foreign amount of people have Ouija boards just sitting in their closet somewhere collecting dust and most people probably have never even used them I found out what Ouija boards are when I was 16 and when I asked my parents if we had one in our house my mom told me yes she did have one buried somewhere in the closet with all the board games that closet was in the basement by the laundry room the small closet with a bunch of my parents old stuff I was intrigued to try using a Ouija board because I was
slightly superstitious I had my mom help me dig through this closet without disrupting the integrity and neatness of how she sorted everything in there and lo and behold eventually she finds this old dusty box that simply said Ouija and had two hands holding the piece that moves around the board called the planchette the box was kind of falling apart on the edges even though my mom said they'd only used it a couple times ever the first thing I did was text a few of my friends to come use the Ouija board with me that weekend
when I'd be home alone to make it scarier my friend Liam who was 17 had a car so he picked up my friend Jack and they came right over it was like 9 pm it was dark out obviously and my parents were gone for a couple nights my younger brother of two years Adam was also home so I asked him to join as well we were gonna play on the floor in the Loft which was converted into my bedroom we turned off the lights and then turned on a flashlight and put it on the floor
in the corner of the room pointed towards the board all four of us sat on one side of the board and we held the plant shed and started asking questions none of us had ever done this before so we asked basic questions I said if there's someone there move The Plant Shed then for the first time it started to move to the word yes Adam asked how old are you and the planchette moved from the number six to seven sixty seven we looked at each other and while I suspected one of them were moving it
and I'm sure the others did too we all played along and didn't break immersion we took turns asking questions eventually I asked the board are you a demon and the planchette went to the word yes at this point we all laughed and broke immersion knowing one of us was messing around at that moment the flashlight turned off and all of us stopped laughing and got really scared who did that someone asked but it was clearly none of us the flashlight was all the way in the corner I crawled to get it and kept pressing the
button it wouldn't turn back on I turned on my bedside lamp and I saw the freaked out Expressions on my friends and brother's face I said that was the most terrifying moment for the battery to die but also part of me believed it wasn't a coincidence we stopped playing after that moment and we even left my room and went to the backyard just because we were all freaked out being in the house at that moment I had to sleep in that room that night though and when my friends left and Adam eventually went to sleep
I knew I had to as well I put the Ouija board back in the box and brought it downstairs out of my room I just felt weird sleeping in the same room as it that night as soon as I turned off the light I just tried to go to sleep right away not sitting on my phone for an hour or whatever like I usually do as I was starting to finally drift off into a half sleep State something in my closet fell over I immediately rose up and looked in the direction of the closet door
I flicked on the bedside lamp and walked over to the closet it was a small walk-in closet where I kept some of my clothes there's a light switch on the outside of the closet that turned on a single light bulb inside of it I flicked it on and looked down at the crack at the bottom of the door there were what looked to be two Shadows cast by feet on the other side of the door soon as I saw this I started screaming Adam and ran to his room I explained to him what I just
saw and led him to my room to show him when he came to my room the light in the closet was still on but the Shadows at the bottom of the door weren't there anymore I opened the door and there was nobody in the closet but there was something on the floor it was a wooden box that I made in arts and crafts that I would put childhood memorabilia in it somehow fell over and the content spilled onto the floor there is no draft in the world that would have knocked that over it made no
logical sense I slept in my parents bed that night and then the next and for a week after that I slept in the spare bedroom eventually I would start sleeping in my own bed again but I would never forget that night I haven't touched a Ouija board since [Music] I had never used a Ouija board until I was in my mid-20s it was never something that interested me but my friend George was very briefly talking to this girl who was into that sort of thing her name was Mandy she was into exploring abandoned and allegedly
haunted places one day he invited me to go with them and her friend to this apparently haunted abandoned house about a half hour drive away he guaranteed me the friend was cute in order to entice me to go I didn't have anything going on that night so I said why not we would be doing this late at night George picked me up first around 11 pm and then we drove to pick up the girls from this park I had already met Mandy once but not her friend her friend Carly had red hair a nose ring
and sleeve on her right arm Mandy had already been to this house before and she said it was high in activity a term I'd never heard till that point but obviously could put together what she meant I smiled a bit as she said it because I honestly laughed to myself I don't believe in the Paranormal myself so I found it a little humorous Mandy brought this big bag with her so during the drive I asked what's inside and then she goes and pulls out this box a Ouija board box and then she pulls out a
candle then George said oh that's the surprise apparently her surprise to George was that we would be using a Ouija board in this abandoned house I'm gonna be honest that didn't sound super fun to me but I was there for the adventure Mandy directed George where to park when we got close it was this really dark street with no street lights with an open field on one side and trees on the other the house driveway was gated off so we had to walk from there we walked through some Woods that led us to the backyard
