# Ouija board? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 10, 2024, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouija-board/998661 "2024-03-10T01:47:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouija-board/998661/101 "2024-03-14T14:41:18Z")
Always been “wee-gee” for me. I was going to bring this up a few days ago, but then saw the dictionaries accepted both “wee-juh” (which I do not recall ever hearing, or if I had, my brain autocorrected it to “wee-gee”) and “wee-gee.” ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouija-board/998661/102 "2024-03-14T16:18:30Z")
So, I asked the board about singers that passed away recently, “What about Maurice and Robin?” and the Wee-gee board said: “And we’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin’ aliveeeeeeeeeee!” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouija-board/998661/103 "2024-03-14T16:40:55Z")
And yes, someone else came up with that idea in the past: [https://www.etsy.com/listing/1095077656/bee-gee-board-ouija-board-wall-art](https://www.etsy.com/listing/1095077656/bee-gee-board-ouija-board-wall-art) The AI search in big recommended: “Play Bee Gees hits softly in the background. The spirits love a good soundtrack.” “As the planchette moves, sing along: “You should be dancin’, yeah!” “Night fever, night fever…” “Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin’ alive!”” ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouija-board/998661/104 "2024-03-14T23:05:48Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > Who here in SDopeland is the oldest person to have used a Ouijah board? The oldest person now who has used one in the past, or the person who last used one at the oldest age? I was probably 18 or 19 when I used one; certainly I was in college. I’m now 72. And we said “wee-jah”. I think. I may not have said it since I was 19, either. ---
**Author:** ![Newtosite](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/newtosite/32/8623_2.png) [@Newtosite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newtosite)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouija-board/998661/105 "2024-03-15T02:00:09Z")
I was nine and used one at a friend’s birthday party. It was time to go home so I only got as far as the board spelling “C A N N.” My friend’s mother suggested it was about to say “Cannot answer.” I’m 72. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouija-board/998661/106 "2024-03-15T06:19:13Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > The oldest person now who has used one in the past, or the person who last used one at the oldest age? I meant to ask the oldest age when someone last used a wee-jee board. We generally know it as a children’s game. I’m wondering if anybody has tried it as an adult. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouija-board/998661/107 "2024-03-15T11:54:32Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > I’m wondering if anybody has tried it as an adult. I purchased one as an adult maybe 20 years ago. I’d met a woman who, upon hearing about where I lived suggested we get together one evening and use a ouija board. I thought she was inviting herself over, so I hunted down an ouija board at a toy store and bought a few bottles of wine. When she arrived she had a bag with sage in it. She lit it on fire and walked through my place, chanting. It dawned on me that she was totally serious about all this nonsense. I told her how I felt, and she gathered her things and left. We were both embarrassed. No idea what happened to the board, I think I gave it away. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouija-board/998661/108 "2024-03-15T12:47:48Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > hearing about where I lived A haunted house? ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouija-board/998661/109 "2024-03-15T13:39:36Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > I’m wondering if anybody has tried it as an adult. If 18 or 19 counts as an adult, then I have. It was pretty popular in college for a little while (around 1970); I don’t know about since. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouija-board/998661/110 "2024-03-15T14:02:54Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Maybe they happen a lot where you live, I’ve never known it to happen to anyone, even those dosing on LSD. LSD is not that much of a visual hallucinogen, it takes big doses to get there. Maybe look into DMT. Might be a better drug to use as your scapegoat. > [@SuntanLotion](#): > > I am not religious. I’m a christian. uhm… being christian is actually being religious. (I see I was well-ninja’d on this point) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouija-board/998661/111 "2024-03-15T14:17:31Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > A haunted house? There was a suicide (which I knew nothing about). I was talking to her at a bar. She asked where I lived and she knew the history of the house I was renting. I thought she wanted to come over to “have some fun”, and that the Ouija idea was just a fun intro to further fun. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouija-board/998661/112 "2024-03-15T14:26:09Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I thought she wanted to come over to “have some fun”, and that the Ouija idea was just a fun intro to further fun. I’ve heard the crazy ones can be fun. Who knows, if you had gotten past the burning sage and the seance stuff, you might’ve had an otherworldly experience. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouija-board/998661.md?page=5)