THE DANGERS OF OUIJA BOARDS
One of the world’s greatest paranormal mysteries… how can a board enable communication with spirits? and what are the dangers of Ouija boards?
In 1997 I took part in a Ouija board séance and without doubt had contact with something, which turned out to be evil.
I researched this so-called game for many years after my experience and I would like to share with you, ‘the dangers of Ouija boards’ and what you could be potentially up against, if you decide that the temptation to dabble with a Ouija is too great!
BUT FIRST – HOW DOES THE OUIJA BOARD WORK?
The Ouija board was invented in America with a device called, a ‘planchette’ – meaning ‘little plank’.
If you look at the above picture, the board is almost heart-shaped and the planchette moves around this. At the time of its making there were two castor’s underneath the planchette, which rotated once a pencil was placed at the tip.
Annoyingly for the players, the messages were often difficult to comprehend and were very time-consuming. Because of this, a whole host of different types of communication were being developed, but without much success at that time.
E.C Reich – a carpenter from the USA, then developed a lap top wooden board. He carved out the alphabet in a curve around the top of the board and then created another straight line underneath, with the numerals o-9 engraved. Reiche etched the words ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ in each bottom corner. He then replaced the pencil with an extra coaster, which gave the board more definition to the bottom of the heart shape. This then acted as the pointer as the planchette moved to each letter. (NB: some boards these days have the ‘yes’ and ‘no’ at the top)
The planchette’s ease of movement and communication resulted in a major breakthrough with spiritual contact.
Great potential was envisaged for this product when Reiche then sold his business to two of his friends called, Charles Kennard and William Maupin, who began marketing the Ouija board in 1886.
In 1892 William Fuld took over the business development and changed the name to ‘Ouija Novelty Co’.
The Ouija board took off and Fuld (and later his brother became involved) remained successful for the next 35 years. By 1920 it was believed to have made over £1m profit and was also credited as being William Fuld’s invention…a claim Fuld quite rightly denied.
Remarkably, in 1927 it was reported that Fuld committed suicide (aged 57 years old) by jumping off the Baltimore building (where his factory was based). This then gave the Ouija board an even more sinister appeal. However, other accounts stated that Fuld had fallen from the building whilst leaning against a railing, which gave way and led to his death.
Whatever the reason for Fuld’s death, the business was immediately taken over by his children, Catherine and William A. Fuld who continued to market this phenomenon until ‘Parker Bros’ took over in 1942.
Spirit communication similar to the Ouija has been used for centuries, even before the time of Christ. Its popularity is almost certainly due to the high and regular success rate with spirit communication.
However, people who use Ouija boards, or conduct séances without protection are ultimately sitting targets for psychic attacks, with a huge risk of attracting dangerous - ‘non-human’ energies, such as demons. It is believed that a demon’s goal is to free itself from its miserable existence and to enter into ours - through any means possible.
A Ouija board acts like a beacon of light, which reaches astral dimensions - once a game is in progress. This then becomes a portal of access for anything to come ‘unintentionally’ invited into our existence. Once in, this energy will attach itself to the most vulnerable person playing the game…usually the most naïve to the Ouija’s capabilities.
THE DANGERS OF OUIJA BOARDS
The Ouija board is one of the most dangerous occult games to ‘play’ and has caused many people to meet terrible paranormal occurrences. I was lucky enough to escape with just a memory.
MY STORY – OUIJA BOARD DANGERS
The winter weekend began where my colleague – Jen and I had been commissioned to Southampton, UK. A place Jen and I had never visited before.
The hotel was huge and very old, but we settled in and unloaded our luggage before going out for a meal.
On our return to the hotel, my husband fell asleep very quickly. However, I was in no mood for sleep, so I went over to Jen’s door opposite ours and knocked.
She was still awake and we made our way down to the hotel bar in the hope it was still open.
We were very happy to see two staff drinking after finishing their shifts, so we asked if we could have a drink. They said we could and to join them at their table.
We sat beside a huge open fire-place and listened as the staff were arguing about whether the hotel was haunted. Jen jokingly suggested they hold a séance.
They agreed and said there was a Scrabble set behind the bar we could use for the letters.
