Hi all,
Do you believe in the Ouija board?
My friends and I played the other day but it didn't work. They were all really scared it was real but when we convinced them they played,
I don't believe in it. But it would be kool if it was. We then went on the web and got a pic and tried again but failed.
Have you ever tried it?

I think I tried the Ouija Board a long time ago, but of course it didn't work. It's kind of a cool concept, and it's nice to believe in, but when it's all said and done I am sure there is nothing to it.

I've got a Ouija board sitting around somewhere. I think it's one of those things that's as real as you make it out to be. I've found it's great fun to shim the planchette and make it move with your PK kit. This way, it truly moves without anyone touching it.

Derren Brown had a ncie name for the way you actually move it yourself.
Matt

If there really was a device that allowed us to contact "The Other Side" would it be made by the millions from Parker Brothers, the people who brought us Chutes and Ladders? Treat it as a fun thing that captures the imagination, but don't let it go futher than that.

Do I believe that you can contact some "other world" of dead people with this Ouija Board? No.

Are there people in the world who *do* believe in it? Yes.

There sure are a lot of gullible people out there.

I've had more than a few calls for people calling and asking if I sell ouija boards. I say no, and also say that I think they are a bunch of garbage. (I'm entitled to my opinion).

I don't even own a magic shop, but have calls asking for the strangest things, but that is one of the more common requests.

I've even had a person show up on my doorstep, at my home once (a deaf lady, with an aide to interpret her sign language) asking what sort of magic I did. When it came down to it, she was looking for a fortune teller / psychic.

Like I said, a lot of people putting their faith in the wrong things for answers.

- Donald

I've always felt the Ouija Board to be urban legend and bunk with regards to spirit contact. If that were true about contacting spirits why were people paying mediums vast amounts of money to contact the dead when all they had to do was obtain a Ouija Board that's been around forever? Anyhow, you will have as much fun with it as you want provided you put some creativity into it.

In highschool it answered personal questions about me when I was a person watching and 2 friends were using. They did not know what it was saying, and who it was--though I did.

Ellen

I've always viewed it as a good tool for demonstrating the ideo-motor response, and a familiar prop for bizarrism.

My wife will not have one in the house. She had some bad psychological experiences with the Ouija years ago, and now steers clear of them.

Steve

Kool, thanks for your oppinion.

When I was about 18 I used to do ouija for a few mates. There are a few techniques used for influencing the planchette, whether in contact or not with the planchette.
There is a technique where you apply pressure at a point and when the planchette is released (by all) it flys across the board. I always got big reactions from that.

Don't worry about questions people ask. They will try to fit the answer to themself and be quite enthusiastic about it.

I had an Ouija board as a kid. My older sister and I would play it, and yes, the planchette actually would move across the board even though we were not touching it. We followed the directions carefully and had our fingertips as close as we could to the planchette without them actually touching it. It definitely was a weird sensation feeling the planchette move and literally "pulling" us along. I have since read years later that this experience is some sort of pyscho-motor response -- somehow we "fooled" ourselves into thinking the planchette was moving by itself when in actuality we were the ones moving it by very, very slight touches onto the planchette with our fingertips. I don't know. It was a very distinct sensation, and one I'll never forget. All I know is that we were consciously NOT moving the planchette.

Do others know what this "sensation" is that I'm speaking about?

At the age of 20 two of us used an older board and asked specific series of questions that had to be spelled out with, at then, unknown answers that could be verified at set points in the future. To this day every answer was correct and the board was burned months afterwards when we realised that the first predictions were all coming up true, including names dates and places we had no knowledge of.

I belive now that we were too young to realize we both were in contact with something other people never were and likely it had nothing at all to do with the pressboard and wood game.

My current beliefs prohibit spirit contact and I make no effort to do so, nor do I have any thoughts or desires to do so.

Parker bros. only took took up the manufacture of these boards and there may be as many as 100-150 different types of "talking" boards that have been made in the last 200 years.

At any rate IF it was possible to do something like this, take my advice and don't get involved. In fact walk the other way.

Prettylady,
I can tell you that the board is easily manipulated into doing anything the operator wishes it to do. I can tell you that I have been an operator and fooled many people. I can also say to you that I have absolutely no special power and no belief whatsoever in any supernatural display for reasons to long for this thread.
Lastly, I will say to you that there are many persons who do believe and no matter what I or anyone else says or demonstrates will change their mind. Therefore, a market for spirit boards, fortune tellers, and Uri Geller.

Blindbo. I agree 100%.
It seems too me that the Ouija board has 1 special power...
that is the power of belief. I have found it to be one of the most believable tools for fooling people.
People just seem to feel ok about using this novelty medium to contact the spirit world. I have even had sceptics in a corner over the results of the board.