Creepy Stories About Ouija Boards
Two Weeks Of Hauntings
Redditor /u/iamaballsack-ama went out of their way to get haunted by something that came through their Ouija board. After trying and failing to contact a spirit the first time, they cut the lights, lit some candles, and turned on an old radio to play nothing but white noise while they tried to make contact with the other side. That's a pair of bad idea jeans if ever there was one.
When a spirit finally responded, the Redditor and their friends learned that its name was Zozo, and from there, things went about poorly as they could:
We began to try and move the planchette in circles like you do when you're expecting an answer, and all of the sudden, it f*cking stopped the "hello" spot of the board and would not f*cking move. We actually slid the whole board off the table trying to get it to move. It was being pushed down, hard.
The planchette continually alternated between "Hello" and "No," the radio emitted screeching sounds, a bunch of objects fell off the top of the refrigerator, the candles blew out, and a cat that lives at the house began walking with a limp the next day. Weird activity continued in her home for the next two weeks.
There Was No Wind
After reading this collection of spooky Ouija stories that happened to Redditor /u/kimmygibblersaywhat, you're probably going to buy a ticket for the "no thank you" train just like us.
The writer's most terrifying story comes from an evening when a spirit named "Deb" proved that it exists by explaining that it knows where she and her friends smoke, possibly insinuating that it's watching them as they get their fix.
Not freaked enough by this information to stay inside, the Redditor and her friend Hailey pressed Deb to prove she is real:
I said "How will we know [you're real]?" and she said "TREES." I am like "f*ck that" and Hailey says we have to do it.
So, we're smoking outside, I'm looking into the forest sweating balls in fear, thinking I'm going to see a f*cking demon face in the branches or something. Eventually we relax, but then Hailey, mid-sentence, her face drops and goes white and shes like, "F*ck f*ck f*ck get inside NOW."
I f*cking toss my cigarette and jump in the window. We close the blinds and we're breathing super heavy. I'm like, "What the f*ck happened?"
She says that behind me, in the distance, there was a big-ass, like, 100-foot-tall tree. There was NO wind, I remember this because I was watching my cigarette smoke go directly up and I was blowing perfect O's without them disappearing. She says the tree was still, then suddenly the WHOLE tree, including the trunk, moved back and forth, then went back to perfectly still.
I was like "HELL NO," and after awhile of freaking out, sat back at the board. When we put our fingers on it, it said, "Did you see?"
What the Is the Red Door?
Redditor /u/huxleypearl relates a Ouija board story that seems to be more about a family of intuitive people who live in a haunted house than anything else. But it's worth noting that their spooky troubles didn't begin until they horsed around with a Ouija board. Afterward, their ghostly issues included phantoms pulling on a baby's limbs, a black-clad ghost slave family, and the appearance of a creepy red door.
What's more, the sister in this family may have summoned up something very troubling:
Anyway, her sister said that she was playing with the board one day, and when she asked who she was "speaking" to, she got a weird name. It struck her as odd, but she didn't really worry about it. Weeks later, she watched a special on the History channel or something; they were discussing demonology. She recognized one of the names as being the strange one she had encountered through the Ouija board.
All Boyfriends Go To Hell
While stationed in Germany, a former Redditor and some fellow soldiers decided to light some candles and contact the dead. The first spirit they spoke with was a young woman who had perished while she and her boyfriend were driving home from a Grateful Dead concert, and now she was looking for him.
After she went away, they actually spoke to the boyfriend, who asked if they could tell his girlfriend that he was sorry. Then they spoke to the ghost of an older woman who said that the reason the spirit of the young woman couldn't find her boyfriend is that he's in hell! (Cue lightning crash.)
The Little Demon
While messing around with a Ouija board as a young man, the stepdad of a former Redditor was visited by a demon who told him that his firstborn child would perish. Understandably, the next morning the guy tried to get rid of the board first by throwing it away, then by burning it, and finally burying it with a Bible on top for good measure.
Years later, his wife miscarried their first child.
Niall Wants Answers
While playing with a Ouija board with some friends from high school, Redditor /u/Helvin3 and some friends encountered a spirit named Niall who said that he had been slain by his father. The group tried to move on from this conversation, but the spirit continued to insist that he wanted answers, even going so far as to spell out "satisfy my requests."
After that, the friends "abandoned everything: the board, the house, the street." Truly, the only way to bust a ghost.
The Board Returns
After building a spirit board with his sister, Redditor/u/lifeinhexcolors says the duo contacted a spirit named Roger who perished of food poisoning and knew that the brother and sister's older sibling "wanted to talk to them."
