Whether you believe that the Ouija board is a dangerous object that can open portals to negative forces or that it merely reflects the many fears and desires that lie in our subconscious, the stories of people’s experiences with the board are fascinating. I suspect that many of the tales we hear, including the ones that follow, might be exaggerated or at least colored for effect, yet we’re willing to consider them since the authors have sworn that they are true.
THE OUIJA’S WARNING
“I used to live in a house in Pueblo, Colorado that I always thought was ‘peculiar’ because of the way I always felt in it,” says a reader who uses the name Aphrodite. She always felt like she was being watched, a feeling that intensified when she was alone.
But she couldn’t quite identify the feeling. Was the watcher staring in anger or fascination? Soon the feeling turned into sounds.
One night her father had to go out to the store. To feel safe, Aphrodite locked every door in the house while she was upstairs. “The house is very big, so it creaks a lot, especially the stairs,” she says, “but as I was stepping into the shower, I heard the floorboards creak like someone was walking on them.” Aphrodite wrapped a towel tightly around her, counted to three and flung open the bathroom door to confront the intruder. There was no one there. She dismissed the sounds as her imagination and got in the shower. As she turned on the water, she heard the floorboards creak again. “Determined to find out the source, I left the shower running and with one huge thrust opened the door and, expecting to see someone, pushed forward so they'd fall down the stairs,” she says. Aphrodite grabbed only air.
Now thinking that the intruder might be a spirit, Aphrodite went to her room and fetched the Ouija board from under her bed and set it up on the floor.
“I thought, if it was a ghost, it might want to communicate,” she says. Aphrodite lit five candles: red, green, yellow, blue and white. She set four of them at the corners of the board and placed the white one between her legs. “I gently put my hand on the board and called the spirit out. ‘If there's anyone here who wishes to communicate with me, please make your presence known.’” Something blew out the red candle and the Ouija’s pointer began to move. “The spirit told me he was a man age 32 who wanted to communicate with me,” she says. “He also said that he hated the way I lived and that’s why he watched me. I asked him if he was mad at me. He said yes. And the last message he relayed to me was: ‘GET OUT. WON’T BE SAFE LONGER.’ And with that the board was done.”
Aphrodite didn’t tell anyone of this experience, but she did try to convince her dad to move from that house. They didn’t even move when, during dinner one evening, they both heard the stairs creak, followed by an upstairs mirror crashing to the floor. They finally did move when Aphrodite’s dad got a new job. “Ever since then, I have wondered if the spirit is still there,” she says. “I still wonder if maybe I should have faced it or if it was a good thing we moved. I've talked to the recent owners of that house, and they say that their dog won't go into my old room and that the wife gets violently shoved when she is alone.”
SUMMONING HITLER
Before Ouija boards were sold in toy stores, people used to make their own “talking board” for their séances. This is what Denise’s mother did a number of years ago, Denise tells us. The setting is a small town in Germany called Tittmoning , which lies near the Austrian border. It’s an old town with a dark history. It suffered the plague twice and was virtually burned to the ground on three occasions in its past. Still, it features a castle, old buildings and, of course, cemeteries. Important to this story, too, is the fact that Adolf Hitler was born in Austria, then ruled Germany, much to the world’s dismay.
The story begins on a chilly summer evening in 1985 when Denise’s mother, then a 13-year-old girl, and her friend decided to have a little fun together while their parents were gone.
They took a blank sheet of paper and a black marker, and started to neatly write on it the numbers 1 through 9 and 0. Below them they wrote the alphabet, drew a sun and a star, and finished it off by adding "Good Bye" to the right and "Hello" to the left. They set a little wooden desk and two chairs in the middle of the room and placed the paper on the table. They lit six candles around the room, then placed an inverted drinking glass on the table. They switched off the lights off and sat at the table. The two girls moved the glass to "Hello" and lightly pressed one finger each atop the glass.
One of the girls addressed their homemade Ouija board. "Hello? Is anybody there?" she asked. After a moment of silence, the glass slowly started to move toward the letters and spelled out YES. As the evening slowly turned into night, the girls had asked the spirit a variety of questions. They were enjoying this activity until one girl suggested, "Let's ask him his name!" They asked. Two seconds later, their talking board pointed out the letters L-H-E-I-T-R-D-O-F-L-A.
At first the girls were puzzled, but then realized the letters were out of order. It was an anagram.
“Are you Adolf Hitler?” they asked. Silence for nearly two minutes. Then suddenly the glass shot across the room and shattered against the wall into millions of pieces. The girls went screaming out of the room and refused to go back in. The next day, strange things began to happen in the house: footsteps, a weird laughing sound... one of the girls even swore she saw Hitler's face in a corner, grinning at her.
Eventually, they were forced to return to the room to clean up the glass. As they entered the room, they found their self-made Ouija board ripped into pieces on the table. The girls picked up the shredded paper and buried it in their backyard. They have never touched another Ouija board – homemade or store bought – to this day.
OUIJA PHONE CALL
Many people firmly believe that spirits and other entities can communicate with them through the Ouija. But can that communication carry over to other devices as well?
