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Ouija board fun!

Stereolab

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I don't believe that Ouija boards do anything paranormal.

That said, who on here believes that Ouija boards can "work" without any party consciously moving the pointer? (I certainly do.)

It's been YEARS since I played with one...but I had a few interesting things happen with Ouija boards back when I was a teenager.

One time the pointer started spelling out LUCIFER, even though I wasn't consciously moving it, and based on my friend's reaction, I'm really really sure that he wasn't either.

Another time, I was using one with a few buddies, and the pointer kept going from Q to 8, back and forth. No one could make any sense out of it for a while...but then I thought it might mean "quiet," because we were getting kind of loud. (Or, in retrospect, maybe it meant "quit," because one or more of us was frightened of what the board might "say.") I often got strange abbreviations that I'm not sure any of my friends could have come up with consciously.

Again, I don't think Ouija boards do anything paranormal. I swear. But does anyone have any fun Ouija board stories??
 
Psychic: "Give us a sign if we've contacted the spirit of George McCloud"

Ouija board: "P-I-C-K-L-E-S"

Psychic: "This is a very good sign, how are you doing today George"

Ouija board: "P-I-C-K-L-E-S"

Psychic: "Can you tell us what life was like before you died"

Ouija board: "P-I-C-K-L-E-S"

Psychic: "Can you tell us anything else."

Ouija board: "P-I-C-K-L-E-S"

Psychic: "..."

Ouija board: "P-I-C-K-L-E-S"

Psychic: "I get the feeling you are yanking my chain".

Ouija board: "P-I-C-K-L-E-S"

Psychic: "I hate this stupid game..."
 
Stereolab said:
That said, who on here believes that Ouija boards can "work" without any party consciously moving the pointer? (I certainly do.)
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Me too. Ideomoter effect. When I was a kid both my sister and I were silly enough to think that there was something to it. It's very easy to tell when somebody is purposely moving the puck. Almost always, when I tried to move it on purpose to give a fake answer she'd call me on it, and vise versa.


Later on, when we realized it was hokum, we tried it again and of course nothing happened.
 
Back in high school a bunch of it were playing with one, and it said that one of us would experience a death in the family soon. The next day, the father of one of the girls playing died of a heart attack. Pure coincidence, but at the time it had us right freaked out.
 
Ouiji boards are one of the simplest of things to test. Simply have the sitters wear blindfolds, or otherwise obscure the board from their view. If it really is the spirits moving the planchette, then that should not affect the outcome. If you argue that the spirits need your eyes to convey the messages, then explain why the spirits can't simply cause your hand to write out the words with an ordinary pencil? Or since they are controlling your brain, why can't the spirits just cause you to speak?

Actually, all these things are claimed by various mediums (media?), but most of us have a point where we realize that this is just silly.
 
I once did the board by myself, and it spelled out look in the mailbox.
I did.
it was empty.
So I stuck the board in it! ha!
 
What's really funny is when you get one of those shows with a psychic - especially a ghostbuster - and someone brings up Ouija boards...the psychic and the hosts practically froth at the mouth at how urgent it is to get rid of all Ouija boards in your house, because of all the evil spirits they attract.
 
I played it with three school mates, we were fourteen. We all asked would we get girlfriends and would we get married. In answer to my question it said I would marry a Victoria Grintzevitch. We roared our socks off laughing at the thought of me marrying a Russian let alone even meet one (this was 1954) and we lived way out in the countryside.
Three years later when I started work, one of the first few people I was introduced to was That name. I freaked of course. For the next two years she was coming on to me like mad and I spurned her every move even though I fancied her. Eventually she gave up. Had I not played the ouija board I am sure I would have married her but in my young mind I was too scared to as that would have proved to me that there were spirits around.
She was a stunner too!:D
 
No, but there are some questions.

Did the board spell out the name letter by letter? At the time this happened, did you know anyone by that name? Or even by that surname? Did you write down the name that was spelled out, at the time?

Can you deduce that I'm ever so slightly doubting your veracity here, old bean?

Rolfe.
 
corplinx said:
Ouija is a game by Parker Brothers. I prefer Trivial Pursuit.
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I believe what the Ouija board tells me as much as I believe I own "Mayfair" or "Old Kent Road" when playing Monopoly!
 
rolfe
i knew nothing then, I was just a country bumpkin. One mate wasn't playing he was writing down all the answers. None of us knew of any foreigners let alone Russians. By the time I started work we lived in a different part of the UK. Nowhere near the town I previously lived in.
 
