Ouija boards

[martin]

Anyone here played one? Any interesting stories/observations? Even if they're brazen lies?

I'm interested in them from a human dynamic - obviously people like me cheat, given the right conditions. But could there be some sort of auto-subconscious movement involved, spelling out certain participants' unrealised desires - like a form of automatic writing?

Also, does anyone remember that Waddingtons used to manufacture ouija boards, cos I was talking about this recently and nobody believed me.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Tony Robinson was on telly just now doing 'guiding writing' with a 'medium'. Haha, the big tit.

 

[STN]

Also, does anyone remember that Waddingtons used to manufacture ouija boards, cos I was talking about this recently and nobody believed me.

yes, they did, i recall trying to get my mum to buy me one in smiths.

ouija boards really freak me out, despite not believing them. I've not done one since i was about 12, when i read an article in the Daily Mail (where else) about them, and this woman was meant to have conjured up a spirit called Shem, who started rattling her door and when she bade him come in, spelt out 'Shem has no hands he has only teeth', shat me right up at the time.

 

[Pestario]

my sister had one and she's an easy believer in all things supernatural. I tried it with her twice and the glass did move and spell out things which responded to our questions. Naturally, I'm skeptical, but I know that I wasn't moving the thing on purpose and I'm pretty sure my sister wasn't taking the piss because she honestly believes in spirits. So how do I explain the coherent answers? I don't know, maybe she was taking the piss, maybe one or both of us were subconsiously creating the answers or we really were communicating with spirits.

All I know is that I'll never do it again.

 

[martin]

My mum believes in it and used to do one with the family behind my dad's back around the time I was born. My brother revealed it was him pissing around years later, though my mum and sister swear blind it was two real foul-mouthed dead airmen from WW2 and claim they got messages when my brother wasn't there.

Amazingly this led to a series of back-and-forth recriminations and a massive row.

 

[mms]

used to do them at school alot, i only remember one really spooky thing happening once, when the thing went round in circles alot and wizzed of the table when we took our fingers off, or so it seemed, we were taking the piss out of it or something.

This weird kid called richard went on this whole trip about conjuring up the white lady who was the spirit of cornwall, and asked it questions like ' will i lead the cornish revolution' and all this shit, to which the board replied 'yes' and he was made up.
He was only about 13 fuck knows where he got that nonsense from, but he was from camborne, anyway he still lives in camborne and plays sax in a local covers band.

 

[nomadthethird]

yes, they did, i recall trying to get my mum to buy me one in smiths.

ouija boards really freak me out, despite not believing them. I've not done one since i was about 12, when i read an article in the Daily Mail (where else) about them, and this woman was meant to have conjured up a spirit called Shem, who started rattling her door and when she bade him come in, spelt out 'Shem has no hands he has only teeth', shat me right up at the time.

Aren't Shem and Sean out of Joyce?

I grew up with my grandmother reading my tea leaves which was fun as a child, but Ouija always seemed very obviously guided by one person to me.

 

[swears]

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