Varying experiences with Ouija boards

[CinnamonFaerie]

Why/how is it that some people believe that the Ouija board is real and have experiences that scare them away from ever using it again, while others don't experience anything bad or unusual and think it's all crap and a person's imagination?

If it was real, why wouldn't it react the same way with everyone? Just like if it was just a fake game. But yet, you only hear of polar opposite experiences, no middle ground. So what does that say about it?

Also, why is it, if it is just a crap game that is all in your head, that you never hear anything positive about it after someone uses it. It's always negative. Yet that still doesn't influence people that it may not be a wise idea to stay away from it, when people are scared sh!tless from using it?

What are your thoughts? I've personally never used one and don't have any desire to though I have been morbidly curious about them, but not enough to actually use one at all. However my sister used one once as a tween and was so scared afterward that she even goes to lengths now to avoid the aisle of any store they are in.

[MonSno_LeeDra]

Why/how is it that some people believe that the Ouija board is real and have experiences that scare them away from ever using it again, while others don't experience anything bad or unusual and think it's all crap and a person's imagination?

Why should that be suprising actually? Many people have experience that only a few other's ever undergo but it does not make then any less real. Sort of like why do some people walk away from an accident unscathed while other's die in simple fender benders that all should have walked away from.

For instance using the accident scenario. My youngest son has been involved in two horrible accidents. The first the Jeep was totaly destroyed but he was held in space the whole time and suffered only a few scrapes. The second he was thrown through the back window of the car as it rolled multiple times down the road. Again only a few scrapes, the cop who witnessed swore he had to be dead but then watched him jump up and run after the car that still held his wife.

Another example my cousin was born with a full veil over her eyes and see's things that have terrified her. I was born with a part veil and have sensed things that she shaw. Yet what I sense in no way matches what she has seen or srawn afterwards.

If it was real, why wouldn't it react the same way with everyone? Just like if it was just a fake game. But yet, you only hear of polar opposite experiences, no middle ground. So what does that say about it?

I used one one night when there were 5 of us about the table. Ironically no combination worked unless I was on one side. The other's though I was pressign down on the planchette to make it move. Well I really can't tell you what was happening as I had my eyes closed until stopped, but the other's got down and looked and the planchette was not on the table but a inch or so off the board.

I repeated that with everyone that coupled with me that night on the board.

NOthing scarry or bad happened until I became a smart arse and asked some questions which resulted in my arms going numb and getting shakes so bad it was almost like convulsions. One guy actually had to gran me around my arms and another slap the planchette away from me before it would stop.

Also, why is it, if it is just a crap game that is all in your head, that you never hear anything positive about it after someone uses it. It's always negative.

I think it has to do with the way it is used.

Yet that still doesn't influence people that it may not be a wise idea to stay away from it, when people are scared sh!tless from using it?

Fear is a strange thing. Yet it is also the mind killer and makes one do stupid things.

What are your thoughts? I've personally never used one and don't have any desire to though I have been morbidly curious about them, but not enough to actually use one at all. However my sister used one once as a tween and was so scared afterward that she even goes to lengths now to avoid the aisle of any store they are in.

I do not use them anymore but not from being afraid. I simply never carred for the divination facets of things.

[Caitlin.ann]

Why/how is it that some people believe that the Ouija board is real and have experiences that scare them away from ever using it again, while others don't experience anything bad or unusual and think it's all crap and a person's imagination?

If it was real, why wouldn't it react the same way with everyone? Just like if it was just a fake game. But yet, you only hear of polar opposite experiences, no middle ground. So what does that say about it?

Also, why is it, if it is just a crap game that is all in your head, that you never hear anything positive about it after someone uses it. It's always negative. Yet that still doesn't influence people that it may not be a wise idea to stay away from it, when people are scared sh!tless from using it?

What are your thoughts? I've personally never used one and don't have any desire to though I have been morbidly curious about them, but not enough to actually use one at all. However my sister used one once as a tween and was so scared afterward that she even goes to lengths now to avoid the aisle of any store they are in.

