Ouija boards open a door you might not be able to close.

So I've always been somewhat keen to the supernatural. I definitely opened up a door when I was 18 and used the ouija board.

We were all in the backyard of my friends house, there was about 5 of us and one of our friends had the glow in the dark board. I was terrified but intrigued, my mother is extremely religious and had always forbid me to use one.

So we sat there for a few minutes asking stupid questions and not really getting any answers. But it was a couple minutes later is when I could feel it. Something was there. My hands started to shake like crazy and of course my friends started to make fun of me. But they didn't know what was going on.

I started to hear a deep males breathing in my ear. I tried to tell myself it was my friend Meghan, whom was sitting next to me. But she was not close enough nor was she breathing that hard.

In my head I just said "go away, go away, go away" and it eventually did. I can't explain it to this day. It was weird because as it was happening I didn't tell ANYONE. I was just sitting there freaking out.

As we were all heading back home I begged my friend Meghan to sleep over because I knew whatever had breathed into my ear was going to follow me back. I asked Meghan if she had heard a males breathing and she like "wtf, no" and basically thought I was making it up.

For the next month, I kid you not my house was haunted. I could NOT sleep without the lights on and music in my ears. I would hear footsteps every night outside my door and periodically would wake up at 3am.

After a month passed my mother sat me down "Ashley, what the hell is going"

I did NOT tell her at all about using the board because I knew she would be furious. "Aw nothing mom, nothing at all"

"Ashley, you tell me what's going on, for the last month I've been hearing footsteps and last night something scratched my foot"

I just looked at her dumb founded because I thought this was only effecting me. I basically broke down crying and told her everything.

Together we saged the house and said prayers. And it's amazing how different the house felt. It felt lighter and pleasant again.

Since then, I've been prominently more aware of ghosts. They usually come to me in my dreams though.

If you've ever wondered if ouija boards work. They do. It might not seem like it's working but you're literally opening a door, and they won't necessarily make themselves known on the board.

(And turned out some guy had killed himself at the house where we used the board.)