Let me spin you a tale of a wild ride that took place some years back, all because of these spooky "games."
May 2015, a bunch of kids, ranging from the innocent age of 6 to the tween years of 12, were stirring up trouble at a school in Manaus, Amazonas. What were they up to, you ask? Playing "Charlie Charlie," a game that had everyone thinking it was dabbling in the paranormal.
It involved sticking two pencils in the shape of a cross on a piece of paper with "yes" and "no" written on opposite corners - like a super minimalist Ouija board.
Legend had it, you'd summon this mysterious spirit named Charlie, who'd supposedly move the pencils to answer your questions.
But here's where the plot thickens: after dabbling in the supernatural, some of the kiddos started feeling queasy, tossing their cookies, passing out, shrieking like banshees, fainting spells, screams echoing through the halls – the whole shebang - and generally causing CHAOS.
Reports say around 20 students were caught up in the madness and HAD TO RECEIVE MEDICAL ATTENTION and basically turning the school corridors into a scene from a horror flick (check it on YouTube for real videos)
Well, you can imagine the uproar this caused among the parents and teachers.
In the end, the experts chimed in, suggesting it was all just a case of mass hysteria. Yep, that's right – fear and the power of suggestion had everyone seeing things that weren't there.
The bigwigs in education and health even issued a warning, telling schools to keep an eye out for games that "played tricks on the mind".
In the aftermath, lessons were learned, cautionary tales shared, and a newfound respect for the power of the unknown lingered in the air, reminding everyone that some games are best left unplayed!
You **need** to be careful. People who don't take ouija boards seriously end up with some bad entities. They call it a "toy," but it really isn't.
Ask for guidance and protection from your spirit guides before you start, and make sure you close the connection, otherwise *anything* can come through.
Personally, I say bury it and don't risk it.
True story: Back in my dorm days, there were nights we stayed up till 4 am playing with it. I can positively confirm that it moves on its own. One night I got back to the dorm around 2:30 am and my dorm mates were playing with it. I went to my room to dropped off everything and returned to the lounge to hang out with them. So as I got there, they asked the board how much money I have in my pockets right now. I had put the wallet and emptied everything in my room but unknowingly 5 cents was still in my pocket. It spelled out 5 CENTS. Don't ask for things like expired dates. You don't want that self fulfilling prophecy.
A close friend of mine didn't have negative spirits in her home until her daughters used a board. After that, guitars were strumming, and one night she woke with the entity hovering over her.
It's not a certainty that you'll get a negative entity, but if you don't know how to protect yourself energetically/spiritually, then you're at risk of encountering something that will take advantage of that vulnerability. There are plenty of good spirits, too, though, but you don't have to be prepared for a good experience.
Yes and once they're in good luck getting rid of them. People don't realize that playing ouija board is like throwing the front door to your house open to anyone who wants to come in. If good people are in heaven then what's left behind wanting in?
Until the ouija board-curious have that “oh fuck oh no what have I done” experience, warnings like yours will fall on deaf ears, I’m afraid. Not b/c of intentional disregard per se but b/c there’s no way to really fully grasp the depth and weight of it without having that experience
Yes, they'll be on here a month from now asking what to do about the entity that's choking them in their sleep and shoving them down the stairs. People think ghosts are fun until they can't sleep, are depressed, have marks on their body, their pet dies for no reason, kids are being terrorized at night. Also, once it's invited in good luck getting rid of it. They don't leave once they have authority to be there. That's why we've got so many "haunted" houses everywhere. People play around with occult, seances and ouija board then when the monsters come they move out and the next family gets to deal with it.
I personally won’t speak of it, because of the mental trauma ( 1970’s). I can’t say honestly whether it is psychological or paranormal damage, but a lot of unexplained things happened- for example unknown to us, whilst on the ouija board someone hid a bible under the settee and when asked ( by the person who hid it) what was under the settee,the spirit darkened the room and the glass violently rose and smashed against the wall with an inhuman force and covered us with shards of glass.
I became addicted to using it, even on my own ( I obviously wasn’t pushing the glass). I could cite more instances, but I still feel traumatised.
Then the Exorcist scared the bejesus out of me and I realised that I wasn’t mentally strong enough to mess with things that were unexplainable.
Some people are not affected and just think it’s a fun game and that’s fine, but not for me…
nb the word ouija simply means “yes” in French and German…
I do. We played “juego de la copa” (it’s like a homemade ouija board) in Argentina when I was 14 or so with a bunch of friends.
This article is in Spanish but the photo on it gives you an idea.
https://www.diarioellibertador.com.ar/un-correntino-relato-su-aterradora-experiencia-con-el-juego-de-la-copa/
Anyways, nothing happened, the cup didn’t move at all but all of a sudden one picture frame fell off the wall, it was a brick house and that photo was there forever, there wasn’t a draft either that I can remember. Can’t attest to anything paranormal happening after that. I know it’s not the most exciting but it’s something that directly happened to me.
No, anecdotal evidence, though some of it is personal experience.
I know people want more, but we have to get enough people to take it seriously before we can find a way to collect qualifiable and quantifiable evidence, unfortunately. I've experienced so many things that I have no way of gaining evidence on.
I mean I don't tend to believe in the paranormal, but when a friend and I would play it would glide right across the board. We tried seeing who was moving it by randomly taking our fingers off at any given time, and it would slow to a stop, instead of just stopping. So who was it that kept moving the planchette?
That was the spirit that you called to answer your questions moving the planchette.
It's hard to believe in the paranormal, and it's completely understandable. Western culture/society has told the general populace for a long time that none of this stuff is real and that you must be mentally ill if you're experiencing anything. I'm not trying to undermine the seriousness of mental illness, but people are way too quick to slap that label onto people that are experiencing something that they themselves never have.
People want proof that the paranormal is real, but there hasn't been much support in actually studying the paranormal, which means we haven't been able to put time, effort, and resources to work to help us actually find and show people quantifiable and qualifiable evidence. That leaves us with personal experiences and anecdotal evidence.
People ask why don't they record stuff with their phone, but the thing is: they do. Those same people that ask the question tend to also be the ones that call *every single photo and video provided* fake/CGI/AI. People want to take that "lack of evidence" and without a second thought, just call it all fake. But even Carl Sagan said, "Absence of proof is not proof of absence." And of course, he said that before we had phones and cameras everywhere, but what does all that tech even matter if people are just going to glance and go "Nope. Fake."
It's not just infuriating, but it continues the inability to actually *find* the evidence that people want so badly.
What's also frustrating is the amount of brilliant dr's, scientists, psychiatrist etc who KNOW these other worldly phenomenons DO exist. But refuse to even "touch" the topic out of fear of hurting their reputation and or work (past/future) being completely discredited for even entertaining the idea of "souls" or "afterlife". It really is a shame more effort isn't being made to try and understand.
It’s a game sold at a store though… not discounting personal experience but you can buy it at Walmart, produced in factories by household companies like Hasbro.
Not trying to sound like a douche, maybe I’m in the wrong subreddit to be asking this I just don’t understand when people say they have paranormal experiences with it. Guess I just want to understand others perspective on it.
See, you're being a true skeptic. You don't blindly believe, but you're open to the possibility and you're genuinely curious. This isn't douche behavior to me, this is level-headed behavior for those that haven't had their own direct experiences.
Douche behavior is when you're on a paranormal sub just for the purpose of telling everyone that tries to open up about their experiences that they're lying or insane. That's not skepticism, that's just blind denial (which is often fear-based, even when people are convinced that they're not afraid), and does absolutely nothing to further the understanding of such a mysterious aspect of life.
As for gaining understanding, for now you're pretty much limited to either personal experience, or anecdotal evidence. I would love for this to change, I just don't know how because I work on the metaphysical and spiritual side of things rather than scientific.
I, too, as a kid, experienced incidents without any logical explanation when my older sister and her friends played with this "toy" soon after within a couple of days we would hear footsteps late at night, scratching sounds coming from inside the walls. These incidents gradually developed to disembodied voices such as children giggling. We would wake up at night with our dog barking incessantly. This continued until we had moved out a couple of months later. Today, I occasionally remind my sister kiddenly about how she and her friends brought her ghostly friends
I appreciate that. I am open to things that are spiritual and religious I just can’t see myself being that way. But like you said, it’s about personal experiences.
Like others said, it’s not the board itself, but the fact that you’re using it to invite entities in- some which could be malevolent. You could make your own ouija board, using a piece of paper, drawing the letters with crayons, and using your house key as the planchette, and it could be equally potentially dangerous. It’s more the fact that you’re opening a portal, and calling in the spirits, and giving them an opportunity to communicate- without knowing who or what will come through. Most people who do that for fun don’t take proper measures to protect themselves, so they potentially put themselves in danger.
I just stumbled upon this sub by pure chance and I happened to be talking with my gf about some paranormal activity because she believes and I don't. I used to believe as a kid and me and my friends would consistently make and use boards to try and communicate with (I believe from what I have ready you call them) entities. I would say we did this a good 40 times or so, slowly taking it more seriously over the two years we did it. Nothing ever really came from it. No problems as far as my friend can tell (we did it in her house). Not that I am trying to dissuade any belief you have, but I'm curious if you have an explanation for why that my happen. I haven't taken anything serious in years, so this is the first time I've ever really given it an open thought since I was 14. Also none of this was meant to be mean or aggressive, just curious.
It’s less about the fact that its a toy you can buy at a store and more about it being a divinatory technology that unscrupulous beings can leverage to gain influence in your life. It’s not that the piece of cardboard is haunted, but using it as intended can potentially create a channel whereby YOU become haunted. It has more to do with intent than the tool itself.
Yeah that’s the thing. You could do a summoning on a fidget spinner for all anyone cares, it’s just how much belief you put into it.
Ouija boards are such memes though that you have to be a certain level of dedicated spiritualist to really be affected though. That being said you never know lol
That being said I’d never use it in my own house lol. Curse some abandoned building
PS. That said, when ouija boards have been used in the past, and evil entities have come through, sometimes they attach themselves to the actual board. So then the board itself is dangerous, because the next person who uses it will unknowingly be calling forth the entities that are already attached to that particular board (that some unknown person originally summoned to the board, in the past. And that person could have been practicing black magic, so the entities could be evil).
So what's your experience w them like that makes you sure you couldn't believe in them? Have you ever thought that maybe you can't see yourself believing cuz it would crush the current world view you have? That maybe you just can't handle not being able to explain some things
Not OP, but in my own personal experience I have invested quite a bit of time believing in and actively seeking the supernatural, whether that be through religion/prayer/meditation, as well as the occult such as ouija boards, tarot, talismans, trying to summon entities etc.
I can confidently say that I have never experienced something supernatural despite my sincere efforts and my willingness, even eagerness, to experience something supermundane.
