A Few Words from Kimberly
of true-ghost-stories.com
What's my opinion on the ouija board??
Well….it's not good, that's for sure.
I'm sure there are many groups and/or individuals out there who have used the board in a respectful manner and who have had great success at using it. These individuals I would assume are well trained and experienced in knowing when a negative energy is trying to enter or make contact and know how to handle the situation accordingly by blocking out these energies or by refusing further communication from them. I, myself…am not one of those individuals and would haven't the faintest idea if I were talking to sweet ole granny or the devil himself. Because these energies lie….they say what they think you will buy into to gain your trust and sympathy for further contact…that one opportunity for you to open the door for them to enter to make you life….in a matter of speaking, a living hell.
I'm no angel…I have been in the room where it's been in use many times and recall one incident that impacted me for about ten years. The ouija was asked when each and every person in the room would die…well, when it got to me (I was not participating in using the board, I was just standing in the back of the room watching), it said in the year 199? From 1990 to 1999, I lived in fear that this would be my last year. I never knew when the day would come that I would simply drop dead. The board said it would happen…and I was stupid enough to believe it!! I had no clue at the time that these energies being contacted would lie…but they do.
I was told many times by paranormal investigators and psychics that I was lucky…let me further explain. I had a relative drop by with some friends one night. Well, one of the visitors was very into the paranormal and had heard about our home being haunted. This guy I have to say was good…about as good at lying as the ouija board is. I believed him when he told me he had used the board many times before and was well trained and educated in the use of the board. He assured me everything I'd ever heard was nothing more than stories….myths. Well…I fell for it hook, line and sinker. Because I didn't own an ouija board, he and another individual ran out and bought one up at the local department store. He and a two other individuals went at it for a while, but had no success in contacting any of the spirits in our home to find out why they were here and what they wanted…but my cousin and I sure did. Curiosity about killed the cat….because her and I were standing there, watching…eagerly waiting to see if we could make contact…and we did. That planchette flew around the board answering every question with misspelled words and nonsense answers. Finally…the board got a little better with its communication and began telling us that "he" were a four year old child, with something wrong with his feet and that he were not the only one present. He said there were six other spirits with him….of which were standing behind (and it gave the initials of two of the individuals in the room)...that did it for every living, breathing person in the room….we quickly closed the session and tossed the board out. My family has stories of using the ouija board that could fill a library. Back in the 70's, people didn't know about the board, as they do now…people then, thought it were just a game. Well…thank goodness over time, people are starting to know more and more about the spirit realm and types of energies contacted through the board…and are finding out very differently….it's not just a game! It's about as safe as Russian roulette if you want my honest opinion.
Sorry for getting side tracked…but back to the night my cousin and I used the board with three other people watching around us. My use of the board had no ill affects….as I said, I was one of the lucky ones according to paranormal investigators and psychics I've spoken with concerning the incident. But my cousin was not so lucky. When she went home that night, she obviously didn't go home alone. All hell broke loose at her home. Things went so crazy that the home had to be blessed and cleansed twice afterwards. Months following the use of the board, she were plagued with horrible nightmares, electricity being turned on and off, water running, getting locked into rooms mysteriously….just to name a few. She were basically being tormented. Anyway…that's just one aftermath of using the board…my brother who was a pastor, had a daughter whose friend became obsessed with an energy she contacted and later committed suicide, so they could be together forever. When I heard the story, it sounded like something right out of a movie…but being my brother was a well respected pastor, I knew he weren't pulling my leg for kicks.
This is a serious matter…and the quicker people discover how potentially dangerous using the board can be, the better. I cringe when I'm in a store and see one sitting on the shelf in the toy section….THE TOY SECTION, where my kids can pick it up and ask me what kind of game is this? "Whoa…put that down slowly and no one will get hurt". But it's not just ouija boards…it's tarot cards, it's table tapping, automatic writing, séances and what ever other means people find in contacting the dead. My advice…if you want to play with fire, expect to get burned. If you don't know what you're doing and you think it can't happen to you, think again. There are books written about people who have lost their homes, lost their loved ones and lost their sanity tampering with something they knew nothing about….or very little about. So, next time someone asks you if you want to get in on a little innocent spooky fun….think about all individuals out there who weren't so lucky and who's lives changed that very moment they said "Yes".