Not a clue. I personally have never had anything happen with a ouija board. In my experience its just a childs toy meant to spook teenagers.

[Darth Brooks]

Why/how is it that some people believe that the Ouija board is real and have experiences that scare them away from ever using it again, while others don't experience anything bad or unusual and think it's all crap and a person's imagination?

The Blair Witch Project scared the hell out of some people and had them running out of the theater, while it didn't do anything for various others, who thought it was boring. Since most people I know who've monkeyed around with a ouija board were only doing it for thrills and chills, this is the best analogy I can think of.


If it was real, why wouldn't it react the same way with everyone?I can think of a few possible reasons:

(1) You get what you put into it, and some people just don't put that much into it.

(2) The spirits just don't care to answer some people.

(3) It isn't real.

(4) All of the above.


Just like if it was just a fake game. But yet, you only hear of polar opposite experiences, no middle ground.That's exactly what some people say about The Blair Witch Project: it either works for you or it doesn't. No middle ground.


So what does that say about it?Pretty much the same thing it says about praying to Gods, or casting spells, or meditating.


Also, why is it, if it is just a crap game that is all in your head, that you never hear anything positive about it after someone uses it. It's always negative. Yet that still doesn't influence people that it may not be a wise idea to stay away from it, when people are scared sh!tless from using it?Being that I Work with a God who just can't resist a good scare, I don't believe that something is "bad" just because it's scary or disturbing. Some people just can't appreciate the beauty of things that challenge their comfort zones.


What are your thoughts? I've personally never used one and don't have any desire to though I have been morbidly curious about them, but not enough to actually use one at all. However my sister used one once as a tween and was so scared afterward that she even goes to lengths now to avoid the aisle of any store they are in.In my old coven we once tried an experiment in which we attempted to invoke the ghost of Colonel Sanders through a ouija board. We really wanted his top-secret recipe. The most we got out of him - assuming that it was really "him" - was that he couldn't talk now, try again later.

Handling spooky experiences comes along with my territory, so I'm not really scared of ouija boards, anymore than I am scared of Checkers or Parcheesi. It's the spirits you have to watch out for, unless they're really just your own unconscious energy trying to communicate with you, which can be even more troublesome if you're not careful. Never can be too sure who's really on the other side of the damn thing; could just as easily be you, without you knowing it. [Cue spooky music.]

[brymble]

The Ouija board is a tool like any other, and as with the pendulum, Tarot cards, and scrying mirrors, what you get out of it depends on your state of mind.

I have used Ouija and homemade "talking boards" since I was a child, as well as automatism, or automatic writing and drawing. I have plenty of positive things to say about experiences with the Ouija in particular, as mine was given to me by my late mother, who taught us to use it for entertainment and distraction when my Dad was trapped away from home in a historic blizzard when I was about 5. Currently on the wall of my cottage is a talking board in Theban script which I made myself.

[LadyLuthien]

I recently had a rather interesting experience with a handmade ouija of my friends. I used to not like ouija at all. I didn't trust them and they made me uncomfortable. I believe now that only the store bought ones are the ones that are fake. If you happen to hand make one yourself or get it handmade they get rather interesting it seems...

[DoktorSick]

I think it's just that some people think that the ouija board is spooky so if they mess around with one they get what there imaginations want.

[Rainnelor]

At the very basic level, a ouija board is just a TOOL as is a pendulum or any other object that one implements in reaching the supernatural. The ouija board is the subject of so much 'urban legend' that it is simply not even funny. I really would like to meet ALL this MANY people who have had such terrible experiences with the board, because as a psychologist I believe that most of their 'experience' is born of their own expectation and the intensity of the experience is governed by their own temperament. No object is dangerous in and of itself...and...I believe just about any object can serve as a focus point and aid to making contact with the spirit realm. Yet, there are many people using, say, pendulums who would just 'freak' at the idea of using a ouija board. This makes no sense. Your experience begins with your intent and your intent should govern the duration of your particular experience. YOU control this, not an inanimate object!