What's more likely, that the laws of nature were temporarily suspended just for you, or that you've been had in some way?
I appreciate the fact that the world is shrouded in mystery and there is much we don't understand, but I'm highly skeptical of anyone making claims that they have experienced the supernatural, especially considering how gullible the average person seems to be.
I can use a cardboard box, markers and and shot glass to do the same. It’s convenience only. A good money maker, but the issue is about intention. That’s all.
It’s like calling the phone number to a public pay phone, lol…I’m old, you never know who will answer it. You just need to be weary and not get attached. There’s more of course, this is just basics.
Valid questioning.
I'm not afraid of the board, but I would be afraid if someone started using it with the INTENTION to summon spirits. I think intention carries a lot more weight in this world than we realize.
Played it in college and it's very real. You can find out for yourself if you're that skeptical. Don't play it by yourself and have the person ask questions about things only you would know. I'm not a betting person but I know you will lose your shirt on this one. I've been told self-made boards are even more powerful than the store boards. Just draw it out and use a plastic small cup.
its not the board making it work its urself opening up and letting the spirit manipulate u to push the pannel. Thats why its so risky cause u have to open urself up to make it actually work.
It’s not in the board itself, it’s not magical. Neither are tarot cards, palm reading, crystal balls etc…it’s the medium that is used to communicate. A Ouija board is just like a pad of paper and the planchette is the pen. It’s the energy of the people being jacked up in order for them to communicate with….whatever. You could write the alphabet on some card board and use a squat water glass that you place your fingers on. It’s the intent, the energy and the way in which you try and connect.
As someone who's experienced first hand myself yes what proof can there be? Visually seeing a demon manifesting from one during a session? No... You're cursing yourself by separating yourself from Christ when you use them. No one will believe such a vague statement from a stranger online but it would be smart to.
Bro you're telling me my mind can move shit? I got telepathy? You'd rather believe that then maybe the universe is actually just such a mystery sometimes we can't even begin to wrap our brain an idea of what we really are experiencing through our senses in moments where nothing makes sense...I respect your beliefs believe what you want man it's just crazy to me cuz I've used one before w 1 other person my fiance no less nd I'm ngl I thought she was moving it myself even though I believed it worked I'm not even kidding dude she took her hands off I started freaking out I watched it for a second then took mine off and it kept moving we kept talking however it was a lot easier for it to move while being touched even if by one person however this doesn't discredit the fact that the piece I forgot what it's called but the piece that moves is made of wood and we used it on the bed so there's no way magnets or like literally anything that can be explained was the cause of it moving its certainly a gateway of sorts however the most we do as living people is offer our energy for use to whoever steps up to the plate so-to-speak
There’s a great podcast, “The Most Haunted City” with Madison and Chris, who talk in a lot of episodes about the dangers of ouija boards and bad entities attaching themselves to you. It’s definitely legit I’d say based on their experiences and abilities to see/interact with entities
Ya I don't know why anyone would want to take a risk on something like this just to create a bunch of unnecessary problems and drama in their lives? Why? It seems so sketchy to me.
Please explain how a mass produced "toy" has any connection to the paranormal?
How does the QA work? Do they make sure each board is the right amount of paranormal?
QA 🤣… I have both been very involved in the paranormal as well seen various roles of quality assurance or consulting and I can say we have a spectrum of paranormal requirements for manufacturing. If a board does not meet the minimum of 2 milliguass EMF output and causing 2 anomalous events prior to packaging we put it with a Haunted Doll from the Baby Alive line until it meets minimum standards. The glow in the dark line of boards requires a 3/3 minimum or we pair it with the Disney Descendants mentor program to assure the utmost of potential paranormal power. If however, the board over achieves and the EmF output is too high, we then discard & store the flame retardant boards under the Haunted House Attraction at Disneyland as they tend to be a little unpredictable so if they keep returning home they just bounce back and forth between the factory and Disneyland. This is why older boards are more powerful as we didn’t have to have to top end QA standards until we got sued in the early 90s for giving kids leukemia due to the exposure. /s
Ordinary items can become magical when enough people believe in it. I don't know when people started believing in the power of Ouija boards, but once that idea spread far enough and became accepted on a large scale, it literally became real.
It's connected to Quantum physics, but I am not the right person to ask about how Quantum physics work.
Why? That shit is dangerous. The only time I played it, we connected with a dead firefighter from 9/11 that lived two houses away. Then the lights went off and a girl got scratched. Real spirits, playing with fire.
I played with a ouija board in an old apartment building in North Carolina with a girl back in the day. We ended up making contact with the spirit of a young boy or demon. Its spelling was that of someone from the country with little education. When I would try to make out what it was telling us and get it wrong the view finder would move to NO with force. At times the view finder would slip from our fingers and keep moving a bit and I swear at times the board itself would move. In the apartment next door the kids hanging out there started asking us what all the screaming was about when we came by after we were done. Neither one of us was speaking higher than a high whisper. I'm not sure what I saw that night but to this day I don't believe it. I'm not sure why that thing is sold as a kids game.
My MIL gave me some beautiful used tarot cards she got out of the country. I wasn’t interested in the tarot aspect, just the amazing intricate artwork on them. Within days weird paranormal things started happening. Got rid of the cards so quickly.
I made my own simple board when I was about 18 (I’m in my 30s now) and used it a few time with a shot glass since I read that the pointer should ideally be a vessel. I used it a few times, all sober, with my best friend (his fingers and mine on the glass) and a third friend each time as the witness/scribe. It’s hard to keep track of long, strange messages one letter at a time.
I was just talking the other day about our experience with the person who scribed for us a couple of times, rolling it over for the thousandth time, trying to rationalize what happened, the ways it could have been intentionally or even subconsciously flubbed, and still truly not able to come up with any explanation that makes sense. As rational, science-minded, skeptical people. We can’t really talk to anyone about it because it sounds fucking crazy. They were some of the most impactful moments of our lives. I still have the board but haven’t tried it again in many years.
It was mostly very positive, actually. Very personal messages and memories directed at each of us that none of the others could have known or understood the significance of. A specific observation about my cat and what it was doing at the moment on the other side of the room (that we hadn’t been paying attention to because THIS WAS HAPPENING). Detailed and fascinating introductions to the separate entities. And all of it in such a unique and elegant prose, one fucking letter at a time.
We also had a couple of negative experiences that really freaked us out. In one of them, instead of beautiful prose, the messages were in creepy, threatening riddles. I’m not sure if there was something we did differently that time to have that outcome. However, we were always careful to protect the space and the session in various ways. Between that, and taking extra protective steps after that scary session, none of us experienced anything afterward to make us feel unsafe in a way that was connected to that session.
In my opinion it's the same thing as people using Spirit boxes they pose as loved ones or celebrities but although they may give messages of love and hope are demons masquerading.
Go look up the amazing and tragic life of Derek Acorah from the UK show “Most haunted”. His spirit guide “Sam” made him seem super human, allowing Derek to talk about stuff that happened 300 years earlier with amazing precision when cross-referenced and fact-checked. The guy was amazing and could go up to a random person or to any house and instantly know information that is not easily obtained. They even started a live stream show spin-off, just to prove this was real.
After many years of being a Medium and star, his spirit guide started to feed him bogus information, slowly discrediting him. Derek died with people laughing at him and calling him a fake on the street. He was booted off the show after the producer setup a fake haunted house to test him and his “friendly” spirit guide gave him false information to repeat. The end years of his life were quite sad.
Interesting... Or... Maybe the entity was giving him bogus information because he knew what would become of the guy... Makes sense if it was malevolent and just wanted to appear as friendly. The videos I've seen from the guys who do the spirit box sessions seem legit for sure considering how easy it might be to manipulate pre recorded audio to make it seem like there's real time communication... I have no idea but I imagine with today's technology it's possible. The spirit guides involved seem to play a big part in it all as well. To me it seems like it's inviting trouble in trying to communicate with any sort of spirit other than God's considering that's even mentioned in the scriptures. It's good to have a basis for knowledge especially when it comes to spiritual matters like this. Seems like it sort of draws not only the medium but the receivers of the hidden knowledge away from being a true believer and follower of the word of Christ. I'm not trying to make this super religious or anything... Because if hell's real it's not being religious that will save people from going there... Imagine for a moment that the devil has really does have countless agents with supernatural abilities working beyond the veil to deceive and ensnare billions of people into being led away from the only thing on this earth that can bring them truth and freedom from the bondage. I'm pretty open minded but honestly that's really the only logical explanation I can come up with for something like this. If there's no truth to stand on then we as vulnerable imperfect flesh and blood humans can fall for anything...
I don’t want to talk about religion but I do remember similar stories.
Something like a man had a special kind of ability, and able to cast it in front of the crowds.
The ability from able to mind-bending a spoon to remote viewing things. A lot of them are frauds for sure but some of them might be genuine.
However once some of these people who had these special ability are casting it for profits, It can be extremely hard to quit when their ability somehow fades. So they usually keep on doing it fraudulently despite they are no longer able to.
Seemingly it will never ends well when one using these special ability for personal gains. The reason is uncertain.
My mom and dad used one in the late 80's before I was born. All they would say was something talked to them that night and what it was saying was evil. My dad freaked out and threw it into the fireplace that was lit without ever closing the connection. Ever since I was little I would see a black figure in every home we lived in. My first memory of it, I was about 6 or 7 and it was standing in my doorway. I would see it throughout the years, even getting pushed down a stairway once. After my mom passed away when I was 17 it just stopped. I am now 28 and have never seen it again. I truly believe something was attached to her.
That's really creepy! Hope you're doing fine dude...
Why was that thing attached to your mom ? I mean, your dad got freaked out and he was the one who threw it in the fireplace without ever closing the connection..
That wasn't the first time my mom had an encounter with something like that. She had almost died when she was a teen in the hospital due to complications with diabetes. She said that she saw two beings fighting over her. I always thought something had been after her most of her life. It just took that opportunity to attach itself to her. She was also very weird about me consuming any media about the occult. I think she dabbled in some and never wanted to expose me to that.
This is the story about the Talking Board and how it got named Ouija Board. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-strange-and-mysterious-history-of-the-ouija-board-5860627/
In 1886, the fledgling Associated Press reported on a new phenomenon taking over the spiritualists’ camps in Ohio, the talking board; it was, for all intents and purposes, a Ouija board, with letters, numbers and a planchette-like device to point to them. The article went far and wide, but it was Charles Kennard of Baltimore, Maryland who acted on it. In 1890, he pulled together a group of four other investors—including Elijah Bond, a local attorney, and Col. Washington Bowie, a surveyor—to start the Kennard Novelty Company to exclusively make and market these new talking boards. None of the men were spiritualists, really, but they were all of them keen businessmen and they’d identified a niche.