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Michelle
When I was 15, my friend Terry who was a couple of years older than me, spent the night. There is no way either of our parents would allow us to own or have an ouija board in our possession, so we decided to make our own with poster board and scissors. I myself really didn't believe in the ouija and what many claimed it could do. I just always assumed that someone was always pushing it to say whatever they wanted it to say. Terry really wanted to do this, so I decided to go along with it, figuring she was just going to try and scare me or something. We talked with a spirit that just so happened to call herself Terry also. You can guess, I didn't believe this thing was really moving on its own. I had my mind set that she was moving it the whole time. Well, we started to argue over it, when all of a sudden the planchette started to spin around really fast. Still assuming it was Terry, I got mad. Then it just suddenly stopped. That was it. Terry started telling me that you are suppose to make it say goodbye or it stays here. Still mad, i say yeah, right…whatever. We started talking about other stuff and in the washroom; which is on the other side of the kitchen, we started hearing a lot of noise. Now there were 3 doors to that room. One went outside, one connected to the kitchen, and the other connected to my sister's room. My sister was an RN and was working the night shift, so no one was in her room. We knew no one could have gone through the kitchen, because they would have had to go right past us and we would have seen them. The outside door was locked and bolted from the inside, so that excluded anyone coming in from outside. Both of us just stood there as the sound got louder and louder. My dad had a bunch of empty boxes stacked up infront of the outside door. To me, it sounded like two people were throwing these boxes back and forth all over the room. Of course we were scared but I didn't associate it with anything having to do with ghost, etc… I was thinking that someone had gotten in from outside, somehow. I don't know why, but I grabbed up a butcher knife and told Terry to go and get Byron, my brother. He and my parents were asleep. All this time, you could still hear these boxes being tossed around everywhere. Terry and Byron came up to me at the door and you could tell by the look on Byron's face, he was hearing the commotion too. He took the knife from me and jerked the door open…everything at that moment went dead silent. The boxes had been moved, because they were laying everywhere…but no signs of anyone in the room. Needless to say, we were all pretty freaked out. I didn't dare tell him what we'd be up to earlier with playing with the ouija board. To this day, I can find any explanation as to why we heard what we did or how the boxes got moved.
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Michelle
On another occasion, I was at a friend's house playing with an ouija board when the doors got ripped open. The door was not only locked and dead bolted, but it also was chain locked from inside. The reason being, there was a six foot drop-off and they didn't want any of the kids to open it and have a long fall. This particular incident, it was like what ever was channeled in, came in through the front door and busted out the backdoor. My friend even ended up getting into serious trouble for "tearing up the door and locks" from her stepdad. To this day, because of all the trouble she got into, her little brother still remembers the incident. He was outside at the time, but heard all the noise from the doors. Since my encounters with the ouija….I have never used it again.
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Brandy Stark
with S.P.I.R.T.S. of St. Petersburg
When I was a teenager; around the age of 16, I found an ouija board at a yard sale and bought it for $.25. Skeptical of the ouija, I devised an experiment deemed to test if was simply a matter of self-suggestion: I was going to ask what pet would die next and think to myself "fish." We had several adult cats, dogs and guinea pigs who were not elderly and in very good health, but I had a tank of tropical fish, several of which were getting on in fish years. I was trying to "trick" the board by seeing if it would give me the answer I was thinking, which would be a logical conclusion.
I tried the ouija board with my mother, a skeptic of all things supernatural. After setting it up, I asked my question. We put our fingertips on the planchette and waited. After five seconds of no response, Mom tired of "wasting her time" and decided that she was going to bed and left the room. I put the board away and didn't think about it for a few days.
Later that same week, I was talking to a male friend of mine on the phone. I was telling him of my disbelief and attempt at experimentation with the board. I had just told him the question that I was going to ask it "What pet would be the next to die?" I took a breath, told him "And the answer I was looking for was…." when all of a sudden the books on the shelf behind me tipped over. They knocked into a figurine and sent it to the floor, where it shattered. The figurine was of a ceramic fish.
These books had never tipped over before and were securely in place. I have not seen them fall in such a manner since this time period (almost 13 years later). The timing of the fall was too eerie…it was EXACTLY at the point where I would have said "fish". My friend said that he heard the noise and that I sounded stunned. Though it was a long distance call, I ended it hastily, went and got the ouija board out of my closet and put it in the garage. I would not touch it again. My mother had to get rid of it without my knowledge as I so feared it. I think that was a warning for me. I have taken ouija boards seriously since then. If they do not channel the dead, then they certainly set up a psychological premise which I don't think should be tampered with. I feel it is like opening the door to a stranger -- either an earthbound.
