Ouija Boards

There was a fashion for playing it back in the '70's.

A neighbour of ours did have a creepy experience with a used board.

A few of us had been playing the Ouija board one evening at her house (friends with her daughter)
We all went home leaving the thing on the kitchen table.

Later I heard from the daughter what happened: here is what the lady, her mother, described

She woke during the night thinking someone was in the house. Went downstairs to see who (family were students at the time)
Noticed a dim light in the kitchen, went in there, to turn it off, room being empty.
Heard clicking: sure it was coming from the Ouija board on the table. Faint clicking and tapping noises continued.
In a panic she seized it up and threw it outside the back door into garden. Next day, flung it into a far corner of a dark shed.
She forbade any such thing to ever be used in her house again, and dined out a little on the story for years.

I often heard her tell the story and her eyes were round and alarmed, there is no doubt she had seriously had a fright and she was not a sentimental or suggestive type of person but very practical and blunt.

I am sorry to relate that the Ouija board was surreptitiously retrieved from the garden shed, the reasoning being that she would never notice!
However the shine had gone out of it and the game lost its popularity very shortly after that. I think people had an uneasiness around it.

Board game, nothing else.

Anything else you hear about them is all made up nonsense.