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This story is not about ghosts but the reason we weren't allowed to have a Ouija board in our house when I was a kid was because of something which my mom said happened to her when she was a teenager.
She and her friends asked the Ouija board about the sailor boyfriend Billie Joe (or something like that) of one of the friends. They asked for a phone number and got one. They called it up. It was a Billie Joe - but a completely different one, not the boy they knew.
They were understandably spooked, so no Ouija for us.
Guess she coulda been making it up, or maybe it was an urban legend that she somehow adopted as her own story, but I don't remember her being like that about anything else so I don't think so. She was a pretty level-headed and very honest.
No, I recounted a similar spooky experience with a Ouija board. Spooky enough I decided not to get one for my own kids. Some of us are fans of a late night eclectic radio program, Coast to Coast, that frequently focuses on testimony of alien visitations, ghosts, psychic phenomenon, shadow people, etc. Whether or not the testimony comes across as credible, George Noury weekdays and Ian Ponditt on weekends both seem to be perfectly well balanced and credible and make excellent hosts for this program. Both, and also Art Bell, the former and best known host of the program, are adament that it is dangerous to play with a Ouija board and nobody should be messing around with them.
So, I dunno? Something to it? Or just wierd coincidences that make it look more credible than it is and it is actually just a harmless child's toy?
Couple that with a couple of the "Ghost hunters" (popular currently running TV show) who were on Fox & Friends yesterday morning. They, like California Girl has indicated, are not firm believers but they have sure encountered a lot of phenomenon that they can't explain doing this kind of work. One especially said she was pretty much a believer until she got away from it and started doubting. She has come back to the program this season for another go at it.
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