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Susan Granby
with S.P.I.R.T.S. of St. Petersburg
When I was young I was given an Ouija Board as a birthday present. My sisters and I decided to have a "séance" that night. We were all young; 12 or so, and had no idea what we were doing. We asked for a sign that someone was there and the light bulbs in two lamps in the room popped. Had there not been lampshades we would have been sprayed with glass. From that day on I never touched an Ouija Board again. I did have a teacher (Wiccan Priestess) about 20 years ago that taught me how to make "Talking Letters" but those were done under strict ritual conditions and only to be used in the presence of a well trained user. I still know how to make them, but haven't used them in years. It takes a lot of energy and when I did use them, I would be drained to the point it would take two days to recover! I have found that using my own intuition is a much easier and safer way to receive communications that are meant for this side.
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Amy Hoge
with S.P.I.R.T.S. of St. Petersburg
I had my experience when I was around 16/17 and lets just say I was not as smart with it as I would be now (not that I use it any more). My (at the time) boyfriend contacted a slave in the early 1800's named Abe. His spelling was terrible and spelled based on phonics as opposed to the proper spelling. I think at one time Abe tried to "possess" my boyfriend because his skin went ice cold and he lost control of his arms...which began to shake and jump. After that occurrence we went to a Metaphysical bookstore and asked for help. They helped with a protection ritual and an official closing of the session.
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Denise
with S.P.I.R.T.S. of St. Petersburg
Here is my story on ouija boards. My aunt and sister were playing with one when I was a small child and it would move on its own. One time they reached a spirit who called himself "Henry the Eighth" as in "THEE" Henry the Eighth. They began asking him questions and even got out the encyclopedia to ask specific questions that they absolutely would not know the answer to. Someone not on the board would read the encyclopedia and write down the questions, giving them to my aunt and sister. Unless they read minds, they could not have answered them correctly. Each question was answered correctly. There was now doubt that they were in contact with him. After that, my aunt became what she thought was possessed by the spirit and until she threw the board away, she could not shake the spirit. It was not a friendly one either. It was never touched again.
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Kerri
When I was about 8 or 9 years old we moved into a house which had a scary history, as it turns out. My mom and dad took my youngest brother to dinner. Linda (my sister) and I didn't want to go. We were instructed to bring the boxes of books in the garage, upstairs to the library. While we were doing this, we found an old ouija board and started playing with it. I thought for sure it was my sister pushing it as it told me I was going to be hit by a car and die by the time I was 10. Which obviously 24 years later, I'm still here. It also said there were 5 spirits in the house and said it's name was "JACKS" Boring and we put it away. That was when we started hearing footsteps in other parts of the house running, lights going on and off, radios blaring that we knew we had turned off, doors slamming, knocking and rapping in the wood. Boxes being moved about in the attic, etc. We lived there for 5 years and I can tell you that, I have nightmares to this day. Now this house was on the road which was formerly known as the "The Santa Fe Trail". A couple of miles up the road was where the Santa Fe Trail and the Pikes Peak Trail met. There were Indian encampments, settlements and a bad stagecoach accident/fire all in the general vicinity. I don't know if Linda and I had invited something into the house or it was there to begin with. My family are see'rs so I suppose I should just get used to it, but I have never been free of hauntings since then.
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Jonathan
I went to a friend's house to stay for the weekend. My friend and I always love ghost stories, magic, pscychics and anything else mysterious. Those things would just get us going when we were bored. Well, I decided to bring my ouija board...which we've used many times and usually wait until midnight to use it. This particular night, it was midnight and we were playing with it...just asking regular, everyday things. When all of a sudden, it said "Don't be alarmed, in the next few hours, you're going to get a cold chill running through your bodies". We asked it "what do you mean don't be alarmed?" Well, the board replied that I and all the people around me will notice something in the next hour". Well, right after I said that, my friends little brother came into the room with us and it just started to hit us...."this was what it were telling us were going to happen". My friend's brother is terrified of ghost, so we all decided to just put the board up and wait to see what, if anything happened. My friend said he had an idea. I got out this string that attaches to a crystal. He said it's kind of like a mini ouija board and you can ask it yes and no questions. Well, we said "For yes, move it vertically and for no, move it horizontally". We also requested that the responses cause the crystal to move fast and big, so we can detect when a spirit is present. We hung this crystal on a string from a lamp and waited. It was about a half an hour to an hour later when all of a sudden we heard a big ting-ting sound coming from the lamp. We flipped on the light and the crysal was swinging violently. I mean it was starting to really scare me and my friend. I can only imagine how my friend's little brother would of reacted if he'd witnessed this. We turned the lights off and got real calm and quiet. The atmosphere in the room seemed to change...it got eerily quiet and it felt as if something were about to jump out at us at any minute. It also got really hot, really fast. My friend remarked that he thought something big was about to happen...right when he said that, we heard the door creek open. It wasn't much...but it was like somene were trying to sneak by us. Then suddenly it got real cold and I mean so cold that we were shivering and covering up. All of a sudden you could see a light blue or white colored light getting brighter as it got closer. Then just as quickly as it appeared, it were gone. Then it appeared again, only this time it got real bright and was coming from in the middle of the closet. While we were focusing on that, my friend's little brother said "Look over there" and when we turned to look in that direction, you could see a shadow like someone were waking by. Next thing we knew, the crystal was reacting to it and it just fell off the lamp. This shadow appeared to wave as if to tell us "Yeah, I'm here, but I won't hurt you". The wind blew outside and right when the wind blew, the shadow was vanished.
