Ouija boards

Hey everyone. Peeking my head up to do my Wednesday post. I hope y'all haven't missed me too much. *smiles*

Ouija boards. I haven't really had experience with them besides from watching television (also fictional shows and reality/news) shows and movies that have Ouija boards used in them. I guess I have been curious about them, especially when I occasionally watch a show like Most Haunted where they are trying to communicate with what is in the house with them as opposed to some demon or spirit somewhere in the galaxy.

I don't know if I would ever want to use one though since I believe things like Sierra mentioned on Monday how when you have something connected to that Ouija board, or whatever else you're using, then it's not easy to detached yourself from it. I wouldn't want to open myself up to any kind of demonic attack, which I think is a possibility with them. I'm not scared of them by any means, but I think I have a rather healthy respect to stay away from them as Sierra also stated.

I'm curious to see what you all have to say about Ouija boards, so let me know what you think!

Ouija Boards- Game or Not?

Do you believe in the power of the Ouija board? Well, I have to say that I am a believer. Growing up, I was around the “game” on occasion. When I was little, my family had one that they swore was evil. Every time they pulled it out and tried to “play” with it, it would curse at them and use words that were never used around that home. It would tell them terrible things. They finally decided to get rid of it, but every time they threw it away, it would strangely show back up in the basement of my grandma’s house. Everyone denied getting it out of the trash and no one could explain how it arrived back in the basement.
Finally, someone decided to destroy it completely. They tried to burn it. It wouldn’t light on fire. They could have a large flame and pieces of wood burning like crazy, but the board would not catch. It actually sat in the flames for over half an hour and it hadn’t even singed. That’s when the family really started freaking out.

One of the men decided that it would take more than that to destroy it. So they took it out and used it for target practice. When they finally returned the board, it was full of holes. Once again, they placed it in the fire, and this time, it burned. Not great, slowly and not completely, but it burned enough that it was unusable. It was left in the fire pit and eventually did burn to nothing. It took a good while for that to happen, though.

My mother was strictly against the Ouija board. If she heard that we’d played it, she would throw a fit and tell us we were never to use one again. Of course, that didn’t stop me. My friend and I played with it occasionally when I would spend the night at her house. We asked it the same old questions…Who are we going to marry? At what age will we marry? What kind of job will I have when I grow up? Just ordinary questions. I don’t even remember the answers so I have no clue if it was right or not, but we had fun with it anyway.

Later, when we were teenagers, we played with the Ouija board more and asked it more in depth questions. Many of those answers were dead on. I have a tendency to believe that it depends on the spirit you contact when you use the Ouija board how accurate the response will be. I do believe that it’s possible to contact spirits by using them. I believe that you run the risk of contacting bad spirits as well as good spirits when you do use them. Ouija boards scare me a little, for that specific reason. I think it would be great to use if I knew I would reach a good spirit, but I don’t want to risk reaching one that isn’t, so for now, I’ll take my mom’s advice and stay away from them.

Have you had an experience with the Ouija board that you’d like to share? I’d love to hear them. Leave a comment and let me know what you think.