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From: starwish@mindspring.com (the ghostess with the mostest)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: ouija boards. here's my freakee story, and it's true!
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 18:22:24 GMT
This is probably the weirdest story and perfect timing for Halloween!
Back in 1992, some friends and i worked at a record store at the mall. One of our newest co-workers was just about to graduate early from HS, as it was only November. We had met his girlfriend a few times, as she would regularly hang out with him in the store. One day, she came by and told our manager he wouldn't be in to work that day...my manager said she'd said his Dad had died.
The next morning i was looking in the obituary to find where we could send flowers. My mouth dropped open as i read that listing. It wasn't his Dad. it was him! At first i figured he had been named after his dad, but upon seeing that he was just about to graduate from such and such hs, i knew we had been wrong. When i went into work that morning, i told my manager. She, of course thought i was kidding. There was a newspaper in the employee break room, so i got it and showed her. We were all dumbfounded. He was so young.
A few of us went to his funeral. A couple of weeks later, our assistant mgr said she was going to buy a ouija board, because she had a dream that he'd said he'd like to talk to us. So she bought one and invited me and my future best friend over. We had all worked with him, so he would recognize us all.
Steven, my now best friend, had never played with one before, so we spent a lot of time just showing him neat things...asking silly questions. He watched as Luanne and i played. At this time, Steven and I were just co-workers. This was really the first time we'd ever hung out outside of work. So i didn't know much at all about him. Lu and i read off the CORRECT answers to steven's questions....what was his dad's name....when was his little sisters b'day, stuff neither lu or i would know. he was freakin. Later, Steven and I were playing and it started spelling out deeelite (the group/band) just in the middle of which, luann said, ask it what cd i'm looking at. and it was. we tried this several times and each time it was right on.
So we figured something was there that was supernatural. We'd hoped that it was Brent. We all took turns asking various brent-related questions.... lots of things we had no way of verifying. It all sounded believable though. He (the spirit) said he was going to come back to talk to us...as a ghost. At luann's apartment. Not this night, but on January 1st.
We all assembled at Luann's place as our spirit had requested. He'd said he would show up right at midnight. So we were messing with the board and asking last minute questions around 11 or so. I guess around 11:45 it occurred to us that we didn't know what to expect if he did appear...so we asked whether he would look like he did at work, or after the crash that killed him. He said....A F T E R. Steven and i said OKAY BYE! and maybe let's just hold off on the meeting....and we all 3 sat huddled in L's apartment, totally FREAKIN out. We were just going to sit and wait cringingly until after midnight and hope for the best. Steven and i were still sitting on the floor worrying about what could happen. Luann was making coffee.
At right around 11:58, there came a knock on her door! We all jumped up, screamed and converged on the couch, then screamed some more. Then we made Luann get the door.
It wasn't brent, or any version thereafter. It was one of Luann's friends. She swore up and down that she didn't have it planned, but in retrospect, it could have been.
However, Luann and Steven did get in contact with a paranormal psychologist (a professor at the local college) and they did have a seance that i could not attend. Steven would not lie to me and he promises that it is one of the strangest things he's seen. There were some younger people in the group that 'channeled' brent. Both steven and luann say that they sounded just like brent and took on some of his mannerisms. i wish i could have seen this.
It's my true freakee experience.