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Scott
While visiting a friend who lives in a haunted, we decided to mess around with his mother's ouija board. At about 11:30 we lit some candles and turned off all the lights. There were three of us and we all put our fingertips on the planchette. We started out by asking if any spirits were in the room....the planchette moved slowly towards "yes". We began asking other questions, but each time the planchette would move, it would go straight to "goodbye". We tried a few more times and finally we were contacted by someone. He said that he was a firefighter who died in the twin towers on 9/11. He spelled out "fire" and "911". We figured he must of died in the 9/11 tragedy. We knew he was a firefighter because when we asked him if he was, the planchette went to "yes". When we asked him his name, the planchette went to three letters, we assumed his initials. I have tried to use the ouija board multiple times since then, but have haven't had the same results as we did that night.
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Sabrina
One boring summer night, my neighbor suggested we give the ouija board a try. Everyone in our apartment complex were fully aware it were haunted….so I agreed. I wanted to get my baby to sleep first. As I rocked my baby to sleep, I asked my neighbor how she came to have this ouija board, because she had never mentioned it before. She said that the lady on the other side of her was carrying it out to the dump the day before, so she asked her why she was throwing it away...because it seemed to be good condition. The other neighbor said that she was throwing it away because ever since she had it in her apartment, things were falling off the walls and breaking. My neighbor said "Well if you don't mind I would like to have it." That's how she got it. Now that my daughter was in a good deep sleep, I made a pallet for her upstairs in my neighbor's bedroom. I put her on the floor because I didn't want her falling off the bed and getting hurt. I also didn't want her in the same room as we toyed around with the ouija board. Some more friends came over, so all together there were four of us. The spirit we contacted said "No" when we asked if it were a man. It also said "No" when we asked if it were a woman. At this point, I took my hands off the board. One of the other people there told me that was a bad idea because that was opening the circle we had formed. I immediately put my hands back on the board but my friend said it was too late, that it was already let out. Right after he said this, we heard a big bang in the room upstairs where my baby was. My baby started to cry. When we went to check, nothing was moved and my baby seemed to be only startled by the noise. After that, I decided I wanted nothing more to do with the ouija board. (Click here to read more of Sabrina's paranormal encounters)
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Sylvia
A few years ago, my husband wanted to go to his sister's home for a visit in Denver Colorado. I hate flying....so I decided to pull out the board to ask if we would in fact be making the trip....it responded "Yes" and also confirmed we'd be flying there. I left the board out and without realizing it, my daughter and her friend took it into her room to play around with it. They were in her room trying to use it when all of a sudden the planchette flew out of their hands and landed all the way across the room. Needless to say it put a good scare into them and to this day, my daughter will not use one again!
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Brett
Recently, my friend Aaron lost control of his motorcycle and died. Prior to the accident, Aaron, myself and a few friends; Brutus, Meagan and Alex decided to play with the ouija board. We played for a while, when all of a sudden the planchette just froze. We couldn't move it for anything. Next thing we knew, the planchette just started moving on its own. We sat on the floor in amazement, watching this board acting on its own free will. All of a sudden, the planchette turned in Aaron's direction and scooted forward about an inch or so. Right about that moment, Aaron's cell phone rang. He picked up his phone, expecting it would be someone he knew calling him, only who ever or what ever were on the other line, hung up. That's when we decided we'd pack up the board. Not long following this incident is when Aaron had his accident.
After Aaron's accident, my friend Meagan and I decided we'd try and contact him using the ouija board. We were in the living room with only candles for lighting. We had a picture of Aaron sitting across from us. We asked "Is Aaron H---s (blocked out actual name to protect identity) there?" The board replied "Yes". I then asked "How are you doing?" The board responded "Great". Then before we could ask any further questions, the planchette said "Stop". We asked "Stop what?" The board said "All". We then asked "All of what?" Then Meagan asked "Do you want us to leave you alone?" The board replied "Yes". We both looked at each other and Meagan said "He wants to rest in peace". I agreed and we then said "Bye". It then said "Bye Brett". Meagan said "I love you Aaron" and the planchette spelled out "I love you too Meagan". We took our hands off the planchette and it moved on it's own to "Goodbye". Needless to say, we both were pretty teary eyed after that.
