Something Scary Vol. 1

Chapter 8: Ouija Board

So, this is another story from my cousin cause she's the worst. She was about 16 and at a friends house for a slumber party. And her friend had a collection of really expensive porcelain dolls along the shelves. She also had a Ouija board, and she really wanted to try it out that night.

So if you don't know what a Ouija board is, basically it's a board with a bunch of letters and words like yes or no, and there's a planchet so who ever is playing puts two fingers on the planchet really lightly. So you ask the board a question and supposedly if there's a spirit around the room, the spirit will move the planchet along with your fingers and spell out their answers to your question.

So if you don't believe in spirits there's actually a scientific answer on how Ouija boards work. It's called the Ideomotor effect. If everybody is focused on the answer then everybody's fingers will start moving that direction. And since there are so many fingers, other than yours, you don't think you have anything to do with it. So like, your not moving it at all.

If you are using Ouija board to talk to a spirit, you like, open a door to their dimension, and that's why it's really, really, really, important to always properly say goodbye at the end of your session. Otherwise your just leaving the door wide open for whatever to come in. So I've seen plenty of videos try to debunk Ouija boards. I know all about the ideomotor, and I know for a fact that there really isn't a reason I shouldn't be afraid of a Ouija board. But I. WILL. NEVER. FUCK. WITH. A. OUIJA. BOARD! Because of stories like this one:

So, all the other girls where down to play with the Ouija board, but not my cousin, so she decided to just stand of in the corner and watch. So they lit candles, and they started asking questions.

"Is anybody here?"

Yes.

"Are you a spirit?"

Yes.

"Are you a good spirit?"

No.

So some of the girls are pretty convinced that someone is controlling the planchette. So they ask my cousin,"why don't you ask it something that no one here now's the answer too so we'll know if someone is moving it."

"Uh, what animal am I thinking of?"

T.U.R.T.L.E.

So they all look at my cousin, and she is just wide eyed and shocked. And that just made all the other girls really excited. So they continue to play and eventually they ask,"where are you?"

D.O.L.L.

And then, all of the dolls turn their heads one by one, to the right, and then they jumped off of the shelves and the candles blew out. Everybody screamed and was scrambling to get out of the room leaving the board in the darkness, without properly ending the game. When my cousin was running out of the room, she swears there was something clawing at her foot.

Obviously none of the girls slept in the room that night. So the next morning they grabbed trash bags and starting tossing all the dolls into the trash bags. And my cousins friends mom came over and asked,"what are you doing? You love these dolls!"

"Not anymore mom."

**********Authors Note***********

I know a lot of you, maybe all, say <Wee-Gee> and it annoys me. The proper saying is <wee-Ha>
It's sort of a Spanish accent at the end. That's all I need to say.
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