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Hi You can definately still buy the boards here, as I have purchsed one last week.. in a shop! I am unsure about living people telling me anything, as they all seem to say the same thing, bit like the horoscopes.. it's bound to be right for somebody! Maz x

Not sure if Ouija boards are banned, but it is very easy to make your own, Debby. I have always thought that the glass moves through someone's (usually the strongest of the group) strong energy field. It is just a theory but I would never discount the power of the unknown....BC

I've heard stories of the glass smashing too - my Brother said he tried it with some mates once, they were mucking about and taking the michael and the glass flew off the table - apparently. Maz - why not try a Medium or Spiritualist Church instead? Think they would be a lot safer. Kaye x

I've tried it a few times but every time have suspected someone has been moving the glass and haven't been taking it seriously. The first time was my mum, myself and my brother. When my mum asked if there was anybody there, my brother pushed the glass to no so that didn't go down too well! Another time, a few of my friends had a dabble and my friends hair set on fire - everyone was flapping until they realised all she'd done was leaned across one of the candles! On a serious note, my ex husband was a sceptic but once had a go and he reckoned the glass flew off the table and smashed against a wall - all the people participating ran outside and he genuinely believed there was no foul play. Aren't they banned over here now - you can't buy them in the shops can you? Debby

i believe in spirits, but im scared of ouija boards, its too easy to let in evil spirits have contacted a very good medium this week to visit her for a reading , my daughter will come with me too

The only spirits you should have contact with are the ones that you pour into a glass - leave the others well alone. A group of my brother's friend thought it would be a laugh to have a go. There was no laughing involved when the glass started whizzing across the board and smashed against a wall!! Put it this way, I believe after the scary experience they all had, it was a case of clean underpants all round!!

Very interesting stories here.. Thank-you for adding them... My friend reckons we should try in on an old grave at the local graveyard! After reading some of these replies, I am having second thoughts!! Maz x

CB: In answer to your question, yes, we've had a few instances where, on occasion, a few of our investigators did bring something home with them from an investigation. Judy

hi maz,yes years ago we did it,with my friends mum and sister there.a dear friend of ours had died at around midnight on the 17 or 18 aug,while we were waiting for the inquest we asked a ouija board and it said the 18 along with some other stuff that turned out to be true.ive never forgot this and as i lay flowers on his grave 32 years later my friend and i often bring this up.what made it all to real was i should have been on the back of his motorbike that night,but i got grounded.spooky eh.xx joy

I have tried it many times in the past, sometimes with positive results, but would never do so in my own home. I am in favour of investigation if it is carried out under controlled conditions. len

Well I'm a believer through and through. One thing that really upset me throughout the two years we used a Ouija was being told two days in advance that an old lady, Winnie (Winnifred) would drown in the River Swale with her dog. The river ran along beside the woodland of our school, a Convent. Two days later my gran's friend Winnie was found drowned in the river, seemingy trying to save her Jack Russel. I have about half a dozen notebooks locked away full of all the messages we received during the two year period. Predominently (SP) from someone called Larry. Although we believed many of the 200 or so other spirits we communicated with were actually him pretending to be someone else. The board was always alive!! Always someone there - wether or not that's because we were in a convent - the chapel of it - the graveyard - a dorm or just a classroom, and they might be places more prone to activity I don't know. It still fascinates me - but haven't used one since finishing A levels 10 years ago. I would, but don't have any believers around me to do it with - and it's not something to mess with or to be taken as a joke. I guess it's hard to not take it as a joke though until you've experienced it, had desks flung around a room that you're in when there's no one remotely near them and the like... x

Hi Christine I know the Hop Poles pub have been in there!!! We'll have to reminisce one day!! :0) Joan

In my opinion, you would be well advised to stay clear of the Ouija board. We had some personal experiences a few years ago resulting in my sister in law burning the Ouija board. Frequently bad entities would come through and you leave yourself wide open to these elements. After discussing this with a person knowledgeable in the physic field. She informed us that any ' spirit ', good or bad can access the board once you have opened it and warned us to leave the board alone in future.

im gonna have nightmares now!