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Meagan
When one of my friend's was about eleven years old, she went to a party where everyone was playing with an ouija board. One of the girls said to the board "Give us a sign that you're here" and all of a sudden all the lights in the house went crazy. Everyone were pretty freaked out and ended up destroying the board.
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April
When I was about 17 or 18, I was at a friend's house….a friend who swears to this day her house is haunted. She claims that her and other family members would hear all kinds of sounds….especially when they were alone or if it were an exceptionally quiet night. Something even tried to get in one of the doors once, but when they looked out the window to see who was there, they found nothing…no one. Anyway, this particular night, my friends and I decided to play with an ouija board. I have never personally ever used one before…and after this incident, will never participate in using one again! The planchette began moving on its own free will. As if that weren't bad enough, we didn't properly close the session and I swear something evil followed me home that night. I tried to tell my parents about it, but I don't think they believed me. There were nights when I would hear what sounded like a stick being tapped on the walls, circling the whole parameter of my bedroom. I feel that's where this evil entity dwelled, because the rest of the house was uneventful. I began having horrible dreams. I would wake up and try to get out of my room as fast as I could…always with some sort of interference, preventing me. I woke up once and felt as if I couldn't get out of bed. It was pitch dark….blacker than black that night. I threw my blanket off and tried to find my way to the door. It took me about ten minutes before I finally found the door handle and light switch….it was as if they had just vanished from my room for that period of time. When I finally got hold of the handle to the door, for some reason I couldn't get that door to open for anything. I had to pop my window out and crawl out of the room that way. I had left home for a while….I returned to find my bedroom door wide open and just fine. One night, I also heard something fall in the bath room; next to where I was at…it was very loud. After I finally moved out and in with my boyfriend (who is now my husband), it didn't seem to follow me…it continued to stick to only that room of my parents home. My brother moved into my bedroom after I left and he too reported unusual occurrences in that room as well….but he seemed to experience more than I did. He was so disturbed by the things happening in his room that he ended up putting all sorts of crosses, religious pictures and even a wooden statue of Christ he got from our pastor, all over his room for protection. One day I went into his room and discovered the top of a statue appeared to be burned. That's when he told me about the weird occurrences happening in his room…including the statue appeared to have smoke coming out of it. Another disturbing thing that happened was that a cross had flipped in an upside down position in the middle of the night. He also claimed he felt as if he were being choked at different times. The same sounds I heard when I stayed in this room, he heard as well. Eventually, a family bought the place from my parents. They had two young girls, ages 11 and 12. I was talking with a friend of mine and they told me that the new owners swear one of the rooms is haunted…I can only guess what room they would be referring to. I have no doubt that what ever we did that night with the ouija board….what ever was moving that planchette came home with me…and to this day, still dwells in that one of room of our old home.
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Ray
I was 16 and living in Massachusetts when I first saw a real ouija board in use. I went to my friend's house on a Friday night. His father used to buy us all beer and let us drink in his apartment. His mother was kind of "hippie-ish" and very much into witch craft and things of that nature. My friends and I were all playing Playstation one night, knocking back beers. I had just finished my beer and went to the kitchen to grab another, when I noticed all the lights were off and lit candles on the table. My friend's mother and two other girls (who graduated years before me) were sitting at the table with an ouija board. This wasn't one of those Milton Bradley boards you buy in a store....this thing looked ancient. It was a huge circle with all the letters, numbers and every spelled out word you could think of. The two girls had their hands on the planchette and my friend's mother had a pad and pen. As I walked by, I snickered to myself and shook my head. I remember one of the girls asking me what was so funny? As I turned to walk back to my friend's room, one of the girls said "Wait...wait! Come here and try this real quick if you think it's so funny". So I did and 8 years later it still creeps me out to talk about it. As soon as I put my hand on this thing, it began whirling around spelling out my first and last name. I was very impressed because neither of these girls knew who I was or at least I didn't think they did. The girls asked who we were speaking with. The board spelled out "T-H-I-S I-S A-J" so I began asking it questions about the future, still in disbelief. It answered all of them, but still...these were future questions that I was asking out loud. Anyone with their hand on this thing could be moving it to make any response they wanted. So I asked the girls "Does this work if I ask a question in my mind?" They told me to concentrate on a question and usually the spirit will answer. So I did. The board spelled out "Y-O-U D-I-E 5-1" I was shocked. One of the girls said "Oh boy...you just asked it when you were gonna die. That's not always a good idea". I asked one final question before ending my session, I asked: "AJ, what is my mother's middle name?" Immediately the board spelled out "J-E-A-N-N-E". I remember taking my hand off and my eyes welling up. That was when I knew right there that it wasn't the girls who were playing some magic trick on me. By this time all my friends were standing behind me laughing. I ran into the other room and sat down. A few came in telling me I had too much to drink, but I know what I saw happen. Several of my friends tried to use it after me, but nothing worked for them so of coarse this led them to believe I was just drunk and making this up in my mind. I was not drunk that night and was in no doubt, in contact with this energy who called himself "AJ". I didn't tell anyone this story for years. Only recently did I tell my mother all about it. I told her how this spirit knew her middle name and my name. When I told her his name was "AJ" she thought for a minute and said "You know, you had a great uncle named Armond Jones, but no one ever called him that. He was always called "AJ"'. I never knew of this man prior. For a while I dwelled on the whole "Dead at 51" remark, but not so much now because some of the other "future-type" questions I was asking that night didn't come true. Maybe these spirits are just having fun with us. When people say "I never want to touch an ouija board again"...I concur. Today I would very much like to use a board again, but would be a little more careful with my questions. However I am 25 years old now and most people would call that sort of thing "Child's play".
