Ouija Board Stories From Connecticut And New York

This happened a year ago when I was 12 years old. I have been obsessed with ghosts for some time and finally bought a Ouija Board the day of a sleep over. I was sleeping over my friend Beth's house. She isn't as obsessed as me, but is still in for playing n Ouija board.

We both just figured that it was a game, but that we'd try it anyways. So at around 11 p.m. we went outside into the woods surrounding her house. We found a flat rock earlier that day and decided to use that one. We placed the Ouija Board down, light 5 candles, placed them around us and began. We weren't really asking any important questions, at first. However we had a voice recorder so I'll tell you where it started getting creepy.

US: Devin (it’s name) do you like it where you are now?
DEVIN: No
US: Why not?
DEVIN: hot
US: What's hot?
DEVIN: Where I am.

We thought that he might have died in a desert or something and maybe he was stuck there.

US: Devin where are you, exactly.
DEVIN: Hell.

After that we looked at each other like, what the heck. He had been really nice to us, but after he told us that he was in Hell he went nuts. He started swearing at us, and telling as that he was going to capture out souls and bring us down with him. We kept trying to go to goodbye, but he wouldn't let us until eventually we got really scared. There was a huge gust of wind and the candles went out. We screamed and shoved the pointer to goodbye (without his consent).
Then we ran for our lives back into the house.

The next morning we found the Ouija board and pointer where right were we left it. We buried them around that rock after breaking it in half. I still use the Ouija board but if I ever get 'Devin' again I think I'll go straight to goodbye. As for Beth, this wasn't our first time with the Ouija board, but she hasn't used it since no matter what I say. Also whenever we go into the woods we always feel as though someone is watching us.

I lived in a house in Wappingers Falls, New York. I don't remember if it was in the year 1994 or 1995 that this happened but I do know that I was either 14 or 15. I was playing with Ouija boards with my friends and I became sort of obsessed with it. One night, my mom and I both had a similar dream. In the dream, we heard what we understood to be the voice of God telling us to have faith. It was odd. Now I see it as a warning of things that were to come.

When one day I made a Ouija board and played with it in my own house with my sister, the planchette rose off the board with our fingers on top of it and pulled us out of the room, up the stairs, down a hall, into a room, and all the way back again coming to rest on the Ouija board downstairs. Before this happened, this spirit that communicated with us seemed playful, friendly, even funny in its responses to us. But it wasn't.

Shortly thereafter, from time to time, a number of experiences would occur. Glasses breaking, objects moved when no one was home, personal objects vanishing, even a pieces of paper that were torn up and thrown away, ended up whole and in odd places throughout the house. During this time I was often scared, feeling that I was being watched and that whatever was watching me felt a VERY STRONG HOSTILIY toward me.

There were times when I felt physically attacked... Such as when I would be falling asleep and felt an intense pressure on my chest and as if I was being choked with pressure around my neck. Another time, I was having a nightmare (as I often did during this time) and when I woke up to scream, I found that I couldn't as my whole body was paralyzed. After what felt like several long minutes, I regained the use of my arms and had to use my hands to pry my mouth open. I was going to scream as loud as I could but when I finally got my mouth open, I found I was too scared even to scream.

I had several dreams which suggested that this was not a ghost but a demon. I dreamt that my house was inhabited by demons and as I was trying to say The Lord's Prayer in my dream, in an effort to make it go away, the demon (which in this dream took the form of a large Rottweiler) was snarling and barking closer and closer to my face with ever line of the prayer that I uttered. I found that I could not complete the prayer in this dream. I was too frightened.

Another time worth mentioning is that early on when the activity started, I woke up with a key in my hand (one that I found did not open anything that I could find in the house). I hid it one day in a jewelry box in a secret compartment and put it in my desk drawer. When one morning, I went to school, I found that I had a momentary vision of a black shadow in my room moving towards my desk. When I went home, I went to my desk and got out the jewelry box. The key was gone. After searching all throughout the house, I finally found it on the opposite side of my room, on my nightstand underneath a stuffed animal that was there.

