This all started with my mother's cousin, Ellen. They were moving a few weeks, so Ellen decided to hold a sleep over. And what better time to conduct a seance?
Due to the fact that it also happened to be the anniversary of J.F.K's death, they decided to try to contact him through an ouija board. So of course they lit a big candle and a few little ones, placing the bigger candle in front of them with the ouija board. Then, they began the chant (which I cannot exactly remember) it was something like "Come as you are, be as you be."
After a few chants, one of the girls noticed something as the rest of their eyes followed. The flame on the large candle SHOT straight up and came down. Some of the girls tried to blame it on the wind, others said that it was a hallucination and others believed what they saw.
They all began to talk at once and were quieted by Ellen. "Listen, I know what we just saw was creepy, but I think that perhaps we should go into a further study. Maybe the spirit is trying to tell us something!" One girl said that that was enough but the rest were still intrigued by what had occurred. So, a week later, they held yet another seance.
This time they were enclosed in a circle and, covered in their sleeping bags, they began to chant. "Come as you are be as you be" at that moment, one of the girls shot straight up and spoke out two initials in a voice no one could recognize, and then fainted. (I apologize, I can't to the life of me remember the initials.) Some of the girls, to calm themselves, said "She's faking it, she's faking it!!" Other's replied "No, it's real. Look at her!!!! She just fainted!"
Slowly they got the girl to awaken and the first thing she said was "What happened?"
Ellen replied, "Don't you remember? You said (the two initials) in a strange voice and then you just fell over!!!"
The girl shook her head, still stunned by what had happened. Now completely involved, Ellen spoke to the other girls "Look I know this is pretty creepy but whatever or whoever this is, is desperately trying to make contact with us! I feel we should try to find out what is exactly going on. It could be really important!"
A few girls just looked at her as if she had gone mad ... others just stared at the recovering girl in disbelief ... only four out of the remaining twelve girls were willing to continue. That morning, while the girls were eating breakfast, Ellen's Mom walked in with a photo album. Curious, Ellen asked her Mom if she could look at it.
As she was flipping through the pages she stopped at one particular picture, her face turned pale white as she read the initials under the picture of a very dark soulless, evil looking man.
"M-mom" she stuttered, "who IS this?"
"Oh, him" her mother replied, "he's sort of the black sheep of the family. No one really knows much about him, he lived a very sullen eerie life..."
Now interested, the rest of the girls looked into the picture book and saw the exact thing that had horrified Ellen so much. They knew what they had to do. That night, they held yet another seance, this time holding hands and chanting "Come as you are, be as you be." Then they just stared into the candle flame waiting for something to happen, they waited for about five minutes and just when one of the girls was about to get up go, saying "this is really dull", a menacing face appeared in the candle flame.
It looked just like the face they had seen in the photo album. Just as one of the girls was about to speak, Ellen shouted, "Wait, no-one tell what you just saw, I want everyone to draw what they have seen."
They quickly got paper and began to draw. When everyone was finished they simultaneously flipped over their drawings and everyone saw the same face drawn on every single paper. Knowing that they were too far in to back out, they decided to hold one final seance.
Ellen spoke "Look we are going to try this one more time. If our questions are not answered, then we will have to go about this a different way." Two girls were unsure about the situation but decided to go along with it. So, a few nights later, they held a seance for the final time. They gathered at a table this time surrounded by candles with only the Ouija board in the middle. Then once again, they began to chant "Come as you are, be as you be."
Tightly clenching each other's hands waiting, waiting, waiting, but nothing happened.
Then one of the girls stood up and turned around to face a picture on the wall of a little boy running away with a little sack at the end of a stick. Just as she was about to walk away, the back of the head of the little boy turned around and mutated into a menacing face, the one they had seen in the picture and candle flame. The girl was too startled to speak, she just pointed and stood there ghostly white and pointed her trembling finger to the picture.
They all saw as the face slowly retook its proper form and just then the Ouija board flew up and crashed against the wall! They were all frightened and ran over to Ellen's friend's house to spend the night. They woke up still with the frightening memory of what had happened the night before.
Ellen came up with an idea. "Hey you guys, remember that psychic that came to our school at the end of the school year?? Maybe she could help us. She lives close to here, we could even walk."
They all agreed and began their walk. When they got to the psychic's, it was an old beaten up looking house that seemed so small that it could contain no more than a single room. A lady answered the door and welcomed them into her house. They cautiously entered and told her the entire story.
The psychic then replied, "Just one thing, how many times did you try to contact the spirit?"
"Three or four times. Why?" Ellen asked.
"Oh no, you must never contact a spirit three or more times, it opens a gateway through which they can control your soul and get onto the earth! There is really nothing you can do more than to wait cautiously. Whatever you do, DO NOT contact the spirit again. It has a few days to do something. If not, it will return to where it came from."
From that day on, the four girls made a pact that no matter what happened, they would stick together.
That is where the story ends. I don't really no much more but I imagine nothing serious happened. However, this story took place when Ellen was between fifth and sixth grade. When my Mom came back to visit her between being a freshmen and a sophomore in high school, my mother asked her about what had taken place so long ago, whether it was real. Ellen replied by pulling out her old diary and showing my mother. The story was pretty much word for word about what had happened in that one bone chilling month.
Now, how am I involved in this? Well, I just found out about the diary and about the age they were at the time. A week ago I told this to my foster-sister and her friend (who happen to be in between 5th and 6th grade) and I am between a freshmen and sophmore in high school.
Now, my foster-sister has these dreams, very realistic in fact, and they have been proven to predict future sometimes. Hard to believe I know, but true.
She had had a dream about four girls walking into a small house talking to psychic. This psychic had been motioning and warning them about something. You see, I think this is more than a mere coincidence and I am trying to figure out what is going on. I feel as if I am being guided to find out more.
Perhaps a spirit is trying to tell me something. You may see me as foolish, or even insane but I know that there is something strange about this whole thing and I am now way to far into this to just give up now.
Thanks for reading this and I am sure this will answer some of your questions. I don't know if I should try an ouija board or what. I am really clueless as to where to go now. Perhaps if I am searching for nothing.
Still, I have a very spiritual family and I feel as if I am being guided.