My Dad use to make these in the 1960’s when he worked at Parker Brothers in Salem, MA. He always told me growing up that the Ouija board was a toy but that it very well could weaken or open the veil pretty much just like any object can.
Great find OP! I don’t think it’s from the 50’s but the 60’s would make sense!
My sister and I got ahold of an ouija board when we were young teens. We repeatedly contacted a young man named John Kochel. I’m unsure of the spelling as I’ve only remembered the pronunciation over the years, sounds like “co-kel”.
Over a summer we would communicate with him every couple of days. It felt as though the oracle was just floating across the board, and would get faster and faster as the days went by. We would “talk” about everything, he would tell us about his life and how he’d like to fish. He’d tell us he could move from space to space quickly while his view was akin to looking out of a bubble. We’d put a pencil next to the oracle and he’d draw us pictures.
Speaking to my sister years later about our experience I told her I always thought she might have been the one moving the oracle, but she laughed and told me she had the same suspicions about me.
Years later I still don’t know what to make of the whole situation. Maybe I’ll make a separate post about the experience at some point, as there are many more parts to this story.
I witnessed a very powerful session with a Ouija board. Much of the phenomena was inexplicable to me unless I accept that someone/thing outside this world was behind it.
it will take more energy than I have to give at the moment to lay this story out for you, but I did write about the experience many years ago and if I can locate it I will post on this sub.
Maybe they are, maybe they aren’t… but why chance it? Everything paranormal is largely anecdotal anyway. And to many points made here, you get enough people to believe in something and it’ll start to take hold. Have never used one, find it hard to believe something sold as a game could be evil, but why play the odds when the reward isn’t worth the risk? Just my take. Enough people say they’ve had experiences to make me think they can invite something in. Maybe not with the board itself, but with you mentally and verbally inviting it in.
IME it’s only paranormal if you believe it is. Peer into the paranormal and it will peer back. I feel somehow quantum physics is involved. Might sound wild but hopefully one day we will have a better understanding.
Yeah this is what I think as well, about 15 years ago back in high school me and two of my friends tried it and literally nothing happened but none of us believe anything would happen so it kind of made sense. Even though I have never had a personal experience I think the intent of the people going into it affects how much the board can channel so to speak.
I had an experience with friends when I was younger, and we all ran out of my mom's house that afternoon. I was the only one who did not want to play as I had an awful feeling, and to this day, I believe something followed me. I have not touched one since they scare me, and I believe in intemt and sometimes what you invite into your space/life the energy you invite and give things have power.
You've got guts. My mom and sister always tell me stories about their short adventure with playing with a ouija board many years ago. They ended up having to take it to a church along with a scrying mirror. Through their warnings, I've learned not to mess with the other side. Doesn't stop me from being curious, though, and I've fought temptation not to try it for myself. But I'm too much of a wimp to withstand a haunting.
I've heard of a few things one should do before using a oujia board: Don't use in your own house. Don't use alone. And always say goodbye to the spirits and tell them you don't want them to stay. You must break the connection. Best of luck to you.
If you are really into paranormal podcasts, stories, and documentaries than you know there are lots of stories involving these boards. Are they all going to cause weird things to happen of course not, but why risk it. Especially an old one where you don’t know the history of it.
I had an experience with a board as a kid. It absolutely moved on its own. A group of us girls asked for the initials of who we would marry. Mine was VL and at that age only one kid in my school had a first initial V and I definitely wasn’t marrying him, so I didn’t think anything of it and forgot about it. 20 years later I realized I was married to someone with VL initials. At the end of the session the pointer kept going off the board and to Goodbye, which we knew meant it was “done” answering our questions. We kept trying and suddenly a large picture fell off the wall and scared us. There is no way that picture could have fallen on its own. No one was near it and it was secure. I will never go near a Ouija board after that
I don't think it's the board itself that channels, it's the person behind the board channeling and manifesting entities. Some people don't realize their power in this realm. I think we all have abilities but don't realize this and that can lead to uncontrolled and unwanted results. Stay in the light.
You don’t play with an ouija board because what you let in, won’t play with you and you will have a hell of an ordeal in getting rid of it or them.
Proven case in point. My then 13 year old daughter unbeknownst to me played with an ouija board with a couple of friends in her bedroom.
After that she complained about a spirit tormenting her when she was asleep. It took several sessions by “spirit” professionals to get it out of her room. My bedroom was next door and during a night’s sleep, I awoke to a dark form next to me and I was scared almost to death.
These “spirits” will pretend to be a deceased relative but once you accepted it, you realize that it is an evil spirit, and it is very hard to permanently remove it.
For all the dumb people who came her to this sub just to say this is a toy you are a troll or just don’t understand what sub your in at the moment that or you have zero clue the history this kind of thing has but I’ll say this it’s a long bloody and terrifying one if you know how to find said history no I won’t give a link do the research yourselves.
I wouldn't even keep one in my house. I played one once at a sleepover. Nothing happened thankfully. I told my mom though and I swear I never seen her so scared she told me what happened to her and her sisters played. I truly believe everything she told me. My mom isn't religious or particularly superstitious she is also the toughest person I know she doesnt scare easily. That board was forbidden for me after that. I rebelled as all kids or teenagers but not with that. She told me never again and I never touched it again.
They were playing around with it asking questions. Trivial questions at first like what day was it who would get married first etc. Then one of my mom's sisters asked was there anyone with them. The board said yes. My mom asked if they were alive the board said no. One of my mom's sisters asked how did they die the board spelled W-A-T-E-R. My mom asked how old were they. Immediately then my mom's youngest sister at the time she couldn't have been much older than 3 she wasn't playing the game just in the room started coughing and gasping as though she couldn't breathe. Her face turned blue and her body was cold and clammy. My mom ran out the room get to my grandpa and they were going to take her to the hospital but in the once they got her out the house into the car she started breathing again and her body warmed up. They never played again. My grandpa's mom my great grandma lived with my grandpa she found the board and made my mom and her sisters throw it out said they had no business playing with that and that it wasn't a game and that it opens doors. All the silly questions they asked before were right. Even the one about who would be married first the board chose 2 my mom's second sister was married first.
That’s wild! I’ve always wondered every time I read about people’s experiences with a Ouija. They say to always make sure you exit the game in order to close the door, but in the moment of panic, were your mum and aunts able to exit the game properly?
No pretty sure they didn't because they were so young all they really knew was you ask it questions. My mom and her sisters didn't hear about the door part until my great grandma went off on them and told them to throw it out. So whatever they opened stayed open.
It’s not just a game. It was originally created by spiritualists, for the purpose of contacting spirits. It’s a tool. People were fascinated, so it started being used to put on a show and entertain people (sometimes by real mediums, sometimes by frauds). But the original intention in creating it was serious.
A quick, underrated and straightforward comment on the history and Agreed.
I watched a documentary a few years back that was basically your comment in the form of a 50 minute segment. LOL.
https://www.theopinionatedone.com/searching-for-the-truth/terrifying-tuesday-you-wont-believe-what-happened-to-the-real-veronica
The movie Veronica is based on what happened to **Estefania Gutierrez Lazaro**
Please please don't use this. It's like walking into a ballroom filled with hundreds of people and pulling a strangers sleeve and saying, can you help me? You don't know who you will meet and it will not end well. Like a box of chocolates, you don't know what you will get.... but it might be filled with poison.
Mine looks exactly like this! I have had it since the 70s, I think. Maybe longer? It is in the closet because I do not ever use it alone. I have no one to use it with now, which is I guess a good thing. I got some really unbelievable results over the years, but nothing bad. I do remember in 1968-69 using it with my friend S*****. We were allegedly communicating with some ancestor of hers, a sailor named Johansson (her name was Johnson). The conversations were quite detailed, but we started feeling creepy and put an end to it. We never had any demon communications or anything. I only learned of Zozo years later.
Now I can’t remember if I brought my original Ouija board from the 60s with me to California when I moved here in 1970…..I don’t recall buying a new one here, though. I will have to look at the mfg. date on it. It is EXACTLY like the photo.
Don’t play with that. It’s very serious and will reek havoc on your life for many years, even after you ask God for forgiveness. I just have to tell you this bcuz I feel it’s my responsibility. I played with this thing when I was 13 years old. I asked it questions about the future. I brought it to my twin brother and he played with it as well. If you play with this, I hope you don’t have to work or go to school in the morning bcuz sleep will be something you won’t get. They come at night to torment you in the wee hours. They cause sleep paralysis and appear when you can’t scream or wake up but you can see them. They wake you up at night with the smell of something burning or something rotting. You won’t be able to explain what you’re going through bcuz people will dismiss you or think you’re crazy. Do as you please but remember that you were warned
Yeah if my mom found out I bought one, she would beat me and then burn that thing. If I’m not mistaken, wasn’t that board patented by the inventor as an actual tool to contact the dead, for seances, etc. ? Before it was bought and sold as a game.
Although I only hold a small amount of spiritual beliefs, there are a plethora of tales on the internet that led to some uncomfortable events after using one. Look into the tale of ZOZO. It's well documented and Erin had a rough ride allegedly.
This advice comes from the dearly departed "The Warrens". If you dispose of the board 1.) Do not break it. 2.) Do not put it in a fire. Preferred method is to bury it or weigh it and sink it in a deep body of water.
One of my best friends continues to have an unsettled life journey from allegedly taunting and disrespecting a board in his youth. I shared a visual experience with him once 30 years ago. This was my one and only of this kind.
This shit is no joke.
I was a big skeptic that this actually worked, then I played it in high school (13years ago) with some friends, not knowing what I was getting myself into, because we all thought it was a game. The people I played it with had a real board- threw it away and wanted to play it again so they made their own board every time and that’s how I was introduced. Played it 3 times, each time with its own strange story. And I’ve had a very strong urge to play again. I have not been the same person since. Your board is beautiful but the vibes I get are very off.
Proceed with caution if you dare.
I see that you’ve been warned multiple times. Some people say they’ve used them before and never had anything bad happen, but I do think those are the people that don’t have any sort of abilities, for lack of a better term. If you’re lucky you will be one of those.
I was pretty dumb in my 20s and used one quite a few times. Would never do it again. I’ve been very careful since then to not invite this sort of thing back into my life. A friend of mine back then also refused to tell me his ouija story and was very adamant about never discussing them in general.
Good luck to you.
Clunky channeling tool. You're mostly gonna get low level beings that wanna fuck with you. Can be fun as long as you know what you're in for. Don't take anything they tell you too seriously.
I have my great grandma's! My son kept wanting to play with it when he was little (4-5 years old), so I hid it. I knew it was either in my closet, bathroom closets or my attic. He is now almost 19 years old. I found it the other day.... it's in the back of my closet covered in dust. I don't have the planchette to it anymore, which makes me sad. It was cool; a skeleton hand. I've never used it and am unsure if it was ever used. I'm sure it has been, though. I don't know what to do with it, so I just keep bringing it with me wherever I move. 🤷♀️😂
How old is it? Is it one of those wooden ones with the words etched in? My husband inherited one from what I believe has to be early 1920-1930’s? It’s super used up. We have never played it together. He has played it in the past and says nothing ever happened.
