Ouija Boards - Doorway To The Darkside Or Just An Old Board Game?

[GymLadTim]

Have you ever tried a Ouija Board - I never have. Some years ago some friends were using one at a party but I refused to get involved. I am not religious but don't want to take any risks with those things.

Some swear that their lives have been ruined by Ouija boards, some scientists say that they work through the ideomotor effect where we move things subconsciously, other say they are a harmless board. I have no idea but would never do one after some of the stories I have heard.

What do you think?

[mallyh]

did one once when in the wrens ,horrible experience ,wouldn't go within a mile of one now .

[GymLadTim]

WHAT HAPPENED??????

[mallyh]

in the middle of the glass spelling out words and contacting someone ,one of the girls just got up walked into the garden and it looked like she was talking to someone then collapsed, she was taken to hospital ,luckily she made a complete recovery but it put the fear of god into us .so never never again would I do one .

[Baldric]

Years ago, with a previous partner,and a couple from 2 doors away, we
did a home made one on a glass table so nothing going on underneath. We got a few answers then someone asked "Is there another way to do this?" the answer came back as 'leave glass alone' we did and out of contact with any of us the glass continued to answer any question asked, it was an interesting evening but we never went back there.
I have been mocked before for this but I was there, I was sober, it happened.

[hc4361]

I had a beautiful Victorian ouija board and it just disappeared. No idea how, when or why, I just know I know longer have it.

It never did me any harm but then again I just viewed it as a bit of fun

[GymLadTim]

OMG!!!

[Old_Geezer]

All this ruined life stuff is nonsense. If one is daft enough to be affected by trying to contact the no longer living then their mind would have issues at some point in their life anyway.

Yes I have used Ouija boards many times in the past. No reason not to. Gives you experience, and evidence for you to analyse. You draw your own conclusions, but can't if you believe scare stories and run a mile from them.

Suggest you stop listening to urban myths and nervous Nellys.

[Bobbisox1]

Omg mallyh, that's awful
Never been tempted...ever

[GymLadTim]

Baldrick - so the pointer was moving around the glass with no hands on it?

[hc4361]

I do share my house with a ghost so I'm not easily spooked.

[Baldric]

GLT, yes it was, if I'd not seen it I wouldn't believe it.

[GymLadTim]

Oh My Flipping Goodness!!!

[Buenchico]

Ouija boards were invented as a sort of party game and were never intended to be taken seriously. I've known loads of people who've used them (including some of my pupils in my teaching days, who often experimented with one in my classroom during the lunch break) and nothing terrible has ever happened to any of them.

They can be entertaining if you're larking around with a few mates but they can't be used to contact the 'spirit world', simply because it doesn't exist.

[GymLadTim]

HC4361 - You live with a ghost??????

[naomi24]

//'leave glass alone'//

That's sound advice. Heed it. I have no religion, I'm not given to flights of fancy or superstition, and I don't know how or why it works ... but it works.

[Baldric]

Chris, I'm not 100% sure I agree with you but to be fair I have no more proof than you have ;o)

[douglas9401]

I would just say that Baldric confessed to liking a large gin with breakfast on these very boards only yesterday.

Just saying. :-)

[Deskdiary]

It's a game - no more no less - and it cannot be a gateway to 'the other side', for the simple reason there is no other side.

Other things that don't exist...

Ghosts.
Leprachauns.
Fairies at the bottom of the garden.
Trolls under bridges.
God.
The efficacy of homeopathy.

[Baldric]

Are you capable of doing a link to that Douglass?

[douglas9401]

And Brexit.