The Ouija Board and the Subconscious

HI Mauro,
When much younger I had a pretty bad experience while using the ouija board, so much so that I was a walking wreck for a period of time. I will not go into the details but suffice to say that I was out of work,bored and smoking weed. Now I fully understand where I went wrong and if I was to be so bold as to venture that road again I would most certainly carry out protection rituals prior to the session .
One does not know truthfully whom you are in contact with as the energies are from the lower astral realms and you can be given a lot of misinformation. . It's the higher realms that you want to contact where possibly your own spirit guides are .
Sooty.

I have already related in the past how a friend of mine had a very similar Ouija experience. He was scared silly and thought he was haunted by the "entity" which identified itself as "Satan".
As I've already said I didn't believe for one moment he was haunted by a demon but his condition alarmed me: a small car accident he had during the period (which of course he blamed on "Satan" since he had the board with him at the moment) was clearly a sign he was near breaking point. So I devised some kind of "purging ritual" which involved burning the board and everything related to it. I don't recall the details because so much time has passed.
But it worked and it's all that matters.
At the time he was hanging out with a large group of girls (some chaps have all the fun) and he convinced them to try out the board and the results were what got me thinking: why was everyone being contacted by either a malevolent spirit or a small child who died an untimely death?
I have always maintained a passing interest all this time and as the cases piled up it was always the same: small child murdered/killed in an accident/died of illness, malevolent spirit threatening/cursing/swearing.
Surely there must be something to it.

I don't know of any study but the connection between the ouija and 'evil' is set out repeatedly in its fictional representations. When someone starts using a ouija, it is likely to trigger unconscious memories of similar scenes they've seen in horror movies and on TV.

Interesting idea. Perhaps it could be related to the "taboo" of dabbling into the occult?

I recently found this quote from Ian Wilson's book on a Facebook Group's discussion board (Psican - They are pretty good and support Mysterious Britain, check them out).  I think it shows how boards can effect some users, sometimes with tragic consequences.  Of course I am not suggesting this is supernatural in any way. 

"Recently there was a rather less happy outcome from dabblings with an ouija on the part of a 21-year-old Essex mother, Sandra Killington. Her contact appears to have been an historically known seventeenth-century businessman, 'Thomas Fanshawe' whose family home, Valance House (now a museum) is only a short distance from where Sandra Killington lived. Because of her communication with 'Fanshawe' via the ouija, Sandra became so obsessed with this character that she frequently used to visit the Valance House Museum in order to talk to his portrait. Ultimately she became so unhinged that in 1981 she walked with her daughter on to the railway track at Upney in Essex, and lay down on the rails in the path of an express train, her avowed purpose to join Fanshawe beyond the grave. Sandra was killed instantly, but her four-year-old daughter Nicola just managed to roll clear in time, though not without some injury."

Source: Worlds Beyond, By Ian Wilson (c) 1986 ISBN 0-297-78604-0

There was an interesting bit about Ouija boards on QI XL(stephen Fry) recently in which it was explained they were originaly a game to which the game company (can't remmember which) still holds rights - anyway Stephen Fry commented that studies had been done where they turned the board around without the users knowing (they were blindfold) and the planchet just spelled out nothing as the words were now upside down showing that it needed users to see the board - it would be interesting to track these down and see what the studies involved.

I have spoken to lots of peope who have had very odd and disturbing experiences with them.

Mauro-you've probably already read it, butif not, check out this story:
http://www.liparanormalinvestigators.com/philip.shtml

Thanks Ziaira, that was interesting reading. Sorry for not replying earlier but I have so little time these days it took me a while to find a minute to keep up with my old posts!

Its ok, know the feeling, look at how long it took me to read your last post!