Quija Board: A Knock at the Window

From: Shona (stellapotski@comcast.net)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Pitman, New Jersey
Source: Form Submission

Sorry this is so long! I swear its a true story, email me if you have any questions.

Ok, let me start out with this: I had never contacted the dead like this before. Psychics and mediums have run in my family for a couple of generations on my mom's side of the family. I have made a couple of predictions, they come randomly in my sleep, and I've seen ghosts in my room sometimes at night. I've ''met'' my great grandfather who was lost at sea on a fishing trip (I dont know how long ago), and you know, just little stuff like that. But before this night, I had never heard of the Quija Board. The night is February 18, 2006 (today is 2-20-06), but night quickly turned to 3:30 AM on the 19th. This is my experience with the Quija board.

OK, so I was at my friend Danielle's 14th sleepover party on the 18th. Including me and Danielle, there were 8 people at the party. Now, let me explain about Danielle; here and her friends have this obsession thing with Demons and Vampires, Spirits things liek that. Im not real into that kinda stuff, its interesting and all, but I never believed it was REAL. At about 12AM, everyone was still wide awake, and Danielle was craving to play this game called the Quija Board. Ok, I'll bite. You all put two fingers on the little arrow thing and ask the board a question. I thought it would be fun to try, BUT ITS A BOARD!! It even said Parker Brothers on the bottom right-hand corner! There was no way I believed this was gonna happen. So I joined in, there were 14 little fingers on the arrow thing in the center of the board. The reason there were 14 and not 16 was that the one girl, Bethany, claimed it was ''against her religion'' to contact spirits.

note: Bethany doesnt go to church regulerly. I swear tho, her mother is a Jesus freak. She must have this little cult alter thing in her basement and perform rituals to God down there, but Bethany has nothing to do with church or stuff like that. To tell you the truth, I dont think she could care less about it, but just to stirr crap like that, she'll go and say stuff like "Dont take the Lords name in Vain, your going to Hell!!" blah blah blah... She basically uses her ''love of god'' to hide behind, you know, so she can say its against her religion to contact the dead, because shes really just a pussy. ANYWAY..We all sat around the Quija board. We turned off the lights, and sat on the floor next to the fireplace, which was lit, and Brianna was about to ask it if there were any spirits in the room. Thats when Bethany started to freak.

"NO! Dont do it! It's bad luck! Somethings gonna happen if you mess with that thing! I cant do this, its against my religion!"

Bethany was a real pussy. We couldnt watch Resident Evil because of her, we couldnt light inscense because she was ''alergic'' to it. And now we couldnt perform the only realy fun of the night because of her.

"Bethany! If you dont wanna do this then just go sit in the corner or something! But your not ruining our fun!"

We couldnt send her to sit upstairs because Danielle's parents didnt want anyone upstairs. Even if she was just sitting outside the basement door, we wanted to make her sit up down here with us to make her cry and go home because nobody really liked Bethany.

At 1:30, Bethany called her mom. We were praying that someone would come pick her up, but then out of the blue she goes, "You knonw what, mom? It's ok. I'm ok. I think I'm just gonna stay anyway. Sorry I bothered you." And she hung up.

FINALLY! So we all sat around the board, except her, and Brianna asked it if there were any spirits in the room. It said yes. Brianna was in charge. She knew all about the Quija board, and she explained it all to us before hand. She said if you dont wanna play, then dont ask it questions, you can go and sit with Beth. Nobody wanted to chicken out, so everyone sat in the circle.

It took forever for the arrow to get to yes. My friend Kelly and i sat next to eachother, and promised that only our fingernails would touck the arrow, we wanted to make sure that noone was pressuring it into going to "yes". It got to yes and everyone felt kinda weird about it.

But after it said yes, weird stuff started to happen.. we heard banging upstairs. "Is someone at the door?" Kelly asked.

To reasure everyone, Danielle said, Dont worry its only my dog. Danielles dad was always up late too, and he was a bit heavey, so we blamed some of the noise on him too.

We asked it questions like whats your name and how many spirits are in the room, but we could never finish it because someone would bump the board or start talking, turn on the lights, you know, make up an excuse to stop. It was 3:30 IN the morning when we asked it again, are there any spirits in the room (we had stoped because it was freaking people out and the arrow was stopping in the middle of the board)

All of a sudden, the room seemed darker. Everyone was quite, the fire glowed really dim but it felt like a thousdan degrees in the room, no lie. Someone said quietly, its so hot in here, and all of a sudden the window blew open. Weird, huh? We had been opening up the window all night to use cellphone and make prank calls, so we all coulod have thought it was just a coincident. It pointed to yes after about a half hour it seemed. Everyone looked up at eachother.

There was banging at the window, 5 loud knocks. Well, thats all I heard. Everyone was in a pile in the middle of the basement under blankets and pillows screaming their lungs out. Then, everyones cell phones starrted ringing. I couldnt find my phone, and i found out it was someone who I had pranked earlier. The only person to get their cellphone was bethany, and she had a stupid verizon, so she had to go to the window to answer it. We were all hugging eachother as she went to the window.

"Hello?" She said.

I was shaking, litterally. My knees felt like jello and went dead. i had pins and needles and everytime I put down my foot, I got this tickling sensation and started laughing uncontrolably. It was 3:30 in the goddamn morning and you woudlnt believe who was on the phone!

It was Bethany's father! He was parked outside the house and had been banging on the door since 3, about when we had found out that there were spirits in the room. But Bathany had called her house at 1:30, what was her dad doing here 2 hours later? He could have called, and we would have heard her phone because we were so silent. And the window? It had gotten so cold in the room just before he knocked on the window, and the window was open.

Only me, brianna, and another girl, stephanie, continued with the quija board. We told it goodbye 3 times, but it wouldnt move. Then it went to NO. WE were confused, so we asked it what it wanted to tell us. It went to 'S'. Ok, we thought. Maybe it wanted to go to 'H' and tell us to be quite or something. Then, My Name! My name starts with S, and the second later is H. What if it spelt out my name! I started sweating, I was so nervous. What did it want with me?

Thank god it didnt tho. It spelt out SEB. Nobdy at the party had a first name that started with E that we knew of. But there was me (s) , E, and the B, who we concluded could have been Bethany. Weird, eh? Because we couldnt get it to say goodbye, we took the board and put it away in the box.