That's the trouble with these one-off weird stories. The teller can't prove the story to the satisfaction of even the moderately sceptical listener, and as it can't be replicated it goes nowhere.

I had a weird thing happen to me once, long time ago (nothing to do with ouija boards). Everybody else thinks I'm either lying or I'm remembering a dream. I certainly can't deny the latter as a possibility, though the memory has none of the qualities of a dream. And of course I can't prove I'm not lying.

I wondered if your story was a wind-up, but if not, I'm putting it in the same "WTF?" category as my ichneumon fly story.

Rolfe.
 
I never owned a Ouija, but I had Ka-bala, which was the strange 60s psychodelic version of a talking board (complete with "taro" cards, moving eyeball, and a magic answer crystal -- which looked incredibly like a marble). This thing was weird!

(As a side note, I recovered this repressed memory a few years ago. Months later I owned another that I'd bought on eBay for $250. Original box and all!)

Anyway, my brother and I were playing it. He asked:

"Will I ever play football in college?"
Yes
"Will I ever play pro-ball?"
Yes
"What position?"
SHTWQER
"QER? Quarterback! Yeah! For what team?"
BUVSVA
"Buffalo Bills?
Yes
"Will I be just like OJ Simpson?"
Yes

To set your minds at ease, my brother works as a parks director in New Mexico. He has not had a B movie career, and his wife remains unstabbed to this day.
 
Rolph
the worst thing imaginable......I had a couple of plays put on in London some years back and I had one character relate the ouija story as if it were his. I tried to contact victoria to ask permission to use her full name and at the same time to explain why i never responded to her advances. Anyhow I couldn't locate her until last summer. I did tell her that had she agreed I would have married her but the ouija incident had put me off. She laughed and said 'now you tell me when i'm 62' I guess it was insulting to tell her at this late stage:D
And it doesn't matter to me who believes me or not, I know the truth and like all the posters on here I'm taking part in a thread, that's all
 
Tricky said:
Ouiji boards are one of the simplest of things to test. Simply have the sitters wear blindfolds, or otherwise obscure the board from their view. If it really is the spirits moving the planchette, then that should not affect the outcome. If you argue that the spirits need your eyes to convey the messages, then explain why the spirits can't simply cause your hand to write out the words with an ordinary pencil? Or since they are controlling your brain, why can't the spirits just cause you to speak?

Actually, all these things are claimed by various mediums (media?), but most of us have a point where we realize that this is just silly.
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Penn & Teller did Ouija boards on their Bull**** show. They had some average people try to contact the spirit of William Frawley (aka Fred Mertz from "I Love Lucy") at the hotel he either stayed in a lot or died in. They first "contacted" him successfully, asking simple yes-no questions, then did it again blindfolded. The kicker was that the Ouija board was turned 180 degrees without their knowing it. Not surprisingly, they moved the puck to where they THOUGHT "yes" or "no" was.

Then they had a Ouija nutcase (who sold his own line of "spirit boards") explain that the spirits DID need your eyes to be able to move the puck or something like that.
 
"Ouiji boards are one of the simplest of things to test. Simply have the sitters wear blindfolds"

Oiuja could not work and does not work if the participants are blindfolded! Why? The participants need to see the board to spell out the words.

This proves only one thing, it is not likely to be be spirit forces physically acting on the hands of passive participants holding the glass or planchette.

Is it spirit forces acting on the mind of the participants and then through the participants acting on the glass, or is it the ideometer effect?

The effect of blindfolding of participants does not prove either theory conclusively.

Verdict? The jury is still firmly out!
 
Explorer said:
"Ouiji boards are one of the simplest of things to test. Simply have the sitters wear blindfolds"

Oiuja could not work and does not work if the participants are blindfolded! Why? The participants need to see the board to spell out the words.

This proves only one thing, it is not likely to be be spirit forces physically acting on the hands of passive participants holding the glass or planchette.

Is it spirit forces acting on the mind of the participants and then through the participants acting on the glass, or is it the ideometer effect?

The effect of blindfolding of participants does not prove either theory conclusively.

Verdict? The jury is still firmly out!
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Your credulousness regarding Ouija boards is recorded in this thread. Why don't you explain some more of your Ouija board experiments?
 
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