Shortly afterward, the older sister, who was upstairs vacuuming, called for the kids to help her with the household chores. The spirit-boarding duo got so freaked out that they threw their board away, only for it to return the next day.
The Haunted Board
Imagine a Ouija board that was so pent up with spooky energy that it didn't even have to be used to start screwing around with your life. That's exactly what happened to Redditor /u/zombiethoven, who took the board in question from a friend who said that every time she tried to use it, the same spirit continued to show up.
After taking the board to its new home, things began to move around in the middle of the night, footsteps were heard, and the cats were not happy. But really, when are cats happy?
Touched By An Angel
While using a Ouija board to contact the spirit of a young girl's grandmother, Redditor/u/ouououiii and a group of friends were contacted by the spirit of something that wore wooden clogs and had the touch of something not quite human. After being called, the spirit entered the room and "touched" everyone in the circle, causing them to hyperventilate:
Suddenly the girl sitting closest to the door starts hyperventilating and tears fill her eyes. We're all basically frozen in fear at this point. It's really hard to get a feeling for how fast time went, but not long after it started, it stops and starts with person on her left side doing the same.
I don't think I really understood at that time, that I was next in line. It ended with the person next to me, and I suddenly felt something touch my shoulders. It wasn't completely like the physical touch of a human, but it definitely was something that put weight on my shoulders. I of course freeze and start hyperventilating at the shock of something unknown touching me. When this had gone halfway through the circle, it jumps straight at the granddaughter, who starts with the same hyperventilating and breaks down crying.
An Unexplained Alarm
While playing with a Ouija board late at night, Redditor/u/frostfromfire asked for a simple sign so they could know they were actually communing with the spirit realm and not just absentmindedly moving the planchette around.
That's when their local flood alarm sounded three times, even though there was no rain that night.
Ghost Wave Feminism
Redditor/u/TwistedMissy tells a Ouija story about their grandmother, who decided to pass some time with her lady friends and husband one spooky eve.
After reaching a spirit and asking the basics, they cut to the chase and asked how the ghost passed. The ghost said it would tell them, but not until the "boy" left the room. After the grandpa left, the spirit began to relay the story of its demise, but when the grandpa returned to fetch his wallet, the spirit cut its chilling tale short.
You Are Trapped
While playing with a Ouija board with his cousin Donny in a camper outside of his house, Redditor/u/Roblicki kept receiving the same message again and again. The letters "H" and "A" followed by "You are trapped."
When the two cousins decided to leave the camper, they discovered that the door handle had broken off - they were trapped. Eventually they got out of their prison, but that was the last time either of them messed with a Ouija board.
Drunk And Open-Minded
On New Year's Eve 1991, while drinking like only teenagers can, Redditor/u/eatmycupcake and their siblings contacted a spirit named Eugene.
We asked "Why are you contacting us, Eugene?" We received the answer "Afraid."
That seemed a bit more serious. We asked "Why are you afraid, Eugene?" It replied "Music. Music." over and over. Nonsense. Then we got a series of numbers. Puzzling. My brother had the bright idea to turn on the radio to [the] station indicated by the numbers. To our surprise, there really was a station there. The song "Don't Leave Me Stranded" by Heart was playing. The board immediately started saying "Heart. Heart. Heart." I thought my brother was just playing off of what he was hearing and was screwing with me. Then it started saying "Don't go. Don't leave me. Don't go. Church. Church. Afraid. Don't go." over and over and over. We assured it we weren't going to go, but it dwindled into nonsense after a while. It was getting really late (early?) and we decided to go to bed.
The next afternoon, while everyone was eating breakfast, the family's father received a phone call letting him know that his uncle, Eugene, had had a heart attack the previous night and died multiple times on the table, only to be revived very early that morning. He had been terrified of losing his life because he hadn't attended church in decades.
On The Queen Mary
It's a well-known fact that the Queen Mary, a historic cruise ship permanently docked in Long Beach, California, is one of the most haunted sites on the planet. So it makes perfect sense that someone would have a very scary Ouija experience on board the ship - even if they made their board out of two pieces of paper and some Band-Aids.
When Redditor /u/gardn198 and some friends decided to experiment on the ship, they spoke with a spirit who said that its name was Zack, and who may have tried to physically assault the team after they went to bed that night. Each member of the crew suffered night terrors, with one of them running through the "Our Father" prayer in a state of lucid dreaming.
Thirty-Five Cents
Redditor /u/Wuwuhu tells a couple of stories about their strange Ouija board that predicted major events in the lives of those who used it, but the most interesting thing they mention is how the board consistently had 35 cents in its box.
