ouija board

[arkess7]

I remember playing them a few times as a 10 year old......or a teenager......and i got freaked out a couple of times..........but i think that when i was a kid......."they" were messing with me..........but still not sure to this day!


Has anyone else ever played these?

Comments are very welcome!


HAPPY HALLOWEEN YALL!!!!!!!!!

[Skywatch_NC]

I've never played with one before...but remember an episode from "The Waltons" (1970s series that can still be seen on Hallmark Channel) of when the kids were playing with one with a boy they befriended named Luke...anyway, on a trip somewhere one night the Walton family and Luke who was riding with them were involved in an accident...after having played with a Ouija board. That episode sent a chill through me because I've just always heard that it's evil spirits having an influence on those who are playing with one...

Eric

[streetsoldier]

I toyed around with one when I was about ten, and haven't touched one since. Not that anything strange came up, I just lost interest.

[PurdueWx80]

Played with one in high school at theatre parties after we did a show. We did get into some really freaky stuff actually, but I think it was mostly in people's heads. The scariest part is that this spirit we were talking to apparently had a thing for the girl who's board we were using, and it was made very clear to all of us playing. A couple of days later before a show, the girl's boyfriend was nearly killed by weights/rigs from one of the sets/curtains. It really freaked her out, that's for sure.

I had fun with it as a kid, but I think I've grown up enough now to know better. I was certainly a believer for quite a while though.

[TexasStooge]

Never had, never will. Too freaky for my taste.

[alicia-w]

I've always had a Ouija board around the house. I think mine is about 30 years old.

[Miss Mary]

Ouija boards bring back memories of slumber parties. Either spooky things happened or our imaginations were running wild. But each time we got one out, it was scary....LOL Same with the Crazy 8 ball and that goofy story about a Mary somebody, if you looked in the mirror. Her image was to appear back at you.....it never did, but you didn't want to look into a mirror very long to find out! So none of us wanted to go into the bathroom alone. Or turn out the lights. I think there were many a slumber party where we kept all the lights on, intentionally....

Mary

[Pburgh]

When I was a kid we played with these boards. Mary, most of the time it was during slumber parties. I thought they were fun.

[Miss Mary]

Slumber parties = trouble! I remember going to sleep very late, after 3? Then getting up early when you heard the mother cooking breakfast or letting your friend's dog out. You had to get up. Then you'd be feeling awful, just wanting to go home and go back to bed. And oh if you were the one they pulled a prank on the night before, you never lived it down. LOL

My girls have had some crazy ones. The one we most remember, is Nina's 10th Birthday Sleepover party. Our family room is 2 story and open to the upstairs balcony/stairs. The girls had been awake for an hour and Jim and I were sipping coffee in our bedroom, reading the Sunday paper. For some reason, Jim heard something suspicious and went to investigate. All I heard was - Nina, if your mom had seen this, she would have been so upset! I was in the hall in a flash. Here they had heaped all of their sleeping bags into a big pile and dared one girl to jump from the balcony. She was already over the rail, but holding on. The girls were saying do it, do it. Jim told her to freeze, not to let go. Then he inched her back over the balcony. This is when he started yelling at Nina. I thought I'd give them privacy but from that moment on I was in the kitchen, doing the dishes, ironing, etc. so I could glance over from time to time. And of course Nina was giving me lots of dirty looks. I ignored them. A few years later she had another party. The girls got into a fight and one girl took off, lived a few miles from us but she was just going to walk home. I was recovering from surgery and walking very slowly. Here I am walking down a busy road with Laura, who is shaking her head - Mom, Nina just can't have anymore slumber parties! That's it, no more. We found the girl a block away, sitting in someone's front yard, crying. I managed to get her home and the girls made up. Meanwhile Jim comes walking in later, after having a few beers with his brother, whadda I miss.....I said, well let me tell you......LOL

That same girl who took off locked herself into a bathroom, at another girl's party a year later. The dad was imploring her to come out, they were all looking around for a key to unlock the door, I just sighed and told him how she took off on us. I said hey be glad she's IN your house!

I was really relieved when the slumber parties were too '"little kiddish" and they stopped. I was just never good as the slumber party mom!

Mary

[HurriCat]

I feel that these are a "cute" little gateway toy that can draw people into the occult. It is especially of concern as these are sold as KIDS' "games".

Also, two 'board stories:

When I was about fourteen, a bunch of neighborhood girls went to the garage of one of their homes and had a "seance" (sp) with candles and their 'board. Later, one of the girls there told me that it was all fun and games until in moments the garage got really cold and the candles blew out. They all claimed to "feel" that something was there in the dark with them, and then they all started hitting the doors and screaming. One girl named Connie had four fine lines scratched diagonally across her face, one right by her left eye. I saw them - they were way too fine to be human nails, and also too fine to have been a bush or rake. What they looked like the most is when a cat or kitten scratches you, leaving thin red lines. Only these lines had like an inch between each one.

A good friends' wife tells me that in college up north, one night her and a few girlfriends got out a 'board and were goofing around with it. She said that suddenly she felt very uneasy, and moments later there was a distinct, rhythmic tap-taptaptap on the window. The drapes were closed. She said it repeated several times, growing more intense, like someone who knows you're there, trying to get your attention. Why they never went near the window: it was four stories above the ground - at night - and there was no balcony or fire-escape, ladder, etc. No trees there, either. This was over twenty years ago, but her eyes were huge as she told me this, and her voice even got shaky.

