A little over a year ago..(my ouija board experience)?

Question

A little over a year ago, I was at a slumber party with my two best friends. I brought my ouija board over, though I didn't think it'd work because I had attempted to use it for over 2 years, but failed.

We started off with a protection prayer and placed our hands on the planchett. We kept repeating "Is there anyone present in the room" a couple dozen times. After about ten minutes, the planchett moved to "Yes." We began asking questions. We found out the spirit was supposedly a young boy who died in a car crash in the 50s.

Later, we went back and tried again in another room. To be sure we were speaking with Peter (the boy's name) we asked the questions that we had asked before. The answers that we recieved the second time were invalid, because the deathdate was before the birthdate. Suddenly, the room began to grow dark and the candles flickered. We looked to the doorway of the room and saw for a second a small boy with red hair.

Your opinions please.

Answer 1

Ouija boards are a hoax.

They are just a chunk of wood with some printing on them.

There's no such thing as 'magic'.

It is just your imagination, and whoever was on the other side of the board was intentionally moving it.

Answer 2

Ouija boards operate under whay's called the ideomotor effect.  This is when one of the participants moves the planchette unconsciously.  (Assuming nobody is moving it consciously to begin with.)  So the answers you receive depend on who is touching the planchette.  It sounds like during your second round you had someone who wasn't very good at math, thus yielding "invalid" results.

This doesn't mean you can't still have a good time with it.

Answer 3

do you still have your Quija board? i will take it if you dont want it anymore

Answer 4

Ouija boards could certainly be very dangerous, especially if u don't know what ur doing. This is for ERI and the guy that answer this question after her: There are spirits that roam this world wether u believe it or not and THERE have been proof. And that is exactly the problem, that people like u that think the board is just a game, a piece of cardboard and nothing more, are not prepare for what could come ahead and everything just goes out of control. So I guess u guys don't believe when the 12 chosen by Jesus saw his spirit after his death...because He was a SPIRIT and still is a SPIRIT...since u don't believe in spirits...

Answer 5

You were moving the planchette yourself, whether you realized it or not.  Look up the ideomotor effect.  As for the kid, either one of you has a brother or you scared yourselves enough to begin hallucinating.  Were you by chance taking drugs?

Answer 6

As far as I am concerned, you went into the experience with an open mind and protected yourself adequately and then tried to make sure that the information you received was proven by a repeat, which didn't occur.  Points for that.

Let me point out that quantum physics says that everything observed is affected by the observer.  I interpret that to mean that we will find a way to prove our thoughts with evidence at hand (kind of).  So if you believe in evil, you will find evil.  If you believe in magic, you will find magic.  If you believe in prophecies coming true, they will.

This subject has come up quite often and I once again offer my story, if but to bore those who have already read it, but to also perhaps give information to those who as yet don't understand the mechanics of the ouija board.

I first watched a session with some Chinese friends in Hong Kong when I was 16. They told me not to try it because my father would kill them if he found out, since he was Catholic. I watched as they placed a clear dish on a large sheet which had a thousand or so Chinese characters on it, none of which I could read or understand. Anyway, a few of them got the heebie jeebies and pulled out, but I was intrigued.

I went home and took a sheet of cardboard out and wrote a few hundred words from the English dictionary on it and then asked my sisters to play it with me. We had a jolly good time the first time, ribbing each other about who was pushing it etc.

My mother joined in on other occasions and so did my father (lo and behold!) because some of the answers that we were given had come true.

Anyway, one night, we were playing with it after dinner and my brother, who always felt left out when us 'girls' did things together decided to mock the spirit that was present. The spirit then replied to him to beware, that it would visit him that night. My brother freaked out and decided to sleep in my mother's bed that night. At 4am, his bedside alarm went off and woke us all up. It was a funny sight to see my mother scolding the cardboard and plastic marker at that time of the morning I tell you!

But it doesn't end there. The family continued to play it as harmless fun until one night, my sister started painting her toe nails and had her legs in an unseemly position. This seemed to have drawn down a spirit calling himself 'Satan's son'. We were obviously disturbed by this as lewd comments and actions were directed to her by this spirit and we had to terminate the game because of a fear of repercussions. Didn't know what they could be at the time but the 'feel' of the air was not a good one.

