K, so I'm new here. I am also only a teenager so forgive me for not talking all intelligent like the rest of you (sorry not trying to sound like a witch)

Anywho, I found a PRINTABLE version of a Ouija Board on Castle of Spirits, taped the two together, placed it on the back of a dry erase board which was wood on the back of it btw, I lite two candles, and I had no one else there but meself, and my cat of course, and since I didn't have a planchette, I used a small broken shard of glass to preform the Ouija Board, very cheap I know but I had to improvise with the stuff around me. So I followed the directions, and recited the prayer and all. And nothing....?

Nothing happens...btw I am really new at this stuff. If Paranormal Expertise were a village, I'd be the village idiot! LOL

I guess I didn't wait long enough, I suppose it could've been the material I used. But I want your guys opinions, what YOU have to say about this?

I wouldnt get into anything like that man. I mean im just giving you some friendly advice. I know you are curious, I have played with a quija board and luckily haven't experienced anything too terrifying. I can't stop you from messing with it, but you have to realize that you could possibly let a demonic entity into your home. And believe me they are far from friendly. Just really think what you could be getting yourself into and if you still want to try, good luck to you.

What i have to say is...DON"T fool around with ouija boards. They can let things into your life that you definitley don't want in. Get rid of it.

Hmmmmmm? Well it's only paper? Are the printable ones just as dangerous? If I get rid of it how shall I do it? I know BURNING it is bad. But seriously if I am doing something wrong with calling the spirits please tell me!!? Thank you

why are you so sure it didn't work the first time?
......B






burn the glass too

My cat Trinity was in the room at the time, wouldn't she behave strangely if I did something or something came loose out of the demonic realm or something?

Some people believe in them and some people don't...If you are by yourself probably nothing is going to happen, in my opinion. I think of them mostly as just parlor games. Something to amuse a group of people. Invite a couple friends over and bring it out and I promise you that suddenly, like magic, ghosts will appear because someone will be moving it. It's just fun. When I was younger we used them all the time and it always moved all by "itself", every time. And everyone would scream and yell and swear they didn't do it. Nothing bad ever happened. Not once in all the years we played with them.
A really great trick would be to invite some people over and have them play with it with their eyes closed a couple times and then in between games turn the board around very carefully so they don't notice that you did it and then continue playing with eyes closed. The planchett will always move to the same place where your friends think the letters are, even though now the board is upside down. Sort of proves there's no ghosts. I learned that from Penn & Teller's bull and I'm telling you it works like a charm. I tried it at work a few times when we were bored and those "ghosts" just can't figure out when something is turned upside down!
Anyway, my point is I would not worry too much about the fact that nothing's happening. Probably nothing will happen.

If you want to get rid of it just throw it in the trash. It's not going to climb out and hurt anyone. Who said burning it is bad? You don't need to burn it...tossing it into any standard trashcan will get rid of it as long as your garbage man doesn't go on strike.
I wouldn't waste my time trying to burn the glass. Just toss that too. Ha.

By using the board you are opening your life to them. Evil spirits lie. They may come across as nice or even helpful. Quite often they will tell you that they are some dead family member looking in on you. Once they are in, it is very hard to get them out. You should NEVER acknowledge a spirit, even if you are not using a board unless you have studied extensively. As to getting rid of it, well, you could do a cleansing after you through it in the dump. Get it out of your house. I never had to do much when I used one, it was my friends board, so she took it home from school, and I asked for protection from it. Things got pretty scary for a while before I asked for the help ( call it praying, whatever). I thought of a bright white light that cleansed any evilness from contact. It sounds hoaky, I know. Remember to not just pick something up and fool around. Read about whatever you are interested in before you try it, it could save you a LOT of trouble.

With respect youngin, DONT EVEN GO THERE. Ive been, seen and done. Scared the living sh** out of me. Dont play with what you "dont" wanna know about. Trust me............. Read, study, take in and learn, but please dont put your hands on no board nowhere. I played with fire, (the board) many times, just so happened the fire ended up playing with me.
Frightened for ya, Atanerpmav woz ere. Vvv""vvV
P.S Fear is fear itself, Frightened is forever.

It has been croupled and throw in the trash. But I recall the burning thing because I was watching a really cool show called "A Haunthing" on Discovery last year and it said that if you use the Quija Board and burn it afterwords, that makes things worse.

Do a search on here for "Ouija Boards" You will find tons of info that will help you decide if you want to use one or not.

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#2 - A lot of people are unable to use a Ouija Board by themselves. I have used them, store-bought and home-made, with others, but it just sits there for any of us by ourselves.

#3 - If you ARE worried about "opening" up portals, gates to HELL, the Eye of Sauron, rifts in the fabric of the space-time continuum that the Enterprise will have to deal with at some point, resurgences in Pauly Shore's career, influx of "evil spirits" or any other dinifitively bad mojo that is just waiting at the edge of our world to creep in and eat us alive, then I agree that you should leave the entire subject completely alone. The same goes for high-strung, a little too imaginative, hysterical or otherwise mentally and/or emotionally unstable or fantasy/panic or stress-prone individuals.

