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5 min read“The planchette shot over to the word no, then slowly spelled out the word hot. At that very moment, a cold breeze cut through the hot summer air. And it wasn't like any other cold breeze I've ever experienced before. It almost felt like the air had died.”
This episode of Scary Stories collects four first-person accounts of Ouija board use, each told by a different narrator. The throughline is not simply “Ouija boards are spooky.” Instead, the episode explores a consistent set of claims about how the boards actually work — and what happens when people use them without understanding the rules. Across the four stories, a coherent folk theology emerges: the Ouija board is not a toy or a magic eight ball, but a tool that can open a portal to the other side. Once that portal is open, you do not control who — or what — comes through.
The board as a portal, not a game
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:00) **The Ouija Board: Game or Portal?** - Host introduces the episode's central question: is the Ouija board a harmless game or a tool for evil, setting up a series of true stories.
- 2 (02:22) **A Summer Night in Louisiana** - The first story begins with a group of friends in Moreau, Louisiana, who decide to secretly play with a Ouija board owned by a friend's sister.
- 3 (03:56) **Contacting "Lauren"** - The group begins asking the spirit questions, learning its name is Lauren, a 16-year-old who drowned in the Mississippi River, and the atmosphere becomes tense.
- 4 (07:17) **The Spirit Shows Itself** - Ryan continues to provoke the spirit, demanding it show itself, which leads to a terrifying supernatural event.
- 5 (09:55) **The No-Nonsense Mother's Discovery** - A second story is introduced, told from the perspective of a child whose mother, a practical woman, used a Ouija board to uncover her husband's infidelity in the 1930s.
- 6 (13:10) **A Spiritual Guide Intervenes** - A third story details a woman whose mother's solo use of a Ouija board led to a direct message from a spiritualist, warning her to stop.
- 7 (15:38) **A Depressed Teenager's Encounter** - The fourth story begins in the summer of 2019 with a 19-year-old who, after a series of traumatic events, decides to use a Ouija board without caring about the consequences.
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Show Notes
You better think twice before playing with this game
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