The barman, who I shall call Mark (but cannot remember his name), set out the letters in a circle shape, then he positioned the words YES and NO either side of an upturned wine glass. The four of us then placed a finger on it and began our game.
Mark asked the usual “Is anybody there?”
Nothing happened for a while, but then I began to experience a strange sensation. (It is very difficult to describe, but I will do my best). It was as if a haze surrounded us…not a visible haze, just the feeling of one. This is when I suspected something was about to happen.
Then the glass began to circle the inside ring of letters, with only the very tips of our fingers touching it.
“Who are you?” I asked. The glass then moved with an eerie ease, as it spelled out the name…’****** ******’. (Sorry name obscured in respect of privacy)
The other barman who I shall call Geoff, accused Mark of moving it, which made him cross, so he got up from the table and walked to the bar.
Geoff took his finger off the glass and sat back from the game. I asked whatever was in the glass to prove it was really working, and it immediately spelt out a word:
GOSS
Geoff said, “That’s… my surname.” Then he pointed to the glass again. “Look! It’s spelling out my name – AGAIN!”
I had never felt this frightened in all my life. Then (I don’t know what made me ask this) I said, “Is there a God?”
The glass set off again, this time almost gliding as it formed a figure of eight shape over and over again. Then it seemed to become annoyed and began crashing into the letters – sending them to the floor.
We all stood up and looked at one another. I have never seen such frightened faces in all my life. This is when we parted company, but it didn’t stop there…
Some time later (I can’t really remember how long), something occurred that I can only put down to messing with the Ouija.
I felt restless on this particular evening and stayed up quite late into the early hours of the morning. Eventually I decided to take myself off to bed. On entering the bedroom, I bent over the bed to climb in when suddenly something struck me hard in the back. I sensed instantly the strike was not from a human and I lay wheezing and unable to scream. I just waited. I then began raising myself up — it hit me again in the back, but much harder this time.
I sensed evil surrounding me and I slowly turned my head to face whatever it was. But it was too late — it hit me again in the back… striking me harder…it felt like it was inside my body now. I could hardly breathe and I now realised I was being possessed…or even about to die.
I prayed to God in my mind, and began raising myself up again. Immediately I felt what can only be described as a pulling sensation and then I fell on the bed…’it’ had gone.
A presence of good seemed to fill the room for around a minute and I knew without any doubt that my prayer had saved me. All fear left me and as I lay there. I thought about the question I asked during the séance… “Is there a God?”… I had been given the answer and I have never stopped believing in God since!
New Testament: Matt 12:43-45: “When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.”
NB. The name ‘GOSS’ is the real surname of the person above, as he is probably still alive and hopefully will see this post and contact me. We have not met since that night in the hotel, but I hope he will recognise this story one day.
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I have pasted it here from ‘anonymous’.
The stories from this website are all too familiar, when I was about 9 my mother sat me down to do a Ouija board session. I thought my mother was moving the glass, (shes always lied and physically abused us as kids). she continually would give me books of witch craft and other such books over the years before I left home. she took me to a physic when I was 9 and the lady told mum that I was very powerful and that she could’nt read me at all. i remember the visit so vividly, she looked at me for so long and at the time I thought we were at a new friend of my mothers so didn’t understand why she was looking so intently at me. but i remember hearing this lady telling me to let her in, but she wasn’t speaking to me with her mouth, just still staring at me. I remember saying no in my head and then completely blocked her out. after that visit my mother started giving me books of physic nature and everthing supernatural and had Ouija board sessions, which i found annoying,not interesting. I was never interested in the supernatural until my mother forced it upon me. I have since then had numerous encounters with ghosts/demons. i am now 31 years old and i could tell you stories that would make your hair curl. i have made believers out of skeptics. i have never talked to physics or contacted people who deal with the supernatural. Ive blocked the supernatural world out since i was 18 because i want to protect my children, although in times of weakness it has reared its ugly head through out the years. i think its time to get answers for myself. Is there someone or a organization that i could contact to get answers here in New Zealand.
I am very sorry you were treated this way. I hope you can begin to share what you went through.
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Take care!
In my opinion, it is not good that you were brought up with Ouija boards.
