ouija boards

[Soprano-Country]

who ever dabbaled with one of these? i have and think there fasinating. never had a bad experiances but heard a fair few scary stories...

anybody got any?

[DoUJuana]

My little bro and his buddy was at my house a while back(they were 17 at the time)..I was getting ready to take a shower, they were playing with the ouija board...I was just gettin in the shower, and my lil bro comes running to the bathroom, screaming, banging on the door...I wrapped myself in a towel, and ran out to the living room to see WTF was going on...his buddy was laying on the ground, having a seizure, foaming from the mouth...the thing is, he'd never had any seizures before..that day was the start of his epilepsy...neither of us had ever seen anyone have a seizure before, so we didn't know what the hell was going on...at first, we thought he was fuckin with us...my brother was freaking out, yelling at his friend to quit fuckin with us, tellin him to fuckin quit before he punched him..LOL He was in a seizure for about 3 minutes, but it seemed like an eternity...We called his parents to come get him and take him to the doctor..they never could figure out what caused his epilepsy ......Coinsedence? Hmmmm...... :eek:

[rangerdanger]

I have a story.
In circa 1971, I atteneded an "expeimental" college.
Classes were held at night at Cal State Fullerton. The classes had nothing to do with the college except they were conducted on campus grounds.
There were all sorts of trippy subjects like witchcraft and sensitivity training and stuff.
One of the "claases" I signed up for was communicating with the dead.
One of the techniques we were shown was "automatic writing". That is where you hold a pen to a piece of paper, close your eyes and ask a question. Your hand seems to move randomly. Then you open your eyes and see what you wrote.
Another method we used was a ouija board.
My group of 5 seemed to be getting "messages" from the great beyond from someone named Shorty O'Shea. Who was he?
This occured during the murder trial of Charles Manson. By asking Shorty's spirit, we found out that he was a stunt man that knew Manson and the family, and he claimed that Manson had killed him and he wanted us to locate his body for a proper burial.
Where Manson and his Family were living at the time of the murders/arrest was the Spahn Ranch, hundreds of acres way out in what was then "the sticks" in the San Fernando Valley. A lot of western movies were filmed there.
I talked to a reporter than was covering the Manson trial and found out more details.
Shorty would work part-timeas a stunt man in the movies. About the time of the infamous Tate/LaBianca murders he had "vanished". Prosecutor's believed the Manson family may have murdered Shorty, although Shorty was a drifter; disappearing suddenly was not unusual for him.
So anyway we decieded to take a road trip and one Saturday we, ouija board and pen and paper in hand, went out to the Spahn Ranch.
This was during the trail. Some of the Family lived in the downtown area where the trial was being held, other dozen or so lived at the ranch, and took care of the elderly and blind Mr. Spahn, who lived in a trailer on his property.

We went to the trailer to ask Mr. Spahn if we could "look around". There were a number of abandoned well's that someone could have fell/been thrown into that we wanted to examine. He said okay.

The Family members were total space cases. I got the impression that they were mentally compromised and that had been excerbated by heavy drug use.
One of them saw our ouija board and sneered "the only thing you can find with a ouija board is a ouija."

Well we searched around all day and didn't find shit. The ouija board and automatic writing didn't seem to be "working". The spirits that had seemed so "talkative" before weren't responding. That afternoon we left, and as the class was cancelled the following week I soon lost interest about the entire deal.

Add:
-Manson was later convicted of murdering Shorty O'Shea, even though no body was ever found; indeed though there was no evidence that Shorty was dead at all.
-A few months after our visit, the ranch houses where Manson and family had lived burned down.
It was becoming a tourist magnet and the rumor was that the cops had set the fire to prevent the Family from re-grouping.

I now believe that there is nothing "magical" or supernatural about ouija boards, or Tarot cards or automatic writing or ectoplasm, etc.

[Heath_Bogenreif]

I have only dabbled on jiggys ouija board. It takes a little getting used to with all the ebonic controls and all but once we got it going we talked to 2pac and Gary Coleman. I know Gary Coleman isnt dead, he was just hangin with us.

[Soprano-Country]

yah and 2pac isnt dead either! are you sure you wasnt talking on a cell phone not a ouija board?