30 October 2012
~True story~ ~Not mine~
Contributed by "Brandy Stark": When I was a teenager; around the age of 16, I found an Ouija board at a yard sale and bought it for $.25. Skeptical of the Ouija, I devised an experiment deemed to test if was simply a matter of self-suggestion: I was going to ask what pet would die next and think to myself "fish". We had several adult cats, dogs and guinea pigs who were not elderly and in very good health, but I had a tank of tropical fish, several of which were getting on in fish years. I was trying to "trick" the board by seeing if it would give me the answer I was thinking, which would be a logical conclusion.
I tried the Ouija board with my mother, a skeptic of all things supernatural. After setting it up, I asked my question. We put our fingertips on the planchette and waited. After five seconds of no response, Mom tired of "wasting her time" and decided that she was going to bed and left the room. I put the board away and didn't think about it for a few days.
Later that same week, I was talking to a male friend of mine on the phone. I was telling him of my disbelief and attempt at experimentation with the board. I had just told him the question that I was going to ask it "What pet would be the next to die?" I took a breath, told him "And the answer I was looking for was…." when all of a sudden the books on the shelf behind me tipped over. They knocked into a figurine and sent it to the floor, where it shattered. The figurine was of a ceramic fish.
These books had never tipped over before and were securely in place. I have not seen them fall in such a manner since this time period (almost 13 years later). The timing of the fall was too eerie…it was EXACTLY at the point where I would have said "fish". My friend said that he heard the noise and that I sounded stunned. Though it was a long distance call, I ended it hastily, went and got the Ouija board out of my closet and put it in the garage. I would not touch it again. My mother had to get rid of it without my knowledge as I so feared it. I think that was a warning for me. I have taken Ouija boards seriously since then. If they do not channel the dead, then they certainly set up a psychological premise which I don't think should be tampered with. I feel it is like opening the door to a stranger.
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