One of their friends ended up taking the change "for luck," and kept it on them at all times. Months later, the change was able to help them make pay phone call that got them out of a sticky situation.
TFW A Ghost's Story Lines Up With The Internet
When Redditor /u/Wuwuhu decided to use her Ouija board in the wilderness one afternoon, she and her family spoke to a spirit who may have been reaching out for help. After meeting something calling itself Patrick, the family had a good time joking around with the ghost until it told them that he'd been brutally assaulted and slain near where they were hanging out.
After the family shut the conversation down, they returned home and checked up on the story, which had been reported in the local news.
Never Burn A Ouija Board
If you've seen any horror movie with a Ouija board, you know that the last thing you want to do is burn a spirit board. We don't know the exact science behind it, but something about setting one of these things on fire angers all of the ghosts and then you have to figure out how to get them out of your house.
Redditor /u/0rphantear decided to get spooky with his friends one day and printed out a Ouija board from the internet (ugh, the internet), and after they failed to get anything going with the ghost, they burned the board in the fireplace. But then everything got creepy. A set of downstairs doors opened randomly, and they heard continual banging from downstairs. The creepiest part of the entire story is that one piece of the board survived: the word "Yes."
Wake Up!
After having some success speaking with spirits via a Ouija board in college, Redditor /u/Donnienarco89 claims to have accidentally "attached" themselves to two ghosts who followed them home after graduating school.
The spookier of the beings was an old man who wore a hat and smoked a pipe while sitting next to the Redditor as they slept and shouted at them to "WAKE UP!" The haunting became so bad that the Redditor and their mother had to cleanse their house.
When A Spirit Says Goodbye, They Mean Goodbye
If you're using a Ouija board and the spirit gets tired of you and wishes you a good day, don't get offended - and definitely don't keep pestering the entity, because things won't go well.
While playing with a Ouija board in their teens, one former Redditor and their friends continually pestered a spirit after it told them "Good Bye" multiple times. Finally, the spirit got so tired of these meddling kids that it called them on the phone, spoke to one of their dads, and said, "Don't f*ck with me." Yikes.
Whose House? Caus's House.
Take some advice from Redditor /u/bluejake42, who accidentally invited a demon named Caus into his dreams, and leave well enough alone when you're using a Ouija board. The writer says that while they don't necessarily believe in spirits, the conversations they had with this entity on an abandoned basketball court have made them believe that something is out there:
He said he was blonde, blue eyed, and burned. All of which I thought was a weird description and when I asked what he meant by burned he said "F-I-R-E." Fire. I asked, "Did you die in a fire?" There was some hesitation. I thought I hit the wrong nerve or something with this spirit. It was a long pause... then, "YES." I asked what year and it said "1-8-1-6" 1816. Okay, so at this point I just start talking to Caus like an old chum or something. I begin to ask about his family life and things like that. While I didn't believe it, I still had fun. I asked him if he could visit me because I thought he was "an alright guy." Caus said, "D-R-E-A-M-S" Dreams. I said, "sure, visit me in my dreams. That'd be alright."
Spoiler alert: Caus did indeed come visit the Redditor in their dreams, and it wasn't pretty.
After speaking to the creature and inviting it out of the board, no one else was able to contact anything, so it's possible that the demon took over the Ouija board and is still waiting for the Redditor to return to their game.
Always Dismiss The Spirit
When Redditor /u/DorianGray98 and their cousin, who live together, decided to dig up an antique Ouija board and play around with the spirit world, they may have gotten more than they bargained for.
After goofing around with a spirit, they put the board away without dismissing the spirit, thus inviting it to creep them out constantly, even when they were going to the bathroom. They destroyed the planchette, burned the board, and buried it - but then the board reappeared on their doorstep.
This Spirit's Story Checks Out
While using a Ouija board with some friends to communicate with a spirit from beyond the grave, Redditor /u/n8sobes1216 chatted with a young woman named Bridget, who claimed to have perished in a car accident.
When the friends grilled her about the facts of her passing (make and model of the car, the year of the event, etc.) the spirit freely gave up her answers until the game ended. The Redditor says they looked up Bridget's info online and discovered that it was true, and ever since then, they've felt like something is following them.
The Last Thing You Want A Demon To Do Is Touch Your Stuff
Maybe Redditor /u/slackerish's first mistake was getting cross-faded before invoking a demon through a Ouija board. Or maybe it was not shutting down the conversation when they discovered they were talking to a demon.
Either way, they kept chatting with this alleged demon until it said that it wanted to hurt everyone using the board, which is never a good sign. When the players went home, they discovered all of their furniture moved around and all of the cabinets open. Whether this was simply a prank or the work of a demon is yet to be seen.
