Do You Ouija?
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Posted by Karen Amato Schwartz
April 5, 2007
Posted by Karen Amato Schwartz
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Someone gave me a Ouija board when I was about 12. It was one of those toys my parents kept for these many years, referred to in a previous article here. As I was cleaning closets out a couple of months ago, my daughter seized it as I did when I was at the stage of my life as she is now. Let us just say it’s been interesting.
She and some pals tried it a few times, with no results. This was rather disappointing for her, as you may remember from my “Hearing Spooky Sounds” parts one and two, we hear odd noises in our house. She is fairly convinced there are “entities” here, especially since she’s found numerous orbs on photos she’s clicked throughout our house.
Well, the other day she had a new friend over. This girl’s mother died two weeks after giving birth to her. When my daughter announced that they were going to try to reach this girl’s mom, I wasn’t sure what the best response should be. Thinking that it would probably yield nothing, I decided to join in to make sure it didn’t get too…ummm…emotional. (An impossibility for 13 year olds, but you get the idea.)
We asked for an initial of any entity present, and received a “J”. My mother’s name was Joanne and the girl’s mother was Jean. O.K…We asked if there was any message about the family and received “Fight”. The girl said the family was in the midst of a fight. OK again. Then we asked about her brother. Oddly, we received the word “thigh”, and the initials JV. What the heck? The girl then said that her older brother had recent surgery on both hips, and when he tried to bowl on the Junior Varsity team, his thighs hurt. Oh boy. This was getting a little too spooky, even for me. When we asked about any message for the girl herself, it spelled out “Sick”, and the girl admitted to being on a prescription for a sinus infection. We asked if there was any final word, and got simply, “Hug”. I wanted to cry.
Now, before you go accusing us of looking down and making that doo-hicky go where we wanted, there are two things I need to explain. First, the words weren’t spelled out in English as you would expect, and mostly the letters weren’t even in order. Secondly, we kept our eyes closed until the planchette actually stopped, when I immediately wrote down the letters and we instantly resumed. It was only when there was no additional movement that we tried to figure out the puzzle of the letters. The letters were given in such a convoluted way as to be impossibly arranged ahead of time by two young teens and a somewhat cynical adult.
At one point, my daughter grabbed the camera and took a picture of the girl, and sure enough, there was an orb behind her. After another few seconds, she tried again, and the orb was not there. The girl had it emailed to her dad, who has claims to still feel his wife’s presence after all these years.
I have to say this is scary stuff, although the girl was walking on air. It’s a mystery that I think should be left a mystery. Now my daughter wants to do it every night, and I’m trying to discourage that. Two evenings ago when we last did it, she asked if there was any message for us. The board gave us an “R”-the initial of her nickname, a “K”, my first initial, and then “K, Q, I, W, T”. You figure it out. Suffice it to say that we didn’t Ouija last night. I think I may put it away again for another 30-some years.
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