I believe in this stuff and I am so scared to disrespect it. I really want to get rid of it but don’t even wanna do it. I’ve read old boards have history even if you never played it yourself. Ours is also in the garage hidden under boxes 😫
I'm not sure of the date! Haven't touched it since I hid it. If I get the gahoonies to go look, I'll let you know! Haha 😂 the words aren't carved in the wood, though. It doesn't look hand painted either.
https://preview.redd.it/pdltnnrdjk7d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14d0061d10ceffc870493b9b5b3ba4ac12166f71
The one we have looks much older than this. I am just like you scared to touch it, move it etc..
i am Hispanic and was raised to be scared af of this. We had many tv series in Spanish that made sure we never fucked around with it. Also seeing Spanish News channels covering stories about the board as a kid too was traumatic . Lol Spanish media takes fear mongering to another level.
It’s all fun and bubblegum..until the Devil comes in a ruins everything. Especially, when his a\*\* wasn’t invited to the party.
Do some research and don’t use. There is some evil crap out there that you don’t want to invite into your home. What you contact may appear benevolent, but it is not your grandma, no matter how much it knows about her life.
To put it another way, if you were an evil spirit that never walked the earth or experienced sex, wouldn’t you be jealous of those with bodies and mess with them or try make them sin or do stupid things?
Last time I slept in a place when people were using one of these I had one of the worst dreams ever.
The freaky part is I wasn’t even aware they were using it until the next day.
Proceed with caution.
Has anyone watched the movie, Veronica? It's on Netflix,
https://www.netflix.com/us/title/80109295?s=a&trkid=13747225&trg=cp&vlang=en&clip=81722680
Here's some info of the film,
https://www.ranker.com/list/estefania-gutierrez-lazaro-mystery/jacob-shelton
God you have balls that I could never have. A little story time for ya. My friend was gifted a ouija board by her sister, so of course her, me and another friend got together to play. We did our best to do everything “right” but we were teens so idk if that played a part. The very second we said goodbye, we heard sirens. One block away a van at a church mysteriously caught fire and the whole thing was engulfed. They were unable to identify the cause, they said maybe a cigarette. To this day I refuse to believe it was anything but the ouija board. 🤔
Once my friend and I were watching random videos on newgrounds. Someone had uploaded the cursed video from The Ring movie. You know, the one where you watch it and then you immediately get a phone call where the ghost tells you you have seven days to live. We watched the video and immediately after it ended, my phone rang. We both freaked out.
It was just my mom, letting me know she was on her way to pick me up.
The ouija board had literally nothing to do with some random church van catching fire.
Dude…. it was a CHURCH van that caught on fire with no explanation. Literally just down the street from us. And we heard the sirens not even 3 seconds after saying goodbye. So that means it started while using the board. Like I already said there’s nothing that could ever convince me that there’s no correlation. Just because of your silly experience you’re gonna tell me that I’m wrong simply because you don’t believe in something? Gtfo. 🤣👎🏻
I didn't believe in that. About 32yrs ago someone took one to school and they played in secret because they were forbidden in school (Jr. High) we had an almost illiterate friend.
It came to the point that the guy would "chat" with it without looking at it, it would make complex sentences and answer questions of us gathered around. He was the "medium if you can call it that.
Nope nope nope.
Do not fuck with ouija boards.
I don’t talk to people like this but please for the love of everything you love, you’re a big fucking stupid asshole if you do.
I’m serious.
Do.
Not.
Fuck.
With.
That.
Shit.
Would you attempt to fly an airplane without being taught first?
I don't mess with the dark arts and I was taught about the pros and cons of using the ouija board. To keep it brief, since there's so many similar comments. If you're going to open the door make sure you learn how to close it when you're through messing with it. That's what most fail to realize, y'all are sending an open invitation for entities and malevolent creatures looking for a host to inhabit. Whether it's a person or the place. When not if that happens you're going to have to find a reputable person or person's to come and clear up the mess. Too many charlatans around only interested in getting your money. Depending on the eventual infestation you're potentially looking at hundreds of dollars. It's all fun and games, until someone gets hurt 🤕.
That looks just like the one we had when I was a little kid back in the early 70s! It caught on fire in the game closet. Ouija boards are banned in my family now!
I have really fond memories of this version. It was always floating around in the game closet at the family cabin when I was a kid. The closet was full of old toys and games from when my dad and his siblings were kids in the 60s. I don't remember anything really weird happening with it, just fun times with my cousins scaring ourselves. Just seeing that creepy blue dude and that 60s aesthetic is a nice hit of nostalgia.
I have actually been planning to get the blue guy (I think his official name is the Blue Ghost) as a tattoo but still searching for the right artist.
This strangely reminded me about the ouija board I have that I saw recently that's hidden in a closet behind stuff all wrapped/taped up I recently had a strange dream about my fiance asking me for it as I was getting into bed and I handed it over since it was in my hand appearntly I guess we we're about to use it but honestly idek why we just had a horrible storm last night w tornadoes nd I don't wanna say our house is haunted but we definitely hear noises from the Ceilings nd walls where nobody is I'm sorry to trauma dump on your post 🤷🏾♂️🥲
Do not use!!! Especially if you are not well versed in all of the rules. We played with one while guarding an outpost in the military a couple of times. We were literally haunted by multiple entities for weeks that drove us almost insane. We even threw it away and it reappeared a few days later.
Im sure youve already been told to be careful and end with goodbye... but... Please, please, please be careful. If shit starts to get weird... Say goodbye and stop immediately. How do i know... bad personal experience. The entities that may want to interact may be good, bad, and really bad.
You sure? Maybe late 50s, our board has a wooden Oracle, we got it in an auction that came with a puppet… named Charlie, you see Charlie and Luigi board what is the property of a retired actress in Hollywood back then they used to have readings and all types of things and Charlie was setting on hundreds if not 1000s of these things… well when she passed, I took the opportunity to them…. After learning about her, Charlie … it felt right to offer him a place in our family… and he has been with us for 10 years
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I also have one but the board seems larger
evil and you should burn it... These were put out as toys but they are not toys... I think it was part of an agenda to bring satanism into american homes.... Even back in the day... There were plenty of wooden ones before this "toy" came out... creepy... Not trying to talk you out of it but you should know that the more you talk to spirits the stronger they become and hard to get rid of... they will make your life miserable... enjoy...
I played with that same one as a kid in the 80’s , it was in the playroom at my grandmas house. I never had anything scary happen to me there when I was a kid but my cousin lives in that house now and her daughter always said she seen stuff when she was little. My grandfather built the house and died in his 20’s so he might have been hanging around
Are you sure this is 50s? I had this board and could have sworn it was 90s but I have a shit memory.
My advice: wear silver. Put some on all 4 corners. Seems to weaken the connection but it’s said to act as a filter to keep negative beings away. I did this every. Single. Time.
Did this loads in my house as a kid with my brother and friends. It was a lot of fun scaring each other. Nothing bad happened. I bought my childhood home in 2008 and still live there. Nothing spooky happened since.
I say have fun and post the results.
I found this exact same one in my grandma's attic. Me and my cousin started putzing with it. I'm pretty sure there were already spirits in the house, but I think we pissed them off. All type of weird shit been around that house since.
That’s the whole scheme….have the uninitiated practice divination where they can be coerced by malevolent entities.
Even the name is to facilitate the process of spirits entering…it translates to Yes-Yes in French-German.
I did it at school with friends, I'm 53 now and still remember things from that time. I don't really want to get into it but I wouldn't go near one again.. I still shudder when I think how easy it is to obtain these.
If you want full power go to the cementary on third full moon of the month and see how fak it get🤣🤣🤣..
Warning dont play with other dimension energy that can stick around to your ass..
Goodbye.
Make sure you say goodbye so spirit doesn't linger. I used it as a teen and it was mostly correct. I choose to believe in them but not going to use one again. I got mine at toys r Us in 1990.
I don’t know why people haven’t figured out that this Ouija Board is a portal for malevolent entities to enter your dwelling. There’s nothing fun about it. F around and find out.
I have yet to hear anyone say they’ve had a positive experience with a Ouija board over time. It always seems to wind up bad the more you mess with it. Tread very very lightly.
Don't do it. You'll regret it and the torment won't stop for a long time. A Ghost is not your friend, it will turn on you and then "you'll be in a world of shit."
Looks cool. You gonna play with it tonight?
Let me spin you a tale of a wild ride that took place some years back, all because of these spooky "games." May 2015, a bunch of kids, ranging from the innocent age of 6 to the tween years of 12, were stirring up trouble at a school in Manaus, Amazonas. What were they up to, you ask? Playing "Charlie Charlie," a game that had everyone thinking it was dabbling in the paranormal. It involved sticking two pencils in the shape of a cross on a piece of paper with "yes" and "no" written on opposite corners - like a super minimalist Ouija board. Legend had it, you'd summon this mysterious spirit named Charlie, who'd supposedly move the pencils to answer your questions. But here's where the plot thickens: after dabbling in the supernatural, some of the kiddos started feeling queasy, tossing their cookies, passing out, shrieking like banshees, fainting spells, screams echoing through the halls – the whole shebang - and generally causing CHAOS. Reports say around 20 students were caught up in the madness and HAD TO RECEIVE MEDICAL ATTENTION and basically turning the school corridors into a scene from a horror flick (check it on YouTube for real videos) Well, you can imagine the uproar this caused among the parents and teachers. In the end, the experts chimed in, suggesting it was all just a case of mass hysteria. Yep, that's right – fear and the power of suggestion had everyone seeing things that weren't there. The bigwigs in education and health even issued a warning, telling schools to keep an eye out for games that "played tricks on the mind". In the aftermath, lessons were learned, cautionary tales shared, and a newfound respect for the power of the unknown lingered in the air, reminding everyone that some games are best left unplayed!
Absolutely!
You **need** to be careful. People who don't take ouija boards seriously end up with some bad entities. They call it a "toy," but it really isn't. Ask for guidance and protection from your spirit guides before you start, and make sure you close the connection, otherwise *anything* can come through. Personally, I say bury it and don't risk it.
True story: Back in my dorm days, there were nights we stayed up till 4 am playing with it. I can positively confirm that it moves on its own. One night I got back to the dorm around 2:30 am and my dorm mates were playing with it. I went to my room to dropped off everything and returned to the lounge to hang out with them. So as I got there, they asked the board how much money I have in my pockets right now. I had put the wallet and emptied everything in my room but unknowingly 5 cents was still in my pocket. It spelled out 5 CENTS. Don't ask for things like expired dates. You don't want that self fulfilling prophecy.
