does the Ouija board work?

Question

I hope i spelled that right

Answer 1

Ouija board, is a device used to supposedly ask questions of the spirits of the dead and receive answers from them. People who believe seriously in the Ouija board use it at gatherings called seances. Other people use the Ouija board for fun as a game.

A Ouija board is a small board with various symbols printed on its surface. These symbols include the letters of the alphabet, the numbers from 1 to 9 and 0, and the words yes and no. A smaller, three-legged board serves as a pointer.

Two or more people hold a Ouija board on their laps and press their fingers lightly on the pointer. One of them asks the board a question. The pointer supposedly answers by indicating a word or a number or by spelling out words. According to people who believe in the Ouija board, spirits guide the pointer. Others think the fingers of the questioner influence the pointer. The Ouija board was invented about 1890 by William Fuld of Baltimore. Its name comes from the French word oui and the German word ja, both of which mean yes.

Answer 2

Please disregard the people that say it is a demonic object that should not be messed with. As with everything there is a good and a bad side. If you use it, use white candles or protection spells, be polite, and if a bad spirit talks to you (warning side: it draws figure eights across the board) then leave immediately.

THEY DO WORK! It is a way to communicate with spirits.
It worked when I did it with a few people, but not with a few others. So it may also have to be that you don't doubt it or think it's stupid.
I used it many times, but not recently because there are dangers and I never can make good enough reasons for myself.
It is a fun idea to draw your own ouija board! Include letters, numbers, yes, no, goodbye, and pictures to personalize it. and it DOES work!

Answer 3

It depends on what you expect it to do. Some people believe that demons or the spirits of the dead come though to talk us through ouija boards, others think that it's just unconscious muscle movements creating all the fun. Another idea to consider is that the planchette is being moved by the collective consciousness of the group that you have assembled, not spirits, but still a paranormal process created by living minds.

Either way you look at it, if you gather a bunch of friends around a ouija board, you're almost guaranteed to be entertained for at least 30 seconds.

Answer 4

AFAIK, it may or may not work, even with just a single person. I don't really attach any supernatural significance to it, myself, and believe the explanation that I've heard, some time ago: the users' subconscious thoughts are turned into muscle movements which create a message.

The mind is perhaps more mysterious than just about anything supernatural, and how the subconscious works is largely unknown. But this explanation seems more plausible to me than spirits or demons of any significance taking the time to communicate with any old person with a ouija board. Why would they?

Answer 5

I belive that you are unlocking your subconscious mind when you use the Ouija board. I have certainly had some experiances where I am certain it was not being pushed, the planchette was being moved so quickly that my partner and I could barely keep out hands on it. It could have been a spirit, but it never really had any crutial message for me.

Answer 6

I played around with Ouija boards when I was in my teens. It can get pretty scary. It seems to move on its own...Energy transfer? Demons? Ghosts? I don't know for sure...

Answer 7

If by "work" you mean people can contact "spirits", then no...

Ouija is a game based upon our interest/gullibility for the supernatural (Parker Brothers now makes them with "glow in the dark" boards! - see first link).

Though there is claimed to be a mystical history to them (and apparently even "rules" on how to go about talking to the spirit world - see second link) this history is MADE UP.

YES, that's right, William Fuld, the company owner (that made Ouija boards in the late 1800s), CREATED the currently "known" history! (Please read the third link) Interestingly, the folks who continue to expound on this history are apparently unaware of this important bit of information countering their claims.

Further, there is NO evidence that players can contact anything other than their own imaginations. The supernatural claims made concerning its use are often either exaggerated natural events or just plain mistaken (due, in part, to the preexisting expectations of the users).

Usually the burden of proof lies on the one making the claim... in this case the claim itself lies on Mr. Fuld's creative marketing strategy.

Lastly, I realize there are people here who CLAIM it does work in some way; I readily encourage them to go to James "The Amazing" Randi's site (see last link) and get themselves one million dollars if they have any evidence (to date NOBODY has ever claimed this prize)

Answer 8

I believe so. I found a very old one in a dark corner in my brothers basement when I was a teenager. Some friends and I got together to experiment. We all swore that we weren't moving it and there were some creepy things that it "said".

After it was over everyone was freezing in the room (it was summer) so I decided to burn it. I really felt like this was dark magic and shouldn't be dabbled in. The damn thing wouldn't burn. I even doused it in kerosene. Still wouldn't burn. Freakiest sh*t I ever saw.

I ended up putting it back in my brothers basement and for the longest time he kept asking "why the hell does my house smell like kerosene???"

Answer 9

I would not even be around a Ouija board! Do not even miss with it!! Stay away from it!!

Answer 10

well you never know! when your playing with a group of friend you dont know if their moving it or not i guess if you ask a question that every one else dont know and it answers correctly i guess it dose work if the answer isnt right then its fake...i also think it depends on the person it self so just give it a try ...i hope i help'd you a little bitt...good luck