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Ouija Boards

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  • #32
    Flying Abruptly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 911 ✭✭✭Flying Abruptly


    Stephen Fry to the rescue!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fusOzhc2ciA


  • #33
    caseyann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,938 ✭✭✭caseyann


    madma wrote: »
    oh right way before me so :) well i was only 2 then.. but my older brothers might recall or my parents.. yeah sure its probably the same school beside.. didnt know there were witches that went to my school :)

    Awww you were only 2 :) Plenty of witches going around Ireland just hide well:p
    The school tried to hush it up but it was rumours flying everywhere,They were celebs for a few weeks lol:D
    I was there for one of them and i got the most horrible feeling.:(


  • #34
    caseyann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,938 ✭✭✭caseyann


    Pride Fighter wrote: »
    There was so many stories about them when I was growing up. Apparently 12 people were killed up at the hellfire club in the 50's after using one. Just a load of bollocks really. There were so many names for them when I was a kid, ouija board, weeeji board and a luigi board, the last one was because Super Mario was so popular:D

    Its all a nonsense and urban myth. All the stories around them.

    Until you try it dont knock it :p


  • #35
    Caoimhín
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    MiciG91 wrote: »
    Am no.No its not

    Are you stoned?


  • #36
    Bruce Brief Eyeliner
    Posts: 1,060 ✭✭✭ Bruce Brief Eyeliner


    i personally wouldnt it freaks me out


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  • #37
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    I genuiney cannot believe that people entertain the possibility that they are not a complete load of nonsense.


  • #38
    Caoimhín
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    I genuinely can not believe that people entertain the possibility that they are not a complete load of nonsense.

    People will believe in any auld shíte.


  • #39
    RedXIV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    My dad was doing a shift in a prison one night and he said that every half hour they used to do a routine check and basically walk down the corridor where the convicts were kept. Anyway, at some ungodly hour he was walking down with the guy he was on duty with and they noticed two prisoners in the same cell still up and the other guy who was with my dad asked them what they were at. The lads said they were trying this "weeeeeegi" board that one of them had made.

    My dad laughed his arse off at these two obvious idiots (him being a huge skeptic) and went back to the main office with his partner. About 20 minutes later there was screams from the corridor so the two guards run down to the cells and sure enough it's the Ouija board guys. One of them is unconscious in one corner of the room, the other is in the other corner screaming his head off. The board and glass were flung across the room.

    My dad is a skeptic but he said watching two convicts who had a tough enough reputation quaking in their boots, he was properly spooked for the rest of the night


  • #40
    caseyann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,938 ✭✭✭caseyann


    RedXIV wrote: »
    My dad was doing a shift in a prison one night and he said that every half hour they used to do a routine check and basically walk down the corridor where the convicts were kept. Anyway, at some ungodly hour he was walking down with the guy he was on duty with and they noticed two prisoners in the same cell still up and the other guy who was with my dad asked them what they were at. The lads said they were trying this "weeeeeegi" board that one of them had made.

    My dad laughed his arse off at these two obvious idiots (him being a huge skeptic) and went back to the main office with his partner. About 20 minutes later there was screams from the corridor so the two guards run down to the cells and sure enough it's the Ouija board guys. One of them is unconscious in one corner of the room, the other is in the other corner screaming his head off. The board and glass were flung across the room.

    My dad is a skeptic but he said watching two convicts who had a tough enough reputation quaking in their boots, he was properly spooked for the rest of the night

    And this is why we need cctv in cells :p


  • #41
    3hn2givr7mx1sc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,838 ✭✭✭✭3hn2givr7mx1sc


    Me and a few of my mates were just talking about them one day, and me Da overheard us and he said that if he ever heard of me using one he'd box the head of me.:P
    He said him and a few friends used one in boarding school and a big window in the library cracked while they were playing it. Also, my friend's Auntie's friend(:pac:) is in a mental institution, because she believes that the devil is inside her after using a Ouija board.


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  • #42
    Superbus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Superbus


    [quote=[Deleted User];66717132]Someone had their period on a ouija board?! Thats just sick![/QUOTE]

    Yep, it leaked all the way through a mattress. Power period.
    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


  • #43
    Abrasax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 977 ✭✭✭Abrasax


    We dabbled with them as teenagers.
    I surmised, later, the glass was moving through our own sub-conscious motor movements (except for that one occasion, with two of using it, no conspiracy therefore, when it moved so fast in a figure of 8 pattern until it flew off the board, that neither of the 2 of us could be singularly responsible).

    The predictions about my life that came true, I put down to self-fulfilling prophecies (part-time rationalist that I am).


  • #44
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    RedXIV wrote: »
    My dad is a skeptic but he said watching two convicts who had a tough enough reputation quaking in their boots, he was properly spooked for the rest of the night

    Well as Bruce Wayne said "Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot..."


  • #45
    Land Of Idiots
    Closed Accounts Posts: 319 ✭✭Land Of Idiots


    NothingMan wrote: »
    I've been on here even longer and I think it's THE best I've seen! Very clever, I love you Mikom. Way to go Mikom.

    +1

    Takes a lot to make me laugh but that did! Brilliant!


  • #46
    Caoimhín
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    If the posters here are a representative sample of the general population I can only conclude that the country is full of dribbling idiots.


  • #47
    caseyann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,938 ✭✭✭caseyann


    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    Well as Bruce Wayne said "Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot..."

    Said the man who wore a bat costume :p


  • #48
    RedXIV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    caseyann wrote: »
    Said the man who wore a bat costume :p

    Thats WHY he wore the costume!


