Ouija Board's Evil Spell Still Lives in Our House
                (National Examiner, 3-17-87 by Robert Stamper)

I invited a foul horror into my house with a Ouija board.  My brother and I
got not results when we started to use the psychic device, but suddenly the
message indicator mysteriously began to move.  The first thing the board told
us was that the message was being sent by Seth.  Then I made the tragic
mistake of telling the board to prove it was real by doing something
supernatural.  The results were startling and scary.

The board told us that the grandfather of one of my best friends would die in
a week.

The chandelier in the room began to shake violently and the chimes rang like
pieces of metal being smashed together.

The room became as cold as ice and we were shivering, though the thermometer
read 70 degrees.

The horrible stench of death filled the room and we couldn't stop gagging and
coughing.

     Suddenly, the noise stopped and the room was as quiet as a cemetery in
the middle of the night.  My brother and I looked at each other in terror.  We
opened the windows to get rid of the stink of rotting flesh and told each
other we'd forget the whole thing.

     But a week later the grandfather of one of my best friends died - just as
the board had predicted!  And from time to time the chandelier would rattle,
the room freeze and that awful smell return.  I couldn't take it any more.  I
threw the board away and told my mother about the experience.  She told me
that once you tamper with a Ouija board, its evil spell will remain forever.
And to this day, those terrifying tremors shake the house and the stench of
death fills the room.


                 Ouija Board Summons Demons (The Sun, 12-9-86)

     A simple Ouija board became a passport to Hell for a family that
accidentally summoned a demon into their living room.

"I thought it might have been the Devil himself", says John Ravens, father fo
the tormented family.

"When it was over, we were all bleeding and had severe burn marks.  Our living
room was a disaster area."

The Ouija board was a birthday present for his six-year-old daughter, Lynda.

"It was supposed to be a joke," says Gloria, the girl's mother.  "We were
going to make believe we were talking with the spirit world."

Little Lynda, her nine-year-old brother Ronald, and their parents gathered
around the board for what they thought was going to be an evening of fun at
their home in a Toronto, Canada suburb.

"We were just playing around with it when suddenly the planchette that spells
out answers began moving by itself," says John.  "We were all scared, but then
I thought maybe one of the kids was up to tricks.  We started asking
questions, and this spirit began speaking to us.

"Then it asked if it could visit with us.  By this time, I was sure someone
was playing a joke, and I said yes," he adds.

That's when the nightmare began.

"The demon appeared within seconds," says John.  "It spun around the room
overhead, laughing and cursing at us.

"It was surrounded by a ring of fire and the room became so hot, it was like
an inferno from Hell."

The family describes the demon as red and black with scaly skin and horns.  It
also had giant bat wings.

"Then it suddenly swooped down and attacked us," recalls John, horror
flickering over his features.  "It started biting each of us on the face and
arms.

"We tried getting up and running for the door, but every time we did, the
creature started clawing us.  It was so fast, we couldn't escape from it."

Lynda and brother Ronald were picked up repeatedly and hurled across the room.
As they lay helplessly on the floor, the creature pounded on their chests and
heads.

"It had hooves that dug into my children's faces and skin, marking them
badly," says Gloria.

The attack lasted for more than an hour before the horrifying demon vanished
as quickly as it first appeared.

The children were screaming and crying as John pulled them out of the house
and drove them to a nearby hospital, where they were treated for cuts and
burns.


                 Family Terrified as Ouija Board Summons Satan
                (National Examiner, 3-4-86, by Mark Carlisle.)

     A Ouija board was chillingly responsible for putting an unbelieving but
terrified family in touch with the devil.

In no time at all their lives were being completely influenced by the evil
power of Satan.

Throughout the month-long ordeal the family was promised great riches in
return for surrendering their souls.

And when they finally plucked up the courage to destroy the board the devil
momentarily possessed the mother, Mrs. Helen Alf, 65.

"My mom screamed at me and cursed me in a voice no one in the house had ever
heard before," Mike Alf, 45, shockingly told the Examiner.

Alf, of Everett, Washington, now believes that use of the Ouija board can open
a gateway to a nightmare brush with the occult.

"It's an open invitation for the devil to enter your home," warned Alf.

At first the board answered a host of questions - but eventually it started to
ask them questions and demand ready answers.

"Finally it admitted to being Satan.  We knew then that what we were dealing
with was exceedingly evil."

The family was bombarded with obscenities.  And one day they went outside and
were stunned to see the word Ouija written in the snow.  But no tracks led up
to it.

"The board later told us that had been done to scare us," said Alf.

When he was ordered to destroy the board in a message he received from it, he
took it outside and cut it up with a chain saw.

"That message supposedly came from God," said Alf.

When he went back into the house he had the frightening confrontation with his
mother.

Leading parapsychologists Ed and Lorraine Warren confirm that evil spirits
sometimes masquerade as good spirits and the Ouija board user cannot
differentiate between the two.


              Demons Use Ouija Board as Gateway to take Over Soul
                         (2-28-84 by Lewis Clifford.)

     Terrifying demons freed from other dimensions are preying on helpless
human victims.  And the gateway used by the grotesque monsters is being kept
open by innocent toying with Ouija boards and other tools of the occult, top
medical and religious experts caution.

"They are vile creatures of the night," warned Dr. Alberto Gonzalez, of the
Pan American Institute of Health.

"They exist.  They can possess the bodies of their victims and cause normally
gentle, non-violent people to commit outrageous crimes.  They can assume other
forms - some quite ghastly.

"And they are among us - in many instances - solely because of these sinister
toys called Ouija boards."

Gonzalez, a psychiatrist and parapsychologist, claims he has found demonic
links to several cases of cattle mutilation and human vampirism in Central
America.

Says the Rev. Morris Cerullo, president of World Evangelism and author of The
Back Side Of Satan, Creation House, Carol Stream, Illinois, 1973:

"Many people have related to me weird tales of answers given by the Ouija
Board.  This and other occult games may seem intriguing, but the implications
are serious and not to be tampered with.  They can lead to dangerous waters
indeed.

"Use of a Ouija has even led to violence and even to murder..."

Dr. Marta Prohazka of Fairfax, Virginia, is also convinced that spirits can
play terrifying destructive games with human behavior.

During her practice as a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, she realized that
many patients she had considered "hallucinating, paranoid schizophrenics"
might instead merely be in touch with something invisible to her but visible
to them.

"I came to understand that another plane, or dimension or existence
interrelated with our plane or visible manifestation," she said.

"By training and expanding consciousness, some individuals gain entrance into
that invisible dimension.  It seems to some like a window into heaven.

"I also learned that contact with the other dimension can be dangerous,
especially if a psychically sensitive person loses his emotional harmony.  The
window into heaven can then become a window into hell."

Millions of the plastic oracles are in use in American households,
nevertheless.  And the eerie messages from beyond they have spelled out have
been credited - or blamed - for marriages, divorces, sickness, misery, mystery
and murder.

Psychic and medium Anne-Rose told the Sun:

"Horrible demons have definately been released by the Ouija board.

"The Ouija board is a vehicle which makes it easy for negative spirits and
demonic forces to enter this plane of existence."

The Merrillville, Indiana clairvoyant cautioned that evil spirits or demonic
forces often gain the trust of people experimenting with Ouija boards by
answering several questions truthfully and providing predictions.

"Once they have gained the trust of their victim, it is easy for the entity to
move in and take over - either by strongly influencing that person, or by
outright possession," she said.

People who are untrained and unsophisticated in the field of the paranormal
and supernatural should never play with devices such as the Ouija board,
according to the clairvoyant.