Ouija boards

Mrs Garth Brooks · 11-05-2013 11:04PM #1

Im watching keith barry on tv and he was using one. Its all a bit of fun with keith barry, its what he does.

I've never used one, but my god, my mother freaked out saying its bad luck, she went on and on and it came from nowhere. I never asked her to freak out and give out to me over a stupid board. My point being it was a bit of fun with keith barry, how the fcuk did I bring this crap on for thinking its fun.
They can be bought on Amazon, I told her so and she thought I was in the process of buying one and freaked out some more and told me "it wont be used in this house". I think she watched too many horror movies really.

Is she freaking out over nothing? Has anyone ever used these boards.

MadYaker · 11-05-2013 11:06PM

I've never used one, but I think there is a paranormal forum or something that has a few threads on this.

Peregrine · 11-05-2013 11:12PM

I'm disappointed. I thought this would be about some paranormal version of boards.ie

Canis Lupus · 11-05-2013 11:14PM

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

Im watching keith barry on tv and he was using one. Its all a bit of fun with keith barry, its what he does.

I've never used one, but my god, my mother freaked out saying its bad luck, she went on and on and it came from nowhere. I never asked her to freak out and give out to me over a stupid board. My point being it was a bit of fun with keith barry, how the fcuk did I bring this crap on for thinking its fun.
They can be bought on Amazon, I told her so and she thought I was in the process of buying one and freaked out some more and told me "it wont be used in this house". I think she watched too many horror movies really.

Is she freaking out over nothing? Has anyone ever used these boards.

Maybe you should explain it's a board game, was invented as such.

RoundBox11 · 11-05-2013 11:14PM

They're made in a factory, same as a snakes & ladders or monopoly board.

They're just a board, it's the individuals imagination that makes them "dangerous" or whatever you want to think. Some people are living in the stone age with things like this. Just like people who are afraid of saying bloody mary in the mirror

Ziphius · 11-05-2013 11:15PM

It's a game made by Hasbro. You can buy it in toy shops. This one even glows in the dark. Spooky. http://www.toysrus.com/buy/games-puzzles/board-games/kids/favorite-tv-movie-book/ouija-board-glow-in-the-dark-0600s5-2266493

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My name is URL · 11-05-2013 11:17PM

To be fair, if you live with someone who believes they actually work then you probably are in danger.

SEPT 23 1989 · 11-05-2013 11:19PM

ZOZO

Ruu · 11-05-2013 11:23PM

Is that 6th fella still around? Used to be into that sort of thing.

11-05-2013 11:24PM

I messed about with homemade ouija board in my youth. Got really freaked one night and we tried to break the glass. The glass would not break, no matter how many times we hit it off a brick wall.

Scared the sh1te out of me. Never again!

Duggy747 · 11-05-2013 11:27PM

Jumanji is the board you should be scared of.

TheUsual · 11-05-2013 11:29PM

K_I_L_L_J_E_D_W_A_R_D

WoollyRedHat · 11-05-2013 11:31PM

Duggy747 wrote: »

Jumanji is the board you should be scared of.

Those poor kids in the Middle East, I often often wondered what fate befell them

KamiKazeKitten · 11-05-2013 11:37PM

Keith Barry used to be dead against psychics/cold readers and all that stuff, pretty bad to see him stoop that low for publicity tbh.

OP imo it's just a game.

Ruu · 11-05-2013 11:45PM

Duggy747 wrote: »

Jumanji is the board you should be scared of.

Saw that documentary as well, mad stuff!

OneArt · 12-05-2013 12:05AM

RoundBox11 wrote: »

They're made in a factory, same as a snakes & ladders or monopoly board.

They're just a board, it's the individuals imagination that makes them "dangerous" or whatever you want to think. Some people are living in the stone age with things like this. Just like people who are afraid of saying bloody mary in the mirror

In fairness, monopoly is dangerous as well. It has been tearing families apart, ruining friendships and bringing people to their graves for many years. More dangerous than a ouija board I think.