Consider Jessica’s experience, who decided to play with the Ouija with a few of her friends in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. They were all at Becka’s house, which everyone thought was incredibly creepy and undoubtedly haunted; in other words, the perfect setting for their séance. Jessica, Becka and Diane set up the living room for the experiment with lit candles. Jessica and Diane sat on their knees on either side of a piano bench which held the Ouija board and placed their fingers on the planchette. Becka refused to touch the board and instead took the role of “scribe”.
“Please take note that we had all turned our cell phones off so that they would not disrupt the atmosphere,” Jessica says. After speaking to a young girl named Wisty and a man who would not give his name, but instead kept attempting to move the planchette through the alphabet, the girls decided to stop. “Suddenly, my cell phone started to ring,” Jessica says. “Being a teenager then, I used to have my ringtones all set as song clips. This time however, the phone rang its original tinny tune.”
Stunned, Jessica glanced fearfully at her friends. She slowly picked up her phone from the table and looked at the display to see who might be calling. “The phone number listed was not in normal format,” Jessica insists, “but it was something like this ************, without hyphens or parentheses as would be the norm.” Shaking, she answered and said, "Hello?" On the other end, a man began to speak incomprehensibly in a language she did not recognize and could never place. When Jessica told him she was going to hang up, the mysterious man got very quiet, then began to laugh. “That was assuredly the last time we used the board at her house.”
OUIJA STOLE THE PHONE
Zoe also had an experience with the Ouija and a cell phone, perhaps not surprising since teen girls seem to love their cell phones as well as a bit of Ouija drama. Zoe’s story took place in mid-September, 2008. She and her friends Maddie, Kelly and Brianna were all hanging out at Nora’s house after school. “We all knew the story that went along with her house,” Zoe says. “In the 1800s, a woman had killed her husband and then hung herself upstairs. So, we thought, this would be a great place to have fun with her Ouija board.”
The girls set up the board and almost immediately got a response from a 45-year-old woman named Tyra. They asked Tyra all the typical questions teen girls would ask about boys in their grade and other friends.
They really weren’t taking it very seriously, however, never considering that something paranormal might be going on. In fact, they suspected that one of the girls was purposely directing the board to its answers. As they were arguing over who was secretly pushing the pointer, Nora suddenly shouted with excitement. “She asked us if we felt an area of coldness around the triangle,” says Zoe. “We all put our hands near it and found that the area was freezing! We knew that it was something paranormal as our hands brushed against the pocket of cold, so we stopped arguing and continued asking Tyra questions.”
Getting bored with the routine questions, one of the girls got more daring and asked if Tyra could possibly show herself. They waited for a minute... but nothing happened. Becoming impatient, Kelly shouted out that Tyra should steal Brianna's phone. It was just a joke and they were all laughing -- until Brianna discovered that her cell phone was missing. Instantly, the laughter turned to chaos as the group of five screaming girls ran around the room looking for Brianna's phone.
“Some of us sat back down and asked Tyra where the phone was a couple times,” says Zoe. “Each time she replied that the phone was with her. We were getting seriously freaked out, so Maddie tried calling Brianna's phone. What happened next changed me into a firm believer of the paranormal. Maddie dropped her own phone, screaming that when she had tried to call Brianna's phone, the line had been busy, meaning that someone was using Brianna's phone to call someone. As Maddie and Nora bawled their eyes out, Brianna, Kelly and I asked Tyra where the phone was again. Tyra told us that she had put the phone in the bedroom across the hall, and that we should go get it before someone else finds it.”
Banding tightly together, the girls inched toward the closed door of the room. Suddenly it banged open on its own, causing more screams. Terrified, the girls huddled in a corner of the room until they finally got up the courage to go into the bedroom across the hall. “Maddie tried calling Brianna's phone again, and we heard a muffled ringtone,” Zoe remembers. “After looking for at least fifteen minutes, Kelly finally found Brianna's phone, sitting in a shoe underneath Nora's bed, freezing cold to the touch.”
THE ENTITY ZOZO
In this last story, Darren seems to confirm the warnings that many have given about the Ouija board. In particular, he warns about this thing that calls itself Zozo. Several other readers have reported contacting this entity also. (You can read some of their stories here, here and here.)
Darren read these stories, too. “Here is a link to a picture I took after this spirit told me to take a picture of it,” he says. “The spirit said it resided in a skull necklace, which is being held above the board. After taking this picture many strange events took place.
“The spirit said it was going to possess my girlfriend. She became deathly ill and violent. My daughter almost drowned in a bathtub the same day. She also came down with a horrible disease that required 16 days in the hospital, to which she was quarantined. The house became haunted, stuff flying around the kitchen, and we could hear ‘conversations’ emanating from within the house.
“I was shocked to read about other people who also had strange occurrences with this same spirit. This puzzles me greatly... why so many people claim the same name... who have no connection other than this evil named spirit coming to them via a Ouija board. I am convinced that this Zozo is a dangerous demon who wishes to cause destruction. It also seems that in Greek mythology there is a demon by the same name who is known as ‘The Destroyer.’ Don't believe me – look it up for yourself. Please help me to warn people that if this name comes to them, whether by dreams or through Ouija contact, be very careful. Don't go through what others and myself have had to go through. It is real... and it is harmful.”
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