What stands out to me is that in the first story the girls had gone from the "sleepover party" lights-on play with the thing, to getting candles, sitting in the dark and even calling it a seance. That is what I meant by a gateway. It leads to more and more. I feel that if you seek only what is good, that evil can't touch you. If you start this dabbling, then you are opening yourself up to really bad things.

[stormie_skies]

HurriCat, my parents believed the same thing as you do .... I wasn't allowed to play with ouija boards when I was young....then again, I wasn't allowed to celebrate Halloween or listen to the radio, either.

You say you think that ouija boards are a "gateway to the occult"....you mean as in it pulls young people into witchcraft or satanism??? I think most young people play with something along these lines at some point (almost everyone I know has)....yet how many of them actually take an interest in the black arts? I'd like to see some statistics on that .... but I'll bet the percentage isn't much higher than what would be considered random....

Oh, and evil cannot touch those who only seek good? I beg to differ. Bad things do happen to good people and all that....

I dunno.....its funny that someone brought this up.....I played with a board last weekend for the first time since I was in high school. Didn't scare me any.....the neighbor kids were pretty weirded out, though (ok, ok maybe I had a little to do with that).

[breeze]

My brother had a Ouija board that we "played" with, but, dear
Mama got uncomfortable and made him trash it - of course, as
an adult, I tend to scratch my chin and say, "Hmmmm....if you
DO call up a spirit, what are you gonna do with it after you've
asked your silly questions?" LOL, be careful what you ask for.

[GalvestonDuck]

I was always too much of a skeptic to believe that evil spirits were controlling the board.

The main thing I remember from slumber parties was 1) jamming to Grease and SNF and 2) playing "Light as a feather, stiff as a board." Now THAT was wild!

[Stephanie]

I had one and used to play it with my friends. I used to get weird messages like I was going to have 7 kids, etc. I remember the "pointer" would fly around on the board to spell things out. I KNOW I wasn't moving it and I don't think that my friends were pushing it purposely either. I don't know - it was kind of weird, spooky and fun at the same time!

Along those same lines, I love astrology and tarot and I do believe that there are people with psychic abilities. I also believe that there are ghosts. I don't look at this as "black magic" or such. I look at it as another way to receive guidance from Him. I think many of us have prayed to God and asked him to give us a "sign" as to what may or may not happen.

[Skywatch_NC]

A "sign" as in a miracle for ie. There's a big difference between a man-made Ouija board...and...praying to the Almighty Heavenly Father for divine guidance, miracle healing, etc.

Eric

[kevin]

Supernatural = silly

boogity boogity boogity

imo

[Skywatch_NC]

Ouija Supernatural = Evil

[abajan]

HurriCat, my parents believed the same thing as you do .... I wasn't allowed to play with ouija boards when I was young....then again, I wasn't allowed to celebrate Halloween or listen to the radio, either.

You say you think that ouija boards are a "gateway to the occult"....you mean as in it pulls young people into witchcraft or satanism??? I think most young people play with something along these lines at some point (almost everyone I know has)....yet how many of them actually take an interest in the black arts? I'd like to see some statistics on that .... but I'll bet the percentage isn't much higher than what would be considered random....

Oh, and evil cannot touch those who only seek good? I beg to differ. Bad things do happen to good people and all that....

I dunno.....its funny that someone brought this up.....I played with a board last weekend for the first time since I was in high school. Didn't scare me any.....the neighbor kids were pretty weirded out, though (ok, ok maybe I had a little to do with that).

Take HurriCat's advice and stay away from those things. Trust me, they're bad news - very bad. If you have one around the house, get rid of it.

The first time you come face-to-face with a demon, you'll understand exactly what I mean. Have you ever seen the pupils of a human being's eyes turn to slits like a cat's? That happened to my brother after he messed around with stuff like ouija boards and the like. I'd rather not go into the details right now. Needless to say, I didn't imagine his eyes turning like that because my mother and sister saw the same thing I did and they (my brother's eyes) only returned to normal after a whole lot of prayer on our part.

[kevin]

Absolutely. There is a power that determines the outcome of the board, human will. If the board changed without human fingers touching it, I would view that as evidence of the not easily explained.

Experience is never a very good determiner of truth. We believe many things about ourselves, the world, our surroundings, and our past experiences which can be demonstrated false.

As a skeptic I can never completely discount the possibility, but to me things like ouija boards need verification.

[tropicana]

Its so odd...I just came across this topic and thought I had to say this. I always played around with ouija boards when I was 10-11-12, I remeber so clearly my dad and mom having house parties and my cousins would stay over and we would be in the bedroom with all the lights out messing with each others' heads.
It was kinda scary and eerie back then. Still is. But it holds an aura about them to any kid I think.

Just this past summer, my niece who is 9 and my nephew who is 6 ..I saw them cutting up some cardboard and then drawing letters and numbers on it...when I enquried what on earth they were doing, they told me they were making a OUIJA BOARD for me!

i was like YIKES.

-justin-