[RadicalFlower]

thank you both for the heads up. well i kept getting and using cause really nothing scary about it too me so i just sayed the heck with it a buy one and use it again.. nothing.. i baught one last weekend we have been using it and nothing come of it .. so i like ya sayed i guess i am lucky nothing did then .. even my 10 year old daughter is facinated with the thing.. haha.. we baught that glow in the dark board..

i am thinking of going to evps and all and do that with my daugher and some instead ..

[Caesar]

Just be carefull lol

[Mia Camille]

RadicalFlower, on Sep 21 2007, 11:08 AM, said:

thank you both for the heads up. well i kept getting and using cause really nothing scary about it too me so i just sayed the heck with it a buy one and use it again.. nothing.. i baught one last weekend we have been using it and nothing come of it .. so i like ya sayed i guess i am lucky nothing did then .. even my 10 year old daughter is facinated with the thing.. haha.. we baught that glow in the dark board..

i am thinking of going to evps and all and do that with my daugher and some instead ..

Good idea RadicalFlower....don't let kids play with that..

[GhostlyGrace]

I've used a ouija board back in 1993 and I still have it today. I used it with my crazy roommate at the time and instead of ghosts or spirits coming through, our guardian angels came through. I got a lot of information about mine and the session lasted about 45 minutes. I know it was true because I had it verified thru dreams later on. One question I asked was if I could use the ouija board by myself instead of with the roommate or someone else. The answer was No..I don't have enough power. I kept trying though, just in case but nothing ever happened. I still have the board and still take it out once in a while to try it out. but nothing..

I think ouija boards are okay to use as long as you protect yourself mentally and with prayer or white light or whatever.

[RadicalFlower]

Thanks Mia we have had it moved and all but i do bealive my daughter was moving it haha.. cause everything come out all blah nothing made sence haha..

and i agree Ghostly we pray before we do it for protection againt any evil .. and to only bring peacefull spirts or anything postive and keep the negitive out ...

but once i get a good recorder i will do evps .. can anybody reccomend a good recorder to use digital or tapes?? What ya think ,

[asylum_souljah]

Here's a Ouija story from the From the Shadows blog - a really interesting place to find ghostly reads:

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When Ouija Boards Go Bad

A plastic triangle skittered across the surface of a game board. A group of preteen girls, including Inez Pace of St. Louis, didn’t believe anything supernatural moved the piece because, after all, the Ouija board was a toy.

“Early in my teenage years, my friends and I would often play with the Ouija board when we would have sleepovers,” Inez said. “We would ask harmless questions as to how many children we’d have, who we’d marry, etc.”

Nothing really out of the ordinary happened to the girls during their play sessions, “and certainly nothing too scary,” Inez said. The friends eventually outgrew their interest in Ouija boards until the spring semester of 1983 while Inez attended Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau.

“One boring night, my dorm mates and I decided to use the common room’s Ouija board,” Inez said. “At first it seemed harmless enough. We’d ask silly questions and our spirit named Sarah would answer us.”

Inez and her friends were quickly entrapped by the board, feeling “compelled to use the board as often as possible.” Then a friend named Tracy from another floor attended a Ouija session, and their harmless play turned sinister.

“We started asking Sarah how she died, how old she was when she died, and finally what she looked like,” Inez said.

Sarah told the coeds she died at 23 when she was hit by a runaway horse and carriage. But Sarah’s answer to the final question sent the girls running.

“When we asked Sarah what she looked like, she spelled out ‘like Tracy only different eyes,’” Inez said.

One young woman in the group asked Sarah to show them.

“Tracy was a red head with green eyes,” Inez said. “Sarah spelled out for us to look at Tracy and instantly her eyes turned blue and her facial features became sharper.”

Tracy screamed and said an electrical current had run through her body.

“We all became excited and told Tracy what happened,” Inez said. “Of course, she wanted to see it, too.”

Sarah spelled out for Tracy to take a mirror and look in the window behind her. As Tracy looked into the mirror, she saw someone standing in the room’s window – a window that looked over a treeless courtyard from three floors up.

“We looked and saw what appeared to be a head looking in at us,” Inez said. “We asked the spirit, ‘are you Sarah?’ It went to ‘no,’ so we asked, ‘who are you?’”

The girls didn’t wait for the entity’s entire response.

“It started to spell S-A-T-A … that was enough for that me,” Inez said. “I knocked the center piece off of the board and told everyone to go to their rooms. We were pretty frightened – the (figure in the window) did not look like a lady at all.”

