I have a Ouija board and it doesnt work
 

It is one of the old Parker Brothers ones, I have tried using it on my own, with another person - it never moves at all.

I truly do believe in ghosts and I have heard people tell me stories about apparations and spiritual interventions in their lives that I truly believe - but I seem to be so unsensitive.

I read that 90% of people can dowse with only a little practise, when I try nothing happens, I have camped out at places that are supposed to be haunted (like Borley Church in England), and I never have seen anything, and have never felt anything other than myself scaring myself.

There are maybe two weird things that have happened to me in 25 years, and to be honest both had more plausuble explanations than there being any paranormal element to it.

Is it possible I am just unable to connect to whatever level paranormal activity happens?

I do think there are some people who are naturally more sensitive to the paranormal than others. There are also varying levels of skepticism and romanticism. I have had a few slightly strange experiences without really looking for them, but I have friends who seem to be plagued by this stuff all the time.

What ever you do.. don't use it.. If you do manage to call up something and it is bad then you might not be able to get rid of it.. were a few threads in here about it actually..

Ive used it a lot it just doesnt work, if I call something up that I dont like I'll just tell it to get back - I'm alive and I'm guessing anything that talks on a Ouija board isnt, so what's it gonna do? It can't touch my world, and if it could, I could touch it back.

I always wanted to try a Ouija board, but always been scared to just in case.

I'm of the general opinion that the Ouija board doesn't work in the manner that it claims to.. any movement that occurs is much more likely to be the product of physical manipulation from any of the living parties involved whether subconcious or concious.

Can I have it? ;)
~Crack

perhaps some ghosts have signed an endorsment with a non parker bro's ouija board manufactorer to only use certified and authorized ouija boards. I think my theory is more plausable then having a ouija board contact the dead and bring back some inherint evil.

Be glad it doesn't work.

An Ouija boards pointer is merely propelled by a persons nerves.
The more unsteady your hand the more it moves.
It's like if you took a video tape of your hands held straight out from your body and held your eyes closed.
Your hands would actually move around alot.

The lighter you rest your hands on the pointer the better the results...usually.
Always keep your eyes closed because this causes even more instability or loss of balance due to the loss of sight.
Hence: the pointer will move more after a few minutes.

Try walking up a staircase with your eyes closed.
Same principle.

I've never put any worth into an Ouija bored <<<heheh
and it amazes me to read the things I do about people conjuring up spirits with an alphabet and a plastic pointer thingy.

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Yes, I know that was negative but I'm merely speaking my point of view and hope it didn't insult anyone in the process.


*edit: But I did give you two good tips on how to make it work !

1.Always keep eyes closed.
2.Light touch...very light touch.

here's an extra.....if all else fails......spin around a few times with your eyes closed......then try it again.

I gaurantee it will move :lol:

lol stonewall

I've always found the Ouija game by Parker Bros. to be so bizarre. Does anyone know how this came about? It's history? I'd be interested to know.

There's lots of history behind it. Check out this link. Or just Google it.

the board is only a conduit for the subconcious. No nastys living in the plastic. Seems your question has more to do with your percieved failure to channel energy than working a cheap game. Go to a local pagan shop and chat with folks, they can help you remove the blocks you have created.

Maybe you just have a really old ghost that never learned to read or write.

It's all about believing.

There are times that ghost are very malicious and CAN reach you and CAN hurt you. There have been a few cases that people would suddenly start getting scratches on thier bodies and start bleeding.

And regarding being in a hot spot of paranormal activity, that means nothing. There are times ghosts are more active than others. By times I mean dates of years. Try going to an abandoned prison and walking around with a magnetic field detector. (According to many studies ghosts can be sensed as magnetic levels, higher level of magnetism higher chance of a ghost near by.)

Another thing is that many ghosts dont want to be seen so pay attention to your peripherals (corner of your eyes) and sometimes turn around real fast. May sound ass-ish but it's true.

There's the third point that some people are just less sensitive the paranormal activity. You may be one of them, this can be a blessing or a curse.

When I was in high school we got a Ouija board to work so well it freaked me out and I've never used one since. We kept getting a spirit named Sabak, and he was malevolent.

I say your board is busted and burn it. I would heed the words of GoldenOuroboros. Don't use it because if it did work you could bring something up that can cause more damage then good.

if you are a true believer... be careful messing around with things you may not yet understand...
aka - "be careful what you ask for"

I'm fairly sure there is no Ouiji Board Repair section on the phone book. Yeah, burn it. I understand you're supposed to hear a demonic scream when you do (I'm not kidding.) Let us know.

