Ouija Boards

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BikeBikeBIke

5,425 posts

102 months

Yesterday (10:09)
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Register1 said:
Actually,
Water devining is very real.
Not just with sticks.
It isn't, and it's been widely investigated.

Flumpo

3,141 posts

60 months

Yesterday (10:28)
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Pflanzgarten said:
Some friends at secondary school lost the plot over one, one girl in particular (scratch marks one her leg after "being puled under water" at the swimming pool being one of a few events following the ouija board sessions).

She's fairly normal these days as far as I'm aware.

Would she have had a mental health break down as it's now termed without the ouija board? Quite possibly although I wasn't aware of her being nutty at the time.

Teenage minds can be delicate things however and I'd go nuts if one of my kids was fking about with one. Not because of any ghosts or stuff but because it can take the tiniest of things to send kids over the edge-if they start believing in all that st they're on a hiding to nothing.
I’m not sure adults are that far behind either.

I once worked somewhere and a group of about 6 women all went to one of those medium nights held at a working man’s club. Light hearted fun apparently.

It turned out through vague barnum statements, 3 of the women all had their grandad come through. Unfortunately they each thought this same spirt was their own grandad.

When they came into the office the next day all 6 women were refusing to talk to each other on the grounds the others had ruinied their experience as it was their grandad not the others.

It ended so badly a number of them left the company and others had to be moved to other departments.

The brain is a funny thing.

emperorburger

1,349 posts

53 months

Yesterday (10:37)
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125666239939?

2 grand!! Seems people are making a killing from the dead.

I reckon you will get a better class of ghosties with one of these though.


Lord Marylebone

17,110 posts

167 months

Yesterday (10:39)
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deckster said:
welshjon81 said:
I'm not religious in any shape or form. In fact I would say I am anti-religious if anything but I wouldn't mess with something I didn't understand. And if my kids were, I would act in the same manor, it's a big no, no, for me!
It's a plank of wood. With some letters on it.

HTH.
Absolutely this.

Much like religion, devil worship, mystical, satanic, or any other fantasy cult, it is utterly ridiculous that anyone thinks there might be anything there. It is literally a just bit of wood.

Are people routinely terrified by wooden signs or engraved chopping boards?

If my son was playing with a Ouija board I would most likely burst out laughing and then ask him if he could explain the scientific thinking behind how a piece of wood could create any sort of a connection with dead people.

It wouldn't concern me in the slightest though. Many kids play with stuff like that. I remember when I was a teenager that other kids were nicking their Dad's camcorder and going out into the woods at night trying to recreate the Blair Witch Project.

That aside, the Ouija board was actually invented as a parlour/drinking game, remaining that was for 25 years, and it was only after a crackpot spiritualist called Pearl Curren got her hands on one and started claiming it somehow had magic properties that weirdoes started using it for their nonsense.

I file Ouija boards in the same category as religion. Mostly harmless nonsense.

Edited by Lord Marylebone on Thursday 23 March 10:44

Milkyway

6,577 posts

40 months

Yesterday (14:22)
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Way back in the early 80’s, we had a guy working for us... he looked a bit like Les Dawson’s character Cosmos Smallpiece.
He was separated / Divorced & apparently enjoyed getting naked & summoning the devil.
On top of that... add reincarnation;
He was killed when his bomber crashed & exploded upon landing in Norfolk during WW2. He had subsequently researched the story & had also visited the grave of his former self a few times.

He was very weird, in more ways than one.
After a while, they got rid of him but he vowed that he would make his presence felt... we all laughed as we waved him goodbye.
A few days later we were all eating our lunch... when suddenly the his milling machine switched itself on & the bed started to transverse.
We all just sat there open mouthed & shouted “Jim’s back”. yikes

Stan the Bat

8,073 posts

199 months

Yesterday (19:47)
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BikeBikeBIke said:
Register1 said:
Actually,
Water devining is very real.
Not just with sticks.
It isn't, and it's been widely investigated.
I will just mention something that happened with me many many many decades ago.

I was about 5 or 6 years old and was present with a group of adults in a field way out in the countryside, a couple of cottages about 50 yards away, in one of them my granny lived.

One of them seemed to be the chap they were all interested in and he was wandering around with a couple of sticks

I as you can imagine was not the slightest bit interested in what they were doing, but i noticed they stopped and the main man said something about this was the place and water was mentioned.

I remember asking what was he doing and he told me to hold this sort of 'y' shaped stick in my hands in a particular way.

And walk about this area a few paces one way then the other.

I did and in a minute or so I could feel the stick twisting in my hands .

I said this and they all seemed to expect this.

I didn't even know what was expected to happen.


But to this day I know what I felt.

Still puzzled.

Pflanzgarten

2,055 posts

12 months

Yesterday (19:53)
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There's a reason every United Utilities van has a set of diving rods on board. Seen it many times over the years, the best lads can get within a foot of where to dig.

Alpacaman

844 posts

228 months

Yesterday (21:07)
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Pflanzgarten said:
There's a reason every United Utilities van has a set of diving rods on board. Seen it many times over the years, the best lads can get within a foot of where to dig.
Prior to being an alpaca breeder I spent 20 plus years tracing underground utilities and sometimes when thousands of pounds worth of electronic equipment couldn't find something two bits of bent wire could. I traced a deep sewer across a field straight to a manhole that was hidden in undergrowth. I was dubious at first but it definitely worked.

