Would you ever use an ouija board?

Wanderer2010

These days, you don't hear much about these old boards that can supposedly contact with the "other side", whatever that means. Would you ever use one, regardless of your beliefs about religion and the afterlife etc?

Horror movies usually get a great kick out of all manner of demonic and horrible happenings to anyone who uses one. Me personally? I wouldn't use one, I just think that stuff is best off left alone.

endacl

As a chopping board? Yeah. Why not.

About all it’d be good for.

I wouldn't bother because they are BS, but I would use one no bother.

endacl

‘Ouija’ is a trademark of Hasbro, by the way. It’s a game.

One_Of_Shanks

If there was enough booze involved then it could be a bit of fun.

But as for taking it seriously.... Then again people think Jesus will save them or whoever.

Zaph

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Me personally? I wouldn't use one, I just think that stuff is best off left alone.

I wouldn't use one either, but because it's a load of nonsense rather than wanting to leave anything alone. File in the same place as fortune tellers, mediums and homoeopathy.

greencap

I use a magic 8 ball, so yeah why not.

Ajsoprano

If it was flexible enough I’d wipe me arse with one.

ArchXStanton

No,I know a girl who ended up in a right mess years ago

One_Of_Shanks

ArchXStanton wrote: »

No,I know a girl who ended up in a right mess years ago

probably would have happened either way then. To be honest.

If that sort of stuff spooks you then life will follow up with tonnes worse.

pleas advice

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ArchXStanton

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

probably would have happened either way then. To be honest.

If that sort of stuff spooks you then life will follow up with tonnes worse.

I'm one of the biggest sceptics you could meet,her obsession with them really fcuked up her mind and the "spirit" she was in contact with,in the end the school and local priest got involved

Ajsoprano

ArchXStanton wrote: »

I'm one of the biggest sceptics you could meet,her obsession with them really fcuked up her mind and the "spirit" she was in contact with,in the end the school and local priest got involved

haha priest.

Capt'n Midnight

I got it home, laid out the pieces and before I could even ask it a question the planchette started to move around, it eventually spelt

I'VE GOT A MESSAGE TO YOU

'What is your message?' I asked.

YOU SHOULD BE DANCING

Fear started flushing over me, 'Why should I be dancing?'

NIGHT FEVER

I started to become more confused then frightened now, I needed to get to the bottom of this. 'You're talking gibberish' I shouted!

JIVE TALKIN. HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE. STAYING ALIVE...

'God damn it!' I shouted. That old bastard sold me a Bee Gee board!

freshpopcorn

I might just to move the glass and freak people out.

Are Am Eye

endacl wrote: »

As a chopping board? Yeah. Why not.

About all it’d be good for.

Well nevertheless if you did use it as a chopping board I think eventually your dead relatives will turnup.

Mr_Muffin

I tried contacting Micheal Jackson with one shortly after he passed away, didn't get a reply though.

One_Of_Shanks

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

I tried contacting Micheal Jackson with one shortly after he passed away, didn't get a reply though.

ah give it time

Yester

It doesnt work if you are drunk or just taking the piss. If you get some serious people around an ouija board you can feel the whole atmosphere in the room change.

Are Am Eye

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

I tried contacting Micheal Jackson with one shortly after he passed away, didn't get a reply though.

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

ah give it time

A bit of time. There was enough chemicals in Wacko it will take about five reincarnations before his head comes back on line. His message to you will be "what's the difference between michael jackson and a shopping bag"?

donegaLroad

I did the ouija board one time. We made contact with a spirit called Troy, we asked him for a message and the pointer went to 5 then 0 then the letter k.
That was the end of it, we decided to call it quits.

The next evening, a few of us were watching a film on Sky Movies and there was a character called Troy who had a briefcase with $50,000 in it.

It may have been a massive coincidence.

Ajsoprano

donegaLroad wrote: »

I did the ouija board one time. We made contact with a spirit called Troy, we asked him for a message and the pointer went to 5 then 0 then the letter k.
That was the end of it, we decided to call it quits.

