An FYI on Ouija Boards

Is that on the TAPS website? The FAQ, I mean?

yes it is.
here's the direct link. it doesn't have to do with the board per say, but with demonology.
http://the-atlantic-paranormal-society. ... onfaq.html

I could never get my ouija board to work. My friends would always screw around with it and me. But i do have an ouija story, thanks to my sisters. It's what got me intersted in the paranormal. I posted it on the Taps website. But i thought i sould share it with you guys. (My Ghost Peeps).

Well i guess this is best place there would be to get this off my chest. My name is Don and im addicted to the paranormal. I really have keep this secret to myself pretty much my whole life, then The Ghost Hunters (TAPS) shows up on the Scifi channel.That open the dialog between me, my friends, and family about the paranormal and ghosts.My friends are a little hard to convence. Myself i had a major paranormal event happen to me when i was young and several smaller ones as i've grown older. There seems to be a major connection between my mom and i on a psychic level that goes way beyond the norm. My mom and i are pretty close. She has been my rock my whole life. My dad and mom split up and later divorced about the time i was born. I never meet my dad until later in my early thirties. So my mother was the bread winner for some time until she meet and later married my step father,i was about eight years old then. So before my step dad is when the paranormal decided to thrust itself into my life. My mother had a job at Disneyland in Anaheim California as a waitress in one of the resterants below the park that served employies, entertainers and celeberties that were performing in the park or just visiting.She's told me iv'e sat on Elizabeth Taylors lap when i was a baby at that resterant. One of the nights when my mom had to work and my two older sisters, Noreen 13 and Marlane 12 had to babysit me, is when i guess they decided they wanted to raise the dead. So while i was alone upstairs in a three story house on the top bunk of my bunkbed sleeping soundly. Downstairs my two sisters and one of their friends who was spending the night with them decided to break out the Ouiji Board and have some fun. Years later when i was older i was filled in on all the details of that night. I guess one of the first people they tried to contact was Abraham Lincon, with no luck. After a few more failed attemps they decided to contact my dead uncle Donnie for whom i am named after.He was my moms brother who was killed by a drunk driver before i was born.My mom had seven brothers and sisters total. My uncle Donnie and my mom were the closest of them all. So here's my sisters and their friend on an Ouiji Board contacting my uncle when they are interupted by my screams upstairs.They all come running upstairs to find me crying and screamming and frightened out of my mind! I remember wakeing up on the top bunk of my bunkbed hearing tapping noises on my window that is right next to my bed. When i looked out the window i saw a MAN looking Down at Me. It really freaked me out and i started screamming and closed my eyes,when i opened them again he was still there. When my sisters open the door, he looked at them, and then just disapeared. Now remember im upstairs of a three story house and outside my window there is nothing, no trees no houses nothing.The next house is a quarter mile away.My sisters took me down stairs as i told them what happend.They ended up calling my mom at work and telling her what just went on ,so my mom got off early and was on her way home when my sisters were still trying to calm me down. They sat me on these big pillows by the coffee table. And under that table is an old family photo album. Looking at the pictures was starting to calm me down, when all of a suddend i started screamming again, when looking at one of the pictures, i noticed the guy in it was the same man who was outside my window. It was my dead uncle. And i had no idea who my uncle Donnie was or what he looked like. Ok now my sisters and their friend started freaking out and crying. It was a night i will never forget!!!

that's a very interesting story Spooked. Did you have any other experiences with the man after that or was it more a one time thing?

Thanks Darkness. I never seen (the man) my uncle Donnie again, but as time goes on my mom is pointing out things i do that her brother Don used to do. She talks very little to me about it. Not sure why , but she has told my sisters that i do things that my dead uncle used to do, and were totaly uneek to him. Way more than just a couincadence.

wow, spooked, that's a fascinating story. Thanks for sharing with us. How interesting that you do things like your uncle. I thought we only took after our parents, but who knows.......

very interesting Spooked! that would be freaky for sure.. as for having similar characteristics as your Uncle, that could be due to family genes. often a young one will have similarities with a family member who has passed away and perhaps have never met. with your story however, it could be something your Uncle has imprinted upon your life.. or a way for him to get a message out to let others know he is okay, as if you are his vehicle. who knows, it's just a guess on my part.

as for Ouija boards.. i never used them as a child. i know a friend of mine had one, but i was never there when she used it. *phew* is all i can say in that respect.
when i'm out ghost hunting with the team i belong to, we are sceptics. always testing and asking questions. we do not use Ouija boards, for the very reason that we cannot be sure of their power(s) & there could be danger attached to their use. as a sceptic, we question if demons and ghosts exist. so therefore i can understand the curiousity, but i'd rather not go that route. i'd rather rely on all my senses.

spook

Wow. That is a pretty spooky story. Thanks for sharing.

Way cool story Spooked. Thank you for sharing that with us.

Hi all it's me Donna...I just want to state that I will never on any investigations take part in the use of the Ouija board that Tim brings to some investigations. I am 100% against the use of this method of communication. As stated above this is an open phone line to the other side and you have no way of knowing who is going to come through...I may be in the same room but I will never participate by touching the board and I always have my boundaries up and my protections set...Once again I am stating I am 100% against the use of any Ouija boards...Thanks all...Blessings....

Hi Donna. I would be standing aside right there with you. I know Tim mentioned taking precautions before and was wondering if you helped in that area or if Tim and Jay used their own methods of protection.

Hey there DD, when I go on an investigation with the team I always put protections around us before setting foot on the place...I also put extra protection around anyone present if the Ouija board is brought out while I am present...this is no garantee that nothing bad will happen but at least I try to keep things as safe as I'm able to...

Hey there DD, when I go on an investigation with the team I always put protections around us before setting foot on the place...I also put extra protection around anyone present if the Ouija board is brought out while I am present...this is no garantee that nothing bad will happen but at least I try to keep things as safe as I'm able to...

I agree pagan.Ouiji boards can be dangerious. You can open doors to all sorts of spirits and if you dont know what your doing (like there's such a thing) it can get out of control really fast. Im not a big fan of the board for obvious reasons above in this topic. Even though i like ghost hunting and looking for the paranormal, i still dont like ouijiboards.

Hi all!

This is my first time posting in this forum. I have an enteresting story of a Ouiji board experience. I too dont condone, or incourage the use of them.

When I was 15 years old my sister and her best friend would play around with the Ouiji board asking all kinds of questions about boyfriends, and whom they might marry.

One day that darn board said I was going to marry my sisters best friend. Well I thought that was crazy, and so did she, but a year or so later we were dating. We did marry, and raised 6 kids, and are coming up on our 30th anniversary in Dec 07. 🙂

They continued to use that board until one day things got out of hand. Objects in the room started flying around, and there were voices coming from the walls. That did it for them! They broke that board into tiny pieces, and never played around with them again. Just the mention of a Ouiji board will get them on a tirade of the dangers of playing with the unknown.