I've never personally tried a Ouija board...but years ago this girl that I was friends with had one and was messing around with it. It appeared that it was moving her fingers without her help...but it didn't do much other than that.


What are some of your stories/experiences?

Never tried one and never would, I think they are far too dangerous. I have never heard anyone who has had a good experience with one.......

I used one with my mother once - we supposedly contacted a cheeky young girl named Quellen. When we asked where she was, she said "In the ground." She'd respond to most of our queries with "secret" and "can't tell," and it got a bit annoying.

I used one by myself once or twice before too, but all the pointer-thingy did was swirl aimlessly around the board. It did feel like it was moving on its own, but it wasn't saying anything - I think the only intelligible word it spelled once was "help."

This was when I was younger. I consider Ouijas somewhat creepy things because I don't understand how they work - whether it is my own subconscious mind pushing the bloody thing around and coming up with the answers, or whether they really are ghosts communicating with me. :P

I have tried them many times over the years. The first time, I must have been about 13.  I used one with my mother. The thing was going very, very fast back and forth from the letters O and Z (we didn't know if it meant O-Z or Z-O). When that first started happening, my mother asked me if I was doing that. I said no and asked her the same question. She said no. (*Cue Twilight Zone theme).

I have even worked it by myself. It was kind of freaky when it moved and I KNEW I wasn't moving it.

The next time I had an experience with it, I was 17 and working at a theatre for the summer. Someone had one and this kept most of us occupied for a few weeks or so. At one session, it kept spelling my name out over and over again. (I think I was touching the board but I'm not ruling out the fact that the other person could have been trying to fake me out.)  But there were two incidence that did REALLY freak me out.

1. There was a guy who was standing on the other side of the room. He had a piece a paper and was writing down a letter or a number. Then we would have the Ouija go to that letter or number. Most of the time it was really close-either one letter/number off or if it was an X it would go to S (which sounds a lot alike).

2. I was not even touching the board at the time. Two other people were working it but I was asking the questions. I was trying to contact my grandfather. I asked him name and it went crazy. Then I asked if it was because my mother was adopted. It said yes. Then I asked what my mother's REAL name was. I knew it but I knew the two people working the board did not. It spelled out the correct name!  :o :o :o  I am not ruling out the fact that maybe some how I managed to use some form of telekanisis to move the piece or not. But, it REALLY freaked me out. That was the last time that I ever used a Ouija board and it WILL be the last time, too.




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They're lame.  My friend tried to convince me that "spirits" were moving the damn thing around the board........until I saw her brother underneath the table with a magnet. 

They're lame.  My friend tried to convince me that "spirits" were moving the damn thing around the board........until I saw her brother underneath the table with a magnet. 


Shoot, she got ripped off.  No need to pay $19.99 for a magnet when they work just fine without magnets.

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mouija.html

http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia/Ouija%20board.html

(NOTE: Warranty on non-magnetically-operated boards is null and void when the operator is suitably blindfolded and spins around a couple of times before sitting down in front of the board.  For this, you'll need to hire a skilled operator who has memorized the positions of all the symbols.  Such a person will, of course, be able to produce results when blindfolded, without any board at all, but will fail miserably when not blindfolded and given a planchard without a  board :)

One thing I find interesting is that the makers of Ouija boards (Parker Bros.) happens to be or was located in
Salem, Massachusetts.

A friend of mine was telling me he managed to freak out all his family when they used a ouija board recently.  He would start moving the pointer towards a letter and then when he was accused of doing it he would take his hand off the pointer and it would carry on moving towards the letter.  It never moved unless he set it going in a particular direction.

Ok, I personally never had a experience with that thing, but my older sisters used to play with  that  back in 96 or 95 I think. They claim that they talked with a spirit that passed away that used to live in ohio. And died without telling something to his daughter. My dumb sisters kept talking to that spirit just beacuase  that spirit wanted my sisters to tell her daughter something.They also said that there was another one that only talked sheesh. A bad spirit, I remember this beacuase they were telling my mother. also beacuase strange things started to happen on our house. later they burned that thing and never talked about it . I ask them but they never wanna talk about it or even say it. strange but true.

Once I used one and it told me that in the future, a ghost may pants me in the middle of PE class.  :-[

simply reminds me of being in my friend's room and doing the Ouija board thing..it seemed kinda 'fixed' as in self-oriented  :-[ :-\\