk to the ghosts.


But when its looked at scientifically. The results are :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideomotor_phenomenon

Caoimhgh1n wrote: »

We talked to a child who apparantly died at the age of 4, one that would switch between langauges and one that said it was evil but wouldn't hurt us..

Prove it.

I don't mean that in a nasty way but in a scientific way. Here you have the ability to perform a repeatable test.


What year did the child die?

What was the childs name? etc etc etc etc

Try switching it up even. You all assumed going into this that you will be talking to ghosts. How about talking to Aliens? Go at it from that angle. And sure enough you'll get alien results.

Remember its all a narrative made up by yourself by the questions your all shouting. What actual details come back outside of yes and no?

The Randy Riverbeast

I tried one before. It spelt out I-t-s-a-m-e-l-u-i-g-i.

Looked at the box and it turns out we got a Luigi board instead, last time I get them on special from aldi.

frag420

aaronjumper wrote: »

Ouija Boards.ie - Now yer talking......to the dead!!?

FYP

I've watched more than enough horror movies to know that playing with a cardboard game is far too dangerous to contemplate.

Hasbro are the gateway to evil goings-on and well known agents of Satan.

Icaras

Hasbro own the copyright for them. Tells you all you need to know.

crazygeryy

Custardpi wrote: »

Do you have a verified source for that story? I'd say the parents' filling her with Christian claptrap probably did Cindy just as much if not more harm than the ouija board.

i found it where else but on the internet.not my story and i dont know if its true.
i believe there is something to these boards and i wouldnt go near one if you paid me.theres two sides to them imo.
one is where you use it and something actually happens while using it,who knows maybe it could maybe it couldnt.
but the other more dangerous side is your imagination.did that planchette move by itself?did that curtain move even though the window isnt open?or what was that noise etc etc.
that could drive anyone insane imo which in turn could keep you going back to the board and keep you using it,driving you cuckoo the more you use it.
and i certainly wouldnt treat it as just another board game.

Custardpi

It would only drive you mad if you were too foolish to actually go & find out what was really happening. The ideomotor effect is a well established phenomenon. Being scared by a ouija board is like worrying where a conjurer keeps his rabbit when he's not pulling it out of his empty hat.

Cunny-Funt

crazygeryy wrote: »

i found it where else but on the internet.not my story and i dont know if its true.
i believe there is something to these boards and i wouldnt go near one if you paid me.theres two sides to them imo.
one is where you use it and something actually happens while using it,who knows maybe it could maybe it couldnt.
but the other more dangerous side is your imagination.did that planchette move by itself?did that curtain move even though the window isnt open?or what was that noise etc etc.
that could drive anyone insane imo which in turn could keep you going back to the board and keep you using it,driving you cuckoo the more you use it.
and i certainly wouldnt treat it as just another board game.

But this is all confirmation bias and all in someones head. You are in control of your own thoughts and once you master this you'll realize how silly this is.

The more superstitious you are the more damage you'll cause to yourself by attributing everything around you to some invisible man in the sky, or evil spirit in a board game. The more ruled by fear you become.

Knowledge is the true destroyer of fear.

Instead of reading all the creepy pasta stories about them, read scientific journals instead.

This stuff is actually fascinating from a psychological perspective.

Fox_In_Socks

I've been playing the last while with an asbestos board. The lungs are half eaten out of me. By some demon, I'd say.

Pherekydes

Never messed around with a Ouija board but I dug up found this game called Jumanji in the back garden. Anyone ever played it?

Bonus Q: why do skangers pronounce Ouija wee jee?

branie2

Regan in The Exorcist became possessed after she used an Ouija board.

me_irl

branie2 wrote: »

Regan in The Exorcist became possessed after she used an Ouija board.

"Do I have to get the chart out again Dougal?" :pac:

crazygeryy

Cunny-Funt wrote: »

But this is all confirmation bias and all in someones head. You are in control of your own thoughts and once you master this you'll realize how silly this is.

The more superstitious you are the more damage you'll cause to yourself by attributing everything around you to some invisible man in the sky, or evil spirit in a board game. The more ruled by fear you become.

Knowledge is the true destroyer of fear.

Instead of reading all the creepy pasta stories about them, read scientific journals instead.

This stuff is actually fascinating from a psychological perspective.

ah but that takes all the fun out of it

Fleawuss

In short, we should all acknowledge there is an after life and we should turn to Jesus to protect us from these vile entities.
Anything creepy ever happen to you?
Etc etc etc.

Load of scutter.

Caoimhgh1n

Cunny-Funt wrote: »

Do you actually believe you were talking to entities?

Think about it, if these things were actually real it wouldn't be some silly board game people play with and invent stories about. There would be entire religions based around it never mind science would now have evidence of ghosts or whatever. All they'd have to do is bring the thing into a lab and talk to the ghosts.


But when its looked at scientifically. The results are :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideomotor_phenomenon





Prove it.

I don't mean that in a nasty way but in a scientific way. Here you have the ability to perform a repeatable test.


What year did the child die?

What was the childs name? etc etc etc etc

Try switching it up even. You all assumed going into this that you will be talking to ghosts. How about talking to Aliens? Go at it from that angle. And sure enough you'll get alien results.

Remember its all a narrative made up by yourself by the questions your all shouting. What actual details come back outside of yes and no?

The child died in 1943 and his first name Began with P and his surname was Hillary but he didn't tell use much else about himself..

I have no way of proving it but I don't believe anybody was moving it..

tomwaterford

Icaras wrote: »

Hasbro own the copyright for them. Tells you all you need to know.