I hope you are OK now and if you feel that you need to talk, then feel free to come into our site or email me privately: a_bellini@btinternet.com
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As I was growing up, most all of the kids I knew were fascinated with Ouija boards. I myself, never had the desire to even attempt to use one. My mom, who is a devoted christian, would not even let me spend the night at a friend’s house if she had found out they had one. At the time, it really upset me, but as I got older and realized what a simple piece of wood could do, I have been so thankful that she never let me around one.
This was posted on my site, i found the transexual bit hilarious, that will be a shocker im telling ya haha! xx
Hi, I am looking for some help. I am writing a story, which at the beginning of the story certain characters use a Ouija board. Now I know nothing about these things, not having ever tried one. I have 4 couples and the person conducting the ceremony.
In the background, not in the room, is a person using psychic powers to conduct the ceremony, as he has tricked the people there for another purpose, but used the fixed competition and the chance to join in the ceremony. But I need some questions that could be asked during the use of the Ouija board. The first couple is a bank manager and his wife, the second couple is an entertainment agent and his wife who is his secretary. The third couple is also in the entertainment business, but he deals with furnishing props and wardrobe, for film, television and theatres and is a closet gay. His partner is a transsexual, but nobody knows that, everybody thinks he is a woman. The final couple owns a few theatres up and down the east coast, while his wife, spends all day, every day, shopping. The last person at the table is a Slovakian, who was hired to lead the proceeding of the Ouija Board by the person using psychic powers in the next room.
As I have said, I wouldn’t know the first thing about what to ask, how to react, etc. I am not looking for a lot of stuff, just enough to fill two, maybe three pages to close the first chapter. Thank you.
Well my mind has just finished whirling…just ask the ouija board what’s the combination of the bank manager’s safe, lol
What the hell!!!
Hm, I’m a strong believer in the supernatural, I really don’t mess with it though, I’ve had my fair share of hearing, seeing and feeling things, but upon reading this…It reminded me of a story my cousin once told me.
I was raised a Christian, I was raised to know that opposite to light there’s darkness, and opposite to Good is Evil. I was always strongly advised against ever messing with the “Unknown” The “Spiritual world” especially because I’ve learned and I know what’s out there, and People who know God and know what those dangerous spirits and demons can do and still choose to play with stuff like the ouija board are more likely to be attacked worse…
Anyways on to my story.
My cousin was in middle school at the time, He’s always had a strong relationship with God. Well one day these kids were playing with the ouija board, and they called my cousin over, They were wiggin out about how the board was giving them answers, my cousin really wanted no part of that, as I said in the above, he would of rather stayed away from that, but he told me that when he went over he silently sent a prayer, he felt something bad there, and when he prayed, all of a sudden the kids were getting upset that the thing wasn’t working. My cousin felt releaved. He told me that he had walked off, and that when he did, it started working again.
I don’t really know the point of my story, I guess it reminded me of your experience and your silent prayer, how evil will flee at the sight of feeling of something good.
Abby,
I wish children would not play around with the Ouija board. Your story about it stopping when your cousin was around who believed in God just re-inforces whatever comes through in this type of communication is generally evil.
Yeah, it usually is. Evil and Angry
My wife and I got a board a few weeks ago. Reason being, her brother passed away about 9 years ago and her, her niece (the deceased’s 19 yr old daughter), and his brother wanted to see if they could talk to him. None of us knew any repercussions that may come out of this, so we just started playing and asking questions. We asked if ***** was there with us and it went to yes. We asked to spell his name, and he spelled out his nick name instead which made everyone emotional. His brother asked if we will ever get to see him again and it spelled out “tgther 4 evr”. He also said it was hard to connect with us as if it took a lot of effort (dont quite remember how we asked).
Another night we asked if anyone knew one of us in the room and it spelled out my initials, it said it was related to me, said his/her initials over and over…what year it passed away and how old he/she was. I am 30 and would have been around 10 when this person passed away, i asked my dad about it and he had no clue.
Last night i get a call at 3am from my brother-in-law (who played the first night), saying a medium talked to him at the bar and said we need to get this board out of our house. We have 4 children and she told him that the bad spirits are in here. Worried, my wife and I went and through it in the garbage outside, the garbage man came and picked it up already. Then i start reading about all the ways people tell you to get rid of them… and obviously i didn’t know any different. Is there any way to ensure the “cleansing” of my house, or things i can do? any info would be great.
