Would you ever use an ouija board?

Yester · 19-03-2018 02:34AM

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 · 19-03-2018 07:30AM

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 · 19-03-2018 09:05AM

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 · 19-03-2018 09:56AM

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 · 19-03-2018 10:05AM

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 · 19-03-2018 10:40AM

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 · 19-03-2018 10:45AM

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 · 19-03-2018 10:47AM

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 · 19-03-2018 10:52AM

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 · 19-03-2018 10:55AM

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 · 19-03-2018 11:09AM

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 · 19-03-2018 11:13AM

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 · 19-03-2018 11:21AM

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 · 19-03-2018 11:29AM

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 · 19-03-2018 11:32AM

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 · 19-03-2018 11:38AM

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

HappyAsLarE · 19-03-2018 11:40AM

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

saintsaltynuts · 19-03-2018 11:47AM

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 · 19-03-2018 11:49AM

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 · 19-03-2018 11:50AM

saintsaltynuts wrote: »

What was it dude?

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

archer22 · 19-03-2018 11:57AM

HappyAsLarE wrote: »

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

Yeah but people would once have thought that about things we now know do exist...I mean try telling a person in the 18th century about a machine that lets you sit at home and allows you to share your views with unknown people all over the world instantly

eviltwin · 19-03-2018 12:00PM

Did a few in my teens, never had any negative experiences but then I don't believe in ghosts or spirits. If you do I can see why you might be nervous but it's just a bit of harmless fun.

Snake Plisken · 19-03-2018 12:01PM

Hector Savage wrote: »

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

I didn’t say that! I said it’s based on a real event that happened to a girl (Estefania Gutierrez Lazaro) here is the events that happened this poor girl http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread551094/pg1

B0jangles · 19-03-2018 12:09PM

Fourier wrote: »

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?

They may have all of eternity but even ghosts don't have enough time to be playing Arkham Horror.

:pac:

HappyAsLarE · 19-03-2018 12:36PM

archer22 wrote: »

Yeah but people would once have thought that about things we now know do exist...I mean try telling a person in the 18th century about a machine that lets you sit at home and allows you to share your views with unknown people all over the world instantly

Ok, but in the present day you’d have to be thick to believe in it.

frag420 · 19-03-2018 12:37PM

I can never find my Ouija board, damn things keeps moving about!!

Barlett · 19-03-2018 12:51PM

Ouija boards were around a long time before Hasbro patented the idea. They were incredibly popular with psychics & mediums in the 1800s , Hasbro spotted this & cashed in . So no, not invented by a board game company, but yes certainly monetized by one

suicide_circus · 19-03-2018 12:56PM

It's clearly bullsh*t but I still wouldn't mess with it. Logic and fear are dealt with in different parts of the brain. So even if you don't believe in something it can still scare the crap out of you.

nozzferrahhtoo · 19-03-2018 01:02PM

There are much better board games out there. Have been playing (and so far only losing) Pandemic with two guys in work lately. Great fun, very challenging.

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

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?

Myself and another user of boards once showed the game to some children, along with the floating table trick. They loved it, and we were able to make a scientific education from it by later explain and demonstrating to them the basis of how the table/Ouija tricks work and why they do what they do.

Magic tricks and illusion are great ways to grab the attention of children before feeding them some education. You capture their imagination first and then they really want to learn the explanation for it. Something that, alas, much of our education methodology in school has forgotten.

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.

Statistically a number of people use that game.

Statistically a number of people die in mysterious circumstances.

That occasionally therefore both of the above will be true about a single person...... does not strike me as fodder interesting enough to sit through a documentary about.

crossmolinalad · 19-03-2018 01:29PM

Fourier wrote: »

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?

We `ve made one ourselves , worked the same
And playing it nine times well we moved out of that house and wont use it ever again
House was haunted and icy cold even with the heat on full power
Lucky for us , it was a rented house so moved out easily

Would you ever use an ouija board?

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