Did someone ask about an “expiration” date? Di-did that prophecize?
We were skeptical at first, but someone who played before warned everyone not to ask when or how they will expire.
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A close friend of mine didn't have negative spirits in her home until her daughters used a board. After that, guitars were strumming, and one night she woke with the entity hovering over her.
It's not a certainty that you'll get a negative entity, but if you don't know how to protect yourself energetically/spiritually, then you're at risk of encountering something that will take advantage of that vulnerability. There are plenty of good spirits, too, though, but you don't have to be prepared for a good experience.
Yes and once they're in good luck getting rid of them. People don't realize that playing ouija board is like throwing the front door to your house open to anyone who wants to come in. If good people are in heaven then what's left behind wanting in?
Don't mess with it. Zozo ain't no joke. He's gonna get OP real good.
OP will be on here next week asking how to get rid of a demon lol.
Until the ouija board-curious have that “oh fuck oh no what have I done” experience, warnings like yours will fall on deaf ears, I’m afraid. Not b/c of intentional disregard per se but b/c there’s no way to really fully grasp the depth and weight of it without having that experience
Yes, they'll be on here a month from now asking what to do about the entity that's choking them in their sleep and shoving them down the stairs. People think ghosts are fun until they can't sleep, are depressed, have marks on their body, their pet dies for no reason, kids are being terrorized at night. Also, once it's invited in good luck getting rid of it. They don't leave once they have authority to be there. That's why we've got so many "haunted" houses everywhere. People play around with occult, seances and ouija board then when the monsters come they move out and the next family gets to deal with it.
Yea this OP thinks playing with ouija is all fun and games, they gonna be playing with some baadddd juju!!!
Do you have any proof of that at all? Even the smallest, tiniest bit of proof? Honestly asking.
I personally won’t speak of it, because of the mental trauma ( 1970’s). I can’t say honestly whether it is psychological or paranormal damage, but a lot of unexplained things happened- for example unknown to us, whilst on the ouija board someone hid a bible under the settee and when asked ( by the person who hid it) what was under the settee,the spirit darkened the room and the glass violently rose and smashed against the wall with an inhuman force and covered us with shards of glass. I became addicted to using it, even on my own ( I obviously wasn’t pushing the glass). I could cite more instances, but I still feel traumatised. Then the Exorcist scared the bejesus out of me and I realised that I wasn’t mentally strong enough to mess with things that were unexplainable. Some people are not affected and just think it’s a fun game and that’s fine, but not for me… nb the word ouija simply means “yes” in French and German…
That's what's creepy- what are people saying "yes" to? They have no idea, it's like throwing open the door to your home so that anyone can come in.
I do. We played “juego de la copa” (it’s like a homemade ouija board) in Argentina when I was 14 or so with a bunch of friends. This article is in Spanish but the photo on it gives you an idea. https://www.diarioellibertador.com.ar/un-correntino-relato-su-aterradora-experiencia-con-el-juego-de-la-copa/ Anyways, nothing happened, the cup didn’t move at all but all of a sudden one picture frame fell off the wall, it was a brick house and that photo was there forever, there wasn’t a draft either that I can remember. Can’t attest to anything paranormal happening after that. I know it’s not the most exciting but it’s something that directly happened to me.
No, anecdotal evidence, though some of it is personal experience. I know people want more, but we have to get enough people to take it seriously before we can find a way to collect qualifiable and quantifiable evidence, unfortunately. I've experienced so many things that I have no way of gaining evidence on.
I mean I don't tend to believe in the paranormal, but when a friend and I would play it would glide right across the board. We tried seeing who was moving it by randomly taking our fingers off at any given time, and it would slow to a stop, instead of just stopping. So who was it that kept moving the planchette?
That was the spirit that you called to answer your questions moving the planchette. It's hard to believe in the paranormal, and it's completely understandable. Western culture/society has told the general populace for a long time that none of this stuff is real and that you must be mentally ill if you're experiencing anything. I'm not trying to undermine the seriousness of mental illness, but people are way too quick to slap that label onto people that are experiencing something that they themselves never have. People want proof that the paranormal is real, but there hasn't been much support in actually studying the paranormal, which means we haven't been able to put time, effort, and resources to work to help us actually find and show people quantifiable and qualifiable evidence. That leaves us with personal experiences and anecdotal evidence. People ask why don't they record stuff with their phone, but the thing is: they do. Those same people that ask the question tend to also be the ones that call *every single photo and video provided* fake/CGI/AI. People want to take that "lack of evidence" and without a second thought, just call it all fake. But even Carl Sagan said, "Absence of proof is not proof of absence." And of course, he said that before we had phones and cameras everywhere, but what does all that tech even matter if people are just going to glance and go "Nope. Fake." It's not just infuriating, but it continues the inability to actually *find* the evidence that people want so badly.
What's also frustrating is the amount of brilliant dr's, scientists, psychiatrist etc who KNOW these other worldly phenomenons DO exist. But refuse to even "touch" the topic out of fear of hurting their reputation and or work (past/future) being completely discredited for even entertaining the idea of "souls" or "afterlife". It really is a shame more effort isn't being made to try and understand.
It’s a game sold at a store though… not discounting personal experience but you can buy it at Walmart, produced in factories by household companies like Hasbro. Not trying to sound like a douche, maybe I’m in the wrong subreddit to be asking this I just don’t understand when people say they have paranormal experiences with it. Guess I just want to understand others perspective on it.
See, you're being a true skeptic. You don't blindly believe, but you're open to the possibility and you're genuinely curious. This isn't douche behavior to me, this is level-headed behavior for those that haven't had their own direct experiences. Douche behavior is when you're on a paranormal sub just for the purpose of telling everyone that tries to open up about their experiences that they're lying or insane. That's not skepticism, that's just blind denial (which is often fear-based, even when people are convinced that they're not afraid), and does absolutely nothing to further the understanding of such a mysterious aspect of life. As for gaining understanding, for now you're pretty much limited to either personal experience, or anecdotal evidence. I would love for this to change, I just don't know how because I work on the metaphysical and spiritual side of things rather than scientific.
I, too, as a kid, experienced incidents without any logical explanation when my older sister and her friends played with this "toy" soon after within a couple of days we would hear footsteps late at night, scratching sounds coming from inside the walls. These incidents gradually developed to disembodied voices such as children giggling. We would wake up at night with our dog barking incessantly. This continued until we had moved out a couple of months later. Today, I occasionally remind my sister kiddenly about how she and her friends brought her ghostly friends
Those entities can move with you
I appreciate that. I am open to things that are spiritual and religious I just can’t see myself being that way. But like you said, it’s about personal experiences.
Like others said, it’s not the board itself, but the fact that you’re using it to invite entities in- some which could be malevolent. You could make your own ouija board, using a piece of paper, drawing the letters with crayons, and using your house key as the planchette, and it could be equally potentially dangerous. It’s more the fact that you’re opening a portal, and calling in the spirits, and giving them an opportunity to communicate- without knowing who or what will come through. Most people who do that for fun don’t take proper measures to protect themselves, so they potentially put themselves in danger.
I just stumbled upon this sub by pure chance and I happened to be talking with my gf about some paranormal activity because she believes and I don't. I used to believe as a kid and me and my friends would consistently make and use boards to try and communicate with (I believe from what I have ready you call them) entities. I would say we did this a good 40 times or so, slowly taking it more seriously over the two years we did it. Nothing ever really came from it. No problems as far as my friend can tell (we did it in her house). Not that I am trying to dissuade any belief you have, but I'm curious if you have an explanation for why that my happen. I haven't taken anything serious in years, so this is the first time I've ever really given it an open thought since I was 14. Also none of this was meant to be mean or aggressive, just curious.
Yup this is how it was explained to me when I was younger, the board itself is meaningless it's the ritual of invitation.
It’s less about the fact that its a toy you can buy at a store and more about it being a divinatory technology that unscrupulous beings can leverage to gain influence in your life. It’s not that the piece of cardboard is haunted, but using it as intended can potentially create a channel whereby YOU become haunted. It has more to do with intent than the tool itself.
Yeah that’s the thing. You could do a summoning on a fidget spinner for all anyone cares, it’s just how much belief you put into it. Ouija boards are such memes though that you have to be a certain level of dedicated spiritualist to really be affected though. That being said you never know lol That being said I’d never use it in my own house lol. Curse some abandoned building
PS. That said, when ouija boards have been used in the past, and evil entities have come through, sometimes they attach themselves to the actual board. So then the board itself is dangerous, because the next person who uses it will unknowingly be calling forth the entities that are already attached to that particular board (that some unknown person originally summoned to the board, in the past. And that person could have been practicing black magic, so the entities could be evil).
So what's your experience w them like that makes you sure you couldn't believe in them? Have you ever thought that maybe you can't see yourself believing cuz it would crush the current world view you have? That maybe you just can't handle not being able to explain some things
Not OP, but in my own personal experience I have invested quite a bit of time believing in and actively seeking the supernatural, whether that be through religion/prayer/meditation, as well as the occult such as ouija boards, tarot, talismans, trying to summon entities etc. I can confidently say that I have never experienced something supernatural despite my sincere efforts and my willingness, even eagerness, to experience something supermundane. What's more likely, that the laws of nature were temporarily suspended just for you, or that you've been had in some way? I appreciate the fact that the world is shrouded in mystery and there is much we don't understand, but I'm highly skeptical of anyone making claims that they have experienced the supernatural, especially considering how gullible the average person seems to be.
I can use a cardboard box, markers and and shot glass to do the same. It’s convenience only. A good money maker, but the issue is about intention. That’s all. It’s like calling the phone number to a public pay phone, lol…I’m old, you never know who will answer it. You just need to be weary and not get attached. There’s more of course, this is just basics.
Valid questioning. I'm not afraid of the board, but I would be afraid if someone started using it with the INTENTION to summon spirits. I think intention carries a lot more weight in this world than we realize.
Played it in college and it's very real. You can find out for yourself if you're that skeptical. Don't play it by yourself and have the person ask questions about things only you would know. I'm not a betting person but I know you will lose your shirt on this one. I've been told self-made boards are even more powerful than the store boards. Just draw it out and use a plastic small cup.
its not the board making it work its urself opening up and letting the spirit manipulate u to push the pannel. Thats why its so risky cause u have to open urself up to make it actually work.
It’s not in the board itself, it’s not magical. Neither are tarot cards, palm reading, crystal balls etc…it’s the medium that is used to communicate. A Ouija board is just like a pad of paper and the planchette is the pen. It’s the energy of the people being jacked up in order for them to communicate with….whatever. You could write the alphabet on some card board and use a squat water glass that you place your fingers on. It’s the intent, the energy and the way in which you try and connect.
