I believe so.
I have tried the ouija board a few times in my life growing up and it has never been successful for me. I am guessing because my company haven't fully "opened" themselves or taken it seriously. My mums family had often engaged (successfully) in the ouija board. I was always told never to do it when I grew a fascination with ghosts and spirits as a child.
My grandparents often used to sit my mum and her other siblings down (as children) and try to contact the dead who were frequenting their creepy Cricklewood home (it was a house divided into two, with another family living upstairs). Lots of strange things happened after they became obsessed with doing the ouija most evenings, any visitors who were so much left in a room alone in their home would leg it and refuse to come back, my uncle reported constantly waking up in the night and seeing two sinister figures with cloven toes stood in his room, they were haunted/terrorised and riddled with bad luck. My mum and siblings all ended up in a children home (which back in the 60s/early 70s was on a farm near the Kent coast) as my grandparents could not look after them, my nan was placed in a mental home labelled insane as she began to hear voices and see bodiless heads floating around her home. My grandad could not care for his 4 children on his own. They were living as a family again a couple of years later when they secured themselves another home. My nan recovering from her "psychotic symptoms".
They have told me many things which have happened whilst doing the ouija board. But one always stuck out to me. While doing the ouija board, the spirit they were in regular contact with instructed one day for the youngest female (my mother, who would have been about 8-9) to go outside in the garden. My grandad opened the back door and literally at that second the entire pane of glass from the window of the family upstairs fell out in one piece and smashed everywhere, lightening had previously struck part of the house and was the more "this worldly" explaination for it. It was after that incident the ouija board went from innocently contacting a dead persons spirit to something alot more demonic.
My maternal family is riddled with very bad luck. In particular my mum was very hard hit. Within days after the window incident, she was struck down by a car outside the family home, her foot had to be reattached. She was plagued by any illness going - often close encounters with death and just had incredibly bad luck. She fought a few unrelated cancers a few times before it eventually killed her. Even the doctor once said the chances of my mum getting many brain tumours (all different types and all unrelated to eachother) was like "lightening striking in the same place several times".
So I personally think that the ouija board is a portal to something alot more terrifying and beyond our comprehension than just a dead person.
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