Highlights of a 3-hour Ouija Board session.
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The Ouija Board was frequently on my Christmas list as a kid growing up in the 60s, and I can still see the frown on my parent's face when they explained why, again, I wasn't getting one.
"It's evil."
But the Ouija Board did make it into my home, some late weekend nights, carried undercover by a friend into our basement family room where the teens and pre-teens hung out.
Strange messages did flow across that board while we played, although I was never able to fully embrace this mode of spirit communication as I wondered who among us was cheating - and guiding the plastic planchette to spell out words.
I think Parker Brothers is still selling it.
The subject of Ouija Boards came up one evening recently among a small group of paranormal investigators who had gathered at my home office. They all agreed - it's evil. One of them even purchased the game from a garage sale simply to get it off the market. It's now collecting dust somewhere in her attic.
From the MadHobbit Youtube site that produced the video on page this:
Am I really talking to Jeremy? Or could it be a evil spirit? Yes, it could be another spirit pretending to be Jeremy, But evil spirits lie to gain your trust, then eventually make your life a living hell in one way or another. My life overall since making contact with Jeremy has either stayed the same or got better in areas of my life.
I have been doing Ouija's since I was 13, that is over 22 years of using the Ouija and not once have I ever experienced anything bad happening.
OUIJA BOARD CRITICISM - from Wikipedia
Although ouija boards are viewed by some to be a simple toy, there are people who believe they can be harmful, including Edgar Cayce, who called them "dangerous."[24]
Some practitioners claim to have had bad experiences related to the use of talking boards by being haunted by "demons," seeing apparitions of spirits, and hearing voices after using them. A few paranormal researchers, such as John Zaffis, claim that the majority of the worst cases of so-called demon harassment and possession are caused by the use of Ouija boards. The American demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren stated that "Ouija boards are just as dangerous as drugs."[25] They further state that "séances and Ouija boards and other occult paraphernalia are dangerous because 'evil spirits' often disguise themselves as your loved ones—and take over your life."[25]
Many Christians hold the belief that using a Ouija board allows communication with demons, which they say is Biblically forbidden as a form of divination.[26] Some people who claim to have been oppressed by evil spirits after using a board say that they could only get rid of these problems after Christian deliverance.[27] Many Christians believe that no dead person's soul can be summoned, and that the only summoned spirits are demons who are trying to harm humans.[28]
As early as 1924, Harry Houdini wrote that five people from Carrito, California were driven insane by using a board.[29] That same year, Dr. Carl Wickland in his book stated that "the serious problem of alienation and mental derangement attending ignorant psychic experiments was first brought to my attention by cases of several persons whose seemingly harmless experiences with automatic writing and the Ouija board resulted in such wild insanity that commitment to asylums was necessitated."[30]
In 1944, occultist Manly P. Hall, the founder of the Philosophical Research Society and an early authority on the occult in the 20th century, stated in Horizon magazine that, "during the last 20-25 years I have had considerable personal experience with persons who have complicated their lives through dabbling with the Ouija board. Out of every hundred such cases, at least 95 are worse off for the experience." He went on to say that, "I know of broken homes, estranged families, and even suicides that can be traced directly to this source."[31]
The former medical director of the State Insane Asylum of New Jersey, Dr. Curry, stated that the Ouija board was a "dangerous factor" in unbalancing the mind and believed that if their popularity persisted insane asylums would be filled with people who used them.[32]
Decades later, in 1965, parapsychologist Martin Ebon in his book Satan Trap: Dangers of the Occult, states that "it all may start harmlessly enough, perhaps with a Ouija board," which will, "bring startling information... establishing credibility or identifying itself as someone who is dead. It is common that people... as having been 'chosen' for a special task." He continues, "Quite often the Ouija turns vulgar, abusive or threatening. It grows demanding and hostile, and sitters may find themselves using the board compulsively, as if 'possessed' by a spirit, or hearing voices that control or command them."[33]
In her 1971 autobiography, the psychic Susy Smith said, "Warn people away from Ouija and automatic writing. I experienced many of the worst problems of such involvement. Had I been forewarned by reading that such efforts might cause one to run the risk of being mentally disturbed, I might have been more wary."[34] Only recently, well known psychic Sylvia Browne made her appearance on The Montel Williams Show stating that Ouija boards were dangerous. Additionally, the late Roman Catholic priest Malachi Martin believed talking boards are dangerous and claimed that by using these devices a person opens themselves to demonic oppression or possession, topics upon which Martin spoke and wrote extensively for many years.[35]
The group of six teenagers led by Natasha Cornett held responsible for the murder of a family in 1997 were known to be obsessed with the Ouija board and the occult.[36]
THE OUIJA BOARD REALLY WORKS
Here's a link to a video - The Ouija Board Really Works - an interesting testimony from one person who is convinced he connected to a spirit while using this game.