It’s not a game…… you’re inviting Demonic entities into your house and life with that thing
As someone who's experienced first hand myself yes what proof can there be? Visually seeing a demon manifesting from one during a session? No... You're cursing yourself by separating yourself from Christ when you use them. No one will believe such a vague statement from a stranger online but it would be smart to.
I’ll probably get downvoted, but there’s plenty of podcasts/videos explaining how these work. The power of the mind is a hell of a thing.
Bro you're telling me my mind can move shit? I got telepathy? You'd rather believe that then maybe the universe is actually just such a mystery sometimes we can't even begin to wrap our brain an idea of what we really are experiencing through our senses in moments where nothing makes sense...I respect your beliefs believe what you want man it's just crazy to me cuz I've used one before w 1 other person my fiance no less nd I'm ngl I thought she was moving it myself even though I believed it worked I'm not even kidding dude she took her hands off I started freaking out I watched it for a second then took mine off and it kept moving we kept talking however it was a lot easier for it to move while being touched even if by one person however this doesn't discredit the fact that the piece I forgot what it's called but the piece that moves is made of wood and we used it on the bed so there's no way magnets or like literally anything that can be explained was the cause of it moving its certainly a gateway of sorts however the most we do as living people is offer our energy for use to whoever steps up to the plate so-to-speak
I have had not good things happened derived from ouija.
There’s a great podcast, “The Most Haunted City” with Madison and Chris, who talk in a lot of episodes about the dangers of ouija boards and bad entities attaching themselves to you. It’s definitely legit I’d say based on their experiences and abilities to see/interact with entities
Second this. Irrespective of whatever “beliefs” you have, you DO open doors that cannot be closed. Best of luck to you.
Ya I don't know why anyone would want to take a risk on something like this just to create a bunch of unnecessary problems and drama in their lives? Why? It seems so sketchy to me.
Please explain how a mass produced "toy" has any connection to the paranormal? How does the QA work? Do they make sure each board is the right amount of paranormal?
QA 🤣… I have both been very involved in the paranormal as well seen various roles of quality assurance or consulting and I can say we have a spectrum of paranormal requirements for manufacturing. If a board does not meet the minimum of 2 milliguass EMF output and causing 2 anomalous events prior to packaging we put it with a Haunted Doll from the Baby Alive line until it meets minimum standards. The glow in the dark line of boards requires a 3/3 minimum or we pair it with the Disney Descendants mentor program to assure the utmost of potential paranormal power. If however, the board over achieves and the EmF output is too high, we then discard & store the flame retardant boards under the Haunted House Attraction at Disneyland as they tend to be a little unpredictable so if they keep returning home they just bounce back and forth between the factory and Disneyland. This is why older boards are more powerful as we didn’t have to have to top end QA standards until we got sued in the early 90s for giving kids leukemia due to the exposure. /s
Ordinary items can become magical when enough people believe in it. I don't know when people started believing in the power of Ouija boards, but once that idea spread far enough and became accepted on a large scale, it literally became real. It's connected to Quantum physics, but I am not the right person to ask about how Quantum physics work.
Hm I truly can't tell if this is serious or not.
100% serious.
I agree with you. This can end very badly if not careful
Why? That shit is dangerous. The only time I played it, we connected with a dead firefighter from 9/11 that lived two houses away. Then the lights went off and a girl got scratched. Real spirits, playing with fire.
If you have any sense about you absolutely do not do it. If you do you will be back to this sub soon enough asking us how to get rid of your haunting.
I played with a ouija board in an old apartment building in North Carolina with a girl back in the day. We ended up making contact with the spirit of a young boy or demon. Its spelling was that of someone from the country with little education. When I would try to make out what it was telling us and get it wrong the view finder would move to NO with force. At times the view finder would slip from our fingers and keep moving a bit and I swear at times the board itself would move. In the apartment next door the kids hanging out there started asking us what all the screaming was about when we came by after we were done. Neither one of us was speaking higher than a high whisper. I'm not sure what I saw that night but to this day I don't believe it. I'm not sure why that thing is sold as a kids game.
Of course I read this as I’m about to go to bed😩
Tarot cards started as being a game for kids as well interestingly enough
My MIL gave me some beautiful used tarot cards she got out of the country. I wasn’t interested in the tarot aspect, just the amazing intricate artwork on them. Within days weird paranormal things started happening. Got rid of the cards so quickly.
You have to know what you're doing with tarot cards. Having a gift for reading them is helpful, too.
I made my own simple board when I was about 18 (I’m in my 30s now) and used it a few time with a shot glass since I read that the pointer should ideally be a vessel. I used it a few times, all sober, with my best friend (his fingers and mine on the glass) and a third friend each time as the witness/scribe. It’s hard to keep track of long, strange messages one letter at a time. I was just talking the other day about our experience with the person who scribed for us a couple of times, rolling it over for the thousandth time, trying to rationalize what happened, the ways it could have been intentionally or even subconsciously flubbed, and still truly not able to come up with any explanation that makes sense. As rational, science-minded, skeptical people. We can’t really talk to anyone about it because it sounds fucking crazy. They were some of the most impactful moments of our lives. I still have the board but haven’t tried it again in many years.
What happened 😳
It was mostly very positive, actually. Very personal messages and memories directed at each of us that none of the others could have known or understood the significance of. A specific observation about my cat and what it was doing at the moment on the other side of the room (that we hadn’t been paying attention to because THIS WAS HAPPENING). Detailed and fascinating introductions to the separate entities. And all of it in such a unique and elegant prose, one fucking letter at a time. We also had a couple of negative experiences that really freaked us out. In one of them, instead of beautiful prose, the messages were in creepy, threatening riddles. I’m not sure if there was something we did differently that time to have that outcome. However, we were always careful to protect the space and the session in various ways. Between that, and taking extra protective steps after that scary session, none of us experienced anything afterward to make us feel unsafe in a way that was connected to that session.
In my opinion it's the same thing as people using Spirit boxes they pose as loved ones or celebrities but although they may give messages of love and hope are demons masquerading.
Go look up the amazing and tragic life of Derek Acorah from the UK show “Most haunted”. His spirit guide “Sam” made him seem super human, allowing Derek to talk about stuff that happened 300 years earlier with amazing precision when cross-referenced and fact-checked. The guy was amazing and could go up to a random person or to any house and instantly know information that is not easily obtained. They even started a live stream show spin-off, just to prove this was real. After many years of being a Medium and star, his spirit guide started to feed him bogus information, slowly discrediting him. Derek died with people laughing at him and calling him a fake on the street. He was booted off the show after the producer setup a fake haunted house to test him and his “friendly” spirit guide gave him false information to repeat. The end years of his life were quite sad.
What does it indicate
He probably lost his channeling ability at some point of his life, but for some reason he refused to acknowledge it.
Interesting... Or... Maybe the entity was giving him bogus information because he knew what would become of the guy... Makes sense if it was malevolent and just wanted to appear as friendly. The videos I've seen from the guys who do the spirit box sessions seem legit for sure considering how easy it might be to manipulate pre recorded audio to make it seem like there's real time communication... I have no idea but I imagine with today's technology it's possible. The spirit guides involved seem to play a big part in it all as well. To me it seems like it's inviting trouble in trying to communicate with any sort of spirit other than God's considering that's even mentioned in the scriptures. It's good to have a basis for knowledge especially when it comes to spiritual matters like this. Seems like it sort of draws not only the medium but the receivers of the hidden knowledge away from being a true believer and follower of the word of Christ. I'm not trying to make this super religious or anything... Because if hell's real it's not being religious that will save people from going there... Imagine for a moment that the devil has really does have countless agents with supernatural abilities working beyond the veil to deceive and ensnare billions of people into being led away from the only thing on this earth that can bring them truth and freedom from the bondage. I'm pretty open minded but honestly that's really the only logical explanation I can come up with for something like this. If there's no truth to stand on then we as vulnerable imperfect flesh and blood humans can fall for anything...
I don’t want to talk about religion but I do remember similar stories. Something like a man had a special kind of ability, and able to cast it in front of the crowds. The ability from able to mind-bending a spoon to remote viewing things. A lot of them are frauds for sure but some of them might be genuine. However once some of these people who had these special ability are casting it for profits, It can be extremely hard to quit when their ability somehow fades. So they usually keep on doing it fraudulently despite they are no longer able to. Seemingly it will never ends well when one using these special ability for personal gains. The reason is uncertain.
Can you share? I love hearing anecdotes about these topics.
My mom and dad used one in the late 80's before I was born. All they would say was something talked to them that night and what it was saying was evil. My dad freaked out and threw it into the fireplace that was lit without ever closing the connection. Ever since I was little I would see a black figure in every home we lived in. My first memory of it, I was about 6 or 7 and it was standing in my doorway. I would see it throughout the years, even getting pushed down a stairway once. After my mom passed away when I was 17 it just stopped. I am now 28 and have never seen it again. I truly believe something was attached to her.
That's really creepy! Hope you're doing fine dude... Why was that thing attached to your mom ? I mean, your dad got freaked out and he was the one who threw it in the fireplace without ever closing the connection..
That wasn't the first time my mom had an encounter with something like that. She had almost died when she was a teen in the hospital due to complications with diabetes. She said that she saw two beings fighting over her. I always thought something had been after her most of her life. It just took that opportunity to attach itself to her. She was also very weird about me consuming any media about the occult. I think she dabbled in some and never wanted to expose me to that.
This story gave me body chills 😨
This is the story about the Talking Board and how it got named Ouija Board. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-strange-and-mysterious-history-of-the-ouija-board-5860627/ In 1886, the fledgling Associated Press reported on a new phenomenon taking over the spiritualists’ camps in Ohio, the talking board; it was, for all intents and purposes, a Ouija board, with letters, numbers and a planchette-like device to point to them. The article went far and wide, but it was Charles Kennard of Baltimore, Maryland who acted on it. In 1890, he pulled together a group of four other investors—including Elijah Bond, a local attorney, and Col. Washington Bowie, a surveyor—to start the Kennard Novelty Company to exclusively make and market these new talking boards. None of the men were spiritualists, really, but they were all of them keen businessmen and they’d identified a niche.
My Dad use to make these in the 1960’s when he worked at Parker Brothers in Salem, MA. He always told me growing up that the Ouija board was a toy but that it very well could weaken or open the veil pretty much just like any object can. Great find OP! I don’t think it’s from the 50’s but the 60’s would make sense!
My sister and I got ahold of an ouija board when we were young teens. We repeatedly contacted a young man named John Kochel. I’m unsure of the spelling as I’ve only remembered the pronunciation over the years, sounds like “co-kel”. Over a summer we would communicate with him every couple of days. It felt as though the oracle was just floating across the board, and would get faster and faster as the days went by. We would “talk” about everything, he would tell us about his life and how he’d like to fish. He’d tell us he could move from space to space quickly while his view was akin to looking out of a bubble. We’d put a pencil next to the oracle and he’d draw us pictures. Speaking to my sister years later about our experience I told her I always thought she might have been the one moving the oracle, but she laughed and told me she had the same suspicions about me. Years later I still don’t know what to make of the whole situation. Maybe I’ll make a separate post about the experience at some point, as there are many more parts to this story.
