OUIJA BOARD!OMG HELP!?

Question

okay, so me and my friend are playing it.

what are some really really good questions?

and can you tell us some really cool stories about your experiences!?

please reply!

Answer 1

Get rid of it quick. My cousin and his friend was fooling around with one of them and ended up summoning the devil or something. Anyway they got the **** scared out of them and his father and the priest stayed up all night with him praying.

Answer 2

i played with a friend too.

ask stuff like

who your gonna marry

ask it if it knows your names

idk just ask anything....

one time we were playing and asked it if it could scare her dog and it did. the dog was just laying there and it lifted its head quickly.

we were like noo way that did not happen!

lol...it was weird.

=]

ohh and no i do not believe in that kinda stuff. we were curious.

Answer 3

When I was a teen, my friends and I used to play it.  Once, my friends were at basketball practice and I was at one of their houses getting ready to go somewhere, the board was out and all the cats were sitting around it and just staring at me. Very creepy.  The board didn't like me. It said I was a witch in a past life, my name was sarah, and I had red hair.  My hair at the time was naturally red highlighted.  Then appeared out of nowhere a pair of thick gold hoop earings with the name "Sarah" engraved into them, into my jewelry boxes. Real gold and I don't know any Sarahs that I would have borrowed them from.  I still have them to this day.   He also told me that I would die at the age of 27, I am now 38 and still alive.  But I have to tell you, my year of my 27 I was very nervous.  

Answer 4

There is one basic reason why people like Imaka do not believe in the power of the spirits who "speak" through a Ouija board or other divination device. Most people have not had the experience of speaking to and receiving information from spirits through a divination device, and the idea of paranormal activity surrounding divination devices such as Ouija boards, runes, Tarot cards and the like is ludicrous to them.

Since no one rooted in the world of reality can see these spirits, nor can anyone really prove they exist, many people have concluded they cannot possibly exist at all. But you cannot prove a negative, and no one who has an ounce of sense can say with absolute certainty that beings who exist outside of our reality do not in fact exist. This is where the concept of an open mind comes in. Unless you have concrete proof that something exists, you cannot say for certain that it does exist. Conversely, if you have no concrete proof that something does not exist, then you cannot say for certain that it doesn't. The fact that you have never seen any evidence of supernatural beings is not proof that they are fictitious.

For those who are interested, the following is a form message I use on Yahoo! Answers and in other fora to explain how Ouija boards actually work. If you have already read the following before, you can move on, as there is nothing new to learn here.

There is a popular belief that an Ouija board has some inherent power, or that spirits live inside the board or planchette. This is not correct. The Ouija board is simply a board with letters, numbers, a few words, and copyright and/or patent information, and the planchette is a small inert device that has been designed to move easily across the board. There is nothing magic or mysterious about the board or planchette themselves, and the mere presence of such devices will not cause paranormal events to occur.

The board's power comes from the calling forth of spirits. The participant(s) get(s) the attention of these spirits and ask(s) them questions, whereupon the spirits respond by moving the planchette around on the board. Many people believe a person can call forth the spirit of someone who has passed on, or some other specific entity, but this has never been proven, to my knowledge. The spirit(s) who are summoned will often not have any singular identity at all.

Those spirits who do have identities will usually be vague, evasive or misleading about their names. This is because knowing their names can give the experienced summoner power over the spirits themselves, and the spirits can then be forced to do things they don't want to do. This is very undesirable to the spirits, of course, who want to keep their liberty and freedom intact.

The spirits who are summoned in this way are never good ones. Good spirits will not respond to this type of summoning. Sometimes the spirits who are summoned are neutral or mischievous, and will often simply give random answers to participants' questions.

Other spirits may be more powerful than these, and may actually have limited knowledge they may impart. However, these spirits are nearly always malevolent, and when summoned they may decide to take residence in the room or household where they are summoned. Sometimes they will even take residence in the participants themselves! Once they have taken residence, they can manifest themselves in our world of reality in real and very frightening, and in some cases very destructive, ways.

Depending on the power of these malevolent beings, one may be able to drive them out in a variety of ways. These spirits are very legalistic, however, and some of them may have the power to take up permanent residence in the room, household or person they have elected to haunt.

These spirits can only be gotten rid of by identifying the source of their right to be wherever they are, renouncing this right, and flooding the host with good spirits. They can then be forced to flee. Very powerful evil spirits may be difficult to exorcise even in this manner, but it is the only manner that has been proven to be successful.

Keep in mind that this is the way you get rid of the malevolent spirits once you have them. You cannot prevent their permanent residence by any means, whether by religious icons, garlic, holy water, or whatever, because the actual calling forth of spirits is what gives them the right to stay. The calling of the spirits will override any preventive measures you could use to prevent their permanent residence.

If you do call forth spirits to manipulate objects in the real world and divulge information, you are asking for trouble. My advice is, DON'T! No information received in this way is worth the potential risk of possession by evil spirits. Many lives have been completely destroyed in this way. Please, don't let this happen to you. If you are tempted to use divination devices to call forth spirits, get rid of them. Your life will be muc

Answer 5

Usually people ask the ouija board questions about the future, who they'll marry, and so on.  Ask any questions you like, but it is best if you ask questions you all know the answers to, because then the ouija board will work better.

I used a Ouija board years ago and nothing happened.  Nothing happened when some of my friends played the Ouija board.  I actually found the whole experience incredibly boring.  Scrabble is much more fun, more interesting, and more exciting.  

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

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

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

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

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