Athelwulf said:
Ouija boards don't work, from my experience . . . Bummer, too. There's always someone else moving it. When I try it by myself, I get nothing.
I have only used a Ouija Borad once and it was an interesting experience.
We had four people using it and we had been asking questions (it was all pretty silly stuff).
One or two of us believed it, the others (including myself) believed that it was simply subconscious reactions and/or people pushing it for fun.
After about half an hour or so of asking questions, we asked one (something typical, like which one of us was going to die first) and it started to spell out a name.
The tile went to S-H-A...
There was a Shannon among us, and we were all assuming it was going to spell her name.
I still thought it was pretty silly, because Shannon really believed in it, so I assumed someone was steering it to fuck with her.
Our hands were following the tile and moving towards the "N" (it was moving fairly quickly at this point), but then the Tile went in the other direction.
It took us all by surpise, not only because we were expecting it to go to the "N", but because it doubled back under our fingers.
None of us were moving our hands in that direction at all, and we felt it move under our fingers in the other direction, and only stopped moving in that direction when to people's fingers fell off the Tile completely.
I wanted to keep going, but everyone else was pretty freaked out (especially Shannon) and no one would continue with me.
It took us a while to convince Shannon to even go back into the house again (by explaining that it could not have been spelling HER name, because it would have gone to the "N", like everyone was expecting) and it was HER house.
I can't say this was enough to make me a believer, but it certainly was enough for me to want to get a nice old "cursed" board and try it again.