#4 - Although many people feel more comfortable using prayers, ceremonies or some form of ritual, creative visualization of white light, etc., no things are REQUIRED to use a Ouija Board. As noted though, since few people can use them alone, a second person is really sort of a vital component. Most people have no problems "contacting" "something" by just putting their hands on the traveller and asking if anyone is there. There's really not much to it - it either works or it doesn't. If it doesn't, then it may never work, or you may just not be in the right frame of mind.

#5 - The ancient Atlanteans used a form of the Ouija Board, but it was crystalline, and so they were unable to "burn" them when they went "bad", so it is a good thing that it is not required you to burn them, or not to burn them - its just a personal choice. I myself collect boards and would personally just stick mine in a folder or box if I wasn't going to use it. I'm not a fan of needlessly destroying things.

#6 - My signature link has some further information and resources you might find useful or informative. All the best.

so if it does work your insane .......if it doesn't work then these boards are totally USELESS.... so whats the point in getting one in the first place?.........B

No, I said people that were unstable should not use them. I didn't make any comment about the people for whom they work.

Don't use a Ouija board. Imagine opening a door in many places that anything could walk through. When using the board, you then have an open door that you are shouting for something to come through. Being an amature you will probably be unable to deal with anything that decides to stay for a while. A home made Ouija is probably more effective than a shop bought one due to the energy and intention put into the making proccess. I would not bother, it really is not worth the hastle, although it should prove the existance of a spiritual realm. It is a baptism of fire if it all goes wrong and you may not make it out the other side, you will never be the same again. If you are lucky nothing will happen

Great advice and great at giving me a chuckle too! I have used an ouija board quite a bit in the past. The only thing that happened was a friend that I had been using it with for a while freaked out one night and tried to strangle me (she claimed to not know what she was doing, and I think she might not of, she was a puny little unathletic thing (the opposite of me) and it took four other girls to pull her off me. lol I left them alone after that, but I will say that she fit into catagory #3 above, so that may explain it all. My mother and I used one during a seance one night, out cat walked into the living room from the kitchen and freaked out she he saw the board. Arched his back, puffed out his tail and hissed like a broken radiator. He refused to come anywhere near the coffee table, even though he wanted to go upstairs which was on the other side of the room, so he slinked along the wall, starring at the table and board the whole time hissing and fluffed out. About that time my sister upstairs screamed that something ice cold touched her. I think that was the last time my mother and I played with the ouija board. We accidently gave it away in a car we sold....one of the rear side windows had fallen inside and my mother used the board to block out the weather, then in too fell down inside and was left there forgotten mostly. I often wonder if that car ever had any interesting experiences after that. *giggle*

whether you see visible results or not...
an exchange is made...
can you carry it...too late...
cannot unbury the dead...

What do you mean by unstable Sir, respectfuly?

So they CAN work for somebody that is NOT insane?.......B










halfhandshuffle:Missing Persons-words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnVtdiRGNCA

Everyone is unstable to a degree. Some are just more unstable than is socialy acceptable. Sceptical people are unstable in thier own special way as they have trouble trusting and believing. I can be very sceptical at times, but I always try to be open minded as I know I am not the be all and end all (prety close though ) Believe it or not anything that opens up gateways to the supernatural percieved in the real world or some mental delusion is still bad news as it is real to the person who is suffering. A certain type of person is needed to make one work or a group mind set....not mad just in the right frame of mind.

I get exactly what Jpatt is saying and I agree with him. There is a huge psychological part at play whether communication is successful at that time or whether it's the ideomoter effect....I think skeptics as well as believers can at least agree on this?

In the mind of the skeptic

Even for the person who does not believe that spirit entities or energies can be invited forward by the use of a ouija board, they will most likely experience 'something' during a session that leads to questioning things. It could be a trust issue over those they sit with, it could be feelings of anxiety in the back of their minds that they find difficult to ignore, for example - "nothing can really happen here right, it's all a bunch of toss, isn't it? --- isn't it???" err well perhaps in the moment the skeptic suddenly thinks "what if there is something to this, something that I don't understand?" --- could be something they were unprepared to hear or deal with themselves or that of another member of the group, that challenges their view/beliefs. When this happens it can leave a person suddenly feeling vulnerable

In the mind of the believer

For the believer, and I would like to specifically refer here to the 'naive' believer, then the psychological implications can be pretty big.... For example, blindly believing whatever the messages say and who they are from and getting pulled under the control of the communicator can quickly result in a sort of dependency. For that person it can lead to any rational thought/control going out the window and questions becoming along the lines of "does ***X really love me, is ***X cheating on me, will I pass that exam, will I get that job". In other words what started out as 'lighthearted' changes into something very serious for that person which is exactly the kind of vulnerability that lowlevel conehead spirits are looking to exploit and mess with.

