A few questions about an ouija board?

Question

Okay,

1. Do they work? (I'm really not a skeptic, so I do believe in the paranormal, so I don't want skeptics answers.)

2. If I was to go and buy one, where would I get one?

3. Could I make one?

4. What questions not to ask?

Answer 1

1. Yes

2. Ebay

3. You can but it will probably not have results.

4. I am going to tell you a story about my cousin to answer it.

My cousin is in college and on halloween a little bit before midnight they started to set up stuff because they were going to mess around with an ouija board (the place IS haunted, my mom went there to) they had candles and stuff and at midnight they started asking. Are you there. It said yes. They asked some other questions and then Are you a good ghost. No. Are you going to hurt us? Then nobody was touching it and the board spinner thing went out of control they all ran out and when they came back the board was split in half perfectly.

IT IS TRUE!  

Answer 2

Ouija boards work to a certain degree.  You need to play the game with people who all know each other well.  That is how they will work the best as they will all have a good idea of the best answers to the questions asked.   It really doesn't matter what questions you ask.

The ouija board is just a game that you can buy in most toy stores and department stores, an ordinary piece of wood or plastic or cardboard.  It is meant for two or more players so it will not work very well if you try to use it alone.  It has no supernatural powers.  It does not communicate with the dead and it does not contact spirits.  It does not open any portals to the underworld or to anywhere else.  The people using the ouija board make it work through ideomotor movement.  It plays on your mind and imagination and your susceptibilities and beliefs and fears.  It can be scary because the imagination is a powerful thing, and can make you believe just about anything.  

You can buy them at some department stores that sell board games, at some toy stores, from ebay and at amazon.com. Occasionally you see them in thrift stores and second hand stores. If you don't want to spend the money you can easily make one.

Here are a couple of links that discuss ouija boards,how to use them, and how to make them.  

http://www.skepdic.com/ouija.html

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/moui...

http://paranormal.about.com/library/week...

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRela...

Answer 3

I'm a believer. Used them many times in the past. We bought ours at Toys R Us but I think you can find them online.

We never asked questions about death like when we would die or who would die first. Some things should not be known.  

Answer 4

1. Yes, unfortunately.

2. Most big cities have at least one "occult" bookstore listed in their yellow pages. Stores specializing in gaming of the non-video variety (you know, board games like Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit, for example) have also been known to carry the things.

3. Yes indeed. There was a time when there was no such thing as mass-produced Quija boards, so anybody wanting to experiment had to craft their own.

4. "What questions not to ask?" is a bad question for you to be asking, because it assumes as its premise that there might be some way to safely use a Ouija board. If you're hoping that some rule of thumb or list of "do's and don'ts" might enable you to have a happy experience of Quija with no frightening or harmful complications, you should really do your homework and get more information before proceeding.

I have just heard way too many scary stories from too many people about the disturbing, and even potentially lethal phenomena which they experienced as direct results of their experimentation with Ouija boards.

The thing is, I hear this from a wide variety of people from diverse backgrounds and even more diverse spiritual and religious beliefs. Regardless, whether it's an occult-hating Fundamentalist Christian, a strident atheist, practicing Wiccan, New Ager, agnostic, lapsed Catholic, Orthodox Jew, Satanist, Buddhist, confirmed skeptic, college biology teacher, computer science major or whatever. People from all these different demographic groups, each with their own agendas, world views, and unique sets of assumptions, have all independently reported experiences so frightening that their memories of these traumatic events will stay with them for the rest of their lives.

Ouija boards represent a form of metaphysical technology for which there are virtually no qualified users and even fewer competent teachers. Use this tool to communicate with beings who don't have bodies (dead people, "angels," spirit guides, and certain forms of intelligence not native to our planet, for example) and you're essentially rolling the dice, going in blind, making yourself open and vulnerable as you cast an invitation out into the void.

One of the hosts of the paranormal and UFO-oriented radio show, Coast-to-Coast AM, has likened the process to going into a chat room on the Web: You may well find someone to talk to, and you may even be surprised at how quickly and easily you're able to begin sending and receiving information, but the thing is, you never know who -or what- you're dealing with.

Just as the cute, young hipster friending you on MySpace may actually be a dangerous sexual predator, the consciousness you encounter through the Ouija board may seem an awful lot like your kindly great-grandfather who passed away years ago, and even posses specific, personal knowledge that only he would have known.

Or maybe you'll be convinced you've been having conversations with some sort of angelic entity or ascended master whose mission is to channel information from a higher realm of divine existence down to our world, through you!

Perhaps you'll become increasingly convinced that the immortal soul of Lao Tzu, Joan of Arc, Janis Joplin, or River Phoenix is speaking to you from beyond the grave, and who's to say it couldn't happen?

All too often, however, and far more likely, is that whoever or whatever has contacted you will say anything to get what it wants. regardless of whether it's true, including whatever you most want or need to hear,  Why? In order to suck you in, to get you into a place and position where it's easy to feed upon you on a regular basis, draining your energy slowly enough that by the time you realize something's wrong, they'll have already taken from you things which you could not afford to lose.

If much of the above strikes you as crazy talk, that's understandable. I am, however, just trying to convey as plainly as possible those things which I've heard from sincere sources or observed firsthand.

I'm not some religious nut trying to make everybody fear all things psychic because I've misinterpreted some part of the Old Testament, nor have I fixated upon those parts of the New Testament which seem to prohibit humans from interacting with the spirit world (and in so doing, directly contradict the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth).

Conversely, I'm not some whacko occultist or New Age flake who just believes in anything and everything, 'cause critical thinking is so much hard work and the pantheon of deities and demons inhabiting my fantasy life are easier to deal with than actual friends, relatives, neighbors or coworkers.

I'm not asking you to fear the experiences and states of being commonly associated with the Ouija, nor do I suggest that you should embrace these things.  

I'm just cautioning you about a serious hazard which seems to be surprisingly common knowledge, depending upon what circles you move in and who you listen to.

Anyway, I do wish you the best of luck regardless of how you proceed....

Answer 5

I'm only going to answer your first question, cause the other answers you have received are o.k. From my experience with the ouija board, I tell you not to even buy it!!! Yes it does work and that thing does really move by itself but you are opening the doors to the demons in your house. When I played with it strange things began happening like noises in the house at night after playing, couldn't sleep, I would hear voices. All this lasted a long time just from a night of playing. Seriously don't even buy it it's EVIL. After exchanging stories with other people about the ouija board that's when I realized what was going on in my house, that same night I went home and threw away the board and then I got a priest to come and bless my house in the name of Jesus

Answer 6

1) some say yes, some say no.  I have never had an experience with one that proved to me it does work.

2) Board game section of any toy or department store.  Parker Brothers makes them.

3) You could.  People do.

4) There are no questions you can't ask.  It's just a game.

Answer 7

If you want a real one that works, let me know.

You will have to make it.

If I post it, I'll be reported.

It involves human sacrifice.

Never ask how they died.

Demons consume souls, so when you do talk to them, you are really talking to a demon.

They don't like to be remembered that they were consumed right after death, it pains them.