anybody played the ouija board? i havent,had it drummed into me at an early age by my mum,dont mess with a oiuja board it will bring you bad luck,never have so just wondered
Finally got round to rewriting this post after it got lost a week ago Sunday due to a power cut.
I too was brought up to fear the ouija board and to be honest as a young child back then, it was unlikely I would ever get asked to play on one( not that I think PLAY is the correct thing to say). You often saw them being used on TV programs back then, in plays and dramas etc, strange you never see them being used in TV programs these days.
I was just fifteen when I used one for the first and very last time. I had just joined the navy and was stationed at HMS Ganges, a land base at Shotly Gate near Ipswich. I was in Frobisher Division and he had five long buildings that belonged to our division. Four were used for our accommodation (50 boys to a mess) and the other building was our recreation room.
There was a full size snooker table in there, table tennis table, games area, sofas and a radiogram( who remembers them?) that a boy called Ross would hog to play his Jimi Hendrix records on. Talking about Jimi Hendrix has just brought a memory come flooding into my head.
Just a few months after what I’m going to tell you happened when I used an ouija board; a group of us were taken to London to catch a train to Sunderland to board the training ship HMS Ulster.
When were in the train station in London, it was flashed up on a screen that Jimi Hendrix had just died, that boy Ross fell to the floor screaming and crying and got dragged up off the floor and taken to the toilets to get him out of sight by two officers who were with us, because he was wearing his uniform.
So by my reckoning Hendrix has been dead for 31 years? Did I hear John Lennon was killed 30 years ago? If so I can’t believe it was that long ago as I would have been only sixteen and I was sure he died when I was in my twenties.
Sorry back to the story, very late one night after lights out, I was asked to join a number of other boys in the recreation room, as one of the boys had an ouija board. I did not really know what to expect and I know my feelings them were it was all a load of rubbish and nothing would happen.
As it was after lights out we could only sit around the table with a few candles as if we had been caught out of bed after lights out, we would have found ourselves running around the parade ground for the rest of the night, naked underneath an oilskin. Not a nice experience I can tell you as after a while your skin gets red sore due to you sweating and that oilskin rubbing against your skin.
He all held hands and the owner of the board started shouting things out and I was doing my best not to laugh. I got told to pack it in and concentrate and so I decided it was best to do that rather then risk getting a thumping.
Nothing happened for about 15 minutes, then where we were sitting went ice cold and the candles went out and one lad fell of his chair with a look in his eyes like he had just seen the devil and that was enough for me I can tell you.
There was something defiantly going on when we used that board and I have always wondered what would have happened if we had not broken the circle and saw it through to the end.
My first and last time using one, now should I tell you a few tales that happened on HMS Ulster? Maybe another day.