The bottom line is yes it's a mind game for all involved, be it for the skeptic, the believer and the lowlevel spirits that wanna play. I have seen these scenarios over and over again through my extensive experiences of doing ouija boards. Often things get on a very deep and personal level and you never quite know how it may affect everyone in the group. Someone may be going through a really hard time or have a lot of unanswered questions, issues that people bring to the table may well come pouring out.


Finally, another thing that should be mentioned. There's more psychologically than what happens in the heat of the moment with the comfort/safety of the group around. Paranoia can be a risk in the days or weeks that follow. Paranoia can lead to bad dreams, nightmares, states of anxiety. What paranoia causes can also be confused for being haunted, which just becomes a cycle feeding itself...

So back to Jpatt's comment, Anyone who is of a state of nervous, fearful, anxious, vulnerable, unstable or unbalanced mind (and that includes being under the influence of drugs/ alcohol) should really just stay away from ouija board. Those with unresolved issues looking for answers should absolutely just stay away from ouija boards full stop!! it's not the place for getting serious life answers!


I've added my guideline that i tend to stick in every ouija thread as they pop up I'm well aware that no matter how much you give reasons for not doing it, some people will still want to do it and will do so. There is no 100% safe way but this provides an idea of do's and don'ts

1. Your expectations can influence your experience. As can your mood and the people you chose to do the ouija board with. Don't take part if you can't trust the group, don't take part if you really don't want to. There's still roles people can have if they don't want to take part directly such as scriber ( keeping a written record of the letters and words) this is an important role because it can be easy to lose track of what was said. Sometimes you need to see the written word to make sense of it, not all spirits spell english well...it also allows you to google words you don't know the meaning of.

The bottom line is if it's going to keep you awake all night scared out of your wit then just don't have anything to do with it. Fearful emotions and ghosties are not a good mix....


2. Never assume that a spirit is someone you know or who they say they are. Treat it like you do the internet when chatting to strangers, be aware that it could be anyone sitting behind the name and what they tell you may not be the truth. If you saw someone called 'George Bush' or 'The Devil' in a chat room or site such as this one you wouldn't believe it really was, would you? if your answer to this is yes then please don't go near a ouija board, it's NOT a game for the gullible or naive.... It has it's entertainment value and that is all, keep things light and casual and don't rely on the ouija board for making important life decisions.

3. Be careful of what you ask, questions such as does ***X really love me or is ***X cheating on me or 'will I pass my exam' is not a great idea. Firstly no spirit has the ability to know such things other than those who may guide you or know you. They can't predict things and they don't automatically have access to every knowledge of your lives. Remember treat them as you would strangers on the net, but always with respect. I've seen good friends lose friendships because of questions like these. Think before you put forward a question, is it worth an upset or friendship? (will explain more on this later)

4. Be aware of the expectations of the spirit. They are not there to perform circus acts for you, so don't request silly things of them. Most spirits will want to talk about themselves and as far as they're concerned it's their opportunity to be heard, you must respect that. If the thought of this doesn't appeal to you then don't bother taking part. Some spirits may be troubled/distressed and looking for help, what they say may not be very nice, be prepared for that. If at anytime it gets uncomfortable tell them you sympathise with them but aren't the right people to help them. Gently ask them to return to where they came from and say goodbye.

5. Never ask if there is 'anyone' out there. You may not realise the power of such an open invite. If you ask in that manner then the chances of getting a low level or negative spirit is greatly increased. These type of spirits will mess around and tell you porkies. They are begging for the attention and energy and usually achieve this via fear. These are the ones that will spell 'die' out or tell you they are satan etc or that something bad will happen. If you end up with one of those, don't play into their hands, don't believe them, just tell them firmly to go back to where they came from and end the board session.

6. Before you start the oujia board, as a group take a couple of mins holding hands and Imagine a bright white circle of light come round the group. Ask that this light serves to protect you and only allows those of the highest positive realms to come in. Make your request certain that only those of good energy and light are allowed to come in.

7. When you are finished, Thank them and tell them to return to where they came from. Make them take you over the goodbye.

To end the session, join hands again and visualize the circle of bright white light, ask that the circle be closed taking any remaining energy with it.

good post, Anvil. Very informative.

Nicely written Anvil.....BUT ...."tell you porkies"?? ......B










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haha porkies

nice story, i like hearing stuff that is hehe

i have no idea what you are talking about

I agree with Jpatt and Anvil. I'm probably right in the middle of them as far as my level of skepticism. I compare it to automatic writing, if you believe some spirit communication can take place this way, it's not much of a stretch to believe it can also happen with ouija boards. If you're easily scared, disturbed, or generally unstable, it's definately a bad idea to even attempt this. Call it bad energy, spirits, or just psychological problems, but there are enough stories out there to turn you away if you can't handle what may happen. I even have my own somewhere on here, I started out as a non-believer and changed my views by the end of my experiences.


Where did starting Ouija with a "Q" come from anyway?