Christine, You mentioned dogs being scared of places. We took a holiday one year in a house in the depths of the Suffolk countryside. It had been built in the 1600s and had many of the original features intact - one being that some of the bedrooms had floors that sloped at unbelievable angles. We'd taken our dog with us, and he'd never shown any fear of entering a building before (we'd had him about 7 years), but when he got out of the car, although he quite happily wandered about in the gardens, he refused to follow us into the house. He even went and sat back inside the car! He'd never done that before, and we couldn't work out what was wrong, so as he was 'Mummy's boy', I put him on his lead and talked to him as we walked inside. He was fine after that, as long as at least one of us was with him, but he refused to be left alone in a room there and made every effort to go outside whenever the doors were open. Very odd indeed. He'd never done that before and never did it again after we came home. CB >|<

Christine is this the story regarding Enfield? • The Enfield Poltergeist Case • Another English ghost – this one in Enfield in North London – made headlines in 1977. The strange activity seemed to center around the daughter of Peggy Harper, a divorcee in her mid-40s. Again, it started on an August night. “Late at night,” An Urban Ghost Story relates, “Janet, aged 11 and her brother Pete, aged 10, complained that their beds were ‘jolting up and down and going all funny.’ As soon as Mrs. Harper got to the room, the movements had stopped – as far as she was concerned her kids were making it all up.” But things got progressively more bizarre from there. Shuffling noises and knocks on the wall were followed by a heavy chest of drawers sliding by itself across the floor. Mrs. Harper promptly got her children out of the house and sought the assistance of a neighbor. “The neighbors searched the house and garden but found no one. Soon they also heard the knocks on the walls which continued at spaced out intervals. At 11 p.m. they called the police, who heard the knocks, one officer even saw a chair inexplicably move across the floor, and later signed a written statement to confirm the events.” Several people were witness to the events that occurred in the following days: Lego bricks and marbles were thrown around the house, and were often hot to the touch. In September of that year, Maurice Grosse of the Society for Psychical Research came to investigate. “Grosse claims that he experienced the strange happenings – first a marble was thrown at him from an unseen hand, he saw doors open and close by themselves, and claimed to feel a sudden breeze that seemed to move up from his feet to his head.” Grosse was later joined in the investigation by writer Guy Lyon Playfair, and together they studied the case for two years. “The knocking on walls and floors became an almost nightly occurrence, furniture slid across the floor and was thrown down the stairs, drawers were wrenched out of dressing tables. Toys and other objects would fly across the room, bedclothes would be pulled off, water was found in mysterious puddles on the floors, there were outbreaks of fire followed by their inexplicable extinguishing.” The case became decidedly unnerving when the spirits revealed themselves – through Janet. Speaking in a deep, gravely voice through Janet, the spirit announced that his name was Bill and had died in the house – a fact that has been verified. The voices and the phenomenon have been recorded on tape and film, and Playfair has written a book about the case called This House is Haunted. Despite the documentation, however, much controversy surrounds the case. Skeptics claim that the case is nothing more than the work of a very clever and mischievous girl – Janet. The poltergeist activity always stopped when she was watched closely, and when she was taken to a hospital for several days to be tested for physical or mental abnormality, the phenomena ceased in the house. Some researchers believe that Janet taught herself to speak in the strange male voice, and that photos of her levitating in her bedroom merely caught her jumping off her bed. Was this poltergeist case just the result of an attention-seeking 11-year-old? Annie x

Kaye, I asked what Judy thought about it, as I've been to seances myself many years ago, and it never harmed me, but someone I knew was convinced that she had 'picked up' something bad after one of them. She was certain it was a bad spirit that followed her around. I wasn't so sure. Personally, I do believe in Evil as a force, but I'd need a heck of a lot more proof that a spirit world actually exists before I'd believe in it. I think most evil is the work of the minds of mankind, and not something over which we have no control. Maybe I'll find out when I get to 'the other side'. I have a pact with my son that when I go, we'll do our utmost to contact one another. CB >|<

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Inclined to agree with Budgie ....... I think that IF there are nasty spirits, that are powerful or clever enough to attach themselves to people or places, then I cannot work out why they would need a load of people pushing a glass around a bit of cardboard or whatever with which to do it. Bev x

I have been told by various mediums to stay well away - with a medium you can decide if you wish to comunicate with whoever is being bought through. With a ouija board you have no choice, there are very bad spirits out there and they can pretend to be someone else. Please be very careful, see a medium if you fancy a dabble.