[Winter_Witch]

In my old coven we once tried an experiment in which we attempted to invoke the ghost of Colonel Sanders through a ouija board. We really wanted his top-secret recipe. The most we got out of him - assuming that it was really "him" - was that he couldn't talk now, try again later.



It's like we'll NEVER know it. Darn.

The only creepy thing that has ever happened to me was when a piece of paper followed the glass planchette back to the middle of the circle. However, it was most likely static electricity.

[BeautyQueen]

I recently had a rather interesting experience with a handmade ouija of my friends. I used to not like ouija at all. I didn't trust them and they made me uncomfortable. I believe now that only the store bought ones are the ones that are fake. If you happen to hand make one yourself or get it handmade they get rather interesting it seems...


hmmmm... your conclusion is quite interesting. Why do you say that only the ones bought in stores are fake? and the handmade ones are real?

[Weatherlite]

I've used home-made ones and store bought ones and can say I never had any sort of terrifying experience. Why? Because I knew I was in control no matter what happened. I've had people try to BS me by pushing it around (duhhhh....like you can't tell! lol) and I've had it not work until I touched it. So, i think part of it is that some just don't have to gift to make it work.

The times I have had great success though were just HUGE events really. The most impressive was when I was in college. There were three of us in a girl's room plus some watchers and "someone" was talking through the board. After all was said and done and the questions were asked/answered we had the following info....17 years old, drowned, only wanted to leave a message. There was more but those are the pertinent ones. So we were like, ok...HUH??? Then it said that the message was for Emma and it's name was TJ. Well, Emma was the roommate of of one of the girls in the room. TJ was a guy and wanted Emma to come into room when he gave his message. That was all he would say til she came in the room.

Well, someone leaves and goes to Emma's boyfriend's room to find her and bring her in. We tell her that we had someone coming through the board named TJ and he had a message for her. She started crying like an overflowing dam. After she had calmed down we found out why...TJ was her High School boyfriend who had drowned in her Junior year. She had NEVER told anyone in college this info. So, right then and there it removed any possible doubt that someone was messing with the board. So, she asks us what the message was and we tell TJ that we're ready. He then asked me to get a pen and paper and in not so exact words told me I was to auto-write for him. I didn't learn that phrase for quite some time afterward. So, I got pen and paper, closed my eyes, concentrated, and allowed him to write through me. First i felt my fingers go numb...well, not numb but they just disappeared like they were no longer there at all. Then it went up my hand, arm and stopped at my shoulder. A few minutes later i could tell my hand was moving because my body was moving slightly, but i had no idea what I was writing. Just to be sure I quickly opened my eyes and looked down...sure enough I was writing and no one was touching my hand or the pen. After about 5-10 minutes (it took forever!!) it stopped and the feeling gradually came back. When we looked at the paper it said, in SOMEONE ELSE'S handwriting, "I love you Emma. TJ"

So, I would say that's one hell of a positive experience with a Oiuja board. It was a closure for her because she had never gotten to say goodbye and neither had he. After this she was so much better and happier and I hope that he was too.

[NoctisLucisCaelum]

Being raised as a Christian, and of coarse watching movies like the Craft etc. I grew up with a slight fear of the Ouija board. A year ago after becoming a Satanist. I decided to embrace my fear and experiment with things that were supernatural.

I hand made an Ouija board because I could not buy one. I wrote the characters in a circle, and placed a knife on center balance of the circle. I found that if you placed your fingertip or nail even on the center, it would spin by itself. I also created an computer version of one. Place the Ouija as your background and use a wireless mouse as a pointer. Or so I thought. I've only used the Ouija by myself, so I remain skeptic of the events I had experienced. I believe its your subconscious. If you do it with someone else, your subconscious is connected to theirs to widen the pool of knowledge that you may be able to say on the Ouija. I even risked spiritual harm by insulting spirits to prove their existence with no results. Its safe to say you cannot be possessed or harmed by it unless you allow your fear to control you and to trick your own mind into thinking such bad things.