All of my family was always fighting with each other during this time. The house was always tense. We basically all hated each other and I was getting in a great deal of trouble in school as I was always angry and disrespectful and depressed and stressed out. Finally my parents couldn't deal with me anymore and they sent me to Florida to live with my grandmother. I didn't feel the demon follow me.

I never told my mother about the activity but she did find a note that I wrote to a friend about the activity and then tore it up and threw away as I decided against it. She found the note crumpled in one piece underneath the sink in a pot. And so now she knew everything. After sending me away, she said she always felt the dark energy even before finding my note and that she began praying and sprinkling holy water in every room of the house, everyday for a year. Her prayer was for God to send this spirit out of our home.

It took an entire year but finally one day, she saw a dark shadow in the form of some sort of reptile. She described it like a crocodile with an unusually long tail. It whipped past her face, slowly walked out the door and then disappeared. My parents decided to divorce and sold the house shortly after. Upon packing my things, my mother and sister both found many pieces of papers under my bed... All Ouija boards in my handwriting but I only remember making 3 and I tore them all up and threw them out. I cannot explain how this happened.

Both my mother and I have from time to time experienced spiritual and psychic dreams since then. I have personally seen deceased relatives and pets in dreams (and recently I saw a deceased pet while awake). I have also experienced premonition dreams as well as small instances of precognition while awake. It isn't a constant stream of psychic activity but we experience things like this a few times a year. We remain faithful in our belief in God and I no longer play with Ouija boards.

For this story to make sense I need to describe something to you so bear with me. In my room I sleep on my couch which is directly across from my doorway. I say doorway because I don't have a door, so keep that in mind.

I'm back again and this time it's got nothing to do with an Ouija Board. Anyways, a few years ago is when I started to experience things. So the first thing that I experienced (on my own) was knocking. I was in my room, asleep, and suddenly woke up around two in the morning. I looked at my clock and was like "Why in the world am I awake"? I was all confused. That's when I heard it. Someone knocked at my doorway. I looked and no one was there. I was still half asleep so I called out "Come in".

The coldest breeze I have ever felt swept over me. I live in New England so we've had some bad weather before, but this was awful. The weirdest part... It was summer! So anyways, I started to shiver so I called out "Hello"? At this point my mind is catching up with my surroundings so I started to think that it was my brother playing tricks on me. He lives right across the hall so it's possible that he knocked and then retreated into his room.

I went across the hall, fully intending to yell at him, and find him sound asleep. I was so confused. I stood there for a second, dumbfounded, before going back into my room. I get in there and the temperature had dropped at least 5 degrees. I was like "Whoa". Then I got scared because if it wasn't Tyler then was it really a ghost? After a while I figured that it had to be a ghost because it knocked on air so...!

Anyways the phantom knocker struck again this morning. It was 4:00 and I snapped awake. I was so mad because I have school today (I'm typing this during my computer class...shhhh).

Then I hear two sharp knocks at my doorway again and this time I said "You can't come in". I did not want my room to be any colder then it already is. The thing knocked again so I told it to go away. Then it gave me a heart attack because it knocked on my window, which is right next to my head. I almost fell off of my couch in fear, it was all I could do to stop myself from screaming. I was petrified.

Whatever it is really wanted to come in, but I said no again and I haven't heard a knock since. It was just weird that after a few years it just randomly comes back. Oh well it didn't do me any harm, thankfully unless you count making me grumpy from lack of sleep.

Many people think Ouija boards are harmless toys that a group of teens might play with when their all hanging out on a Saturday night. Think going into a graveyard with a Ouija board is a fun idea?

After all what could possibly happen with a bunch of dead people. Well you better think again.

Many cases we go on that end up being demonic in origin stem from Ouija board play. The following true story comes from Wallingford, CT.

We [Connecticut Paranormal Investigators] were called out by a relatively new paranormal group who had stepped into a nightmare. There were two reasons for the call. One was due to the fact that a young child was involved and they had heard about my work with children and the paranormal and the other was that they just weren't experienced enough to handle what was going on. We arrived on a cold Saturday night in January.

