How dangerous is this?

Question

The Ouija Board...Have your heard anything about the dangers of using one? I have heard of a few things, evil, concerning this. ( I do NOT use one, and never would) I just want to know your experiences or thoughts about this, possibly as a warning to others who think it's just a game.
ThanX

Answer 1

In the hands of the untrained or the ignorant, a OUIJA board is a very dangerous tool. First of all, none of the 'Spirits' that 'speak' to you through the OUIJA are up to any good. At the very least they'll make you sick. At the very worst...well, you don't want to know. I have had to fight things brought forth from the OUIJA, and it is a harrowing thing, but I always win. I should say WE, as there is a team of us who respond to the calls. It's always some kids who played with the OUIJA.
The OUIJA opens a gate, and unless you know the protections for that, or how to close that gate in a seconds notice, leave the OUIJA alone!
Please!

Answer 2

Ouija (IPA pronunciation: [Or more simply, 'wee-ja'] refers to the belief that one can receive messages during a séance by the use of a Ouija board (also called a talking board or spirit board) and planchette. The fingers of the participants are placed on the planchette which then moves about a board covered with numbers, letters and symbols so as to spell out messages.

Ouija is a trademark for a talking board currently sold by Parker Brothers. While the word is not a genericized trademark, it has become a trademark which is often used generically to refer to any talking board.


A typical Ouija boardAleister Crowley, the most infamous of Occultists, advocated the use of Ouija boards and they played a major role in many of his magickal workings.



GK Chesterton also used the Ouija board. Around 1893 he had gone through a crisis of skepticism and depression and during this period Chesterton experimented with the Ouija board and grew fascinated with the occult.

The accepted theory is that the participants are subconsciously making small, involuntary, physical movements using a well-known, and well-understood, phenomenon called the Ideomotor effect. Experiments consistently suggest that, at best, the messages are received involuntarily from the participants themselves, and, at worst, by a manipulative player, possibly with the connivance of confederates within the group present.

Skeptic and magician James Randi, in his book An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural, points out that when blindfolded, Ouija board operators are unable to produce intelligible messages. Magicians Penn & Teller performed a similar demonstration in an episode of their television show Bullshit! in which the operators moved the planchette into what they thought was the positions of "yes" and "no" without knowing that the board was turned upside-down, which caused them to move the planchette into blank spaces on the board.

However, it should be noted that those who believe Ouija boards can be used to make actual contact with the spirit world feel that the act of hindering a medium’s ability to use his or her own eyes while the board is in use effectively places too great of a handicap on the whole exercise. (The logic behind this argument stems from the belief that contacted spirits actually utilize the eyes of the medium during a Ouija session in order to point to the letters and words needed to form a message. Most supporters of this theory believe that the board has no intrinsic power in and of itself, but rather, is used simply as a tool to aid a medium while in communication with the spirit world

Answer 3

It depends on how suggestible your mind is. At one end, the board does nothing. At the other end, it becomes a gateway or conduit to "the other side". Sometimes benevolent spirits will contact you, if you are lucky. But evil can come through just as easily. Tarot cards are another key to the doorway. If you are not protected, not prepared you can let in evil to your home. That happened to me. The house got oppressive, sad, finally angry. Friends didn't like coming over, many saw and heard things they couldn't explain. I finally had a exorcism to cleanse the house. I burned the Tarot Cards and Ouija Board. Although the house felt lighter, i sold it within two years.

Answer 4

For most people it is just a silly game, but those with latent psyhic ability might have weird experiences, but that is true for any other form of divination as well.
In all I consider it not more dangerous than a set of tarot cards, except that,as it is all in the mind, there really might be people that would become influenced in a bad way, but that is not inherent in the ouija board, but their own psyche.

Answer 5

I have messed with it and I can say from personal expierence it is very dangerous if you do not know what your doing. I'll tell you a story...I have already told this story before on my answers but here we go again....