You can make your own with a piece of paper afaik


Never tried it...as I wouldn't trust anyone not to be moving the glass and knowing my luck I'd end up with some txt spk dope of a spirit



Though I have heard tales of people having a torrid time after playing it...but they were also very into expirmenting with a large variety of substances

crazygeryy

tomwaterford wrote: »

You can make your own with a piece of paper afaik


Never tried it...as I wouldn't trust anyone not to be moving the glass and knowing my luck I'd end up with some txt spk dope of a spirit



Though I have heard tales of people having a torrid time after playing it...but they were also very into expirmenting with a large variety of substances

thats bloody funny.:D

rubadub

Ruu wrote: »

I have a story...oh wait no that was where we had a game of Hungry, Hungry Hippo.

Well hungry hungry hippos is made by the same toy company as this toy so I would give any spooky story just as much credence.

I remember some stupid bitch doing tarot cards on a PC, I was asking her about the mystical powers of the PC and if the brand of hard drive seemed to make a difference.

The Rape of Lucretia

Dont mess with them man.
Some things are just best left alone.
They arent fully understood and playing with one, if you can call it that, is really getting involved in dangerous stuff that could screw up your life. Skilled people with experience of connection to the beyond may look like they know what they are doing. But I still think they are taking big risks.
Best just leave it.

Collie D

Terrible things - stay away. These things ruined my life. All starts off well before going pear shaped.

Here's my story. I was once a successful property owner with properties in all the nice areas and even my own water works and a silver Rolls Royce. Then the more I played the more I got sucked in and lost it all. Even ended up doing a stint in jail at one point.

Or I might be confusing it with Monopoly

Custardpi

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

Skilled people with experience of scamming gullible people may look like they know what they are doing.

That's because they're practiced in the art of cold reading, suggestion, use of props etc. Doesn't make their "supernatural" tricks real.

The Rape of Lucretia

Custardpi wrote: »

That's because they're practiced in the art of cold reading, suggestion, use of props etc. Doesn't make their "supernatural" tricks real.

Frauds are one thing. Those who can connect, however briefly, to the other side and with spirits caught in between, are another. Have your bit of fun with the messers if you want. But those who really are in contact with the dead a step ahead of them, but playing with fire if you ask me.

Custardpi

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

Frauds are one thing. Those who can connect, however briefly, to the other side and with spirits caught in between, are another. Have your bit of fun with the messers if you want. But those who really are in contact with the dead a step ahead of them, but playing with fire if you ask me.

Eh no, they're just more convincing frauds than your average chancer. Plenty of people are good enough at this hokum to make serious amounts of cash from hoodwinking the vulnerable, some even have TV shows. None of it is real, none of them are in contact with the dead, all of them are immoral scam artists exploiting people's grief &/or credulity.

rubadub

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

Frauds are one thing. Those who can connect, however briefly, to the other side and with spirits caught in between, are another.

"Another"? what term do you use, super frauds? or if you do believe this shite would you not consider them complete fucking morons for not taking up the 1 million offer from James Randi?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Dollar_Paranormal_Challenge

The Rape of Lucretia

rubadub wrote: »

"Another"? what term do you use, super frauds? or if you do believe this shite would you not consider them complete fucking morons for not taking up the 1 million offer from James Randi?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Dollar_Paranormal_Challenge

If you want to take the risk of being possessed by a demon if you open a channel, then be my guest.
But again, best to just leave well enough alone what is not meant for this world.

Custardpi

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

If you want to take the risk of being possessed by a demon if you open a channel, then be my guest.
But again, best to just leave well enough alone what is not meant for this world.

Personally I reckon I'd be safe enough. Santa & the Tooth Fairy would protect me

Frynge

Custardpi wrote: »

Personally I reckon I'd be safe enough. Santa & the Tooth Fairy would protect me

If they are busy this time year the Easter bunny should be able to look after you.

rubadub

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

If you want to take the risk of being possessed by a demon if you open a channel, then be my guest.

I do take the risk of dabbling with demonic channels quite frequently -and Tubirdy has not possessed me into repeat viewing yet. Maybe it's the garlic in my Chinese takeaway.

Again, I am wondering why these people you believe do have supernatural powers have not claimed that 1 million pot. If I had such powers I would be collecting it next week.

Fleawuss

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

if you open a channel, then be my guest

I just read this pretentious ****e. Open a channel. Laughing my bollix off at such juvenile attempts to sound mysterious.

Beam me up Scottie.

Custardpi

Fleawuss wrote: »

I just read this pretentious ****e. Open a channel. Laughing my bollix off at such juvenile attempts to sound mysterious.

Beam me up Scottie.

Reminded me a bit of this.

J Mysterio

Icaras wrote: »

Hasbro own the copyright for them. Tells you all you need to know.

I just googled 'hasbro ouija board' and they have it advertised as a 'toy for kids'!

The Rape of Lucretia

J Mysterio wrote: »

I just googled 'hasbro ouija board' and they have it advertised as a 'toy for kids'!

Well you can make a toy version of anything (though whether that is wise thing to do or not is very questionable), but than doesnt mean the real thing doesnt exist.
Which proves that point.

tony 2 tone

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

Well you can make a toy version of anything (though whether that is wise thing to do or not is very questionable), but than doesnt mean the real thing doesnt exist.
Which proves that point.

That proves nothing.

donegaLroad

I have tried it a couple of times years back... no bad experiences,

a few friends were using a ouija board one night and they got freaked out, you are supposed to have a glass of water beside the board that you break if things get out of hand, and this makes the spirits clear off etc.

so one of the guys grabs the glass and runs out the front door and throws it onto the road, the glass bounced into the air and into the hedge and they couldn't find the glass. They became very paranoid for a while after this.

Spanish Eyes

Anyone used an Ouija board in broad daylight and sober? LOL