As Inez struck the center piece off the board, the room grew cold enough the students saw their breath. They ran from Inez’s room to another girl’s room and began praying.

“We were so frightened that none of us could sleep; we held vigil that evening to make sure nothing was going on in my room,” Inez said. “Around 2:30 a.m., we decided to get a snack from the vending machine and as we walked by my door, the alarm clock went off. It had been set for 6:30 a.m.”

One of the girls entered Inez’s room to shut off the alarm and found the windows thrown open and sheets pulled off the beds.

“As she bent down to turn it off the alarm, the two necklaces she was wearing became entwined and started to choke her,” Inez said. “When she got to the hallway she removed her necklaces and noticed that the cross had been moved from one chain to the other. That was enough for us.”

When the sun rose, the girls went to the Catholic house on campus and told the priest what had happened.

“He came to my room that day and blessed it with holy water,” Inez said. “He also removed the board from the dorm and burned it. We got a stern lecture that as Catholics we should know better than to use something like that.”

Inez graduated from Southeast Missouri State University with a degree in communications and theater in 1987. But she didn’t live in that dorm room for much of that time.

“It took me a while to get the courage to return to my room to sleep, and even then I always had someone stay in the room with me,” Inez said. “The following year I requested a different dorm to reside in.”

Copyright 2007 by Jason Offutt

Source: http://from-the-shadows.blogspot.com/

[NMPI_Brian]

There are tons and tons of misconceptions about Ouija. The board has got a bad reputation from Hollywood and of course the bad, scary stories people tell. Yep, notice I said stories. Being a paranormal investigator, I need proof of things, not just stories. I don't believe that a house is haunted just because of stories, I have to gather evidence.

The problem is that people think that Ouija boards have power. They don't. They are just wood, paper, plastic, etc. They are simply a tool. For example...how many of you are scared to death to have a hammer in the house? Probably none of you but they can be and have been in the past a very horrific tool of murder. It all comes down to using the tool the right way and not in a way that it should not be used. The board is simply a way for spirits to communicate through you. That is all it is and nothing more. It is a tool just like the hammer. When you are done, you need to close the door and tell the spirits the session is ending and they must return. If you do this, you will have no problems.

One other thing I would like to mention is that I don't hear people being equally afraid of pendulums, dowsing rods and other spirit communication devices such as these. They are all the same thing. They are a tool that allows a spirit to communicate through the user of the tools and nothing more.

Some food for thought anyway!

[GhostlyGrace]

You brought up good points. I personally was never afraid of the ouija boards and agree with you. I'd be more afraid of automatic writing, since the spirit would be using you as the tool.

[asylum_souljah]

I cant say as Im scared of bad ouija stories - moreso the lack of understanding of the potential for danger by many of those who use them.

Im sure, as with everything, they have as a tool - as much chance of emparting good instead of bad. I liken it to driving in rush hour traffic on your first day behind the wheel - you have to be prepared and knowledgable about all potentialities.

[MidnightAngel]

Freaky....no wonder I don't mess with them!! Sometimes you wonder if that only happens in the movies, but we all know it happens in real life, it's just scary....

[asylum_souljah]

I got to a certain age MA and started to realise that more often than I liked to think, stories are based on some sort of related fact.

Even if its that 3 times in 10 things go bad - I would rather not take the risk lol.

[asylum_souljah]

Toy'r'us has released a lovely pink version for the ladies......umm yeah! lol

http://www.geekologi...ija_board_j.php

[GHOST MONK]

1.Not a toy.
2.Never buy one.
3.Never be in a house where one is being used or has been
used.
4.Don't try buring them as a way to get rid of them.It
will cause more problems than you can imagine.
5.Never, repeat NEVER use one yourself.

I collect them, from the hand carved and painted ones to the newest "hell toy" out. They are viewed only by me and I did tons of research before I started collecting them. They have the power to do things or allow things to happen that writers like Poe and Lovecraft did not even begin to touch in any of their works.

[Tinfoil Princess]

I agree this is no toy , I do not
know if it is just storys or in the
movies that has scared me away from
them. I would freak out if it worked
plus what could happen , who or what
you might attract...

[Tinfoil Princess]

asylum_souljah, on 03 February 2010 - 07:29 PM, said:

Toy'r'us has released a lovely pink version for the ladies......umm yeah! lol

http://www.geekologi...ija_board_j.php

Just wait a boy one will hit the market soon
enough ! It should not be a Kids Toy .
Adult yes buyer beware kind of warning .