Do you believe in ghosts?

[Majick]

Okay.  Here's a story from when I was 5.  That is the reason why to this day I will NOT, NEVER EVER, touch a Quija Board.

My sister was 15, and she and a bunch of her friends had bought a "toy Quija Board" and were messing with it.  Now, anyone who knows anything about Quija Boards knows that supposedly you can talk to the dead.  And that sometimes bad poo can happen.  Well, they were messing with it, and they they got something and it said it was the devil and all this other crap.  Now, there were 5 of them, so each one thought someone else was doing it, they laughed and stuffed it into the back of the closet ingoring it and it's threats of murder.

My sister was talking to one of the friends on the phone about two days later while making me lunch.  I was 5, sitting at the dining room table drawing while I waited.  I over heard her saying how she bet it was Becky or some other friend who did it, because she knows she didn't, and her friend on the phone, Kim, said she didn't do it.  She went into the living room, we lived in a trailor, so the dining room was connected to the kitchen, my back was to the kitchen and the living room was off to my left.  There was a sudden rattling noise coming from the kitchen, I figured it was the pot my sister was using to cook it, so I paid no mind and kept on drawing.

My sister is chatting away on the phone.  In the kitchen we had a rack that used to hang on the wall with an assortment of cooking knives.  The rattling was the knife rack.  I found out shortly after because next thing I know, something goes shooting past me and a stuttering thud is heard.  I look up, with a scream, and there are all the knives in the wall across from me, one even shattering the window.  My sister screamed and came in and grabbed me.  I don't remember anything after that, though.  Aside from being outside and my sister crying on the phone.  Her friend Kim showed up about 5 minutes later (she lived right up the street).  That's all I remember though.


So, to this day, I won't touch one of those damn boards. I won't even go into the same house as one if I know it's there.