I want to know to if you hear a demonic scream...that would be cool

Check the batteries...

lmao i like that last tip stonewall hahaha, ive always been scared as fuck from those things. i remember playing once with my older sister. i think she was moving it the whole time -_- though she did deny it i think shes full of sh*t heh

You actually do hear a scream. Im not sure if it relates to the type of wood or how it is burned. This happened to me and a group of friends a little over 30 years ago. We got into it after
The Excorcist came out. A girl had a board for several years but never got it ot work. Then, a group of us made it happen. That's all I want to say about that experience. We decided never to talk about it again....

If I burn it and it doesnt scream I'll be buggered though...

It is said that for best results, you should have a person of the opposite sex on the other side. I remember the last time is used the ouija board, it told me how i was gonna die. It said that i was gonna mess with a married woman and her husband was the one to kill me. The crazy part was, we asked what street she lived on. The board named some weird street name that we couldnt have made up if we tried. We looked up the street name in the phone book and there it was. I dont know if it was a coincidence, but i have nevered used it since.

i think it only works if you want it to .. i've not tried anything serious .. but used a make shift one ... paper with the alphabet and a coin ...

would like to try more ^_^

alot of people seem to be scared of em. . i'd like to see why

You seem pretty keen to use it..? Why would you be buggered?

It may be that you have a "grey aura." Not only will you not be able to pick up supernatural occurences and be unable to use the ouija board, you actually drain the power out of mystical devices, charms, and any other supernatural objects. It's a mixed blessing. You'll never be pestered by spirits, but you'll never get teh damn board to work, either.

FALSE!
I have very unsteady hands. Always have, always will. I once tried to use it younger before I was as spiritually active as I am now.. I got nothing.

So your the kid I was messing with back then... and it was Kabas you got it backwards.

I want it to work because it would be either proof of the power of the mind to physically effect the environment in a way we didnt understand, or some kind of survival of death or the existence of beings on another plain.

(as ling as we werent cheating)

proving any of those things, even to myself, would be pretty cool.

I cant say if I would be scared if I started getting messages about be dying and stuff, I guess I might, but curiousity is a powerful motivation

Not really sure how the board works however if it screams tell me I want to go buy one and see what it sounds like, I dont beleive in this kind of stuff honestly but it would be interesting to look into I guess.

Did have a odd experience once though .. Me and sister were only ones up parents were asleep and were downstairs upstairs we hear a bunch of shattering glass and the alarm goes off were totally freaked out and hiding in a locked door >< (brave me aye)

I then grab a statue and walk up-stairs and nothing is wrong no shattered glass or anything however my dogs were barking alot >< (and the alarm was still going off [loud might I add]

Freaky stuff, acctaully this is the first time ive thought about it since it happened haha

i have to agree with papermachesatan. I think if it moves, its because someone is moving it. However the thought of it ACTUALLY working is enough for me to not touch them.

This is the biggest scam of all time. They do absolutely nothing and people force themselves to believe that it spoke to them. Its a way to take advantage of the foolish society we live in.

/random story

We brought a ouija board into school on two occastions and both times a window smashed for no reason, it promptly got banned after that.
:crazy:

I still say burn the sucker and find something else to do.

i don't actually think that ouija boards actually work - at least, I've never heard of them working. still, it would be really really cool if did!

It needs new batteries.

Have you tried praying to satan?

Yeah he usually gives ya a good deal. Only costs ya a soul. Who needs one anyway?

try the power connector is it loose?

are the batteries dead?

do you believe this shyte?

if all else fails push the mf.

they dont work... theres always someone that moves it. I did it one time with my brother and two cousins, I spelled out something to mess with my cousins head. cant remember what though. I thought it was hilarious, she freaked out

my sister used one and it said something about a guy committing suicide in our attic. I guess she said he like started a fire up there and burned to death. Thats a creative way to kill yourself, sure enough all the boards up in our attic are charred to hell. Still dont think they work though

Never

First, a disclaimer: I am a skeptic.

Here's my take on how Ouija boards work: Basically, it's a form of automatic writing. If you're a good hypnotic subject, you can, under hypnosis, allow your subconscious to essentially write for you, using pen and paper. It's sometimes tough to pull off, but it does happen.

Ouija boards seem to me to be an extension of this principle. If you're the only one holding the pointer thing, and you take yourself into a semi-hypnotic state, you can let your subconscious do the talking. All you need is someone to be there to record what is pointed to, so you don't have to focus on the board as you do it.

I'm sure there are a bunch of people who will disagree with this interpretation of it all, but there you go.

I always think that someone else is pushing it. I'd rather play Candy Land.

hahahahaha tooo funny men

It does move simply by nerves.
I've got the same game made in the 60's.
It's worked everytime for me as long as you lightly put your fingertips on the pointer.
You can't do it by yourself.
BUTT !
It's never spelled out anything of meaning unless you manipulate it.
It's bogus.
Don't be scared of a stinking board game.

sheesh

grow some balls

Dudes, i used it when i was in 4th + 5th grade....pretty accurate. Yet kind of scary. Parents returned it when told that "it was the devil..."

