Ouija Boards

Lily

its back.......waste........waste clock, no waste T....I....M.....E... and the same letters GN?

What a curious encounter with the other side.

That’s true Rosie Leah my late sons partner is evil.
I used ouija board with some friends when I was young.
Very scary never again.

If you want a connection to your passed loved ones only visit a reputable medium through word of mouth, yes there are fake ones but there are really good ones too. Don't mess about with these boards where you are asking 'anything' to enter your energy and space. It's stupidity. I feel sorry for people that don't believe in the afterlife but at least they'll have a surprise one day when they eventually find out their family is waiting for them. I have had too many experiences and signs that make me 100% certain our loved ones are waiting for us.

When I was a child my aunt and uncle had an old Ouija board in the house. We spent many holidays at their place and when the weather was too cold, all the cousins would gather round and play board games in the attic for hours at at time.

I think we were too young (aged six to twelve) to realize what a Ouija was or that we were dabbling in anything forbidden. The pointer always seemed to give meaningful answers (with a little help of course) and none of us were ever the worse for it. We were in awe of it but nothing spooky ever happened.

Pure manipulation of the stressed and grieving . Horsewhip all exponents of the occult and the heinous trappings !! But I feel same about religion !!

Replying in kind is not having a go

I've found the deleted comment now, also one each from Gabriella and Anniebach have been deleted. That seems fairly even-handed to me - they were both having a go at each other. I've no idea what wellwalked posted, but it must have had something in it that broke the guidelines or HQ would have let it lie.

For Luckylegs, the disagreement was due to the two posters having differing attitudes to the subject being discussed and expressing their opinions of each other's attitudes rather sharply. That is usually the reason for spats on Gransnet. They tend to blow over fairly quickly unless one or both parties hold a grudge and raise old scores in the future.

Can we now draw a line under the digs and sarcasm?

I have contacted the dark side and a table is moving........wait wait letters are forming........I can make out a G.....there's more an N..........its telling me, its trying to reach me.....its spelling out WAIST ........no its changed ( poor communication skills)
WASTE.........its pointing. pointing to a clock.? What is this message from the other side?

Neither can I, Jane. Have you mixed up this thread with another, Wellwalked ?

Wellwalked was your deleted comment on this thread? I can’t see it.

Can anyone enlighten me as to what the Gabriella/Anniebach battle is about and is it always like this? Can nothing be done to stop these cutting remarks? At our age, surely we could be above such mean remarks?

I have had some experience in this field, having been involved in Spiritualism many years ago, to the extent to taking mediumship training. I have to say that in over four years of attenting Spiritualist services, seances and readings, I never saw or heard anything that couldn't be explained.
Totake just one example: At one service, when a medium was on the stage , she called out "I'm getting the name 'joe', does anybody know a Joe?" She gave no more details than a name - it could have been the name of anybody - or anything.
A woman promptly shot up her hand: "Yes, that's my new grandson!", and the medium gave her a message to the effect that he would be a remarkable child (without giving any details).
After, when the woman was outside talking to friends about it, I heard her exclaiming "Isn't it amazing how she knew my grandson's name!" She'd entirely forgotten that she'd given that information to the medium!
Time and time again, I observed the same thing - people heard what they wanted to hear, and remembered what they wanted to remember. I suspect that if some of the people on here had taped these 'accurate' psychic messages, they'd find they weren't as accurate they remembered.
I have to emphasise that I didn't start out as a sceptic, not at all - like that bloke on the X-Files, I wanted to believe. But I couldn't believe without proof, and I found none.
Finally, as grandtante's granny said, if the dead do live on, they'd surely have better things to do than hang around mediums passing on vague messages.

Ha! This is hilarious! GNHQ won't moderate the Gabriella/Anniebach wind-up thing going on but delete an informative and on-piste previous comment of mine...couldn't make it up!

I try too keep an open mind about such things. But many years ago a friend was given a Ouija Board by an elderly relative, and of course we were curious. Four of us agreed to ask questions which we knew no one else in the group would know the answers to. My question was answered correctly. It really shook me and I have never been near a board since, and never would.

The catholic church has always taught that trying to tell your future or contact spirits is wrong and most other denominations agree about this too.

My grandmother used to say that wherever the dead are, she felt certain they had other and better things to do than be at the beck and call of relations trying to get in touch with them.

That always seemed a sensible way of looking at the afterlife that she firmly believed in.

I would personally never attend a séance or use a Ouija board as I happen to believe it to be meddling with things that are potentially harmless,

It was the late 60s and my closest college friend was expecting her first baby. At that time, there were no scans to determine the sex of the baby, neither of us had a telephone and we kept in touch infrequently by snail mail as we lived 250 miles apart. One Friday night, myself and a small group of flatmates decided to set up a ouija board. I asked if said friend had had her baby. The reply was that she had had a girl. I asked the name and it spelled out Emja. Strange, I thought. The following Monday, a birth announcement card arrived to say a daughter had been born and her name was Emma Jane. I was very shaken and have never been near a ouija board since.

Best left well alone.

We had several ouija board sessions, years ago, and they were hilarious. We got the rudest messages!

My Dad said that he would come back and let me know he was ok, but I don't think he has, well not obviously anyway

However I did get a visitation by a pair of robins the morning after my Uncle (who I was very fond of) died - they still come which is nice ....

I would love to have something to believe in, especially as I can't see the point of life sometimes, what is all the crap I am being thrown all about? Why me and my family etc, we have done no wrong ..... but had no proof of anything!

I was once told however by a Diviner, that I had been a bad woman in a previous life (had been murdered) and so I needed to apologise for it (? who to?) and then I would get better from my illnesses .....

My mothers' side of the family belonged to a spiritualist church and allegedly spoke to 'the other side'. My GM used to whip a board out occasionally and my sister never knew how she was moving the glass by all accounts.

I don't believe in such things but do feel a bit uncomfortable that by saying so I'm implying half my family were fruitcakes.

I've experienced a couple of odd things in my time but put it down to being in a fragile state of mind due to upsetting situations. I've never had any proof and think if you are suggestable messing around with a board could disturb you, so probably best left alone.

Petra I LOL too. Very funny.

When I was a teen it was a fashion to use these boards. I ended up a nervous wreck. I couldn't sleep and my imagine worked overtime. Once we were playing and the glass spelt out that the devil was with us. One of the boys threw the glass into the trees and smashed it. We never played again. I hate ouija boards!

I work with bereaved people and so have probably more experience than most on this thread. Let's be scientific about this - when you die, you die. The ouija board is a form of cheap entertainment, preying on the psychological dysfunctionality of those involved. People who promote its use are charlatons. If a spirit is conjured up it's purely a figment of someone's imagination and might be the reason why that person ends up going to see a psychotherapist for years thereafter.

Don't do it. Whether or not there is something on the other side it can seriously mess with your mind. I know one lady who used the board and became convinced something evil had got hold of her and as a consequence she was too scared to see her grandchildren in case it got hold of them too.
I have personal experience when I was younger and away at university. At one session when asked a question about one of the lad's girlfriends back home the glass suddenly seemed to go violently mad out of anyone's control and spelt a word which we had to write down before we fully realised that word was "suicide". I promise you we were all really scared and never used the board again.

When I was in the 6th form our common room was in an old house in the school grounds (it became the house for the nuns). In the year above us there was a tragedy - one of the girls died due to carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty water heater in the bathroom of her home. We made a ouija board and held a seance (like good convent educated girls!) and it all got very scary and spooky. We thought we'd got the dead girl but then it got weird and we all freaked out! Never tried it again!