It’s not exactly news: Ouija boards are downright creepy. I’m sure you even have some chilling stories of your own, but they sure don’t hold a candle to these.
These stories we collected from Reddit are downright terrifyingly true though, and you’re going to quickly understand why many people say you should never play with a Ouija board.
Prepare yourself before reading further, because these stories just might keep you from sleeping at all tonight!
Eliza
“Some of my friends and I brought a Ouija board to a pioneer cemetery in the country and were able to contact one of the women buried there. Normally I would have suspected that one of my friends was moving the planchette, but here’s what happened: This particular cemetery is out in the cuts, so there was no lighting, and the moon was not full enough to illuminate anything – our flashlights were our only source of light.”
“We walk through the cemetery, set up the board in a clearing, and start asking questions. At first, it does nothing but soon starts to move and we get a name: Eliza.”
“I’m still very skeptical and am wondering which one of these jokers is moving the planchette. Someone asks how old she was when she dies, the Ouija board says 54. We ask if she wants us to stay. She says yes.”
“One of my friends starts shining his flashlight on the gravestones around us, none of which anyone has looked at, which I know because in order to read them properly one would have to shine a light directly on the gravestone. One of the stones closest to us reads Eliza Taylor, 1862-1916. Needless to say, we freak…out and hightail it out of there.”
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“A few days later, I google the cemetery and find that some people have reported seeing some lady in a period dress beckoning them over to the grave of the woman who we think contacted us.”
kaihopara
First Child
“I’ve shared before, but I will share again. My stepdad is the kind of man that doesn’t lie, ever. Which is why I believe his story about a Ouija board experience he had when he was younger.”
“He said he had friends over and had a Ouija board and they wanted to play. After a bit of playing around, they made contact with a……being that said it was a demon. His friends were asking it questions but he said the thing pinpointed him. It told my stepdad it would visit him again later after midnight.”
“Thoroughly freaked, they put the board away. My stepdad fell asleep and with dead seriousness, said he was woken right after 12 by it. Now the demon had told them its name by my stepdad refused to tell me, he was genuinely afraid.”
“Anyway he said this thing woke him, it was sitting at the end of his bed, grinning. He said it was small and evil…looking, just grinning at him. The thing told him his first child would die and it left.”
“My stepdad said afterward that he tried to get rid of the board, he first threw it out with the trash. But it didn’t work. He said a few days later, a little boy that he had never seen in the neighborhood, showed up at his door with the board.”
“He handed it to my stepdad and said this is yours and left. So now super freaked, my stepdad tried to burn it, but it wouldn’t catch fire, the fire kept dying no matter what he did. So then he dug a very deep hole, put the board in it, placed a bible on top, and buried it. He’s not seen the board since. As far as what the demon predicted, it came true. His first wife miscarried at 3 months.”
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Don’t Die
“I’m going to preface this by saying I’m not convinced about ouija boards, and I think that anything that requires human interaction has so much room for human error that I don’t think it’s possible to really rely on it.”
“Keeping that in mind, I had an experience with one, and I’ve realized that it might not even matter if it was some sort of communication, or just my friends’ and my subconscious.”
“This happened just over a year ago. I was in a pretty dark place emotionally and had been for a couple of months. I was thinking a lot about not really wanting to be alive anymore.”
“I was hanging out with some friends. They had used the ouija board a number of times and thought it was pretty interesting.”
“Honestly, I didn’t really believe their stories, since I had used it a couple of times before when I was a lot younger and got no results. Still, they wanted to play while we were hanging out, so I joined in.”
“We asked if there was anyone there, got a yes, and then asked if they wanted to speak to anyone in particular. It spelled my name immediately. What surprised me was how quickly and forcefully the planchette (in our case a glass flipped on its rim) moved.”
“When we asked what it wanted to tell me, it said “DONT DIE.” I won’t give a play-by-play of the rest of the conversation, but it basically told me I was a good person and things would get better.”
“It really freaked my friends out, and led to some awkward questions about my emotional state, but it was really what I needed to hear right then. It was a really positive experience, and regardless of what caused it, I’m really happy I experienced it.”
fenchurch1
The Birthday
“I’ve never had a fully paranormal experience with a Ouija board, per se, but something kinda creepy happened at summer camp with one a few years ago.”
“Backstory: My brother is adopted from South Africa; his birth mother abandoned him in Johannesburg. The hospital intake examination found him to be a newborn, so his official birthday is March 27, 2001, the day someone found him and brought him to a hospital.”
“That’s what’s on all his records (South African and American) and that’s the day we celebrate. But it is entirely possible that he could have been a day (or even two days old) when he was found.”
“So anyway, it’s me and six other girls, and we’re doing silly teenage girl things with a Ouija board. I thought it would be cool to ask what my brother’s real birthday is and to make sure the results weren’t skewed I took my hand off the planchette and stepped away from the board, and had the other girls ask “What is Caroline’s brother’s birthday?” They knew my brother was adopted, but they didn’t know the whole backstory about his birth date being somewhat fuzzy, and there’s no way they could have known that he was brought to a hospital on March 27, 2001.”
“Their fingers were on the planchette, and it moved to the numbers 3262001. March 26, 2001. It’s completely plausible that he was born on the 26th, and found on the 27th.”
“I still get kind of weirded out when I think about that. Maybe it’s just a coincidence. But it’s…weird that the (possibly exact) date of birth of a baby born in South Africa and adopted by a family that lived in DC showed up on a Ouija board at a summer camp in New Hampshire.”
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