I have heard all over threads, dont use Ouiji Boards, they are dangerous, etc, etc.

What I want to know is if they are used in a controlled manner, are you still guaranteed safety? And what is so dangerous about them exactly? I only ask because with the new series of BFH, we do a featured experiment each episode (there are six in total) and so far we have gotten: Dowsing Rods, Saence, Channeling and Crystals, and this leaves us with two more which we need to think of. Obviously a Ouiji Board would fill up another space, but naturally I am worried about the concequences if we do use one.


Thanks for any help you could offer

Ouija boards are dangerous.Period.But if used correctly can be fun.Me and 4 friends have been using Ouija for a couple of years now.At first it was freaky but now it's good.My best friend knew what to do so we followed his lead and eventually talked to an electrician called Frank.

I gave my answer in one of the threads of Friday, don't touch 'em.

A family friend was a police officer in Salford, Greater Manchester in the 60's. His sister died using a ouija board.

Don't use the damn things.

How she died using a Ouija board?

Anyway, I have a ouija board at home and the damn thing doesn't work. I mean is the thing really supposed to move on its own? My brother and I just sat there with our fingers on the thing and the thing barely moved. And it if it moved it was like a centimeter, mainly because our arms were tired from holding that position. It never moved back and forth all over the place like they do on TV or on the "In Search Of" series with Leonard Nimoy.

So it seems if the thing do move on the board, somebody is moving it. In the end, it is a self fulfilling prophecy!

Don't touch the thing ever. They are dangerous. They can conjur up some pretty nasty spirits. My 2 aunts were living together years ago and they decided to play around with one. Afterwards doors slammed in their house, there were cold spots, knocks on the walls, etc. They had to move because it was too bad. Don't use one ever!

My experience with the ouija board is the same as KayEl's. I tried the board several times with different friends and relatives, and nothing ever happened.

I was into these a long time ago, and considered myself mastering the object. Until the last time I touched one. A few of us used it – one fell out the window minutes later breaking his ankle, another lost his job the next day, but while going to take the chap to the hospital to check on his ankle the over 4 in the car (all who used the board at the same time) crashed and all broke at least one bone each. The only one unaffected was me, because just before we started I had a nose bleed and filled the glass with my blood (I know, I was a teenager, and the last thing you do when you’re a teenager is use your neurons, lol)

You people are foolish, Ive messed with over 4 different kinds of Ouiji Boards, from Parker Brothers, to 2 actual Boards created by Real Druids, or (Wiccans), and one board that my friend Kenny and I Carved out of Wood and none of them worked.
There was one time that I actually believed that Kenny, Rick, and Myself were not Moving it, but then Rick started laughing, and we all knew it was him moving the Dial. I have tried time after time, even by my lonesome trying to actually Meditate to see if anything would happen, and nothing happened at all.

Although I will say it is quite entertaining, especially if your camping out in the woods.

P.S My mother thought that they were so evil that one time she took my Parker Brothers Board and threw, Holy Water on it, it was so ridiculous. I laughed for hours upon hours, she even read the Bible to it.

You people are silly if you think they are dangerous. They are just mere fun.
So I guess Halloween is bad to now, since the Mexicans call it the Day of the Dead.

Ahhh, mexican is the best food in the world! It even overtakes Chinese Take-away in my mind.

Anywho, thannks to anyone who answered. I would be interested to find out how that lady died because of an Ouija Board and even though to be honest I am quite skeptical of the things, I wont suggest it. Thanks again!

Ok............ don't know how many times I've said this on here ~ *takes deep breath*

The boards are not a toy - hence them being banned as such in many countries. Most of the time it's the collective concious of the group using the board that makes the planchette move, not a 'spirit'. However, sometimes things happen. During the research for my book I interviewed several sensible, articulate, intelligent people who have been terrified using the ouija. I myself used one in my teens and would never ever touch one again. (I only did it because I had been warned not to by other people - and I'm one of them that does the opposite of she's told ).

Hammy x x x

PS Cold, pooped and covered in dog-hair

Ouija boards are dangerous, not only if they are used incorrectly, but also if they manage to attrct an evil or malign spirit. There are a number of ways in which you can protect yourselves from the spirits that you summon, if it works at all.

1. Always wear silver, touching your skin.
2. Always say goodbye to the spirit after you finish as this helps it to depart.
3. Draw a circle around the board and sitters before you start.

There are others, but as I have put them elsewhere I will not repeat them all.

They are dangerous because you can call evil spirits to you, that then stay, it is if they stay that the fun begins, and you start to experience bad luck, accidents, cold spots and the other phenomenon.

Doing the above helps to stop this, but it may not if the spirit is particularly strong.

*stands on propped up Ouija Board and peers over edge of toybox*

The only reason Ouija Boards are dangerous is due to people like Althalus and their scare mongering.

What gives 'silver' its protective power against 'spirits' exactly??

How does drawing a circle stop 'evil demons' coming through???