Sofaspud · 12-05-2013 12:39AM

As has been said, it's just a board with letters on it, and people subconsciously move the planchette themselves with what's called the ideomotor response, unconscious movements that the person doesn't know they're responsible for. It usually starts off at random letters, and then when people see a pattern they recognise, they fill in the rest of the pattern (so if it goes to J then O, people would subconsciously move it to H then N).
It's an interesting look into the human brain, and the game was originally developed as a way of tapping into your subconscious, but people prefer to think of it as dead folk or satan or whoever they want to conjure up.

Wade in the Sea · 12-05-2013 12:54AM

My suggestion is steer clear of these. Me and some mates had a rough experience with one of these as youngsters. It was all a bit of a laugh when the answers turned to insults and several things happened in the house that convinced us to stop messing with something we didn't understand. I am more inclined to look for reasonable explanations but there weren't any.

Peregrine · 12-05-2013 11:03AM

Wade in the Sea wrote: »

My suggestion is steer clear of these. Me and some mates had a rough experience with one of these as youngsters. It was all a bit of a laugh when the answers turned to insults and several things happened in the house that convinced us to stop messing with something we didn't understand. I am more inclined to look for reasonable explanations but there weren't any.

What's so hard to understand? It's a board..made in a factory by a company. Reasonable explanation would be that you got freaked out because you expected to.

I had a friend who found a ouija board in his house, didn't have a clue what it was (we were children). He messed around with in for weeks and then eventually when we saw it we told him it was a ouija board and one of our parents found out and had it put away. He didn't die..nothing happened to him cos he only knew it for what it was, a board.

p_o_s_t_y · 12-05-2013 11:14AM

My friends and I used 1 when we were 15/16,we had it on an old oak tree stump in the woods,we asked to speak to someone but the glass was movin spelling 'SATAN',my friend was the only person with his finger on the glass,he asked to leave repeatedly and the glass kept spelling 'NO' faster and faster,he took his finger off the glass and the glass moved off the oak tree stump and into the grass,it moved 3-4 metres away,he picked up the glass again and it happened again,he ran from the woods to the local church,we burned the board that day and never used one since.

Pumpkinseeds · 12-05-2013 11:48AM

I'd stay away from the things. Nothing good comes from messing around with things like that, whether you believe in them or not.

SilverScreen · 12-05-2013 12:05PM

Wade in the Sea wrote: »

My suggestion is steer clear of these. Me and some mates had a rough experience with one of these as youngsters. It was all a bit of a laugh when the answers turned to insults and several things happened in the house that convinced us to stop messing with something we didn't understand. I am more inclined to look for reasonable explanations but there weren't any.

Sounds like the games of Frustration we used to play when we were small. The fights me and my sisters used to get into over that game. It was dangerous I tell you.

I don't get the deal with Ouija boards, only kids board games and superstitious people don't mix.

kylith · 12-05-2013 12:21PM

The only thing you get in contact with, using a ouija board, is your own subconscious. They're made by Hasbro, ffs!

ScumLord · 12-05-2013 12:28PM

You can blame the church for your mothers reaction. As a young lad I did it in school with a few friends. We got caught and the priest was called in, it was taken very seriously. We used to like doing it in the old overrun graveyard on Halloween just to scare ourselves more.

Its just a stupid game.

hfallada · 12-05-2013 12:31PM

I used to be scared of them until I discovered your can get a hello kitty ouija board

Fr_Dougal · 12-05-2013 12:31PM

I did the Ouija board once.

Everybody died...everybody...

c_man · 12-05-2013 12:46PM

Just think how ridiculous it would sound if you heard grown adults expressing their fear of Ludo...

kfallon · 12-05-2013 12:53PM

Me and a Ouija Board:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgHwVUHRS44

12-05-2013 12:54PM

Nonsense. Only drunk teens and gullible adults need apply.

Sofaspud · 12-05-2013 12:55PM

c_man wrote: »

Just think how ridiculous it would sound if you heard grown adults expressing their fear of Ludo...

But what if the Ludo board was . . . . . . . . . haunted!!

Then people would have (or claim) the same "board flew off the table and the curtains blew even though the window was closed and I heard a sound from the corner when there was nobody there" experiences. Peoples minds fill in blanks and exaggerate memories and experiences to suit their beliefs.

Napper Hawkins · 12-05-2013 01:04PM

People are idiots.

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