Since we're on weird and unexplained stories ...... let me tell you a GOOD one that happened here a few years ago. I had an old Ouija board that I had since high school in my room at mom's house. When we decided to do this haunted house, I remembered I had that in my old room at home and thought that would be a great prop to just set in the kid's room where we were putting a clown and a strobe. That would go really good in there, right? ....WRONG. My mom always hated that Ouija board and when she saw it in my hand she said --- WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THAT?! I told her I'm putting it in the kid's room in the new haunted barn. She said -- I wouldn't do that if I were you. I would leave that here up in your room buried where I had it. I told her she was nuts. It's a stupid game. So I brought it to the farm and stuck it in the room. After I stuck it in there, weird things started to happen. Mostly the electrical stuff that I was talking about before. Lights would go on and off. We'd go out and things we could have SWORN we turned off were turned back on in the morning ??? We thought it was kinda weird but always had an explanation. Then one night when we were open a lady walked through the haunt. She came back to the entry after she had walked through and pulled me aside and said ..."I see you have a Ouija Board inside there." I said ... Yep. She said that I needed to get that out of there as soon as possible because it will draw bad spirits. I kind of felt right away that this lady wasn't playing with a full deck so I humored her and said, no problem --- I'll get rid of it tomorrow. She got really agitated with me and said NO! You can't just throw it away ..... it'll come back! You need to BURN it and then celebrate its burning. She got really kind of angry at me and I knew it was time for her to go. I tried to put that incident out of my mind knowing that it was coming from a lady that was a little 'off' (if you know what I mean.... ;o) but I couldn't forget it. As time wore on, more and more weird things were happening. My mom chimed in and agreed with the strange lady that the Ouija Board was the cause. Ok --- so I finally gave in and said FINE -- We're gonna burn the stupid thing then. The haunted barn was over anyway and we were going to be tearing down the walls and everything so why not burn it and keep everybody happy. I went into the arena and started tearing down sheeting ---- there was a strange flickering coming from the kid's room --- it was the strobe. It was turned back on. Well, I freaked out cuz I knew that strobe was OFF at the end of the night. Everything was off because it was our last night. I looked around to try to find that Ouija Board and it was nowhere to be found. It was sitting right by the baby bed the day before ....... nope, not there. I asked everybody --- did you take it? Did you? Did you? Nope --- nobody had seen it. I eventually forgot about it and we kept tearing down the haunt. We brought in a big dumpster and one day when we were throwing out all the sheeting ....... I saw the Ouija Board. It had gone underneath a pile of sheeting (I think it was hiding ...... ok .... a totally irrational thought but by now I was freaked out when I saw the thing). I threw it in the dumpster with the sheeting. All is good. I felt better. The next day I was out throwing out more sheeting and um ...... you're not gonna believe this .... the Ouija Board was under another pile of sheeting .... across the arena ......out of the dumpster. Hiding again. Ok ...... I totally went off on Russ for pulling a fast one on me and taking it out of the dumpster and putting it under another pile of sheeting. I told him that WAS NOT FUNNY!! He swore he didn't do it and by the look on his face, I believed him. I told him we're burning that thing and we're burning it NOW. We tried lighting it on fire but it wouldn't burn. It was freaking cardboard but it WOULDN'T BURN!! We doused it with a ton of lighter fluid and it FINALLY started on fire. I told Russ ---- the old woman said we had to celebrate while it was burning. He said -- Seriously ..... you have gone batty. You believe that lady? I asked him ..... don't you? .....Well? ......So we started clapping and celebrating that it was burning. I danced a little jig for good measure. He said ..... I sure hope nobody's driving by here watching us cuz we look like a bunch of nuts.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Ouija Board Story
Since we're on weird and unexplained stories ...... let me tell you a GOOD one that happened here a few years ago. I had an old Ouija board that I had since high school in my room at mom's house. When we decided to do this haunted house, I remembered I had that in my old room at home and thought that would be a great prop to just set in the kid's room where we were putting a clown and a strobe. That would go really good in there, right? ....WRONG. My mom always hated that Ouija board and when she saw it in my hand she said --- WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THAT?! I told her I'm putting it in the kid's room in the new haunted barn. She said -- I wouldn't do that if I were you. I would leave that here up in your room buried where I had it. I told her she was nuts. It's a stupid game. So I brought it to the farm and stuck it in the room. After I stuck it in there, weird things started to happen. Mostly the electrical stuff that I was talking about before. Lights would go on and off. We'd go out and things we could have SWORN we turned off were turned back on in the morning ??? We thought it was kinda weird but always had an explanation. Then one night when we were open a lady walked through the haunt. She came back to the entry after she had walked through and pulled me aside and said ..."I see you have a Ouija Board inside there." I said ... Yep. She said that I needed to get that out of there as soon as possible because it will draw bad spirits. I kind of felt right away that this lady wasn't playing with a full deck so I humored her and said, no problem --- I'll get rid of it tomorrow. She got really agitated with me and said NO! You can't just throw it away ..... it'll come back! You need to BURN it and then celebrate its burning. She got really kind of angry at me and I knew it was time for her to go. I tried to put that incident out of my mind knowing that it was coming from a lady that was a little 'off' (if you know what I mean.... ;o) but I couldn't forget it. As time wore on, more and more weird things were happening. My mom chimed in and agreed with the strange lady that the Ouija Board was the cause. Ok --- so I finally gave in and said FINE -- We're gonna burn the stupid thing then. The haunted barn was over anyway and we were going to be tearing down the walls and everything so why not burn it and keep everybody happy. I went into the arena and started tearing down sheeting ---- there was a strange flickering coming from the kid's room --- it was the strobe. It was turned back on. Well, I freaked out cuz I knew that strobe was OFF at the end of the night. Everything was off because it was our last night. I looked around to try to find that Ouija Board and it was nowhere to be found. It was sitting right by the baby bed the day before ....... nope, not there. I asked everybody --- did you take it? Did you? Did you? Nope --- nobody had seen it. I eventually forgot about it and we kept tearing down the haunt. We brought in a big dumpster and one day when we were throwing out all the sheeting ....... I saw the Ouija Board. It had gone underneath a pile of sheeting (I think it was hiding ...... ok .... a totally irrational thought but by now I was freaked out when I saw the thing). I threw it in the dumpster with the sheeting. All is good. I felt better. The next day I was out throwing out more sheeting and um ...... you're not gonna believe this .... the Ouija Board was under another pile of sheeting .... across the arena ......out of the dumpster. Hiding again. Ok ...... I totally went off on Russ for pulling a fast one on me and taking it out of the dumpster and putting it under another pile of sheeting. I told him that WAS NOT FUNNY!! He swore he didn't do it and by the look on his face, I believed him. I told him we're burning that thing and we're burning it NOW. We tried lighting it on fire but it wouldn't burn. It was freaking cardboard but it WOULDN'T BURN!! We doused it with a ton of lighter fluid and it FINALLY started on fire. I told Russ ---- the old woman said we had to celebrate while it was burning. He said -- Seriously ..... you have gone batty. You believe that lady? I asked him ..... don't you? .....Well? ......So we started clapping and celebrating that it was burning. I danced a little jig for good measure. He said ..... I sure hope nobody's driving by here watching us cuz we look like a bunch of nuts.