It was damn accurate though. I always got some chic from saturn that would talk to me.

Eitherway, once i asked who liked a good friend of mine. It started spelling Mea, and i asked was it meagan. Then it moved on to "Yes." Sure enough, a few months later, my other friend says, "guess who meagan likes....chad (name of friend #1)." That's the most vivid example.....

It might work through the supernatural, it might work through the psychological, eitherway it worked. :)

I'm almost certain that this is just a big scam. It's hyped up so that the creators can get money, and out of curiosity we have all fallen for it. Including me! Now I hope that I am wrong and there is more to this activity than meets the brain; but I seriously doubt it. I've seen a special where the people using the board were blindfolded, and before they started the board was rotated. These people moved the planchette to where they THOUGHT the letters were when in fact they were getting it completely wrong.

Now I'm not saying that this is the proof that it's not real, it's simply an example of how it works. I've tried using it multiple times with myself and many other people, two of which who actually believed it would work. I take a neutral position on the matter because I simply don't know for sure.

Another interesting thing to note is that the house I've tried it in seems 'clean'. And by that I mean I feel totally safe here and have had no supernatural experiences, where as in other places I have seen things and heard things. My parents had as well. I plan to use my Ouija board in other places that do not feel 'clean' and report my findings to the world. I simply do not see how a spirit would contact you through such an item when requested to and NOT with other things. So if I use a Ouija board, bad things will happen right? But what's the difference between asking a spirit to move a planchette and asking a spirit to move a keyboard? Or type something out? Makes no sense, Ouija boards are not magically enchanted (well, maybe with M A G I C corporate oil to attract money..)

And to the people claiming that it has worked, I highly suggest you find whoever your partner was and sit them down for a serious talk. Ask them if they did or did not move it, because I am certain that they did.

It's fake as shit and so are all supernatural experiences.

"Fake as shit"....hmmmm that's not a very scientific explanation.
Ever since my teens & onward...I always get a laugh from skeptics about stuff like this.
I remember clearly in college a "supposedly well trained " friend read my tarot cards and they all said Death & in near future and yeah, I was a bit scared. But I wasn't too worried -but oddly, 2 days later I got the call from home that Grandpa had died. And he wasn't sick or even that old. But the card showed a young woman sitting on her bedside crying and when I got that call, I was in bed. Ever since that time, I have never had Tarot cards read to me.

Perhaps the Ouiji Bord isn't your "medium". Give it to an empath and have that person use it and let you know if they have had any "activity". Or take it to Stonehenge, now that's a trippy place and I think it's vortex vibes might "kick start" that mother - for lack of better terms.

Let us know what happens. You just need a trusted or more intense medium.

My mom recently delivered my old Ouija board to me. My SO and roommate were talking about trying it during a party last weekend. I was so disappointed when they decided not to. I want to see what happens when two totally rational men use it.

Ohhhhh, snowy that would be interesting to say the least! Esp. if they are skeptics and do it anyhow!

Let us know what happens. Or not.

You can't lecture someone on being unscientific when you just explained your tarot card story and are serious about it. Correlation != Causation.

It may be a freaky coincidence, but this sounds like a huge case of confirmation bias.

Never done a ouiji board but i'm 50/50 on the 'unconsiously moving it' vs 'establishing contact' and could go either way. I don't think your board is 'broken'. get enough people to do it with you and eventually someone's gonna move it around purposefully. Like the one post that said they kept talking to this named demon... it wouldn't surprise me if the same person kept spelling the name.

Tarot cards i'm even less likely to believe. It's almost like horoscopes - you can read anything about your character into a vague description. like the death card, it doesn't mean 'death is coming' it means a rebirth, a change of direction in life.... Plus if you get a tarot reading one day. you'll get a completely different one an hour later.

I believe some sort of ghost type beings exist...however I don't believe they talk to you through ouija boards. IMCO its a gimmick thats lasted an unbelievably long time. However, I have never tried one and would find it an interesting experiment, however unlikely.

i just really like the idea that one can break a ouija board.

Well, we can't make it work from here, so I don't know what to tell ya. :p

:D

The sticky says "Batteries not included". Did you forget to put in the batteries? =P

Perhaps the licence has expired? Have you tried renewing it?

All those letters and numbers would be a bugger to enter on a wooden board with a glass though :eek:

Because angry spirits just sit around waiting to use Parker Brothers Ouija boards as gateways into this realm. Yup.

Sorry, I don't believe in Ouija boards. Seems like it would be easier for ghosts to move them on their own rather than through your fingers.

Trying the "Ohm" mantra...something has to get the ghosts' attention first....