I met with the other group’s founder who we will call John. He filled me in on the activity they had experienced during their initial investigation and to be honest with you at the time I felt he had to be making up at least some of the story. He claims there we're cabinet doors opening and closing, voices, cold spots, knocking noises, footsteps and just about everything else one could experience during a paranormal investigation. It was too much to believe and upon meeting the young family involved in the middle of this whole thing it left me with a feeling we we're being set up. I almost packed everything up and left. This would have been one of the biggest mistakes I could have made in all my years investigating the paranormal. What I was about to experience probably happens in less than 1% of the cases an investigator goes out on.

I met the family of three and the guy’s brother and girlfriend. The apartment renters’ names we're Joe, his girlfriend Gail and their baby Jamie. Joe's brother and girlfriend accompanied them for the evening. They all looked like they had just stepped out of the Addams Family house which made me very suspicious immediately. There is a baby involved in this so we had to be very careful in how we conducted our investigation. I asked them why they brought the baby and they told me they couldn't find a sitter.

I would have preferred the child wasn't there, but I couldn't change that. The baby's father came up to me and asked me if it would be possible for an investigator to be with them at all times. I asked him why and he told me he feared for their lives. I took one look at his face and I believed him. He looked like someone who probably hadn't slept in weeks and he was sweating like he had just run a marathon. He told me a story of a demonic looking being that was terrorizing his whole family and would follow them wherever they went. He confirmed all the things that John had told me when I first arrived there. I really started to feel sorry for this family, but just couldn't shake the creepy feeling their appearance gave me. The reason for my feelings will become apparent later.

The investigation started just like any other. We conducted interviews, set up night vision cameras everywhere along with wireless audio devices all hooked up to our DVR. We have a number of different EMF meters which measure magnetic energy, temperature measuring devices and a host of hand held video cameras and 35mm cameras etc. What I noticed immediately was the extremely high readings we we're getting on the emf gauges.

Every room had these readings which is extremely unusual. I thought for sure this was a power company problem.

Anyone exposed to EMF readings like this over a long period of time can experience hallucinations and health problems of all kinds. I thought to myself this must be why they are experiencing such bizarre happenings. They all must be hallucinating, but this turned out to be wishful thinking. The next thing we noticed was crazy temperature changes. In the past whenever we have experienced temperature drops where you can see your breath we know things are going to take an ugly turn. I am sensitive to spirit activity and can usually tell you when there is spiritual activity in the room. I didn't get this feeling when I walked through the door and with what they had told me about the activity that occurred here I did expect to at least feel something, but I didn't. And so the investigation began.

The family and friends all stayed pretty much in the living room, but would occasionally come into the kitchen where we had our equipment set up. I still couldn't get over how strange they all looked. I felt like I was in some gothic movie.

The investigator from the other group John came up to me and again stated how fearful the family was to be there.

They again requested that an investigator stay with them at all times. They seemed to be genuinely scared and to be honest so was the other paranormal group which didn't exactly give me a warm fuzzy feeling. At least I brought along some of my group all of whom have experience in dealing with just about every situation you could imagine. Most of the investigators stayed outside due to the size of the apartment. We went around in groups of two.

I asked the couple who lives there where they we're experiencing the activity and they told me in just about all of the rooms. I asked them if there was a room that they hadn't heard anything in and they told me the nursery had been quite right along. My feeling is that spirits will hide in the same place all the time. They do not want us to know where they are so you usually will not have any paranormal experiences in these areas. However if you are sensitive to paranormal activity and you start poking around this will more times than not bring out the worst in them if they are there. With all of this in mind I headed right up to the nursery. Immediately upon entering the nursery I felt a very strong presence which made me sick to my stomach.

I heard a male voice whisper and what sounded like empty boxes being moved around in the closet. As I moved closer to the closet the sound got louder. I continued to move closer to the open closet door. I heard all of this movement going on, but couldn't see anything moving in the closet. The sound started to go from the closet to the attic and continued on for a few minutes. While all this was going on one of the investigators from the other group came into the room heard the noise and immediately left. I guess this was to be expected as they were a new group. It takes a while to build up a thick skin to paranormal activity. One thing I did notice was that when he spoke I saw his breath.