of the house from there Mandy led us to the back window that she climbed through last time it was a bit high up so we had to help the girls up and we just climbed in ourselves and we walked around the house for a bit all the furniture was still inside but it was just decrepit it hadn't been lived in for probably decades I don't scare easily and I must admit being in there at night was very eerie it would probably be terrifying alone it was dead silent besides our footsteps on the creaky floors there
were some old portraits of people hung on the wall they looked like they were taken in the 50s which made me wonder how old this house was and what was the story behind it most likely the couple living there died and there was no family left to claim the house Mandy set up the board on the floor and she lit these two candles I could tell she was really into this stuff she took lead with this asking a bunch of spiritual questions the planchette piece didn't move for the first few questions as she kept asking
is anyone there can anyone hear Etc eventually it started to spell out the word hello I left and looked at George who left back but the girls were serious and even said stop laughing out of respect I did stop smiling and put a serious face on Mandy asked what's your name and the planchette moved around the board slowly to spell out the name Gregory she then asked how long have you been dead and then it moved around to spell out 30 years I didn't believe any of this for a second I knew Mandy or Carly
were doing this this went on for some time and we played along until there was a huge thump from upstairs in the house we all jumped and let go of the planchette George said is someone out there and Mandy insisted it could be Gregory Mandy and Carly put their hands back on the plant shad and asked Gregory did you make that sound and George and I stopped her and said we need to leave if someone's upstairs then we watched as the planchette moved to the word yes at this point George and I were convinced the
girls were pranking us and that they had someone upstairs trying to scare us and we heard footsteps above us [Music] there was no denying these sounds were footsteps George and I agreed to go upstairs and check it out expecting to find someone trying to prank us the girls kept saying no come back down we went up the extremely creaky steps and entered the first open door we found it was a bedroom the furniture and everything in the room was extremely decayed and then there was this door right in the corner of the room most likely
a closet it was cracked open and we whispered to each other that we thought we heard something in the closet I put my finger up to my lips to tell him to be quiet and we listened when we heard a clear exhale behind the door we both quickly left the room we hurried downstairs expecting to find the girls still in the living room but they were gone the candles the Ouija board everything there was just darkness in the house now he didn't even hear them sneak out we left through the window again in a hurry
and ran to the car George tried calling Mandy's phone multiple times but it went straight to voicemail every time she blocked him they were nowhere to be found either we went straight to the car and drove home George never heard from that girl again he only hung out with her two times he didn't know where she lived or anything we did form our own crazy theory that they were in fact trying to trap us somehow and the footsteps upstairs were from somebody they knew it's also possible they never left the house and that they were
hiding somewhere inside the more superstitious out there may believe that we did in fact speak to a spirit though and something more Supernatural was going on [Music] in October of 2015 when I was a junior in high school I was in my horror phase where I was obsessed with everything scary and Supernatural with Halloween coming up I was also reading a lot of scary stories about Ouija boards and people's experiences with them my curiosity was peaked and so I ordered a Ouija board off Amazon and when it arrived I waited till a night our parents
were not home to use it I convinced my little sister to try it with me we were at the dining room table with the lights dimmed both of us holding The Plant Shed I asked the board some questions and my sister and I both left because it was kind of awkward and funny I started to move the piece around trying to creep out my sister but she knew it was me doing it after a few minutes of doing this we were starting to get bored and my sister wanted to stop I said let's try for
a few more minutes after a little bit more waiting for the planchette to move from some unseen entity we decided to give up my sister went to her room after this and I went to mine I looked up more Ouija board stories online and kept reading people's experiences with them and then I looked up why it didn't work for us other people had said their first time using Ouija boards nothing had happened so I decided I would try again that night around 1am when my sister was already asleep I went back down to the dining
room and dimmed the lights again I once again tried to use the Ouija board asking similar questions as a few hours ago just in a lower voice to not wake up my sister I held the planchette with both hands waiting for it to move but it never did instead I heard sounds from upstairs like soft footsteps could have been my sister she might have heard me down here the footstep type sounds were followed by a muffled female voice didn't sound quite like my sister though and the voice was coming from directly above me the room
above the dining room was our older brother's room who was away at college my sister wouldn't have been in there I went up the stairs quietly and I heard the voice getting louder as I got closer to my brother's room it was coming from in there I was curious if my sister was playing a prank on me changing her voice to sound lower to scare me I got to the door and put my ear up against it I heard the voice of what sounded like an older woman I wasn't sure how my sister could be
doing a voice like that at first I didn't know what was being said until I realized that the voice kept saying Grandma's Here Georgie over and over it was the voice of my dead grandma I felt every hair in my body stand up I opened the door and turned on the light and no one was inside The Voice had stopped I ran to my room and shut the door and locked it and curled up under the covers I felt the whole room spinning as I couldn't form any rational thoughts of what just happened it was
too Vivid to have imagined it when I calmed down I did a prayer before going to sleep or at least trying to go to sleep I was awake all night I still remember this night just as vividly eight years later [Music]