Guy attacked by demon while using ouija board
These folks created a home-made board. Not sure if this video is real, or something manufactured after the Paranormal Activity film came out. But they got more than a half million page hits in about four weeks.
Ouija Board? STOP, listen, and reconsider.
Seems like good advice from someone who's looked into this.
Your experiences?
Comments
What rubbish. When are you people going to grow up and realize that the only demons that exist are the imaginary ones you create in your own mind to bolster your pathetic need to believe in such crap. My sisters and I used a Ouija board when we were kids. The answers it gave to questions never came true in any sense of the word because it was just our subconscious manipulating the palette and of course, we weren't psychic. You feeble minded simps who create these demons in your heads will always find a way to make their predictions come true by twisting the facts to suit your belief or else by unconsciously putting the elements in play to make them come true in the future. You and all the other religious nut cases need to start living in the real world.
The American poet, James Merrill, consulted the Ouija board when writing the book THE CHANGING LIGHT AT SANDOVER. Further, it is well known that Yeats and later, Burroughs, used automatic writing as an excuse for their literary wanderings. There are no demons in any of these works. The article sounds like it was written for people who are not educated and who are gravely superstitious. Is the presumed audience somewhere in the 19th century?
One time I did the Ouija board with two friends and we were able to hear from a real demon who said his name was Chinga-montes and he made us take drugs and drink beer. Another ghost we heard from was Col. Makanawa from WW2 and japan. He asked for beer, too.
I wonder if anyone has tried an alternate methodology; blindfolding the 2 players and letting a 3rd party report on the results? and then not ask "yes" or "no" questions.
Personally, I think the comments accompanying the "guy attacked by demon" video at the UTUBE website were far scarier than the actual video.
So...ummmm...you're not sure if that video was real, huh?
All righty then...
funny how some people claiming to be "paranormal experts" tell every one else that contacting "spirits" is dangerous. could it be they want every one else to go running to them for advice - that they want a monopoly on this non sense and possibly make money by conning people in to paying for ridiculously priced books, "ghost-finding" gadgets, etc.? these people do the same thing as any organized superstition -("churches") - they try to scare the crap out of people so THEY can capitalize on that fear and MAKE TONS OF MONEY. if you want to play around with ouija boards, etc., go ahead. whether it's your subconscious, imagination or actual spirits, who knows? but don't let these scam artists fool you. they want people to go to THEM be cause they're the self proclaimed "experts" and you're not. i'd like to know how these so called "experts" got to be "expert" at spirit hunting, any way. i mean, if it's so dangerous and all, and they're risking "possession" and all that, why ever would they dabble in such matters? how are they any different than any one else? these people are no better than those who run the institutions of organized superstition - "churches" - they want to instill fear in people so they can charge ridiculous fees to "help" us spiritually uneducated folk with our ghostly problems. don't fall for it. and there are no confirmed, legitimate reports or documented cases of "possession" or any thing else. if there were, EVERY one would have known about it b
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