Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

I am a pretty skeptical person, but definitely have belief in the afterlife. I have had a few paranormal experiences in my life which have cemented that belief. This is one of them…

My sophomore year in high school I joined drama as a class elective, along with a few friends. It was a very large school (1400 students in my graduating class) and drama was one of the few electives that mixed the grades, so we often had upper and lower classmen in the same drama periods. As a result, my friends and I, being lower-classmen were not all that popular, so we tended to stick together.

One lunch period one of the juniors offered to have my friend and I hang out with them in the drama room. We grabbed our lunch and hurried over to the room, very excited that they wanted to hang out with us.

When we got there the entire group was hanging out behind the stage area of the room. One of the kids had an Ouija board and asked if we wanted to play it. I was leery, but curiosity got the better of me and I agreed. We all began asking questions and almost instantly got a response. It was some time ago, so I don’t recall all of the details of the “ghosts” that talked with us, but I remember the first spirit was a young girl, who passed on as a teenager.

Excited by the whole prospect of a ghost talking with us, individuals would ask questions that nobody else would know in order to see if there was any way that the others could be pushing the planchette. Once we felt that the communication was authentic we began asking questions about the death of the girl and afterlife in general. The young girl, whose name escapes me, began telling us about her life when all of a sudden she would spell out the word “go.” She did this a couple of times and then would simply run the planchette off the board toward the “no” sign.

Instead of heeding any warning, we all became more excited and continued to ask if there was anyone else who would like to communicate with us. Immediately there was an answer. This energy was decidedly stronger than the other and was very precise and quick with the answers. While the other communication we were getting previously would swirl around letters and misspell things often, this spirit energy would go right to a letter and stay on it, then move very quickly to another letter. We actually had to have one girl start writing things down so that we could keep up with it.

We spent day after day in the drama room during lunch hour playing with the board and would ask tons of questions. The communication seemed very comfortable and we always reached the same male spirit (the name was something like James, if I recall correctly). Every day we would leave the drama room elated. My girlfriend began taking it home with her shortly after the first few communications.

Well, the board started working sporadically for a couple of days and we all started to become a little disinterested. Also, my girlfriend had begun acting very out of character. She was typically very shy and wouldn’t talk to anyone she didn’t already know well or trust. She would usually sit on the outskirts of a group and not respond unless she felt completely comfortable. She became completely extroverted in the matter of a couple of days. She began dressing differently, flirting with the guys in our classes (completely out of character), and just acting very open-minded and free-spirited. I really didn’t think anything other than “good for her” for finally coming out of her shell.

About three weeks passed since we had been using the board and my girlfriend confided that she had been using the Ouija board by herself after school and talking to the same spirit we encountered daily. I didn’t think anything was wrong with this, as this was the first time I had heard anything about a Ouija board, let alone actually encountered one. What really freaked me out about the whole thing was that as I had mentioned earlier, the board was acting sporadically lately; however, when she would leave the area for a brief period of time the planchette would follow the direction she was going. For instance, if she said she was going to the restroom and walked to the left, the planchette would follow the direction she was walking until it fell off the board.

The final straw for me and the last time that I used the board, we encountered the first spirit that we initially spoke to. Every time we would ask a question, it would spell out “no” or “EVIL” and follow the direction of my aforementioned friend. It really freaked me out and I stopped hanging out with that group at lunch. My girlfriend and I eventually lost touch, but she became quite known for her bizarre transformation. Some people even said that she started acting like an old Hollywood starlet and that her personality had gone way off the deep end. As for the board, I have no idea what happened to it, but I can tell you that I will never touch one again.

I know it might sound crazy and there might be some scientific explanation, but I have yet to figure one out after about 20 yrs.

Written by Jenn, Copyright 2009 TrueGhostTales.com