I never had one but my 2nd daughter told me that she and some friends were playing with one, and she asked it her father's name. Evidently some other girl was holding the pointer and it spelled a misspelled version of his name. Well, she was skeptical and thought this girl just knew his name, so she asked it the name of her aunt (my sister) figuring the girl holding the pointer didn't know that name. She said the pointer began to move towards some letters that were'nt my sister's name at all, and then, to her horror, she realized it was the name of my DEAD sister--the one who died when she was 3--in 1957!!! No one in the family ever even knew that sister except my parents and me.
This daughter, though, is a wannabe JW and I can't believe she hasn't exaggerated this a little. I personally wouldn't want one because I got scared of them after I saw The Exorcist (haha) but I think it's mostly poppycock and superstitition.
I wouldn't want a skeleton laid out in my living room either--but I know it wouldn't do anything except lay there...
I do have fun with my Tarot cards though, but I don't believe they are supernatural at all--just psychological--like reading rorschach pictures.