Does saying goodbye to a 'spirit after using the board make them feel better???

The only demons/spirits that you contact using a ouija board are those conjured up by your own mind.

A simple test will prove Ouija Boards are nonsense,, Do it blind folded and have a friend stand by and write down whatever messages you get, oh and have someone fluent in gibberish handy to interpret what you get.

*blows kiss to Hammy and climbs back inside toybox*

I have to agree, but with some of the experience I have gotten from doing BFH I have learned not to mess in things that I dont understand. Maybe in the furure with more extensive research but I doubt it.

Is it nonsense? Probably, but why take the risk if its just for the sake of it.

I find Kryso's and Hammy's stories perfectly conceivable. But whether they are spirits, demons, auto-suggestion or projected complexes or whatever is another thing. There are so many accounts of less than pleasant things occurring with ouija... Maybe these occur when one or more suitably 'gifted' or attuned people are present.

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It's like the analogy I gave in another thread. Using a ouija board is like leaving your front door open. But just because you've opened the door doesn't mean anyone will actually come in, but if they do you have little control over whether they have malicious intent or not.

*Applauds*

yeh, I guess that bascially explains it all then

I have heard on more than occasion (from more than a few sources which I cannot recall at the moment) that a spirit can get trapped in an Ouiji Board. (which is why the same spirit will communicate with you over and over and over again). Anyway, I never use them anymore...

Don't ever use it! Like all da people said...it has been a long time here and yes,I've seen alot of strange board games in my life...

I was skeptical years ago. I tried it with different people with different outcomes. Lets just say that I wont be doing it anytime soon. Most of the outcomes were negative and frightening.

Not at all, just that in the Satanic Church the Circle is used differently than in Wicca.

The circle in actual fact gives you a point of focus for you to concentrate on.

Okay thats a good enough answer for me. Ive lived 22 years, Ive tried time after time to conjure up spirits, angels, demons etc, and I have never seen or heard any of them, Ive used every method that I know possible, and none worked. Same go's for my friend Ronnie, Jason, Kenny, Rick, and other friends of mine.

My dude ronnie declares himself to be a satanist, but personally I think he's full of himself, and Kenny would like to call himself a druid. Who really cares? But if thats what makes them happy then Im happy for them. Same for you guys.

Honestly I think ronnie, let Dungeons and Dragons go to his head.

Hi!

I just want to say: PLEACE STAY AWAY FROM THESE THINGS!

If someone told you they have smoked for 60 years, and they're still healthy, would you think "Oh, that must mean it's not dangerous" ?

Those who have played whit the board whitout getting any contact, I would consider them LUCKY!!

So pleace stay away!

Hugs from Ruthie!

Now that I think about it, why would a board produced by Parker Brothers have the ability to contact spirits?

All I know is that if that thing is really suppose to move by itself, it should be on front page news, proof that spirits exist! Or at least evidence of psychokinesis.

Funny, I nearly mentioned that!

I used to be a skeptic but if you will suspend disbelief for a few pages I will describe my encounter. For kicks I bought one, never really got a reaction out of it. A few months later my sister had a friend over and wanted to try, my room was in the corner of the house and had no windows, very tiny house. We turned off the lights and had a lamp as a light source, the 3 of us starting getting a response, the questions mainly regarding my sis' friend's boyfriend, he had lost a brother in a motorcycle accident 2 years earlier, and strangeley the boyfriend and his brother tread a similar path in life. After a few sessions things began to get very omenous. Mainly fortelling of a similar accident. Later they got ludicrous saying I would marry my sisters' friend and she would cheat on me several times. Some of the times no one needed to be touching the planchette, merely asking a question would elicit a response,I had begun to use it alone as if it were a compulsion. I had some people say that I should not be playing with this thing anymore(plus the scene in amityville 3-d aka amityville the demon with the homemade board and Meg Ryan creeped me out)I began to read more and more about things such as channeling and the paranormal. I had two friends which were remote viewers and they showed me how to do it, for fun they would use it on me and they always noticied a dark shadow in the same room as I was, needless to say this creeped me out. I tried to rid myself of it but was unable to, It would come and go when I read the bible or prayed, but never would be totally gone. After some time I had gotten into channeling, visualization etc and I was able to put a face to what I was being stalked by, he wore a tuxedo with the top button undone, no tie, has dark sunken eyes, and long shaggy hair, went by the name of Howard. Eventually my cats would start trying to strike at thin air and hiss for no reason, my dog would start yelping and running out of the room for no reason,it was always cold. I had later moved out into the basement and kept the door to that room closed at all times. I did not have a bed anymore but that didn't bother me, I would lay awake on the couch and shadows would be dancing around me forming images randomly, I had a hard time sleeping at night and would try to stay out as late as possible, it was hard being 16 at the time. Eventually I "closed the gate" for a time things calmed down, my parents gave me the hint to move out a few months later and things appeared to be fine, I'm still sure something is there in the house and is affecting my Dad, my mom has since temporarily moved out, she is only there on weekends, Oddly enough my wife had told me what she is giving her for x-mas, something my mom has not used since she was little, an ouija board. So even in the hands of an expert it can be dangerous, on the other hand it could be no more evil than Monopoly.

