In 1982, Darren Evans of Tulsa, Oklahoma, discovered a ouija board on the dirt floor of the crawlspace under his girlfriend's house.
At each corner of the board sat a glass jar containing the preserved remains of black birds.
"I could see their eyes and they were bloody," Evans said in a telephone interview.
While the circumstances surrounding the discovery were strange, Evans said the board was even stranger.
"It was a weird looking board," he said. "It was a huge, menacing looking board. On the back were weird inscriptions like someone took a tool and carved into it."
There was also silver leaf details on that strange reverse side.
"On the front, it had 'Zozo' where 'Ouija' was usually written," Evans said.
His girlfriend's mom practiced the Wiccan religion, but no one had any clue why the board was under the house, or where it came from.
That's when he began using the board.
That's when he contacted an ancient entity named Zozo.
Evans teamed up with Rosemary Ellen Guiley — paranormal researcher, investigator, and author of more than 60 paranormal books — to write "The Zozo Phenomenon."
Based on Evans' personal experiences with Zozo, the book delves into a comprehensive investigation of the entity's historical roots, while searching for possible explanations of its true identity.
Almost as soon as Evans began using the ouija board, "really odd things began to happen" to and around him.
"People told me to stay off of it, but I found that hard to do," he said. "For years, it would tell me it was my guardian angel."
But he soon found that whoever or whatever he was communicating with had no intention of protecting him.
"It would have me chant words," he recalled. "I started having health problems. I got the point where I was hallucinating, and had two deliverances from clergymen."
In October 2014, Travel Channel's "Ghost Adventures" aired an episode featuring Evans, his ex-wife, and a handyman who experienced paranormal activity while working in the family's home.
Zak Bagans and the "Ghost Adventures" crew heard about Evans' experiences with Zozo and that he had dedicated himself to education the public about the dangerous practice of contacting the demonic spirit.
Evans was asked to participate in a ouija board experiment on the show.
"It was the first time I had been on a board in a decade," he said.
Evans sat down at the board with Ghost Adventures' audio tech Jay Wasley, originally of Blackwood, and almost immediately got a reaction from the ouija board and the house itself.
Evans and Wasley placed their fingers lightly on the planchette and, after asking a few initial questions, the marker began moving in a rainbow pattern from one side of the board to the other.
Each time, the planchette stopped on the letter "Z," turned, and then traveled to the letter "O," before returning to "Z."
"I'm not trying to induce fear, but make people aware of what can happen if you play with a spirit board," Evans said of the book. "We look at the phenomenon from all angles."
Evans said the book will be released in June, and will be available at ZozoPhenomenonbook.com and visionaryliving.com.
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