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"Anonymous"
Two summers ago, I started working at a camp...a haunted camp. No one has ever shared these stories outside of the camp, in fear it may scare campers away. During staff week I heard talk of ghosts and spirits at the camp; but being a skeptic, I just blew them off. The more I listened, the more real it became. Senior staff members, even the camp director, told stories that chilled me to the bone. On the fourth night of staff week I was invited to use the Ouija board in the chapel. I had used one as a child, but assumed it was always just people moving it around. This time was different. You can tell if the Ouija pointer (planchette) is working…because it floats. If someone is moving it, the pointer will scrape, but it was floating and making no noise. When we asked who it was, it gave three initials. We asked what it did before it died and it said "loging". We took this as "logging"….the camp used to be used for logging and a "lumberjack" was not likely to know how to spell correctly. We asked a few more uninteresting questions that I cannot recall, because I was preoccupied with the rustling I heard nearby. It was the unmistakable sound of footsteps. After about three minutes of hearing footsteps that sounded like they were walking around the chapel and gradually getting louder (oh yeah, the chapel is outside, and it just has a roof and foundation, it is not an enclosed building), all of the sudden the pointer wrenched sideways and fell upon the word "GO". We took the message to heed and beat foot out of there. This is my own personal account of an Ouija board experience, but according to another staff member's mother who decided to join one night, she was shaken back and forth by a spirit and the Ouija board flipped itself over.
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Jade P.
During my rebellious teen years, my cousin Anthony and I were very close. Our parents got together every week to play poker. Being so young, our parents always brought us along with them. One night the card game was hosted at our house. While our parents were occupied with their poker game, Anthony and I entertained ourselves with the Ouija board. This particular night was different from any other I've ever encountered. Supposedly we weren't communicating with the spirit realm, instead we were communicating with the living....and they claimed to belong to some sort of "supernatural intuition circle". They explained to us that each member of this circle's name began with the letters that spelled out "O-U-I-J-A". They introduced themselves as "Owen, Ursula and Ingo"....oddly, my name started with the letter "J" and my cousins with the letter "A"....which completed the circle that night. Unable to fathom the idea that such a coincidence would occur and that we would be participating in such an unbelievable session....My response was: "Okay, if you are alive then here is my phone number (xxx-xxx-xxxx), call me". Out of sheer curiosity, we began searching for the phone in case they did call us. Just then we heard the phone ringing. The phone was next to my parents and their friend's in the other room, where they were playing cards. My mom answered the phone...it was a collect call from Brazil. She immediately hung up and asked us what was the reason for all this...suspecting we were responsible for the odd phone call. Just then the phone rang again, this time the collect call was from California. She hung up and started yelling at us...knowing we had something to do with the odd phone calls. Our parents were aware we used the Ouija board, but were completely against it. We were brought up in a Catholic family and not supposed to tamper around with such things. Being we were young and rebels, we were addicted. The phone rang once more that night; my other answered it and who ever it was...spoke a foreign language she couldn't understand...so she hung up the phone. I will never forget how much trouble we got into that night because of this. Needless to say, that wasn't the end our adventures with the Ouija board, we played it again many times afterwards and have many frightening stories to share about it.