This comment deserved a post of its own, you will get better advice that way. I will come back to this in a while.
When i was younger, maybe 12 or 13 me and my friends would play with a ouija board, nothing scary ever happened but it often told me to put cereal under my bed?? But most often all it would ever do was spell what i was thinking, of course none of my friends believed me but i knew of course i wasnt moving it myself, it would always go to exactly what i was telling it in my head to spell. Weird!
As i got older i learned the danger of these and refuse to even go around one. My mom also threw mine out when she found it, those where huge no no’s in my house.
Oh and i was told, the things that try to contact you through ouija boards are never who they say they are, they will lie to get you to talk to them, and most all contact through them is evil, is that true?
Very true, most of the time without protection Malinda.
My brother played a homemade ouija board once in our house and it just kept saying over and over “close the window”. There were no windows open. I don’t know what that meant?
Karen,
I wonder if it were something good that wanted you to close the window of the board? I don’t know why i thought that, but it came to mind immediately. Anyway, if it meant something different who knows, but these boards are dangerous, no matter what you read on other sites.
Thanks for you comment.
I always thought too Oh well it’s made by Milton Bradley what harm can it do,but after reading these things there is no way that i would go near one.
I knew you had mentioned your demonic attack on the forum, but you never went into detail. How horrendous that must have been for you! I don’t know if you remember, but on TalkParanormal, you and I spoke of my Ouija experience…..
When my grandfather, (the one from Guildford) passed away, my sister and I tried to contact him through the Ouija board. We had barely begun, when my bedroom door, which had been open, slammed shut. The room got very cold, and when I tried to open the door, it felt like someone was on the other side holding it closed. I got the door opened, and my sister and I ran out of the room. I was afraid to go up there for a day or so. When I did, the board was still there on my bed where I left it. I threw it in the trash, which was probably the worst thing you could do without closing the board properly. My house, which had always had paranormal activity, became a literal hotbed after that incident. Just wanted to leave a comment on this. Fascinating article, as usual!
doesn’t that make you wonder? I think rarely gentil spirits come through on the ouija, that would really freak me out! I’ve seen a ghost but don’t know what I would do if ever I was touched by some evil entity, I asked eyepriestess that before, I can’t imagine the terror that you must feel in a situation like that, Don’t ever play with one of those things again, I see here on internet they have the ouija and you can ask it questions too, but is that the same as actually having the board, or is on the internet not the same?
Karen, I’ve not seen the internet one, but i doubt it’s the same. It takes people sat in a room together and then a while before it works, I just can’t see a spirit coming through over the internet.
Scary, I remember reading about that and thinking how frightening that must have been, the bedroom door not being able to be opened. It makes you wonder what is holding the handle…eww!! just got shivers down my spine at the thought.
Do you still to this day have problems?
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Me and two of my friends were playing a ouija board a while ago, and we started talking to this spirit who claimed to be one of my friends’ ‘guradian angel’. It spelt out her birthday.We asked if it knew either one of us, and it spelt out my name. My friend then asked if it could see us and it said yes, she then asked what colour hair I had, it said ‘brown’ which is true.
Is this spirit for real? Or was it just some demon trying to connect to us?
This comment wouldn’t go through properly from Sabrina, so i have copied it and pasted it here:
Me and two of my friends were playing a ouija board a while ago, and we started talking to this spirit who claimed to be one of my friends’ ‘guradian angel’. It spelt out her birthday.We asked if it knew either one of us, and it spelt out my name. My friend then asked if it could see us and it said yes, she then asked what colour hair I had, it said ‘brown’ which is true.
Is this spirit for real? Or was it just some demon trying to connect to us?
Hello
Really dont know what to write about myself, I am very social kind person, I luv dogs and all that techy things! I hope I will be good asset to this forum
Regards
Baltazar
Hi and welcome KingBaltazar, loving that user name
hello Baltazar, there are some really interesting stories in here that make you wonder about lot’s of things, i love this site!
I am sorry to hear what happen to you for using the board. I myself have used it several times when i was a teenager with my friends but nothing happen it didn’t even moved each time we used it so as years passed and one day I was cleaning out the garage I saw it there and I throw it out. Thank God nothing happen maybe an Angel was protecting us and that is why it never moved for us. I will never know.