I remain....

Nowhere

Say, here's a good question: where did the Ouiji Board come from? Was there one person who created it, was it based on an older form of spirit communication, or was it created as a board game?

I've never seen a Ouiji board in real life, only on TV. No one I know has ever owned one. But I probably wouldn't touch one, even though psychological theory totally discredits them.

If the thing on the Ouija board started moving by itself with no hands on it, I would totally freak out, turn the lights on, and stopped asking the board anymore questions. Sorry, Nowhere, nothing against you, but I really express doubt whenever people have such a "calm" reaction to a supernatural experience.

The messesage indicator can move without being touched....
my cousin used to play with it a lot
and she said it used to just move on its own...
she could just look at the board and ask it something and it would
start moving on its own....
but then the board went crazy
and starting spellin E V I L over and over..
she said she didn't want to talk the spirit anymore....
but then thing in the house started flying around the vcr turned on and off
lights turned on and off
so they she stopped playing....
then at night she said she could feel something punching her from inside....

thats the story she told me.....
scary......

ouija boards are fun.. as long as you dont ask them.. WHEN DO I DIE... etc....

MUUUU HA HA HA AH AH HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I find it hard to believe that the majority of ouija boards, which are mass produced in factories by the hundreds, could have any spirit attached to them. They are most likely made in sweatshops by asian children who have no idea what the symbols on them mean. They are sold in toy stores, in between candy land and mousetrap. i'm sure there is the occasional ouija board hand carved in barbados and cursed by a jungle queen that could be considered genuinely mysterious, but for the most part, they are toys and nothing more.

me and some friends used one in the winter of 1986, we where at my friends place at the time, we were in his fathers camper van messing around with one, when the class moved and tried to spell out a word, we sh** ourselfs, and put it away under the mattress,the next day his father died in a road accident??yes in his camper??if you do use one make sure you close the door to spirt world, before you pack it away?because you don`t want a house full of bad spirts do you???

As I said before HOW can you be SURE of that the advices you give has any form of truth????!!!!??
Just because it has worked for you? Just because someone told you? Because you read it somewhere??

If you open up for the possibility of a Ouija bord working, then shouldn't you open up for the poosibility that you DON'T know every thing??

I'm having a hard time trying to understand how you could be so SURE that you have the correct answeres!

Please tell me how!

-RUthie-

I think Ruthie's hit the nail on the head here.

If you accept that a ouija board works then beyond that, you have to accept that you don't actually know what's going to happen when it does work. It's the nature of the beast.

Or to put it another way, as long as you believe that something can happen, then you must accept that anything can happen.

I don't believe there's any such thing as an 'expert' on the ouija board - but I do know this: a lot of people have enough quite stressful experiences with it, for whatever reasons, be they paranormal or mental or whatever, to make me think that a degree of caution should be exercised.

It may have been a parlour game once, but the sheer weight it now carries precludes any possibility of anybody entering into it in a spirit of genuine adventure.

Basically, nobody here has the 'correct' answer, but a curse only works if the cursed believe it is so.

I think we will be friends Aslan!
You made it very clear, what I tried to say!

"as long as you believe that something can happen, then you must accept that anything can happen."

My point exactly!!

You are good Aslan!

I think that they are dangerous. You can let something in that you don't want in this world. Such as a polerguist. (sorry, my spelling is terrible) Or some bad feelings. but that's just me.

in my opinion they work sometimes and not others for many reasons.

i think the principle reason for them working is mental energy which makes the glass/planchette/pointer move.

(if only mass hysteria produced more worthwhile effects, or was used more productively maybe the world would be a better place)

anyway, getting back to the point, i think that spirits do attatch themselves to places, people, objects etc, and yes maybe they do attatch themselves to occurences around the ouija board but i think its because of the mental energy present in the room at the time.
as everything is made up of energy i think if there is a lot of mental energy present then obviously the spirit can tap into this and become more powerful, however mostly i believe that the pointer is just mind force, which is y so often it does not work, because if people do not truly believe enough then there subconcious does not take over and allow the minds energy to take over.

thats my theory anyway

and my spirit guide says they r bad anyway

thanx

amby

I am not as knowledgeable about the subject of "ouiji boards" as the rest of you seem to be. Perhaps someone could give me an overview? My son and my daughter for some reason are terrified of the board or game. I have never understood why. Personally I believe that spirits have a lot to tell us. I believe that we could learn a lot about the after life or maybe answers to questions we have had throughout our lives. Personally if my Father and Grandparents were still alive I would like to ask them all the winning lottery numbers. With one child in college and the other on the way, I could use the money. Anyone else?
Peacelover