The following story occured at a college campus:

One night while we were packing up to go home for spring break, we finally had an encounter. We unplugged everything, including a radio. We were almost done when all of the sudden the radio turned on and started playing this weird 20’s song. The radio was not plugged in and had no batteries. This was enough to send us running. With this experience, our curiosity, although we were scared, took control over us. One friend suggested we get an Ouija board to see if we could communicate with any of the former residents. Boy, was that a bad move. We started using the Ouija board and we did communicate with ‘spirits’. We were hooked; we used it everyday, a few times a day and really were very irresponsible with it. We didn’t know what we were doing, the doors we were opening and what was to come. The weeks that followed are initial Ouija experience were weird. The girls that lived in our sorority house were all waking up with bruises all over their bodies. One day we walked into the room that we used for our ‘séance’ and to our surprise the Ouija had been taken out of the drawer it was in and placed in the middle of the table with the pointer on YES. No one had touched it, no one was even home before we got there and to top it off it was in a drawer with a lock (it was put in there the night before). We were a little freaked out but we were obsessed, we wanted to know more. We had spoken to a few of the patients that were admitted to the hospital. Many of them seemed ‘nice’ but many were disgruntled and very mean. One Saturday night, we decided to ‘play’. It was only a few of us but some people kept walking in and out the room because there was a party on the floor below us. While we were communing with a spirit, one of our friends barges in the room. He had been drinking and was completely drunk of his butt. He came in making a lot of noise and saying rude comments about/to the Ouija board. All of the sudden the Ouija started spelling out “GET OUT” over and over and over again. There was a gust of wind that came through the window blowing out all of our candles and leaving us in the dark. Meanwhile the pointer was still spelling out GET OUT. We were all screaming at our friend to leave when we heard a scream then a loud thump. After the thump everything went quiet and one of the candles flickered back on. We looked around but we didn’t see our friend, we didn’t hear the door so we knew he hadn’t left but where was he? Frantically we all started looking around and finally we saw him. He was passed out face down behind the coach. When we turned him over, his eyes we still wide open but he wasn’t responding. He might have hit his head because his nose, mouth and neck were covered in blood. We didn’t know what to do so we called campus EMS. EMS came, asked us a few questions, and then took him away. That was the last time we ever saw him. Anytime we would ask what happened, we would get the run around. Till this day we have no idea what happened that night or what happen to our friend. All we know is that we burned that Ouija board (That’s the only way to get rid of it and whatever it brought out with it) and never ever picked up another one again.

Answer 6

A butterknife is dangerous to anyone in the vicinity of someone who has spastic motor controls. A feather can kill a person, if you tickle or distract them with it at the wrong moment. The requisite danger of an object is only as strong or as weak as the experience of the person interacting with it. In other words, the Ouija Board is only as dangerous as the ignorance of the person using it. If for no other reason, you could kill someone by whacking them over the head with the board hard enough.

Answer 7

I played one with some friends when we were kids but dont remember anything happening.When I was an adult I played one again.
I was at my friends house and put my sleeping baby on the floor of her her room so that she wouldnt fall off the bed.When we were playing it we heard a loud boom and my baby started to cry we all ran to the room but nothing had fallen and my baby was fine! I have decided to never play one again!

Answer 8

The Ouija board is very dangerous because you have to open your soul to input from the Spirit side of life and if you aren't properly protected, you can pick up all kinds of mischievous spirits or worse, Spirits that feed on misery. Those Spirits could stick with you for years.

Answer 9

hmm..personally, i'v never play with it and I dont think I want to.
But i live in a multi racial society,Malaysia and I heard a lot of stories bout it..

it says that some spirits, or rather lonely spirits can get lonely and they'll refuse to live after you summon them...

and some also said that when you're holding the cup, the spirit is actually sucking your yin? or yang? either one..making you weak

when you're playing, your hands will be on the cup and if you sudddenly let go of it before sending the spirits away, you actually just release them from hell or something..

this is just what i heard...i dunno if its true though

Answer 10

I've heard these are dangerous to use but have no first hand knowledge of anyone suffering ill effects.