Personal Narrative: The Board Game That Changed My Life

A time long ago at the age of fifteen, My sister Mia and I were browsing throughout our family home looking for something to do. Mia who had just turned nine the day before had been wanting to play a board game. Although, it had just been her birthday, our family was poor and could not afford games, toys and the etc. Most of our time as children was spent outside, no matter the season. It could've been Winter, Summer, Fall or Spring, and us kids would still be outside playing those typical games that every kid has experienced. It was the summer of 1974, a rough 43 years prior to today, something traumatic happened that changed Mia and I’s lives forever. After failing to find anything around the house, we went out in our backyard and began playing
We took the board and small triangular shape out of the game box, the triangle had a small hole in the middle of it. The board had a bunch of letters like a typewriter and a distinct “yes”, ”no” and “goodbye” on it. There was instructions on what to say and how to contact a spirit; It is hard to remember what we had said to connect with the spirit. We had said something along the lines of “If anyone is here with us please contact us”, while holding our fingers on the triangle shape in the middle of the board. Something happened scared us and kept us from sleeping for days. We had been sitting in the family room in front of the fireplace, the triangle began to move to the word yes, then all of a sudden all of the cabinet doors and drawers flew up and slammed against the walls. Our mother ran in with a when she had seen the board game a horrified expression grew on her face. She grabbed it from us and tossed it in the fireplace. Mia who had been still as a statue without saying a word, all of a sudden had pointed at her back. There were three distinct claw marks on her back. After that night we learned our lesson, never play with a Ouija