Ouija: Fact or Fiction?

I was terrified. It eventually stopped. I was paralyzed in fear I think back now to the scary movies I have watched and how angry I sometimes get when people just stand there. I yell, “Run you idiot!”, until I remember how I felt that night. . I thought of God and prayed that he would keep me safe. I promised that if he did, I would never touch the Ouija Board again.

I finally gained enough courage to jump (or better word “fly”) off my bed, and turn on the light. I went into the hall, put on that light. Went into living room, put on that light. Then finally put on the kitchen light. It was about 3 am. There was no way I was going back to bed, and no way I was going back to sleep. I stayed up that night until morning writing a 14 page letter to a friend of mine in order to keep me awake.

That morning when my mother got up, I told her about what happened. She then took the indicator and crushed it, throwing it in the garbage. Not long afterwards, I gave my board to one of my friends. Although my friends continued to play Ouija on occasion, I stopped. Sometimes I would look on, but remembering my promise to God, I did not play, and slowly did not go near it.

As kids, we all thought it was fun. The excitement and curiosity of the unknown. It was also a way to bond with friends and be connected through a shared interest. We consumed our time with playing this game as oppose to drugs and other behaviors. We just had no idea the power it could have. They say Ouija is a window into the other side. Not just any other side though. It is said to attract devious and harmful spirits.

I do not know the entire truth behind it, and I don’t know if my friends never goofed around with it, and I do not know how much is psychological. What I do know, is that there is evil out there. We see it in humans every day. I also know that what I experienced was real. Lots of people may not believe this, many people do not believe in spirits or God. Some who believe in God do not even believe in spirits. The Bible does not really even address them, so I think sometimes it is assumed that they do not exist (or course, introducing the idea of ghosts into Christianity opens up a whole other can of worms).

People often do not believe what they can either not see or explain. Some things are beyond our world. Some things we will never explain or understand while in our humanly flesh. But do know there is a power greater than us, and there is much more to our world than what we see in front of us.