  • #49
    caseyann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,938 ✭✭✭caseyann


    RedXIV wrote: »
    Thats WHY he wore the costume!


    Now explain why the others did also :p Circles:D


  • #50
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    CrazyRabbit wrote: »
    Used one when I was 10, with my 2 younger sisters and 13 year old cousin who was babysitting us. We used an up-side-down glass as a pointer and scrabble letters in a circle.

    We asked questions about past and future events and got accurate answers.

    After asking lots of silly questions, the glass moved rapidly back and forth and got violently 'thrown' off the table into the far kitchen wall (about 10 feet).

    We cleaned the broken glass up, and naturally accused each other of doing it, though we all kinda new that none of use could have moved it with that amount of force using just a finger.

    We packed everything away and my mum came home at exactly the time the board said she would. Freaky!

    Weirdest part is that the Scrabble game disappeared after that. It wasn't back in the cupboard where we put it and was never seen again.

    So, either my cousin or little sister are really good at creating illusions, or it was real.
    dlofnep wrote: »
    Load of bollocks.
    Actually 100% true...though I might be a bit off with the ages. I'm quick to dismiss 'ghost' sightings, and 'alien abductions' etc as I'm quite a logical, scientific person. I haven't a clue what happened that night, I just know it was spooky as hell. For all I know, my cousin just tricked us somehow. I'd love to ask him, but unfortunately he committed suicide a few years ago.


  • #51
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    (Leaving aside for the momemt the fact that its all a load of balliks)

    If "Ghosts"/"Spirits" can move a glass around letters on a piece of cardboard

    Surely they can just as easily operate a computer keyoard ?

    How many posters on AH are actually ghosts


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  • #52
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    I genuiney cannot believe that people entertain the possibility that they are not a complete load of nonsense.

    So many believe in an invisible all powerful being that is actually 3 beings in one, and who sent his mortal son down to earth to die for the sins of 2 humans from which all other humans descended.

    I guess it's all just a matter of faith. And I've seen more evidence of Ouija boards being real than that invisible being.


  • #53
    Abrasax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 977 ✭✭✭Abrasax


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    (Leaving aside for the momemt the fact that its all a load of balliks)

    If "Ghosts"/"Spirits" can move a glass around letters on a piece of cardboard

    Surely they can just as easily operate a computer keyoard ?

    How many posters on AH are actually ghosts

    I'd imagine the glass is being moved by the sub-conscious motor movements of the users.

    In fact, some of people use them just to communicate with their sub-conscious, ghosts and spirits aside.

    As to whether 'spirits' channel themselves through other users or if it's just their latent psychic ability, I've no idea but I'll retain my agnostic outlook.


  • #54
    skepticalone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 185 ✭✭skepticalone


    is it just me? or does everyone associate ouija boards with folks who committed suicide? almost every good story involving a board has the bit at the end ..... we will never know the truth cos he/she/the cat actually committed suicide some time later :eek:


  • #55
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    skepticalone wrote: »
    is it just me? or does everyone associate ouija boards with folks who committed suicide?

    I dont associate anything with folks who "commit" suicide

    Suicide is not a crime


  • #56
    skepticalone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 185 ✭✭skepticalone


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    I dont associate anything with folks who "commit" suicide

    Suidice is not a crime




    emmmm....yep if you believe in the god thing , apparently it IS a crime . I am of course not a believer ..


  • #57
    Deus Ex Machina
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Deus Ex Machina


    They have been thoroughly debunked on numerous occasions. The appearance that the planchette is moving by means other than the players' muscular control is due to a well known phenomenon called the idiomotor effect. I read a about a skeptic group experiment which had some interesting results: when Ouija board believers were tested, first with blindfolds and secondly without, they failed to even hit the letters in the first case, and in the second they were spelling out all manner of supernatural utterances.


  • #58
    AtomicHorror
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭AtomicHorror


    Abrasax wrote: »
    I'd imagine the glass is being moved by the sub-conscious motor movements of the users.

    You are the winner.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideomotor_effect


  • #59
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Load of bollocks.

    Captain Howdy saids your gonna die!.


  • #60
    mardybumbum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭mardybumbum


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    I dont associate anything with folks who "commit" suicide

    Suicide is not a crime

    I have seen you post that before around here and I meant to reply.
    You and I must understand the word in different ways.
    Since when is it associated with crime only?

    It means to carry out, to do, to accomplish.


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  • #61
    Ann22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,006 ✭✭✭Ann22


    I love listening to stories about Oujja boards but no way would i go within a mile of one:eek:. Some workmates of mine used to dabble with one. Before I worked there, in the canteen during the night shift some mad stuff went on..
    One night it 'asked' the caretaker, by name to open the door:eek:. He wasn't in the room btw. Also there was stuff spelt out about a baby that one of the girls lost (that no one knew about:().

    Seemingly you have to 'close' the board, whereby you ask the spirt to leave. This one particular night, the spirit refused to go...the group had work to do so they left the board unclosed with the glass on top and went downstairs. On their last break they went back upstairs and the glass was smashed:eek:.

    When they returned to their workstations one of the girls found a message on a pen in old style language(like ye and thou)telling her to open the door:eek:. This girl's job was to print names and addresses on pens, there were no stencils about that she could find that could've created the imprints.The chap that brought the board in rode a motorbike. That morning in the early hours he said he could feel something pulling him off the bike:eek:.

    I remember a religion teacher of ours telling us to avoid them, that they really can summon spirits. I dare anyone who laughs, to read 'The Exorcist'. Really disturbing book:eek:.


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