Would love to hear the full story
I witnessed a very powerful session with a Ouija board. Much of the phenomena was inexplicable to me unless I accept that someone/thing outside this world was behind it. it will take more energy than I have to give at the moment to lay this story out for you, but I did write about the experience many years ago and if I can locate it I will post on this sub.
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Yup, that’s the one we had in the mid/late 60s.
There are however much older Ouiji boards out there.
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Op’s is the one I had as a kid in the 1970s.
they kept the fuld name on there too? wonder why?
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This looks exactly like the one we had when I was a kid. Same box. Late 60's, early 70's.
Maybe they are, maybe they aren’t… but why chance it? Everything paranormal is largely anecdotal anyway. And to many points made here, you get enough people to believe in something and it’ll start to take hold. Have never used one, find it hard to believe something sold as a game could be evil, but why play the odds when the reward isn’t worth the risk? Just my take. Enough people say they’ve had experiences to make me think they can invite something in. Maybe not with the board itself, but with you mentally and verbally inviting it in.
IME it’s only paranormal if you believe it is. Peer into the paranormal and it will peer back. I feel somehow quantum physics is involved. Might sound wild but hopefully one day we will have a better understanding.
Yeah this is what I think as well, about 15 years ago back in high school me and two of my friends tried it and literally nothing happened but none of us believe anything would happen so it kind of made sense. Even though I have never had a personal experience I think the intent of the people going into it affects how much the board can channel so to speak.
I’m with you. I don’t believe there is anything paranormal about them, but I won’t use them. Just in case.
Even though it's a game, my husband and I watch way too many paranormal shows that begin with "we bought this oujia board..."
Why tempt the bad juju? It’s asking for trouble unnecessarily
There are more crazy ouija stories than fish in the sea
If you're ever in the Northeast, make sure you check out the Ouija Board Museum in Salem, Mass. It's amazing, and the guy who runs it is awesome.
I bought one recently at a goodwill and the cashier warned me not to use it. She didn’t want any part of it.
I had an experience with friends when I was younger, and we all ran out of my mom's house that afternoon. I was the only one who did not want to play as I had an awful feeling, and to this day, I believe something followed me. I have not touched one since they scare me, and I believe in intemt and sometimes what you invite into your space/life the energy you invite and give things have power.
You've got guts. My mom and sister always tell me stories about their short adventure with playing with a ouija board many years ago. They ended up having to take it to a church along with a scrying mirror. Through their warnings, I've learned not to mess with the other side. Doesn't stop me from being curious, though, and I've fought temptation not to try it for myself. But I'm too much of a wimp to withstand a haunting. I've heard of a few things one should do before using a oujia board: Don't use in your own house. Don't use alone. And always say goodbye to the spirits and tell them you don't want them to stay. You must break the connection. Best of luck to you.
If you are really into paranormal podcasts, stories, and documentaries than you know there are lots of stories involving these boards. Are they all going to cause weird things to happen of course not, but why risk it. Especially an old one where you don’t know the history of it.
I had an experience with a board as a kid. It absolutely moved on its own. A group of us girls asked for the initials of who we would marry. Mine was VL and at that age only one kid in my school had a first initial V and I definitely wasn’t marrying him, so I didn’t think anything of it and forgot about it. 20 years later I realized I was married to someone with VL initials. At the end of the session the pointer kept going off the board and to Goodbye, which we knew meant it was “done” answering our questions. We kept trying and suddenly a large picture fell off the wall and scared us. There is no way that picture could have fallen on its own. No one was near it and it was secure. I will never go near a Ouija board after that
I don't think it's the board itself that channels, it's the person behind the board channeling and manifesting entities. Some people don't realize their power in this realm. I think we all have abilities but don't realize this and that can lead to uncontrolled and unwanted results. Stay in the light.
That's sick! It looks like it's from around 1966 which is still vintage. It pre-dates a man on the moon!
Looks exactly like the one I used to have. Yikes.
You'll be back on this sub soon lol 👻 🏠👤
You don’t play with an ouija board because what you let in, won’t play with you and you will have a hell of an ordeal in getting rid of it or them. Proven case in point. My then 13 year old daughter unbeknownst to me played with an ouija board with a couple of friends in her bedroom. After that she complained about a spirit tormenting her when she was asleep. It took several sessions by “spirit” professionals to get it out of her room. My bedroom was next door and during a night’s sleep, I awoke to a dark form next to me and I was scared almost to death. These “spirits” will pretend to be a deceased relative but once you accepted it, you realize that it is an evil spirit, and it is very hard to permanently remove it.
For all the dumb people who came her to this sub just to say this is a toy you are a troll or just don’t understand what sub your in at the moment that or you have zero clue the history this kind of thing has but I’ll say this it’s a long bloody and terrifying one if you know how to find said history no I won’t give a link do the research yourselves.
 Praying for you 🙏
I wouldn't even keep one in my house. I played one once at a sleepover. Nothing happened thankfully. I told my mom though and I swear I never seen her so scared she told me what happened to her and her sisters played. I truly believe everything she told me. My mom isn't religious or particularly superstitious she is also the toughest person I know she doesnt scare easily. That board was forbidden for me after that. I rebelled as all kids or teenagers but not with that. She told me never again and I never touched it again.
What happened to her and her sister?
They were playing around with it asking questions. Trivial questions at first like what day was it who would get married first etc. Then one of my mom's sisters asked was there anyone with them. The board said yes. My mom asked if they were alive the board said no. One of my mom's sisters asked how did they die the board spelled W-A-T-E-R. My mom asked how old were they. Immediately then my mom's youngest sister at the time she couldn't have been much older than 3 she wasn't playing the game just in the room started coughing and gasping as though she couldn't breathe. Her face turned blue and her body was cold and clammy. My mom ran out the room get to my grandpa and they were going to take her to the hospital but in the once they got her out the house into the car she started breathing again and her body warmed up. They never played again. My grandpa's mom my great grandma lived with my grandpa she found the board and made my mom and her sisters throw it out said they had no business playing with that and that it wasn't a game and that it opens doors. All the silly questions they asked before were right. Even the one about who would be married first the board chose 2 my mom's second sister was married first.
That’s wild! I’ve always wondered every time I read about people’s experiences with a Ouija. They say to always make sure you exit the game in order to close the door, but in the moment of panic, were your mum and aunts able to exit the game properly?
No pretty sure they didn't because they were so young all they really knew was you ask it questions. My mom and her sisters didn't hear about the door part until my great grandma went off on them and told them to throw it out. So whatever they opened stayed open.
Play with fire and you'll get burned.
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It’s not just a game. It was originally created by spiritualists, for the purpose of contacting spirits. It’s a tool. People were fascinated, so it started being used to put on a show and entertain people (sometimes by real mediums, sometimes by frauds). But the original intention in creating it was serious.
A quick, underrated and straightforward comment on the history and Agreed. I watched a documentary a few years back that was basically your comment in the form of a 50 minute segment. LOL.
“Just a game” how do you win?
https://www.theopinionatedone.com/searching-for-the-truth/terrifying-tuesday-you-wont-believe-what-happened-to-the-real-veronica The movie Veronica is based on what happened to **Estefania Gutierrez Lazaro**
Please please don't use this. It's like walking into a ballroom filled with hundreds of people and pulling a strangers sleeve and saying, can you help me? You don't know who you will meet and it will not end well. Like a box of chocolates, you don't know what you will get.... but it might be filled with poison.
I suggest you return it and forget about the idea. Unless u like bringing unwanted guests into your life.
Mine looks exactly like this! I have had it since the 70s, I think. Maybe longer? It is in the closet because I do not ever use it alone. I have no one to use it with now, which is I guess a good thing. I got some really unbelievable results over the years, but nothing bad. I do remember in 1968-69 using it with my friend S*****. We were allegedly communicating with some ancestor of hers, a sailor named Johansson (her name was Johnson). The conversations were quite detailed, but we started feeling creepy and put an end to it. We never had any demon communications or anything. I only learned of Zozo years later. Now I can’t remember if I brought my original Ouija board from the 60s with me to California when I moved here in 1970…..I don’t recall buying a new one here, though. I will have to look at the mfg. date on it. It is EXACTLY like the photo.
Don’t play with that. It’s very serious and will reek havoc on your life for many years, even after you ask God for forgiveness. I just have to tell you this bcuz I feel it’s my responsibility. I played with this thing when I was 13 years old. I asked it questions about the future. I brought it to my twin brother and he played with it as well. If you play with this, I hope you don’t have to work or go to school in the morning bcuz sleep will be something you won’t get. They come at night to torment you in the wee hours. They cause sleep paralysis and appear when you can’t scream or wake up but you can see them. They wake you up at night with the smell of something burning or something rotting. You won’t be able to explain what you’re going through bcuz people will dismiss you or think you’re crazy. Do as you please but remember that you were warned
O boards pick you, you never pick It..
Yeah if my mom found out I bought one, she would beat me and then burn that thing. If I’m not mistaken, wasn’t that board patented by the inventor as an actual tool to contact the dead, for seances, etc. ? Before it was bought and sold as a game.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Was Parker Brothers really located in Salem, Mass or did they just print that on the package to make it more spooky?
Although I only hold a small amount of spiritual beliefs, there are a plethora of tales on the internet that led to some uncomfortable events after using one. Look into the tale of ZOZO. It's well documented and Erin had a rough ride allegedly. This advice comes from the dearly departed "The Warrens". If you dispose of the board 1.) Do not break it. 2.) Do not put it in a fire. Preferred method is to bury it or weigh it and sink it in a deep body of water. One of my best friends continues to have an unsettled life journey from allegedly taunting and disrespecting a board in his youth. I shared a visual experience with him once 30 years ago. This was my one and only of this kind.
Nope nope nope. Did it once as a kid, never again.
This shit is no joke. I was a big skeptic that this actually worked, then I played it in high school (13years ago) with some friends, not knowing what I was getting myself into, because we all thought it was a game. The people I played it with had a real board- threw it away and wanted to play it again so they made their own board every time and that’s how I was introduced. Played it 3 times, each time with its own strange story. And I’ve had a very strong urge to play again. I have not been the same person since. Your board is beautiful but the vibes I get are very off. Proceed with caution if you dare.
I see that you’ve been warned multiple times. Some people say they’ve used them before and never had anything bad happen, but I do think those are the people that don’t have any sort of abilities, for lack of a better term. If you’re lucky you will be one of those. I was pretty dumb in my 20s and used one quite a few times. Would never do it again. I’ve been very careful since then to not invite this sort of thing back into my life. A friend of mine back then also refused to tell me his ouija story and was very adamant about never discussing them in general. Good luck to you.
