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I tried this once with a group of friends, many years ago. It ended up spelling a very strange name, Lucretia Hollingsworth.
We checked it out at the library the next day, guess who use to live in the house we tried the board in?

Freaked me enough to still remeber the name now

I had a bad experience with a Ouija board in the late 70's.
I can't (or don't want to) remember what happened, but it was put out with the garbage ASAP.
I can still see myself looking out the front room window begging the garbage men to hurry up and come.

Forward to about three years ago. I started at a new school. A former neighbour recognised me from the 70's (I didn't recognise her). A few minits into the conversation she said "Do you remember the ouija board?" Must have had the same effect on her to remember all those years later.

Our daughter wanted to buy one. I told her in no uncertain terms not to dabble in the unknown, and besides one will never come into this house!

What gets me, is that they are sold in the toy department of stores next to the snakes and ladders.

Deb

While i agree if your not sure what your messing about with, Dont Do It. You must remember your messing about with something that can take you into the black arts. Ouija boards are only ok to use if you have full knowedge of how it should be done, and respected properly. If you don't know about it leave it alone. People sometimes have no idea just how much danger they can be getting into as this thread shows has often been the case.

If you don't know about it DONT DO IT.

It is said that spiritualists recieve mesages from the other side and that they have a guide that helps or protects them.
From what I have been told those same people on the other side can chose to contact someone using a ouija board, so, if you ask a question and get a reply then why be afraid of the answer.
The danger, according to my informant is that the spiritualist is trained and has a guide and the casual user of the ouija board lays himself open to the same type of person on the other side as you would avoid in real life...someone with an odd sense of humour or malicious intent..

I understand what you say Colin......I have heard that spiritualists also say a prayer of protection and ask their guides for protection.....

...whereas as we were just doing it all for fun, but sometimes that fun turned into real terror for some people....

...and in my daughter's friend's case led to her having guidance from the church.......that was when our board got destroyed.....

Personally I think the problem is when people "PLAY" with one.... it is not a toy, it can be a horrifc experience for the untrained and ungrounded.

Please people never "PLAY" with the unknown.

xx

Forty years ago in our lunch hour on a bright and shiny day - four of us gathered in the M.D.'s office (my boss and he was away) his desk had a glass top. I got a wine glass from the board room - we cut pieces of paper with the alphabet on and arranged them on top of the desk with the wineglass in the centre. I insisted we say the Lords Prayer first! Asked if anyone there - glass moved to spell yes - asked who? Dad - came the reply - there were three possible answers to this. Whose dad? reply came back - it was mine! The hairs stood up on the back of my neck and the glass took off at a rate of knots it was difficult to keep fingers on it and the message 'stop this evil thing'. That finished it NEVER EVER AGAIN.

That's what I am saying Pinks, back there in the 60's and 70's it was just a fun thing to do at parties, after a few drinks......nothing more, then the ouija boards came in and more people used them, and then weird things happened to some.......then came the advice to get rid of them and not to dabble with the occult.........it is not until much later that you realise what harm can be done.....at the time its just a bit of fun.....

In the 70s one of our friends did all kinds of readings while I and her husband were visiting pubs.
One evening we came back to her saying that the father of someone in the room would be dead within 12 months
3 out of the four of us then had fathers alive and all 3 fathers died within 12 months.
She also forecast her own death and her husband was annoyed having told her before not to do readings for herself...she had just been passed fit for emigration....but died in a car crash...others in the car survived

ooooer!

Hi all, very interesting thread, my thoughts:

Don't mess with the dead and they won't mess with you.

Justx

I agree. Do not mix with the spirits.
I had an experience in the early 70s when we did it in a mates house. The glass lifted off the table and smashed. Never did it again after that.

My sister and her friend tried it and asked me to join them back in 1961 in my mums house.

i'd only been married a few months
and was carrying our first child .
my sister asked what name i was going to call the baby , and the glass started to push out letters
then went absolutely mad and then smashed on the floor , i had a horrible feeling about this at the time
and told my sister i wasn't happy .
About 6months later i gave birth and my son was still born .
if this post offends or upsets anyone i will delete it
Hazelx

My Mother is the most grounded sceptic I know (apart from me) but she put me off the idea of ouija boards. As a teenager she got together with her older cousins and had a go with a board. She has never told me what came out and her cousins wont speak of what happened but none of them have felt inclined to use one again.
I think that you are actually tapping into the subconcious mind rather than contacting spirits. I think it is much like poltergeist activity which is channelled from within.

Janet
I doubt if you or your mother are more sceptical than I was - at the time.
The questions our group put to the board were carefully prepared so as to avoid pre-knowledge by any of the group. The answers given were later verified as accurate which precluded them being produced from the subconscious of any of the sitters. For instance, an example of the test questions was to pick a name from the obituary columns of a newspaper and ask the cause of death. None of our group had any ulterior motive for affecting the outcome. It was purely a test by a group of interested people who were prepared to find the whole process a nonsense. I remain convinced that there was paranormal activity.

this subject interests me imensly as a member from my tree my uncle was said to use the board and do seances he died aged 42 after going for a lay down cos he felt unwell cause of death natural causes as in there was no cause he just .......died
he gave a mirror to my mother with a shinny wooden back b4 he died i now have it and it scares the heck out of me

Oh Hazel - what an awful story, my heart goes out to you really it does - I truly believe Ouija boards are evil. I think if you believe in a power of good, which I do, conversely you have to believe in a power of evil

Love Ann XXX

I do not believe ouija boards in themselves are evil. It is what you may call a doorway which, if one does not take precautions, is open to any entity who notices. One has to be selective as to who is allowed in.

About 20 years ago my step-daughter was having a "sleepover" pyjama party with 5 of her friends. Unknown to me, one of the girls had brought a ouija board. All was remakably quiet, then suddenly I heard loud screaming and they all hurtled down the stairs. One girl was absolutely petrified. They said they had asked if there was a ghost in the house, and recived a "yes" answer, then they asked it's name and the board apparently spelled out "killer".
When I went upstairs to remove the offending board from her room, there were multiple candles lit all round the room, they were apparently hoping for a seance, It took me over an hour to calm the one girl down, and they ended up in their sleeping bags in the lounge. Never again!!

For a time in the 1970's, these Ouija toys were banned in the shops.
The managers of the various shops which sell this diabolical 'game', should be made to 'play' it first for one month.

There appears to be three levels of depth of contact with the Ouija.
1 - Grandma/dad Etc. announces there are 'here'.
2 - Specific details are given to a particular member round the board, with sometimes, noises/brief appearances of?
3 - Events concerning the future are given and a person can then only watch helplessly as these foretold occurrences begin to happen.
Such 'Foretellings' can begin to occur more or less immediately, or stretch a few years into the future before they begin to unfold, or anytime in between.

Avoid these 'toys' at all cost before 'Someone' makes you do that.

Enquirer.