A face in the window and a mysterious death… Ouija board users share their creepy stories
These scary stories will send shivers down your spine
PLAYING with a Ouija board is not game for those who believe in their power.
But if you ever fancied dabbling you might want to read these creepy tales first.
The following horror stories were posted on a Reddit thread which asked “Paranormal fans, who has used a Ouija board? What was your experience(s)?”
The answers will send a shiver down your spine.
Murder Mystery
User turtleshellmagic wrote: “My two best friends (M and L for this story) and I played at M’s house. It was going fine until M asked the spirit how it had died and it said ’murder.’
“She asked how it had been murdered and it said ’not I.’ It gave its name as something older that I can no longer remember and gave us a date in the 1800s. It started to get heavy.
“The whole room felt different, and the little thing on the board was ripped out of our hands and went across the room. We stopped playing immediately after that. M’s mom died of cancer a week later. Very suddenly, nobody knew.
"Probably a coincidence, but L’s mom was hospitalized for a serious drinking problem not long after that and then mine had an emergency hysterectomy the same week."
“I Can See You Through the Window”
User no_springs wrote: "I was about 12 or 13 spending the night at a friend’s house, goofing around with the Ouija board with him and his sister. We were getting all sorts of gibberish plus words spelled out, just kind of scaring ourselves for fun, not taking it very seriously.
"Then we got the message ’I can see you through the window’ and then ’I can see you through his eyes’. There was just a small window in the basement room where we were, and just the backyard and woods past the driveway visible through that window. We asked it more questions and it said ’I’m under the car,’ so we somehow got up the nerve to go out with a flashlight and peer under the car, where we saw a huge black stray cat hissing.
"We ran inside freaking out, and at that exact moment, the power failed and all the lights in the house went out. Few minutes later, the power came back, and we sat up until dawn that night scared."
Body of Evidence
Reddit user TheTreeman was encouraged to use it by his MUM when he was little.
He said “A friend of hers had recently gone missing. He’d been missing for a month or so, and nobody knew where he was.
"When we asked who it was we’re talking to, his name was spelled out. Let’s just say it was George, since I genuinely don’t remember. “When we asked George if he was my mom’s friend, he said yes. My mom got visibly upset, and asked where he was. ’In a lake’ was spelled out. It was extremely upsetting, and we stopped immediately. Mom tried to be lighthearted about it, and since I was young, I believed it was no big deal as well, following her lead.
"About two weeks later, they found George’s body. He’d been hit by some car or train or something on some bridge, and his body fell into the nearby lake, though it was more like a very large pond. It was a reasonably remote place, so nobody had found it for a while.”
Vanished
Hammerhands wrote: “We were hanging out in a friend’s dorm room and busted out the Ouija board. There were a few of us who had used them before and a few who hadn’t that were quite sceptical.
“Gary, one of the sceptics, kept calling bullsh** to the whole thing. His first question, ’Is this for real or just a bunch of bullsh**?’ The planchette zipped to NO. ’Fine’ he says. ’Prove it!’
"No sooner had he finished that statement when the lights in the room flickered and the building’s fire alarm went off. This freaked us all out and we left the room to follow fire alarm procedures. After about 20 minutes, campus safety said it was a false alarm and let us all back in to the dorms. When we arrived back up to the room, the Ouija board was gone. No one took it with us and the room was left locked."
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Family Christmas
Beatleape had a festive scare.
He wrote: “I got an Ouija board for Christmas when I was in sixth grade (great Christmas present, huh?). That night, I went over to my best friend’s house and brought the board with me. We went up to her room, set it on the floor, and asked, ’Is there anyone in the room with us?’ The planchette spelled out ’Ruth’ which was my grandma’s name and her great-aunt’s name. Both my grandma and her great-aunt had died that year.
“We threw the board back in the box and were totally freaked out. I ended up throwing it in the Dumpster a couple years later.”
Tragic prediction
Kidthink wrote: “My older sister used one at her 14th birthday party.
“Whatever came through said that he grew up in the neighborhood, and answered a lot of questions about my parents' house.
“Eventually, a girl in attendance whose mother had cancer, asked if her mom was going to die soon. "YES". "How soon?" "T-W-O-D-A-Y-S". She started crying.
“They asked the board to prove it was working, and all the candles in the room were immediately blown out. The girl's mom died two days later.”
Angry spirit
User gothpsy29 wrote: “Once, right after my ex had lost his friend in an airplane accident, we took [the Ouija board] out to use it. She was very present. She was very scared and alone and desperate for communication.
“We stopped using it and immediately I felt this presence in the corner of the room. I closed my eyes to take a deep breath. Suddenly the pointer started moving rapidly around and going too fast to spell out the words. It was terrifying. I refused to use the Ouija board again.
"I immediately felt exhausted. Completely and utterly drained. I lay down and had a nap. I was asleep for exactly 30 minutes. I woke up, bolted out of bed. I closed my eyes for a second to adjust myself to where I was, and I ’saw’ this spirit/skeletal thing standing in the corner of the room. It suddenly rushed at my face and started screaming at me, with a big, gaunt mouth. I opened my eyes and started screaming at my boyfriend to get it off me. I could feel it, so oppressive and aggressive, trying to get on/in me. I ran from the house, screaming [and] shaking.
"I don’t think I ever used the Ouija board again. One day, it disappeared from my bedroom. It completely vanished.”
The Face at the Window
aaraabellaa said: “When I was around 12–14, one girl brought an Ouija board to my friend’s birthday party. I was pretty sceptical, but also really curious about it, as I had never used one before.
“The other girls were pretty creeped out, but I wasn’t until it answered a question for me that nobody else knows the answer to. To this day, I can’t explain how that answered appeared, or any of the other paranormal experiences that happened after we put that board away. I truly believe that we contacted something, and it stuck around.
"There were just generally a lot of small things, like footsteps above us when we were on the top floor. The door kept swinging open on its own, and the girl who lived there said it never did that on its own before then.
“The creepiest part was that a bunch of us randomly woke up around 4 or 5 in the morning and a few girls saw a black figure walking down on the street outside the window. Apparently one of the girls had seen what they thought was the same figure with his face at the window (on the second story) earlier in the night.”
Sad situation
“My cousin and I used a ouija board once. It was...not a happy experience.
She had recently had an abortion because the illness she had and the medication she took for it would have led the baby to be severely deformed, if not killed it during or shortly after birth.
“The answers we were getting to our questions indicated the spirit of what would have been her child was communicating with us. I do not believe she was messing around, because she left the room in tears and I didn't make the connection until my mom reminded me about the baby.”