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Cheyenne
I've played with Ouija boards many times. And as most…I was extremely skeptical of the paranormal…especially Ouija boards. For my fifteenth birthday I bought an Ouija board and a group of about 6 girls, played. Now the board moved (a lot), answered questions, so on and so forth. I've always thought in the back of my mind "HA, someone's moving it" and I'm sure, someone was. I put it away and never really tried touching it again until two years later. Then, two weeks ago when a summer night grew boring, I found the board in my closet. My friend Jessica and I decided to use the board. Now, as I said before, the board "worked" before in front of me and a huge group of giddy little girls. And, I was always certain that some one was moving it, but this night, was NOT the case. The planchette was moving with such speed, our hands were chasing it across the board. It freaked me out. I never believed in it until that night. The person gave us their "information", etc. I guess it was a simple Ouija board conversation….we asked things like "Who we would marry", etc. I played again a week later with two other people and talked with a man named "Q". He apparently didn't like me. Every time I would ask a question, he would ignore me and he even said he didn't like me. I know it's against the rules and you're not supposed to ask the spirit to give you a sign that it is there... but we did it anyway. My friend's dog went totally insane outside her bedroom door and doors were closing downstairs in her house. That seriously freaked us out. Now I played AGAIN just two days ago with another friend and we spoke with a female that called herself "Evara" and said she knew my friend (Jacqi) in a past life in France or something. She wouldn't let us leave and said she had some urgent news for us. She kept giving us letters and we couldn't figure out what she was trying to say. Then she began to spell out a sentence. Basically she said "He sees trust Jacqi" ... "Find God". Just to let you know my friend Jacqi used to be a real good kid and all that stuff, but the past year she has been rolling down hill and picking up some serious speed. So, I can see how that is relevant to her life. Yesterday her and I played again and we spoke with a person that called herself "Terri" but then later told us she was kidding and gave us her initials "GES" or something similar. The person began just answering questions and then started telling us that we shouldn't be on the board and that it's dangerous. We asked it if she wanted us to leave, she replied "No". Then she spelled out "Seed ten, serve God" and she said god was angry we were playing the board. Everything she said was not like she spelled out the whole sentence. "God is angry you are playing this ladies", she spelled "ANGRY" and we asked if she was angry, she replied "No". We asked if God was angry, she replied "Yes". Then we asked if it was because we were tinkering with the board, she replied "Yes". Anyway, she then told us we have talked to evil spirits before and God has protected us, but we need to stop. She spelled "Stop", "Stay away", "People are angry" (for us playing), "People pay" and "Quit". Then she told us to go. I don't think I'm going to be playing with my OUIJA board, for a long time…if not forever!
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Mike G.
One night, my friend Ryan, Tiffany and I were using the ouija board in Ryan's old room. There wasn't much in the room except for a mini bookshelf, a closet, a tv hanging on the wall and a very dim gel light that barely lit the room. I started to grow bored after contacting "friendly ghost" all night….so I decided to ask if there were any evil energies around, to show us their presence. I asked if they would open the closet door real fast to scare us and the board replied "yes". We decided to start counting down 10…9…8…7…6...(staring at the closet door waiting) …5…4…3…2…1. All of a sudden, instead of the closet door opening…the gel lamp's cord got violently yanked from the electrical socket! Right then, we realized we'd gotten more than we bargained for. We all huddled in the corner, shocked. We called the cell phone to one of the other people, elsewhere in the house to come help turn the main light on. When they came to the room…we discovered not only had the cord been yanked from the socket, but there were mysterious scratch marks near the socket as well.
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"Anonymous"
When I was fourteen, my sister, myself, and our friend Mia were bored half out of our minds during summer vacation a few years back. I'd heard about ouija boards, and was fascinated by them, so I suggested we play. Keep in mind; this was about one in the morning. They agreed and since we didn't have a real one, we made one on the back of a box, using a cookie cutter for the planchette. We wrote down various words, numbers 1-20, and the alphabet. My sister didn't want to have her hands on it, so Mia told her to make up the questions and ask them. When Mia and I placed our hands on our planchette, my sister asked "Is Linda P---- (last name excluded for protection) here?" (Linda had committed suicide in our home before we bought it). The planchette flew to yes, and before my sister could say her next question out loud, spelled out my own name. My sister said "Will she have a happy life?" and the planchette drifted between yes and no, and then moved to spell 'J-U-L-Y' and hover above the numbers '2-8-2-0-0-5'. We dismissed it, and my sister asked if Mia was going to remain a virgin til her wedding night like she wanted to. The planchette shot to the top of the box, out of our hands, and then spelled 'R-A-P-E'. Mia stared at me and I asked, "When?" It then spelled out 'A-L-R-E-I-D-Y'. Mia blinked and my sister said "When? Who?" It then moved to 'J-U-N-E' and '1-9-9-8'. It moved to spell out the name 'R-Y-A-N'. The box then flew across the room, crashed into my stereo, and we heard my sister's door slam. We scrambled to right the box, and Mia grabbed our pointer, put it back on, and motioned for me to put my fingers back on it again. She asked "who's here?" and it spelled out 'S-H-A-N-E'. It then spelled out 'D-E-A-T-H' 'D-R-I-N-K-I-N-G' and 'G-R-A-D-U-A-T-I-O-N'. I finally figured it out. My cousin, Shane, had died the night of his graduation after he had been drinking and then went to drive his friend's home. I asked, "How are you?" and he then told me not to go on the golf course in 2005. We asked him a few more questions, but nothing happened. After we gave it up and started talking about random, usually girl stuff, I noticed the pointer moving rapidly across the box. I poked Mia, and told her to look. We watched as it spelled out the name 'Andy' and then the word 'murder'. I put my fingers back on it and Mia told me to let go, this was stupid, and I did.