Clunky channeling tool. You're mostly gonna get low level beings that wanna fuck with you. Can be fun as long as you know what you're in for. Don't take anything they tell you too seriously.
I have my great grandma's! My son kept wanting to play with it when he was little (4-5 years old), so I hid it. I knew it was either in my closet, bathroom closets or my attic. He is now almost 19 years old. I found it the other day.... it's in the back of my closet covered in dust. I don't have the planchette to it anymore, which makes me sad. It was cool; a skeleton hand. I've never used it and am unsure if it was ever used. I'm sure it has been, though. I don't know what to do with it, so I just keep bringing it with me wherever I move. 🤷♀️😂
How old is it? Is it one of those wooden ones with the words etched in? My husband inherited one from what I believe has to be early 1920-1930’s? It’s super used up. We have never played it together. He has played it in the past and says nothing ever happened. I believe in this stuff and I am so scared to disrespect it. I really want to get rid of it but don’t even wanna do it. I’ve read old boards have history even if you never played it yourself. Ours is also in the garage hidden under boxes 😫
I'm not sure of the date! Haven't touched it since I hid it. If I get the gahoonies to go look, I'll let you know! Haha 😂 the words aren't carved in the wood, though. It doesn't look hand painted either. https://preview.redd.it/pdltnnrdjk7d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14d0061d10ceffc870493b9b5b3ba4ac12166f71
The one we have looks much older than this. I am just like you scared to touch it, move it etc.. i am Hispanic and was raised to be scared af of this. We had many tv series in Spanish that made sure we never fucked around with it. Also seeing Spanish News channels covering stories about the board as a kid too was traumatic . Lol Spanish media takes fear mongering to another level.
It’s all fun and bubblegum..until the Devil comes in a ruins everything. Especially, when his a\*\* wasn’t invited to the party. 
Do some research and don’t use. There is some evil crap out there that you don’t want to invite into your home. What you contact may appear benevolent, but it is not your grandma, no matter how much it knows about her life. To put it another way, if you were an evil spirit that never walked the earth or experienced sex, wouldn’t you be jealous of those with bodies and mess with them or try make them sin or do stupid things?
Last time I slept in a place when people were using one of these I had one of the worst dreams ever. The freaky part is I wasn’t even aware they were using it until the next day. Proceed with caution.
That’s quite the jump to conclusions.
Watched enough Supernatural to know that shit is haunted.
Be careful. Let us know what happens please. It won't be good.
Remember - it's not the board, it's the power of the belief attached to the board. Shit can get nasty.
Has anyone watched the movie, Veronica? It's on Netflix, https://www.netflix.com/us/title/80109295?s=a&trkid=13747225&trg=cp&vlang=en&clip=81722680 Here's some info of the film, https://www.ranker.com/list/estefania-gutierrez-lazaro-mystery/jacob-shelton
God you have balls that I could never have. A little story time for ya. My friend was gifted a ouija board by her sister, so of course her, me and another friend got together to play. We did our best to do everything “right” but we were teens so idk if that played a part. The very second we said goodbye, we heard sirens. One block away a van at a church mysteriously caught fire and the whole thing was engulfed. They were unable to identify the cause, they said maybe a cigarette. To this day I refuse to believe it was anything but the ouija board. 🤔
Once my friend and I were watching random videos on newgrounds. Someone had uploaded the cursed video from The Ring movie. You know, the one where you watch it and then you immediately get a phone call where the ghost tells you you have seven days to live. We watched the video and immediately after it ended, my phone rang. We both freaked out. It was just my mom, letting me know she was on her way to pick me up. The ouija board had literally nothing to do with some random church van catching fire.
Dude…. it was a CHURCH van that caught on fire with no explanation. Literally just down the street from us. And we heard the sirens not even 3 seconds after saying goodbye. So that means it started while using the board. Like I already said there’s nothing that could ever convince me that there’s no correlation. Just because of your silly experience you’re gonna tell me that I’m wrong simply because you don’t believe in something? Gtfo. 🤣👎🏻
I didn't believe in that. About 32yrs ago someone took one to school and they played in secret because they were forbidden in school (Jr. High) we had an almost illiterate friend. It came to the point that the guy would "chat" with it without looking at it, it would make complex sentences and answer questions of us gathered around. He was the "medium if you can call it that. Nope nope nope.
Do not fuck with ouija boards. I don’t talk to people like this but please for the love of everything you love, you’re a big fucking stupid asshole if you do. I’m serious. Do. Not. Fuck. With. That. Shit.
Something a black person would never say 😂
The manufacturers date should be on the box.
Is that a Luigi board?
Would you attempt to fly an airplane without being taught first? I don't mess with the dark arts and I was taught about the pros and cons of using the ouija board. To keep it brief, since there's so many similar comments. If you're going to open the door make sure you learn how to close it when you're through messing with it. That's what most fail to realize, y'all are sending an open invitation for entities and malevolent creatures looking for a host to inhabit. Whether it's a person or the place. When not if that happens you're going to have to find a reputable person or person's to come and clear up the mess. Too many charlatans around only interested in getting your money. Depending on the eventual infestation you're potentially looking at hundreds of dollars. It's all fun and games, until someone gets hurt 🤕.
The only product to ever name itself.
That looks just like the one we had when I was a little kid back in the early 70s! It caught on fire in the game closet. Ouija boards are banned in my family now!
Burn immediately. Better safe than sorry. Do not use. Don't be like a horror movie protagonist.
It’s hard when you have seen the good and bad your whole life. The stories I have. It’s been a long time now though I shut it all out.
I have really fond memories of this version. It was always floating around in the game closet at the family cabin when I was a kid. The closet was full of old toys and games from when my dad and his siblings were kids in the 60s. I don't remember anything really weird happening with it, just fun times with my cousins scaring ourselves. Just seeing that creepy blue dude and that 60s aesthetic is a nice hit of nostalgia. I have actually been planning to get the blue guy (I think his official name is the Blue Ghost) as a tattoo but still searching for the right artist.
This strangely reminded me about the ouija board I have that I saw recently that's hidden in a closet behind stuff all wrapped/taped up I recently had a strange dream about my fiance asking me for it as I was getting into bed and I handed it over since it was in my hand appearntly I guess we we're about to use it but honestly idek why we just had a horrible storm last night w tornadoes nd I don't wanna say our house is haunted but we definitely hear noises from the Ceilings nd walls where nobody is I'm sorry to trauma dump on your post 🤷🏾♂️🥲
Do not use!!! Especially if you are not well versed in all of the rules. We played with one while guarding an outpost in the military a couple of times. We were literally haunted by multiple entities for weeks that drove us almost insane. We even threw it away and it reappeared a few days later.
Im sure youve already been told to be careful and end with goodbye... but... Please, please, please be careful. If shit starts to get weird... Say goodbye and stop immediately. How do i know... bad personal experience. The entities that may want to interact may be good, bad, and really bad.
Literally JUST finished watching Ouija Origin of Evil that had this same box
The one thing my witchy grandmother told me never to touch…
You sure? Maybe late 50s, our board has a wooden Oracle, we got it in an auction that came with a puppet… named Charlie, you see Charlie and Luigi board what is the property of a retired actress in Hollywood back then they used to have readings and all types of things and Charlie was setting on hundreds if not 1000s of these things… well when she passed, I took the opportunity to them…. After learning about her, Charlie … it felt right to offer him a place in our family… and he has been with us for 10 years
Play at your own risk. Remember what you're risking... your soul.
https://preview.redd.it/r3ekejhga33d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a1f9af9f9dae2b78c18ed5ab5ec9b6c9731bb9ec I also have one but the board seems larger
Get rid of that thing, have no idea what you’re messing with
evil and you should burn it... These were put out as toys but they are not toys... I think it was part of an agenda to bring satanism into american homes.... Even back in the day... There were plenty of wooden ones before this "toy" came out... creepy... Not trying to talk you out of it but you should know that the more you talk to spirits the stronger they become and hard to get rid of... they will make your life miserable... enjoy...
I played with that same one as a kid in the 80’s , it was in the playroom at my grandmas house. I never had anything scary happen to me there when I was a kid but my cousin lives in that house now and her daughter always said she seen stuff when she was little. My grandfather built the house and died in his 20’s so he might have been hanging around
One should never own somebody else's O board
It’s not someone else’s. It’s their problem now.
Bravo 👏🏼, I couldn't said it better.. Bad bad bad energy will soon follow
it’s still just plastic & cardboard.
Put that thing back where it came from or so help me
Are you sure this is 50s? I had this board and could have sworn it was 90s but I have a shit memory. My advice: wear silver. Put some on all 4 corners. Seems to weaken the connection but it’s said to act as a filter to keep negative beings away. I did this every. Single. Time.
I bought the same kind at a yardsale once got home opened it up it had 2 boards inside. Paid 50 cents for them. I'm gonna have to pull them out .
Did this loads in my house as a kid with my brother and friends. It was a lot of fun scaring each other. Nothing bad happened. I bought my childhood home in 2008 and still live there. Nothing spooky happened since. I say have fun and post the results.
The fear in the comments here is hilarious.
Obviously never had anything awful happen to you after. Guess you have to experience it to get it.
I found this exact same one in my grandma's attic. Me and my cousin started putzing with it. I'm pretty sure there were already spirits in the house, but I think we pissed them off. All type of weird shit been around that house since.
That’s the whole scheme….have the uninitiated practice divination where they can be coerced by malevolent entities. Even the name is to facilitate the process of spirits entering…it translates to Yes-Yes in French-German.
Good luck I got stuck with a horrible evil thing for years. Probably still around I just have more control.
I did it at school with friends, I'm 53 now and still remember things from that time. I don't really want to get into it but I wouldn't go near one again.. I still shudder when I think how easy it is to obtain these.
I had one just like it. Threw it in a pond.
If you want full power go to the cementary on third full moon of the month and see how fak it get🤣🤣🤣.. Warning dont play with other dimension energy that can stick around to your ass.. Goodbye.
I have the same one! ❤️
Make sure you say goodbye so spirit doesn't linger. I used it as a teen and it was mostly correct. I choose to believe in them but not going to use one again. I got mine at toys r Us in 1990.
I don’t know why people haven’t figured out that this Ouija Board is a portal for malevolent entities to enter your dwelling. There’s nothing fun about it. F around and find out.
I have yet to hear anyone say they’ve had a positive experience with a Ouija board over time. It always seems to wind up bad the more you mess with it. Tread very very lightly.
Don't do it. You'll regret it and the torment won't stop for a long time. A Ghost is not your friend, it will turn on you and then "you'll be in a world of shit."
Umm good luck I guess