The next evening, a few of us were watching a film on Sky Movies and there was a character called Troy who had a briefcase with $50,000 in it.

It may have been a massive coincidence.

Science is baffled, You have proven everythingz.

endacl

Are Am Eye wrote: »

Well nevertheless if you did use it as a chopping board I think eventually your dead relatives will turnup.

Oh, that would have been a zinger if it hadn't been for the turnup/ip fail!

Better luck next thyme!

endacl

Yester wrote: »

It doesnt work if you are drunk or just taking the piss. If you get some serious people around an ouija board you can feel the whole atmosphere in the room change.

If you get some seriously gullible people in a room with a 'psychic', the psychic becomes more effective too!

Fancy that...

greencap

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

I tried contacting Micheal Jackson with one shortly after he passed away, didn't get a reply though.

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Realt Dearg Sec

Yester wrote: »

It doesnt work if you are drunk or just taking the piss. If you get some serious people around an ouija board you can feel the whole atmosphere in the room change.

You can't believe in Ouija boards and be a serious person at the same time, unfortunately.

Have a quick read up on the history of them. They were invented by waddingtons as a board game. Your serious people might as well be sitting around a monopoly board. Incidentally they change the atmosphere in a room pretty quickly as well.

TJ Mackie

If you use an Ouija Board correctly, you can play other board games with dead relatives.

Played a cracking game of Kerplunk with my dead aunt Nora at Christmas.

Muppet Man

donegaLroad wrote: »

I did the ouija board one time. We made contact with a spirit called Troy, we asked him for a message and the pointer went to 5 then 0 then the letter k.
That was the end of it, we decided to call it quits.

The next evening, a few of us were watching a film on Sky Movies and there was a character called Troy who had a briefcase with $50,000 in it.

It may have been a massive coincidence.

Ouija boards, card readers and tea leaf reader successes are often measured retrospectively... The example above is classic confirmation bias

Just because something is unlikely doesn't make it impossible or supernatural.

Muppet man.

the_pen_turner

Muppet Man wrote: »

Ouija boards, card readers and tea leaf reader successes are often measured retrospectively... The example above is classic confirmation bias

Just because something is unlikely doesn't make it impossible or supernatural.

Muppet man.

if you throw out enough vage and very common BS it will resonate with someone. everyone has lost some close to them , or know somone called mary, or need a new direction in life, have a parent that need to tell them that they miss them and that they are proud of them.

corner of hells

Muppet Man wrote: »

Ouija boards, card readers and tea leaf reader successes are often measured retrospectively... The example above is classic confirmation bias

Just because something is unlikely doesn't make it impossible or supernatural.

Muppet man.

Are you there Muppet man ?

charlietheminxx

I wouldn’t use one. I’m skeptical but I still don’t like the thought of it, I’m a pretty jittery person with enough stuff to stress about without adding any supernatural concerns. I’ve heard a couple of odd stories about them from people who I wouldn’t consider flakes but who knows really?

Either way, no, hard pass from me.

Yester

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

You can't believe in Ouija boards and be a serious person at the same time, unfortunately.

Have a quick read up on the history of them. They were invented by waddingtons as a board game. Your serious people might as well be sitting around a monopoly board. Incidentally they change the atmosphere in a room pretty quickly as well.

I got my serious people together and we sat around a monopoly board. There were four of us and we each laid our hands on the edge of the board facing us. We focused our energies. Nothing happened for a while but then we felt the atmosphere in the room change and the Top Hat passed Go all by itself. Explain that!

Thespoofer

No.
Almost thirty years ago when doing part time in my local pub my younger brother was sitting at the bar sobbing ( after a few of course).
Embarrassed I asked what the f@ck is wrong with you stop that stupid sh#t.
He blurted out he used a ouigi board and it said someone in the family is going to die.

He's dead now.

Day Lewin

Yester wrote: »

I got my serious people together and we sat around a monopoly board. There were four of us and we each laid our hands on the edge of the board facing us. We focused our energies. Nothing happened for a while but then we felt the atmosphere in the room change and the Top Hat passed Go all by itself. Explain that!