Since that night, there's been a bullet lodged into my bedroom ceiling that no one can get out.
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Samantha
When I was about 12 years old, I went to my friend's family halloween party. We were bored so we went to the garage to see what we could find to do. We found and old Ouija board sitting on the game rack and asked her aunt if we could take it back to my friends house. She said we could. So we did. When we got there we went to her room and shut all the lights off (except a little lamp). We were talking to someone and I didnt believe that it was moving on its own and blamed it on my friend. She asked the board to give us a sign that something was there. About 2 minutes later her dresser and bed started shaking really hard. It scared us so bad, we put it away. We went to bed about an hour later and put the board under her bed neatly. When we woke up it was'nt there any longer. We havent seen the board since.
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Dennis
I've used the board twice and don't think I'll ever be using it again. The first time was with my friend John. I had heard about the Ouija before, but never tried it. Being a firm believer in the supernatural; I had a feeling it was going to work…and sure enough, not even ten seconds in to our session, it was working. I fell in to a trance-like state. We were on it hours, but it only seemed like 15-20 minutes. At first it told us it was a little boy. It couldn't spell very well and it also claimed it had died of a sickness at a young age. Then it said bye. We were so intrigued by the board we didn't want to stop, so we asked if there was anyone else out there that wanted to speak with us. Then a middle aged man claimed he was passing through noticed we were using the board. Then the most frightening thing happened of all. My friend John had a friend that died when he was 14 and he claimed to be his friend. I never met him, but my friend John was crying and I knew I wasn't moving it, so I know that this spirit either had to be John's friend or else it was an imposter. It was talking a lot about how he was in heaven and all kinds of other weird stuff. It soon became dark and we realized we had been on the Ouija for hours. The next incident was with another friend. My friend Tina, her mom and myself decided to mess around with it one night. What ever we made contact with, claimed to be a spirit that haunted her house that she had lived in a few years back. It was an evil spirit or at least one that was kind of sick in the head. The spirit that claimed to be from her other house used to kill the rabbits they had in cages in their backyard. They said they would often go outside to feed them and to their horror, find one or two rabbits dead, seemingly killed by a broken neck. There would be smells of raw sewage and other nasty, foul smells in their backyard sometimes. Anyway, Tina's mom asked the spirit to prove that it was there by tapping on the wall…sure enough…there was a tap on the wall. The tapping didn't come from the living room (the room we were in), but instead sounded as if it had come from Tina's bedroom, down the hall. By this point, I was pretty freaked out and if that wasn't enough, we decided to see if it could read minds. I often wonder if it was reading our minds or if we were tapping in to this entity and it influenced what numbers we chose. I still ponder over my strange experiences to this day and wonder how this board really works. I am still very curious, but I vowed never to mess with the board again. I have done some soul searching and my guess is that this board is like a piece of the tree of knowledge from The Garden of Eden. Knowledge we are not supposed to have; forbidden. From my own personal experiences, in my opinion, whatever is communicating through this channeling tool lies and can see into your mind if you open it and invite it in. It will seemingly know all your deepest darkest secrets….if you allow it to. My advice is to stay away from this thing, because when you look in to the abyss, the abyss looks back at you!
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Mitch
Being an opened minded skeptic, I always believed that the "Ouija board" was fake and someone always pushed the planchette around. My friend and I decided one day to see for ourselves. One of us kept our eyes closed, while the other watched. I decided to close my eyes first and have a little fun scaring my friend. I kept my eyes BARELY open…just enough to see what I was doing. I pushed it purposely to make it appear to spell out my friend's first name (just to freak him out). As I pushed it, I got t