Again, on an occasion later, with friends, we tried this and whilst playing it, when someone was being disrespectful, the plate flew across the room and smashed in half. It spooked all the people playing and needless to say, they ended the game.

On yet another occasion, and this is relayed to me by a friend recently who remembers it from our childhood, the spirit promised a visit that night. My friend, unaccustomed to its use could hardly sleep that night. She later woke to a thunderous sound and the bed shaking and was too scared to open her eyes, but finally did and began laughing hysterically, because I was sleeping beside her and snoring like a trooper!

On yet another occasion, my siblings tried this without my presence and they apparently encountered hauntings all night, with voices from adjoining rooms that were other worldly. This, I am told has been the reason why none of them have played it ever since.

However, my fascination with it has never abated. I have conducted regular seances, but have one or two warnings that I feel I must state.

The experience that you get from playing with the board is exactly what you think you will get. The mind is very powerful. If you are afraid when you play it, you will draw those energies more fully toward you, in what would then be considered, spirits with fearsome intentions. If you believe you will draw angels or people who have passed over, in essence, you will do just that.

Always protect yourself before you start, if only to reassure your mind that no harm will come to you. I always start a session with, "Goddess the Mother of all protects me. God the Father of all defends me. I am always safe. I am never alone. I call upon my guardian angels and spirt guides to enter this circle of white light and divine inspiration. May my higher self transmit to me the knowledge I am about to receive and the wisdom to make the best use of it." I end each session thanking the spirits in whichever way I see fit and then ask them to close the circle and protect anyone who has been in the session once it has ended.

My ouija board is nearly worn out, the words have all but disappeared but I still use it and no harm has come to me. I use it by myself because I am impatient and yes, I move the centrepiece myself physically as I know intrinsically where it wants to lead me because I trust that the words I hear or see are from a higher source, from within me. I TRUST it implicitly and this faith and trust serves me well. I know I do not serve the devil by playing it and if the devil should one day appear, I know it is my fears working overtime and I will know how to banish it. However, no devil has ever appeared for me as I do not believe the devil exists.

I believe in God and that he only sends me angels and guides. The ouija Board is a tool, it directs me to my highest inner self, the self that knows what is best for me and will share that knowledge with me so that I can become the grandest version of the greatest vision of myself that I can create. Treat it with respect and no harm will come to you.

In my sessions, we have found missing people, helped people understand their lives, acquired reasons for certain circumstances and even found names for children, pets & houses. The questions you can ask it are endless, but know one thing, the answers all come from you who play the board.

Be wise, be brave and don't let those who believe in organised religion say that something is wrong when the most benevolent God with the best of motives lives within us all!

Play the Ouija Board with respect!

Answer 7

Belief in the paranormal is highly suggestive, and just as highly unscientific!

Answer 8

ouija boards can be very bad. They are a portal that can let evil in.

Answer 9

The spirit of the dead boy was reaching out to you.

Answer 10

At first it may seem like fun u keep on doing it and ur life will change. It sounds like im just making it up but my grandmother messed around with that kinda stuff and b4 we all knew it she was being haunted by deamons. To the point that she wouldnt sleep and kept a gun on her at all times and when she did sleep she would sometimes wake up with marks on her. anyway im opinion is leave it alone

Answer 11

It is not a harmless game. If you are raised to be Christian, this fits the category of "worshipping idols". I, personally, was involved in what certainl appeared and felt like a demonic incident, which did not end until I prayed and called out to begone in the Name of Jesus Christ, then broke the board over my knee.

FYI, I'm not an impressionable child, but a well-read student of comparative religion. THIS IS HAZARDOUS to your soul.

Answer 12

Ouija boards are not evil or bad etc, do not let it worry you, if you enjoyed using it then great! and carry on to do so if you wish.

Now if you believe a ghost moved it or mind of matter type thing is up to you but still the fact is you are not in danger provide you closed the board properly and took the whole process seriously.

It is only you thoughts that make it dangerous, for example as other have said if you are Christian it is dangerous, yes that may be true IF you are Christian but its only because you believe it is, I fail to understand how a Ouija board has anything to do with the devil.

Think of it as a tool, lets take a drill for example, if you give an electric drill to a 3 year old that is very dangerous and wrong as they wouldn't be able to use it safely or control it, the same applies to a ouija board, give it to someone who is messing with it and yes it probably will be dangerous.

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