Caddyshack

7,750 posts

193 months

Yesterday (21:15)
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Alpacaman said:
Pflanzgarten said:
There's a reason every United Utilities van has a set of diving rods on board. Seen it many times over the years, the best lads can get within a foot of where to dig.
Prior to being an alpaca breeder I spent 20 plus years tracing underground utilities and sometimes when thousands of pounds worth of electronic equipment couldn't find something two bits of bent wire could. I traced a deep sewer across a field straight to a manhole that was hidden in undergrowth. I was dubious at first but it definitely worked.
Maybe we still have things to learn.

The human echo location part of the brain is larger than a bats and I have seen blind people ride down hill mountain bike tracks using sets of clicks.

bigpriest

1,136 posts

117 months

Yesterday (21:19)
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Pflanzgarten said:
There's a reason every United Utilities van has a set of diving rods on board. Seen it many times over the years, the best lads can get within a foot of where to dig.
Tradition, custom, ignorance, no point in not doing it as it's harmless fun with bent wire?

PastelNata

3,392 posts

187 months

Yesterday (21:20)
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Pflanzgarten said:
There's a reason every United Utilities van has a set of diving rods on board. Seen it many times over the years, the best lads can get within a foot of where to dig.
Really? So when they run a bath do the same rods point to the water there too?

Thought not.

Easy to debunk, eh? Just run a bath or a sink. Nowt happens to the rods. You can take those rods to an Olympic swimming pool or a river and nothing happens.

Another ideomotor phenomenon, nothing more.




shirt

21,458 posts

188 months

Yesterday (21:51)
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Alpacaman said:
Prior to being an alpaca breeder….
That has to be the best start to a sentence I’ve ever read on here hehe

hammo19

3,753 posts

183 months

Yesterday (22:28)
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SpeckledJim said:
More details needed!!!
Of the contact we made?

Lord Marylebone

17,110 posts

167 months

Yesterday (22:50)
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Pflanzgarten said:
There's a reason every United Utilities van has a set of diving rods on board. Seen it many times over the years, the best lads can get within a foot of where to dig.
Not anymore.

The water companies were bked by OFWAT back in 2017 and told to ‘stop wasting customers money on medieval witchcraft‘ after a scientist got most of them to publicly admit that ‘some’ of their engineers still attempted to use divining rods on occasion, and this prompted a public backlash and a kick up the arse from OFWAT.

Almost all of them changed company policies to rid their engineers and vans of rods.

I believe it is now only Thames Water to refuse to give up dowsing/divining completely and admit that some of their engineers still use the rods, despite their being absolutely no evidence that they do anything other than cause wasted time.

usn90

1,170 posts

57 months

Yesterday (23:22)
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I’ve never come across one, that said I wouldn’t want to mess with it or have my kids mess with one either.

Whilst I’ve never witnessed a ghost, I was asleep having a dream, and with absolutely no relevance to the dream out of nowhere I heard a man shout “watch out” i instantly woke up as one of the fitted wardrobe doors directly over me came down.

It did hit me and yes it bloody hurt, but had I been asleep and unaware it would have most likely hit me in the face.

Not saying I had a ghost in my dream, but whatever it was, it freaked me out, and so with that I’ll continue to avoid these kind of things just in case!

Pflanzgarten

2,055 posts

12 months

Lord Marylebone said:
Not anymore.

The water companies were bked by OFWAT back in 2017 and told to ‘stop wasting customers money on medieval witchcraft‘ after a scientist got most of them to publicly admit that ‘some’ of their engineers still attempted to use divining rods on occasion, and this prompted a public backlash and a kick up the arse from OFWAT.

Almost all of them changed company policies to rid their engineers and vans of rods.

I believe it is now only Thames Water to refuse to give up dowsing/divining completely and admit that some of their engineers still use the rods, despite their being absolutely no evidence that they do anything other than cause wasted time.
You better tell the three different UU teams who I watched use them last year and the guy I’m meeting tomorrow then.

Bill

49,946 posts

242 months

Shame none of the utilities people didn't claim James Randi's $1m prize while they could. Plenty of others tried.

Caddyshack

7,750 posts

193 months

usn90 said:
I’ve never come across one, that said I wouldn’t want to mess with it or have my kids mess with one either.

Whilst I’ve never witnessed a ghost, I was asleep having a dream, and with absolutely no relevance to the dream out of nowhere I heard a man shout “watch out” i instantly woke up as one of the fitted wardrobe doors directly over me came down.

It did hit me and yes it bloody hurt, but had I been asleep and unaware it would have most likely hit me in the face.

Not saying I had a ghost in my dream, but whatever it was, it freaked me out, and so with that I’ll continue to avoid these kind of things just in case!
I imagine the door made a noise before it fully fell off and your body woke you up….or the semi conscious body recalls the series of events in a different order. The door may have fallen and woken you with a shock but the recollection is different.


ofcorsa

3,517 posts

230 months

Caddyshack said:
Alpacaman said:
Pflanzgarten said:
There's a reason every United Utilities van has a set of diving rods on board. Seen it many times over the years, the best lads can get within a foot of where to dig.
Prior to being an alpaca breeder I spent 20 plus years tracing underground utilities and sometimes when thousands of pounds worth of electronic equipment couldn't find something two bits of bent wire could. I traced a deep sewer across a field straight to a manhole that was hidden in undergrowth. I was dubious at first but it definitely worked.
Maybe we still have things to learn.

The human echo location part of the brain is larger than a bats and I have seen blind people ride down hill mountain bike tracks using sets of clicks.
I would wager the same people would get similar results without the sticks

Kawasicki

12,266 posts

222 months

The topic of Ouija boards came up in my home just recently. My daughter said she finds it hilarious how many kids take them seriously, she said she has great fun sliding the pointer around the board while simultaneously looking terrified and accusing others of moving the pointer.

How we all laughed.