With all that was going on I didn't even realize the temperature had dropped down that low. I stood my ground until the noise stopped. When it stopped the room became much lighter feeling and warmed up. At this point I felt we we're dealing with a very negative spirit at the very least. Upon listening to the audio from this room we heard a Latin phrase stated three times. It sounded like it said "Et Mecium". We were unable to determine what this meant, but it sounded Latin. We also heard a door open and close a few times and footsteps even though there wasn't anyone in the room.

There was one point where the baby started to cry on the first floor and you could hear this entity saying nasty things up in the nursery as well as what sounded like other voices whispering. When I originally experienced the activity in the nursery I also heard it go up into the attic. I decided to place a video camera up in the attic and let it run for about an hour. Upon viewing the footage we saw the bottom half of a human looking figure come up out of the floor take a few steps and then disappear right over the nursery. I am sensitive to paranormal activity so I was not only dealing with all this activity I was feeling this incredible crushing presence that made it obvious that I was not wanted there. Now we are heading downstairs.

Upon heading downstairs I saw the couple who was renting the apartment along with their baby and his brother and girlfriend. Again I took another look at their strange appearance and knew in my heart they had something to do with what is going on here. Joe who all the activity seemed to revolve around came up to me and again requested that an investigator stay with him and his family at all times because he was worried about being attacked. He told me the entity that was in the apartment had physically attacked him before by shoving him down the stairs and throwing things at him. He also asked me if we would provoke this thing and I told him no. I asked him why you would want us to provoke it when you’re scared to death about this thing attacking you.

He didn't have an answer for this which obviously made me very suspicious about his intentions. I met with all investigators outside and told them I did not want anyone provoking while in the house. I felt at this point we could be dealing with a demonic entity and did not want to place anyone in danger. When there's a demon involved everyone’s in danger. I went back into the home and began asking questions of this evil spirit to see if we could get some kind of response either audibly or on our recording equipment which would then be called EVP'S or electronic voice phenomenon. Upon beginning the EVP session we immediately felt the temperature begin to drop. You could feel a pressure drop in the room as well. We recorded temps in the forties which had dropped from our baseline temp of 68 degrees. We also heard footsteps on the second floor.

We didn't hear any audible responses to our questions however when we listened to our wireless audio we got a number of responses to our questions.. One of the strangest things we witnessed after reviewing our video footage the following day was that when Joe was looking away from us he had black rings around his eyes. As he turned toward us to talk the dark rings would disappear. We not only have this on video we have stills showing these dark circles. With all that went on that night I wasn't going to rule out possession. As we continued to review the video footage we we're witnessing Joe reacting to some orbs that we're flying around the room. At one point he actually ducked out of the way.

Joe's cat also reacted to a couple of the orbs. We saw the cat's ears go back as it snarled at seemingly nothing a few times. Joe told me that a psychic told him he had a vortex in his living room. I believe that most psychics are frauds, but in this case we did see orbs swirling around the supposed vortex area in the living room. After an incredible evening of paranormal happenings we told the family we would review the evidence and get back to them hopefully with some answers.

Over the next few days we went over all of the audio and video and I was convinced that we we're dealing with a demonic entity. I've experienced the power of the demonic before and it is usually unmistakable and anything can happen to anyone involved. It doesn't matter where you live or how far you travel when you have an attachment by a demon you can't hide. Having a strong religious faith is possibly your only hope. I called famed psychic Lorraine Warren who just happens to live one town over from me. She's always willing to help in situations like this and is a good connection to the church. We arranged to have a blessing done for the family and the home that was until I received a strange call from Joe. He told me a story that made this whole thing even more incredible.

If I wasn't involved in this case myself I would have never believed it. He told me that he and his girlfriend along with his brother and his girlfriend we're all involved in a demonic worship group. They had made contact with a demonic force through a Ouija board and that it was terrorizing them and would follow them everywhere they went. He told me his girlfriend was still trying to make contact with the demon and that he now feared for his life and his baby's. His brother and his girlfriend no longer wanted to be involved, but his wife was such a controlling force that even they feared her.

I knew all along that something more than the paranormal was going on with this case. I had previously asked him about his religious faith and he lied to me. The wheels we're already in motion to have the apartment blessed by a priest which Lorraine had set up. However now knowing what they were all about and the fact that they lied to us I wasn't going to endanger anyone in my group and Lorraine felt the same way.

