The Ouija Board Demon | Ep. 72

What is the Ouija Board Demon? Can an entity named ZOZO harm and haunt people? Can a self-created ouija board conjure spirits? Welcome to another episode of Believing the Bizarre. It’s listener submission time again.

This episode is brought to us by Holly from South Chicago. She, and a few of her friends, decided to create their own ouija board with cardboard and sharpies, take it to their friend’s rural house, and have some fun.

Little did they know that their actions would have severe and life-long consequences. But, do we believe it? Listen now to find out!

Note: the name we bleep out is Azazel.

What’s up Bizarros? This week we dive into a frightening tale from our listener, Holly, about her harrowing experience with the Ouija board.

Are you ready to dive into the unknown and unusual?  Let’s let Holly take it away.

“During my sophomore year of high school, my two friends Stone and B, and I began making and using Ouija boards,” Holly explains.

“We would use cardboard and sharpies and create Ouija board designs that we looked up online.”

One key piece to the summoning board that many listeners know about is the planchette.  Holly doesn’t remember how they came to be in possession of one, but they did have one.

The trio went over to Stone’s house, which was in a more rural location than Holly or B’s to test their new board out.

“We tried it out a few times at Stone’s house but we weren’t making any connections.” 

“But that would soon change,” Holly tells us.

The evening started as it normally would with questions like:

“Are there any spirits around?”

“Are you a good spirit?”

“Are you an evil spirit?”

“As I said, we normally didn’t get a response, but this night we did,” Holly says.

Everything felt innocent, but there was an energy growing, an intensity that they could feel. 

“Soon the entity that we were talking with began to focus on Stone. It turned out to be his grandmother, who had recently passed,” Holly states. 

Stone began asking “his grandmother” questions, but her responses were slightly off, and soon the group knew something was wrong. 

“Her responses were generic and unconvincing, and weren’t at all how Stone remembered his grandma,” said Holly.

If it wasn’t Stone’s grandmother then who, or what, were they speaking to?

The group demanded to know who they were speaking with and that’s when the energy in the room changed.  The feelings of excitement and mystery were now replaced with a sense of foreboding and dread.

“The planchette began moving and spelled out ‘kill us’ and ‘evil’,” Holly states.

The group, while scared, pressed the entity for its name.

“M-A-M-A” it first spelled. 

The group persisted for it to share its name, and the planchette started moving violently spelling out “Z-O-Z-O”.

“All at once we felt it. We began feeling ill.  We had stomach pains coupled with a piercing headache.” Holly says.

Just then, as if on cue, Stone’s dogs started growling and barking uncontrollably as if something had come into the house. 

“That’s when we started seeing black masses and shadows moving about the room,” recalls Holly.

Terrified by what was going on, the group closed up their homemade Ouija board without following the proper closing protocols.

They wanted out of there as quickly as possible and jumped into Stone’s car and sped into town.

“As we drove we began tearing up the Ouija board, hoping it would break the connection with ZOZO,” Holly says. 

They ended up burning the pieces just to make sure that the board was fully destroyed, and that the door was hopefully shut on the entity that had threatened them.

But the sense of dread still hung heavy in the air. Trying to break the tension Stone turned the radio on hoping music would add the levity they needed.

After settling on a station, it instantly picked up another station, one they hadn’t heard before, not in their town.

“It sounded religious,” said Holly. “Not in a Godly way, but more of an occult way. It spoke of evil, and Stone quickly turned off the radio.” 

Stone dropped Holly and B off at her house, and the girls went into Holly’s room trying to calm down and get some sleep.  But they could still feel the presence all around them. Like a dark humidity that hung in the room weighing heavily on them.

“We couldn’t shake the feeling that we had at Stone’s house.  We tried to keep calm but the sense of foreboding was strong, and that’s when I saw it.”  

Holly says she saw a dark shadow figure appear in front of her closet. Terrified the girls left Holly’s and decided to stay the night at B’s house. 

As they were leaving they Holly’s mom, who had been sleeping in the living room, woke up.  

Holly tried her best to explain what was happening, but as it was a school night, her mom wasn’t happy.

“My mom is very religious and doesn’t give evil spirits much merit.  She thinks that you should pay them no mind.” Holly explains.

Her mom relented and drove the girls to B’s house so they could stay the night.

On the ride over the girls sat in the back seat, but they still felt the presence. They could feel it following.

“Once we got to B’s house, her grandmother suggested we form a prayer circle and started saying some prayers.  I couldn’t close my eyes. I knew that ZOZO was still with us.” Holly says.

Holly could feel the presence in the very room they were in, and B’s house became overwhelmed with the smell of sulfur overwhelmed until 4 am.

Naturally, they didn’t get any sleep that night.

The Next Day

At school the next day, the group met up to discuss what had happened the night before.

In a class that they all took together, they mentioned the name that had been spelled out on the board.  Z-O-Z-O. 

“Once we mentioned the name the teacher’s hole puncher flew off her desk and a chair flipped over,” Holly recalls.

This was just the beginning. 

Over the next few months, the group was tormented with paranormal experiences like being awoken at 3:33 am, hearing 3 bangs against their walls, doors would open and close by themselves.

On one particular night, Stone heard a noise under his bed.  Summoning all of his courage he got down on the floor and lifted the sheet to look under his bed. 

Under Stone’s bed was the Ouija board they had used, the one they had burned, intact. 

“B didn’t seem to have as strong as experiences as Stone and I did.  I think it’s because she is more religious than Stone and I are,” explains Holly.

While the intensity comes and goes, the presence is still there.  Her relative gave her a blessed seal of Saturn to help with protection, and for a while, it seemed like it did. Things lessened for a time.  

But eventually, Holly began to feel the presence come back in.  She decided to contact the demonic entity using a grid and pendulum.

“With a friend by my side, we pushed for its name.  It gave the same name as before, but we kept digging.  Finally, we got the name Azazel,” Holly said.

Azazel is a notorious demon, whose name is actually on the seal of Saturn Holly has.

It told her that it has an attachment to her and that it wants her soul. Oddly, it also told her that it protects her but fears her angels.

Now, it’s gotten to the point that it is still around, but when the dark presence becomes overwhelming late at night, Holly calls upon her angels.

“This causes the demon to retreat, and I can feel the room lighten,” Holly said.

Holly has said that she no longer fears this entity but is curious and wants to learn more. 

It’s a pretty intense story and experience that Holly and her friends had. 

What do you think Bizarros?