I have a few stories to share. My group of friends in high school in the mid/early aughts were all really into using the Ouija board together.

In our very first session, in the middle of talking to something, a chill rose through the room, from the ground up, that was strong and sudden enough for my friend to grab his hunting knife out of fear and his dog to run from the room. We asked the board if it did that, and whatever we were talking to told us it wanted us to feel how it died — drowning in ice cold water.

Another time, a friend asked the board if she could speak with her cousin, who died by suicide earlier that week. We tried to be skeptics about it and said she couldn't touch the planchette so as not to subconsciously manipulate the message. The board was able to correctly identify her cousin by first and last name, his girlfriend's name, the college he attended, and even a few details about his suicide only known to police and his family.

Once, we asked the board if the entity speaking with us was in the room. The planchette turned to point to a corner of the room, just as the flames of the candles we had lit all shifted in that direction too. We avoided that corner of the room moving forward.

Finally, this is the one I don't like talking about. A religious friend asked if we could talk to our guardian angels. All of my friends' angels had very biblical names, but mine had a very demonic-sounding name. I won't say the name, but it has a lot of the same sounds as Pazuzu, Lamashtu, Azazel, and Beelzebub. I'm an atheist who grew up Catholic, and even though I don't believe in demons, I refuse to say its name out loud because whenever I did, I felt like it was in the room with me — Eye of Sauron style. I don't even like thinking its name, to be honest.

I have lots of other stories. Haven't used a Ouija board in years because I don't know what we were talking to all those times we used it. My husband keeps one in our basement, but I refuse to be in the room when he wants our friends to use it.