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5 min readThe Ouija board demon Zozo showed up at a Halloween party in rural Missouri, spelling its name out letter by letter on the planchette as a teenager named Roshawn watched from the notetaker's seat. The board belonged to her friend Trace's mom, who had already warned them she was a witch and had an altar in her bedroom. She told the group she would do all the talking and handle the questions. But when the planchette began moving toward Z, then O, then back to Z and O again, she shut it down immediately. "Nope, we need to end this conversation in session," she said, and explained that a demon had visited—the same one that showed up every time her son Trace was in the house. Roshawn never went back to that house again.
That story opens this encounters episode of Two Girls One Ghost, where hosts Sabrina and Amanda read listener-submitted experiences themed around Ouija boards. The throughline is clear: nearly every story follows the same arc—curiosity, a single session with the board, and years of escalating paranormal activity that the participants cannot shake. The episode is less about proving the supernatural and more about documenting a pattern of consequences that the storytellers themselves describe as life-altering.
The Church Attic and the Entity Named Abigail
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:19) **Ouija Board Theme Introduction** - The hosts set up the episode's theme: listener-submitted horror stories about Ouija board encounters, noting the lack of funny stories due to overwhelming scary ones.
- 2 (02:29) **Story 1: "Ouija Board on Halloween Night" by Roshawn** - A senior-year Halloween party at a friend's house leads to a Ouija board session facilitated by the friend's witch mother, which summons the "Zozo" demon.
- 3 (07:29) **Hosts Discuss Zozo and Ouija Board Lore** - Sabrina and the co-host debate whether the Zozo demon is a real entity or a spirit's prank, referencing the Salem Ouija Board Museum and the idea of ghosts playing jokes.
- 4 (09:10) **Story 2: "Bad Spirit, Abigail" by Margot (Part 1 - Origin)** - Margot recounts a multi-generational haunting that began when her mother and uncle found a Ouija board in a church attic as children, leading to a lifelong attachment by a malicious entity named Abigail.
- 5 (15:59) **Story 2: "Bad Spirit, Abigail" (Part 2 - Family Impact)** - The entity continues to affect Margot's family, including stopping her father's breathing while she was a baby and chasing her mother out of an apartment with violent physical manifestations.
- 6 (23:26) **Story 2: "Bad Spirit, Abigail" (Part 3 - Mimicry and Personal Encounter)** - The entity begins mimicking Margot as a child, appearing as a blonde girl in a frilly dress, and later physically attacks her during a thunderstorm, covering her mouth and nose.
- 7 (38:51) **Hosts Reflect on Abigail's Nature** - The hosts analyze Abigail's long-term, predatory behavior and discuss how Margot gaslit herself into believing the entity was friendly to cope with its persistence.
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Show Notes
We always tell you not to play with Ouija boards... and then you send us stories that make us want to ignore our own advice. We're reading some of the wildest spirit board encounters in our inbox, featuring familial hauntings, lingering entities, terrifying mimics, and enough "absolutely not" moments to make you swear off the planchette forever.
Stories include:
A Halloween Ouija session takes a terrifying turn when a notorious entity answers through the board and seems strangely connected to one participant.
A childhood game with a Ouija board hidden in a church attic leads to a decades-long, inter-generational haunting by a mysterious entity known as Abigail.
Sleep paralysis, a creature with rotting breath, and a figure hiding beneath the bed all begin shortly after a teenage Ouija session.
A sleepover experiment unleashes unexplained illness, disturbing dreams, a protective grandfather spirit, and a Ouija board that mysteriously reappears after being destroyed.
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Have ghost stories of your own? E-mail them to us at [email protected]
New Episodes are released every Thursday and Sunday at 12am PST/3am EST (the witching hour, of course). Corinne and Sabrina hand select a couple of paranormal encounters from our inbox to read in each episode, from demons, to cryptids, to aliens, to creepy kids... the list goes on and on. If you have a story of your own that you'd like us to share on an upcoming episode, we invite you to email them to us!
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