I tried to throw my Ouija board away but it kept coming back
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When I was about 9 or 10 years old, on a Toys 'R Us game shopping spree, I saw a Ouija board and asked my parents if we could buy it along with some other board games already in our cart. They said yes. Later, back at home I put it up on a shelf in my closet.
A few years later, I got it out one Saturday, our usual game night, skimmed the directions, and set it up, on our table. I never believed in spirits or ghosts growing up, but I wanted to try the Ouija board out anyway. So, without fully reading the directions and just based on stories I had heard and seen on TV, we proceeded to place our fingers on the planchette, called upon the spirits to come into our house, and started asking questions. For over 30 minutes, we kept asking questions, then reread the directions on the setup, and tried everything again for about 30 minutes longer. Then, after the planchette never moved, I yelled, "This crap is fake," tossed it back into the box, and put it back up on the shelf in my room. Note: We never read the part about closing the portal by saying goodbye and flipping the planchette upside down...
Years later, after high school, trying to get rid of old board games that hadn't been played in years, I threw the Ouija board away along with some other games. Well, a few weeks later, I see the Ouija board in its box, looking pristine, sitting on my shelf in my closet like I had never thrown it out. I grabbed it and ran out to show my parents, asking them if they got it out of the trash and put it back into my closet as a prank. They assured me that they did not. So I put it back on the shelf and decided to keep it a while longer.
So, several months had passed, and I grabbed the Ouija board in its box and this time crushed it, folding and crinkling up both the box and the board, while shoving it down hard into the outside trash can. I checked to make sure it was actually in the outside trash can when the garbage was collected. So, it's finally gone...
The next few nights I check to make sure it didn't return. Well, one day I opened the closet door to check, and it was back, without even a wrinkle on the box or the board. Now I grab it, and with anger in my voice, I'm yelling at my parents, "I know you all must be pranking me!!" Then I showed them the Ouija board and its box. They said, "We didn't get it out of the trash." I said, "I can see because the box looks new... did you all buy another one as a prank?" They said no. Then, after yelling at them and receiving their full assurance that they did not in any way acquire the Ouija board nor put anything back into my closet, I decided to leave it on the shelf without touching it for many more years.
About 7 years later, my cousin asked if I had a Ouija board. I said yes, you can have it. He said, "I'll bring it back." I said, "No, please don't!! It's yours now." He kept it, and it never showed up in our house again.