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Tales of the Ouija

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OUIJA PREDICTS HER FATE

In the summer of 1996 I was about 14 years of age. It was me, a girlfriend, and a friend from the apartments where I was. That third friend had received a Ouija board from another friend and brought it to us outside.

"Oh no," I told her, "I don't believe in those." I attend church every Sabbath, for I am a Seventh Day Adventist. But being a teenager, I decided to try it, just once. It wasn't real, we thought. We all put our hands on the board to see what would happen. All of a sudden, the wooden planchette began moving.

"Wait a minute," I said, "Stop moving this thing." I looked at my closest homegirl and she said, "I swear, that's not me!" The third friend asked, "What's your name?" It started sliding across letters and stopped on them, spelling a name. To this day I can't remember the name, but I finally asked a question, still in disbelief that one of the girls wasn't moving it. I asked, At what age will I have a baby? It pointed to the numbers 1 and 5. Age 15!

Still in disbelief, my closest friend asked the board to spell her dead grandparents' names. Believe me when I say it did. She then jumped up to her feet, in shock, tears rolling down her cheeks. It had really spelled out their names.

I then asked it a personal question about my relative and, sure enough, it revealed it to me. I then jumped up shaking. I asked the third person to leave and to take that thing away; we no longer wanted to play. Tears roll down my face every time I tell anyone this.

Believe it or not, I got pregnant at 15 years of age.

Don't attempt the Ouija board. They are not fake. It took me to witness this to be able to talk about it. I am now 26 and will never again make a mistake like that one again. God is good. - Nene

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