Anyone have experiences with Ouija boards?

[Whitehouse Quail]

No experiences. But for the main reason, that I don't believe any of it. But that's just my opinion.

 

[arabianequine]

It is a game don't be so gullible. I really don't think religion has anything to do with the game or this thread. A game is a game, a movie is a movie, religion is a religion, all the same.

 

[redhen]

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I dont know.. thats all i can tell ya.. cant really explain it.
Have you ever really tried one and had it move for you? Just wondering..

Yes. And it doesn't frighten me, because a much more rational explanation exists for why it moves than the whole "spirits" or "demons" ones. And, once I actually did do it with someone, and we both kept our eyes closed, and someone else watched and wrote down the letters/numbers. What "message" we got was completely indecipherable.

You can believe what you wish, but claiming absolutely that they work in communicating with the dead requires evidence. No one has provided such evidence to date. Knowing this, if you wish to continue being afraid of a piece of cardboard and a plastic glider, you are free to do so. But don't think you can make me join you, because you'll be disappointed.

Who said that I said it works to communicate with the dead? All i was talking about was the little pointer thingie moving around the board...

That being said... i have used them a LOT when i was younger.. and DID have some creepy things happen with them.... wa sit a spirit?? Who the hell really knows... not me.

 

[Sierra pachie bars]

I wont go near one. When I was growing up someone left one in a house my family had purchased. It went straight to the trash. I won't allow one in my house either. My teenaged daughters friend brought one to the rental house while the rest of us were moving boxes to move out. That house had some "issues" . They thought it was funny and a game. Which made me very unhappy. They did contact whom ever was the quest in that house. I guess it liked us and wanted us to stay. I however am glad to be gone because although it was never anything bad it was weird. The only thing that did bother me was the black figure that seemed to move along the wall. It moved fast. It wasn't a shadow it looked like the form of a human but moved very quickly.
I just after living in that type of enviorment not sure I would ever try to invite something like that in. I know the person who moved into kt after we moved out. Its doing same thing , they say it doesn't bug them. But the daughter is having some mental issues she never had prior to moving in there.

 

[Spookwriter]

For the record I, Spookwriter, do not in any way believe in the
power of a Ouija Board. It is a toy...a game.

Did I play with one as a child? Probably. It's been so many years
since my childhood, I really don't remember.

Neither do I have any faith in the Gypsy fortune teller at the county
fair.

But in my saying that, I also realize that other people are perfectly
free to believe as they wish.

I enjoy horror stories, and all the effort that goes into one. With a
name like Spookwriter, who would of ever thought that? Could a Ouija
Board have the makings of a good story? Absolutely. Just as the other
posters ghost trains, or almost any other subject with the right twist
on the details.

 

[Sierra pachie bars]

Edit : sorry my iPad posted by accident. Double posting.

 

[chickened]

You may not like what the dead have to say. There are believers that have experienced what you want.
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I would love to truly be able to contact the dead. My father was a very devout Catholic as was my grandmother. She died 3 years to the day after her son. She was absolutely heart broken when he died. Almost pulled his coffin down on her at the viewing. After he died she deteriorated rapidly as so often happens.

I would love to be able to talk about my life to my Dad. I would really love to ask him about God and if there is one. I'm fairly sure there is some form of afterlife. It would be neat to have that knowledge based on fact instead of superstition and control freaks. You could never prove it, but if you actually experienced it you would at least know it 1st hand and proceed through life with true knowledge.

 

[chickened]

Are you sure about this? Science says we came from nothing, cosmic dust maybe an explosion of some sort, now that does take faith to beleive. Being a believer is not about religion or doing this or that it is about accepting what has been done by faith as I did not see it actually done but am changed.
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Then why are you a believer? There is nothing on/off about religion of any kind. Scientist can make a more educated guess about what is contained in the Universe than they can about spirits and the afterlife. I've always been very interested in people that have true absolute faith.

 

[Spookwriter]

If you knew something for sure...beyond a doubt...then it
would not be faith.

 

[chickened]

If you knew everything beyond a doubt you would not need God either.
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