I have to admit walking away from this one was tough with a baby being involved, but sometimes you just have to walk away and hope the client can find someone else who can help them. I never heard from them again. We normally would never discuss a case without prior permission from the people involved. However we we're lied to by the client's and I felt this story would help to show the public not to play games with the demon world. The names involved we're changed.

After I graduated from college and left the ghost lady back in my apartment I moved in with my grandmother in Mount Vernon, New York. My grandmother lived in an old colonial house that was well over 100 years old. To make matters worse it was also a rooming house where she rented individual rooms.

People had died in that house; I remember when I was a little girl a man named Mr. Anderson died of old age. I also remember when she rented a room to a young couple that had a newborn that died of crib death. I know that more people died in that house but once I went away to college I didn't keep up with the goings on.

Once I graduated I needed a place to stay so I moved into a tiny little room on the first floor right off of my grandmother's basement. We actually used to call it "the little room" because it only had enough room for a bed, a dresser and a bedside table.

One day my girlfriend and I were bored so I had the bright idea to play with the Ouija board. We sat on my bed and the planchette moved and we asked it questions like "Can you show yourself to us?" and the board answered "Yes, tonight, I will be wearing burgundy!" We both laughed and went out to the club that evening but we didn't see anyone wearing burgundy.

After a while I started to play with the Ouija by myself almost every night, it was like I was addicted to it or something. I didn't know any of the rules, I never ended the sessions properly and I used to feel a strange heat in my body and the planchette would always move to the moon, it would go into figure 8 patterns, it would go into all four corners of the board and it would even count down! I had no idea what I was getting myself into.

One night after playing with the Ouija there was a cold spot right next to my bed. I could actually put my hands in it and my face too because it was summer time and the little room was very hot, I used to welcome the cold spot!

Soon afterward strange things started to happen. My bed would shake at night. It would shake so severely that it would wake me up and I thought that there was a mini earthquake! I would jump up and run into my grandmother's room and say, "did you feel that! Did you feel the earthquake?" She would say "No, I didn't feel anything!" I was very naive at the time and just figured that she was old or something.

Sometimes my grandmother would have to come into the little room to go into the basement; it's where her washer and dryer were. She would always make a racket of coming into the room, opening the basement door, going down the stairs etc. She didn't care if I was sleeping or not and one afternoon when I was sleeping late I clearly saw my grandmother come into the room and go into the basement! She was down there for a really long time and she had left the door open, so finally I called her name and got no answer. I walked into the kitchen and my grandmother was sitting there! I said, "Weren't you just in the basement?" She said no! I said "Yes you were, I SAW you go down there!" She said "No baby, I haven't been down there all day!"

After that the basement door would always open by itself, I would hear thumping down there and I would get up and shut the door. My grandmother was never down there. The bed would continue to shake and wake me up, the cold spots would continue to come and sometimes I would feel cats sleeping on my feet (my grandmother had a lot of cats through the years) but there would be no cats in my bedroom!

I eventually moved out of the house and moved into my sister's old apartment up the street but whatever I had conjured up was still following me. In my sisters apartment I would see a dark figure at the end of the hallway, sometimes I didn't even like to go down there but that's where my bedroom was. My boyfriend (same one from college) would come and stay with me and he saw the darkness at the end of the hallway as well. He didn't like to talk about it and tried to ignore it. I think that scared me more than anything, because I stayed in that apartment until I got married to my boyfriend and ended up having a baby boy. Sometimes my son would laugh and talk into the wee hours of the morning like he was playing with someone in the room across the hall.

I eventually started going to church and got baptized (can you believe I was never baptized?) and my son got baptized too. My husband and I eventually bought a house and I made sure that it was a new construction and I had the house blessed before we moved in.

I have 2 sons now and I always tell them to never play with a Ouija board even for FUN and that if anyone pulls one out (they're teenagers now) to just call me and I will come and get them. I'm lucky that worse things didn't happen to me, but I can tell you that Ouija boards are VERY REAL and they work some kind of way to open doorways and you can let things into your life that you shouldn't if you don't know what you are doing.