Thread: Ouija boards

I don't believe it's spirits either. My friends and I used to play with the thing ALL THE TIME, and we would always get these really crazy messages... once we got an entire history of some dude who died in WWII... well the fact of the matter is it was always me moving it. Your friends may say that they aren't moving it, but they are.

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

Your friends may say that they aren't moving it, but they are.

Okay, after I read your post, I just went and demanded my sister to tell me that it was her moving it. (I know it had to be her, my other sister is only 10.) She confessed. AHHH!!!!! To think I was fooled so easily. I asked her why, and she said because I had so much fun! Ahh, it's so true.

So EVERYBODY who has an "experience" with one of these things is just being tricked???

Originally Posted by Chelita

Okay, after I read your post, I just went and demanded my sister to tell me that it was her moving it. (I know it had to be her, my other sister is only 10.) She confessed. AHHH!!!!! To think I was fooled so easily. I asked her why, and she said because I had so much fun! Ahh, it's so true.

So EVERYBODY who has an "experience" with one of these things is just being tricked???

Not necessarily - some people contend that if the group as a whole expects a certain answer to appear, they may each subconsciously push it extremely slightly towards that spot, or even just have less resistance towards motion in that direction.

This sort of phenomenon can be seen using a hula hoop and a group of friends - suspend the hula hoop above your heads, and make each person make a 'gun' sign with their hands, so that the hula hoop is resting on ONLY the index fingers of each person in the group. Then, try to lower the hula hoop without anyone losing contact. Invariably, everyone will blame everyone else for keeping the hula hoop up - the mysterious upwards force results from each person trying to keep in contact with it and pushing it upwards very slightly.

Another cool application of this general concept is the magic trick involving holding someone's hand and wiggling it about gently when looking for a hidden object. When the person knows where the object is, they will have less resistance to motion in the general direction of the object. People with sensitive hands can take advantage of this to locate hidden objects by 'reading their mind' while just holding their hand.

Chris Angel once did that trick at a car dealership - he had one of the dealers hide a set of keys in one of their thousands of cars, and then walked around holding his hand for a few hours until he was sure he had the right one, from the tiny changes in resistance.

I don't know what thegnome is saying, but Chelita, I wouldn't generalize my and your experience to everyone's since that's a risky thing to do with anything... At the end of the day, even though I always moved it, it was always a hell of a lot of fun. And sometimes I even tricked myself into believing certain stuff. One time, my friends and I were doing the ouija board in my very creepy attic at home, and even though I was totally moving it, it still creeped us all out - and eventually we all started to hear noises. That night I slept over at their house because my parents were out of town and I was convinced that we had awoken some sort of spirits.

maybe it mean hugh, like a name. as in the spirits name. i am wanting to try this with my friends... as they have tried it and say its odd. one says he was possesed, im skeptical...
but, id ask questions like:
are you a good or bad spirit?
give us a sighn...


stuff like that

Originally Posted by The_one_920

maybe it mean hugh, like a name. as in the spirits name.

Yeah, that's what I meant... we asked its first and last name and got "Erik Hugh." My sister admits she made it up.

I agree with Mes Tarrant that it is a lot of fun, so you should try it, but don't be overly credulous like I was! I guess you can still get pretty freaked out even if you know it's not real. Like watching a horror movie or playing a game in the woods at night.

That's really interesting about the subtle hand movements. I bet that has something to do with it--it's probably not always one person who's controlling it.