Hi Stephen, I’m Isis as you’ll soon find out later I’m also known as Eddie…………………welcome
VeppousaDus, I am originally from NY, but not the big apple, I’m from upstate!
Hi Stephen,
you and a few others were in my spam box, good job i checked.
Glad to have you here
Had to remove that post VeppouaDus sent in, it was spam.
Oh wow Abby, that is some freaky dream, i’m hoping Pitch can tell you what it all means. Pitch is having trouble with her computer at the moment, so she won’t be online for a while.
Cheers.
I wonder if any of the owners and their children ever used the board? What do you think?
Good question child like, i’d love to find out!
me too !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would of love to have their input on using the board how about you eyepriestess?
I also wonder if the accident or suicide was due to using the board and feeling guilt for selling them. I know I have an active imagination………….. I try to picture him falling from the building and something just tells me it’s not right. What was he doing on top of the building first place and was he alone and why? I know I will probably will never find the answer to bad………
Do you mean the guy ‘Fuld’? His factory was in the Baltimore building, he was apparantly talking to his employees on the roof, maybe they were taking a break and the railing gave way. Some said it was suicide, but that was just to hype up the ouija board sales, but he did fall, he died on the way to the hospital when a broken rib punctured his heart…wow, what a way to go…geez!!!
Don’t you think it’s strange to have a meeting with your employees on top of the roof? If they were taking a break the roof is a dangerous place go while you are in your break. How old was the building? That is a terrible way to go wow……………..
I’ve just checked child like, he was supervising work being carried out on the roof, a flagpole had been damaged, he was leaning against the railing and it gave way. Coming off here now, it’s 11.30pm in England, goodnight
Thank you eyepriestess for letting me know. Wow you are in England…. I am in Texas….. lol
I have a cousin in Texas, but i never see him or hear from him, just know he lives there. It’s weird because lately, especially in my forum, i am finding out that people who have had relatives in the UK are from where i used to live or live now…it’s such a small world!
yes it is. uk I never been there but maybe someday I will go for a vacation.
Hi,
I’ve never met you, but my experience is exactly the same like yours, even though I have never dealt in the occult or even touched a Ouija board, I was asleep one day,and had a dream, in the dream I was in a hospital, and a doctor in my dream asked if I believed in Ghosts, to which I replied “No” all of a sudden I felt a dark presence over me, almost as if I was being pulled underwater, there was a deep murmuring,and I was being pushed deep into my bed, there was something sitting on me, I couldn’t scream and when I tried to look at it’s face, it pushed me harder and I could see pig like feet with yellow claws on the side of me, with my last breath I screamed “Please God help me” all of a sudden the presence dissipated and I awoke to light.
I can’t believe how you had an experience exactly like mines, now that is wierd. This happened to me over 10yrs ago. and I reside in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Your friend in Peace and Love
-Arno See-
Arno, thank you so much for sharing your experience! If you ever need to talk more about it then feel free to join our forum, it would be great talking to each other more on this. The forum link is on the home page, scroll down, it is near the bottom.
God bless you!
A few days ago I made a ouija board out of paper. You know, lets see if these really work, kind of thing… Anyway, I did it with a friend and it moved around and didn’t really do anything much. Until we asked to prove it was there and then these taps started happening. Anyway it didn’t really say much and I dont really know. But the next day I tried again with two other friends. It just pointed to six. I had said a prayer of protection before I did. I knew all the superstitions about six and moved it to goodbye and ripped up the board. Suddenly my friend saw a white light on the carpet and said that everyone looked weird. Now I keep on hearing taps everywhere. I commanded it to go away and asked my grandparents to help. It worked, until I went back to where I did it and I heard one single loud tap. I feel as if something is here, and my friend says that the taps are everywhere in her house and we didn’t do it there. Could someone please help me and contact me through “nessa_lion@yahoo.co.uk” Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
Ines, if you don’t mind, i’ll make your reply into a post as it will attract more help for you!
i have to admit …i did toy with the internet ouija… not worth mentioning cos… i was determined not to linger on it…. i saw it as only a gimmick… i think it was set up for answers…
anyone know if the internet one is risque?
i wouldnt even try that again ….