But did it collect the €200?

Hector Savage

ArchXStanton wrote: »

No,I know a girl who ended up in a right mess years ago

Jesus ! That's convinced me , I'm staying well away!

Hector Savage

TJ Mackie wrote: »

If you use an Ouija Board correctly, you can play other board games with dead relatives.

Played a cracking game of Kerplunk with my dead aunt Nora at Christmas.

Karl Pilkington is that you ????

Snake Plisken

Anyone with Netflix I suggest you watch a movie called Veronica, it’s based around a true story of a girl who died mysteriously after using a ouija board in Madrid in 1991.

Graces7

Hector Savage wrote: »

Jesus ! That's convinced me , I'm staying well away!

Well said. Some of us used to fool around with one and it got very very scary. Started racing round the board with vicious messages at a speed no human hand could match, then flung the glass right across the room.

Shudders. If in doubt do not do it.

ArchXStanton

Hector Savage wrote: »

Jesus ! That's convinced me , I'm staying well away!

What happened a few years later was a bit more freaky for those that way inclined,still though it wouldn't be enough to convince me

Hector Savage

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Anyone with Netflix I suggest you watch a movie called Veronica, it’s based around a true story of a girl who died mysteriously after using a ouija board in Madrid in 1991.

Yep, I saw this - happens EXACTLY as it did in real life ... scary

Fourier

They're printed in the same set of factories in Guangxi that Hasbro uses to print the official Dungeons & Dragons dice, Monopoly and Arkham Horror. Even assuming the supernatural exists, why are spirits interested in Hasbro merchandise? Why not Arkham Horror, it's explicitly about magic?

Graces7

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I might just to move the glass and freak people out.

Many think that but the movement of the glass is like no human hand could achieve.

xzanti

Hector Savage wrote: »

Jesus ! That's convinced me , I'm staying well away!

Speaking of him, it always amuses me how many people who go to mass every Sunday to celebrate a ghost, but yet staunchly protest that the paranormal is BS.

Hector Savage

xzanti wrote: »

Speaking of him, it always amuses me how many people who go to mass every Sunday to celebrate a ghost, but yet staunchly protest that the paranormal is BS.

It's an expression, I view the claim that Jesus was the son of God and Ouija boards as the same - complete bollocks.

Wanderer2010

My own view is that the paranormal is something that may exist but the experiences are so subjective and open to debate that its pretty much impossible to prove it in a scientific way. All these shows about ghosts and hauntings etc are pretty much 100% fake as they have ratings to consider so they need to bump up the entertainment factor.
But if someone has a paranormal experience, now more than ever its usually put down to projection, medication, mental illness or plain stress and exhaustion. Couple this with the fact that investigating the paranormal is an unregulated industry where pretty much anyone can set up a website and claim to be an "expert" in the supernatural, when they just want a quick buck and they are willing to invent ghosts where none exist.

Despite this, I do think there is an other side and some form of existence past our own and that's based on my own experiences and nothing that religion has stated.

Ultimate Seduction

I believe I saw something or experienced something paranormal in the same place 15 years apart. I never really tell anyone for fear of being called all sorts of crazy, but I know what I saw. Getting the goosebumps now just typing this. Scary. Nothing to do with a ouija board but I saw something

Insect Overlord

I think they got the name from the French and German words for "yes", so it's basically just a "Yeah, right!" Board...

HappyAsLarE

I despair for humanity. How thick do you have to be to believe in this stuff.

saintsaltynuts

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

I believe I saw something or experienced something paranormal in the same place 15 years apart. I never really tell anyone for fear of being called all sorts of crazy, but I know what I saw. Getting the goosebumps now just typing this. Scary. Nothing to do with a ouija board but I saw something

What was it dude?

GMSA

You'd think in this day and age they'd at least change the alphabet layout to QWERTY format. Speed things up a little.

Ultimate Seduction

saintsaltynuts wrote: »

What was it dude?

I don't know. What ever it was it was moving fast and my dogs ran away yelping