<p>What’s the story with them? I haven’t done it since high school, and my daughter just brought home one. It spelled out two names that she wouldn’t have known and I SWEAR I wasn’t pushing it!</p>
<p>Lol… When I saw that topic on college confidential, I assumed you were using the ouija board to find out where your daughter got into college…
I too had a weird experience with the ouija board with a friend of Latin heritage (who didn’t speak spanish) and the board responded in Spanish, which we had to write down and get her mom to translate. I don’t tend to believe in the occult, but that was pretty crazy…</p>
<p>The story? Cardboard, paint, and plastic. </p>
<p>As to not pushing it consciously, think about the [Ideomotor</a> effect](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideomotor_effect]Ideomotor”>Ideomotor phenomenon - Wikipedia).</p>
<p>KellMill—what did it say in Spanish? Hmmmm. Actually, maybe the Ouija board will be our best and most effective way to help D2 pick her school for next year’s applications!</p>
<p>If I remember correctly, it said some stuff about a farm, which her grandparents have in Nicaragua, and about some dead relatives, which her mom hadn’t heard of… So accuracy-wise, it was batting 500.
That’s not the only weird result I’ve had with it… I talked to my grandfather, my rescue dog’s former owner, etc., etc. Again, I’m not a paranormal wacko or anything and it’s certainly possible that there was a subconscious thing going on, but I really trust the people I did it with and don’t think they were intentionally duping me. So I don’t know what to think.</p>
<p>Well, I asked it some questions that my daughter doesn’t know (and I do) and the answers were right and I wasn’t pushing it. After we read your posts we asked where our son would be going to college, and it spelled out D-U-K-E…(he’s only 14) … it was weird.</p>
<p>I didn’t have an Ouija board
but I remember having [Kreskin’s</a> ESP](<a href=“internationalmagicauction.com”>internationalmagicauction.com)
I don’t think it was quite as transparent as the Ouija board- but there was probably some non visual cues given by the other players.
However- I have also been very successful at biofeedback-at least I am able to keep small motors going without much effort at the local science exhibit</p>
<p>One of the very few highlights of my middle school years is the seances we used to have at sleepovers. Where would 8th-9th grade girls be without Ouija boards, magic 8 balls, candles, etc…</p>
<p>corranged, thanks! I’ve never heard of the ideomotor effect before. Learned something new!</p>
<p>We played “levitation” at our sleepovers. To this day, I don’t know how four girls managed to lift a 140 lb. girl in the air with just four fingers each! Anyone have a scientific explanation for that?</p>
<p>Don’t mess with Ouija boards, they are powered by demonic spirits. I know that you guys will probably say I am crazy, but some of you have said it yourself. " It spelled out two names that she wouldn’t have known and I SWEAR I wasn’t pushing it!"
Don’t write this off with some foolish ideomotor effect. My advice would be to not mess with them.</p>
<p>Do you remember the opening scenes of “The Exorcist”, when Regan found the ouija board in the basement of the Georgetown townhouse and started goofing around with it?</p>
<p>Look what happened to her!</p>
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<p>As soon as I read the op, I had the same thought as you Clueless. I want answers! 
The first go around the person you’re trying to lift is as heavy as bricks, and then you say a few words or something, and then the person you’re lifting doesn’t feel any heavier than a bag of feathers. </p>
<p>I only tried a Ouija board once, and nothing happened.</p>
<p>Clueless, I had completely forgotten about that game. I googled it, and Wikipedia has a possible explanation:
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<p>I find it very hard to believe that Hasbro (or whoever) managed to channel evil spirits when creating a board game. I also find it hard to believe that if evil spirits wanted to harass children they would use the medium of a children’s board game that already has the intention of making children believe that they are in contact with spirits.</p>
<p>This is from the dark, smoky recesses of my memory, but weren’t Catholics forbidden to use ouija boards.</p>
<p>I seem to remember this from my 8 years in a Catholic grade school.</p>
<p>I work with Ouija boards professionally and often have piles of them in my cubby. They are powerless.</p>
<p>Ouija boards, sleepovers… conjures up memories of the game “bloody mary”. Something about summoning “bloody mary” (never did know who she really was- Henry VIII’s Mary? Mary, mother of Jesus?) in the dark with a candle, in front of a mirror. Inevitably, all of us would end up spilling out of the room (always a bathroom- no windows/big mirror) screaming bloody murder.</p>
<p>Doubleplay, there have been two series (Supernatural and Ghost Whisperer) that have recently updated the Bloody Mary tale. Remembering those sleepover games, the tv shows still gave me chills!</p>
<p>After seeing the Exorcist, I threw out our Ouji board. Beleive it or not, I am not a superstitious person…something about that just freaked me out</p>
<p>The Exorcist freaked out a lot of people, lol…</p>