Steve's story on the previous page is an example of how people often experience weird phenomena some time after they have used the board. This was also that case for another reader, who uses the handle Timberwolf. He and his friends had fooled around with the Ouija, asking silly questions and experiencing nothing creepy or out of the ordinary at the time. It was later that night that Timberwolf encountered the unexplained...
The Demonic Skull
- I woke up because I was really cold. I looked at my clock and saw that it was around midnight. I rolled over onto my back and was going to just look at the ceiling until I fell asleep. I saw something above me, and it took me a few seconds to register it. Above me was this thing. It was only the torso of something (it had no legs) and was the color of dried blood. The torso was very muscular and looked as if it could have crushed me in a second. That wasn't what scared me, though. The face of the thing was what frightened me. It looked as if someone had taken a skull and stretched the skin over it so it looked as it it was about to tear. It had no eyes, but burning lights in the eye sockets; no ears either, but it had two horns coming out of its head just above its eyes. It looked down at me and smiled at me. When I woke up the next day, I looked at my clock. It had stopped at exactly 12:00 midnight. I haven't seen it since, but I will never use a Ouija board again. (Read the complete story.)
There are many stories like this - phenomena after the fact. But occasionally there are incidents that occur even with just the intention of using the Ouija. When she was in fifth grade, Shannon and her friends decided to try it, just for fun. They didn't have a manufactured board, so they prepared to make one. While going to do this, somehow a door seemed to open by itself. This might have had a mundane cause, but it scared the girls enough to forget the Ouija idea. But the story doesn't end there. It was after she went to bed that Shannon saw the apparition...
The Lady in White
- I couldn't sleep at all that night. I just sat there with the blankets over my head. All night I heard footsteps walking around me, and finally I got the nerve to see what was there. I pulled down the blanket and standing in the doorway was something that has always been etched into my mind: There was a lady, maybe in her 30s. She didn't look very friendly and she just stared at me like she was going to fly right at me and strangle me. I was scared to death. I remember her wearing a sheer white dress that seemed to be ripped and cut at the bottom. She was standing still looking at me, but her dress was waving like there was wind flowing at her. Then, as quick as you can blink, she was gone. (Read the complete story.)
The truth is, most Ouija experiences are benign - it may "answer" some questions, but nothing really strange happens, before, during or after. Then there are the negative experiences, like those above. Every once in a while, however, there is a Ouija story with a happy ending. "Bee" had such an experience - a rather remarkable one, too. Bee had been playing the Ouija with her mother back in 1997. Inexplicably, and in response to no particular question, it repeatedly spelled out the name "Randy." It then further explained that Randy was Bee's soul mate, that he was from Maryland and that they would meet sometime in the future. At the time, Bee was not only already married (and his name wasn't Randy), she was suffering from cancer and was undergoing chemo treatments. She was sick and her hair was falling out, so she wasn't feeling very hopeful about meeting this Prince Charming. But the Ouija knew...
The Prediction
- Three months later, I was separated from my husband and decided to go horseback riding with my mother. Her best friends of eight years were with her, and with them their son (I never knew they had). We started talking and I asked him what his name was, he replied, "My name is Randy." Shocked, I said, "Where are you from?" He replied, "Maryland." I grabbed my mother, took her aside and told her what this man had just said to me, recalling the Ouija board message a few months earlier. That day we met, he somehow overlooked my sickness and fell in love with me. He has never left my side since that day in June of 1997. We are now very happily married and are the very best of friends. He IS my soul mate and the Ouija board couldn't have been more accurate. (Read the complete story.)
