When I was growing up, about six or seven, I had two choices of entertainment, playing poker or watching my female relatives play with the Ouija Board. Sometimes I watched my dad and uncles play poker or dominoes, for money, of course. I was a card shark by the age of seven! My brother was a dominoes champion in his school at an early age. I’m five years older than him. I bought my first two wheeler bicycle at seven with poker money won from the neighbors’ kids! My mom was furious!

“Where did you get money?” “Playing poker like Daddy!” Mom said, “Give it back, the other kids don’t know the game! You’re cheating them!” Dad and I went to give the money back, and one neighbor was a cop. He said if his kids had played with me, then keep the money! He said it will teach his kids a lesson, not to gamble on something you don’t understand! He also played poker with Daddy! Daddy said, “What do you want with your money?” I said, “A bike so everyone could play on it!” Donny, David, the cop’s kids, and my cousins all loved it!

My other option for entertainment was watching my mother, aunts, and neighbor ladies play with the Ouija Board. I have seen the Ouija Board lift up our kitchen table and walk it across the floor! One lady, I believe she was a medium, although I didn’t understand mediums at the time, would chant, calling names, and telling it not to lie to her. My Aunt Sue had recently lost her father, and the Board told her when she gave her dog away, she gave her father’s soul away! She believed this and was very depressed because she thought her father was reincarnated to be the dog she gave away! She tried to get the dog back, but the family she gave it to had moved. My Aunt Ruthie had a Ouija Board that would always turn up after she got rid of it! She would find it after throwing it away, and it hated my cousin! He said it would swear at him, call him names, and the board followed them. Where ever they moved it would turn up somehow after they threw it away! My cousin said he took it out into the backyard and burned it! He said as it was burning he saw a face and it screamed! I believe his story, and the board has not turned up since! My mother will not allow a Ouija Board in her house now, neither will my aunts, or myself! Although Dad has passed on, I will still play poker, but not at live tables in Vegas, as I promised him. He said no matter how much you think you know about poker, someone will bluff you out! Ouija Boards are bluffing too, but they are real and they are scarier! I will not allow one in my house!