A teenage fascination.

A handmade Ouija board.

And a voice from somewhere it was never safe to reach.

In this first part of Haunted UK Podcast’s Halloween Special, Steve travels to South Wales to meet Rachel, a witness whose experiences with Ouija boards, séances, religion, fear, and the unexplained left a lasting mark on her life.

Rachel’s story begins in childhood, with intense nightmares, disembodied faces, strange family stories, and the knowledge that her great-grandmother had once been a spiritualist medium. Raised in a churchgoing household, she grew up surrounded by ideas of angels, demons, spirits, sin, protection, and forbidden contact with the dead — ideas that would later become deeply tangled with her own search for answers.

At school, Rachel and her friend Lily became fascinated by homemade Ouija boards, candle sessions, and attempts to contact spirits. At first, it felt like curiosity, rebellion, and belonging. But as the board began to produce names, predictions, voices, and apparent messages, the obsession grew stronger. Exams slipped away, friendships shifted, and what had once felt like teenage experimentation began to take on a life of its own.

By the end of this first chapter, the activity has started to change. What began with questions and glass movements is moving toward something far darker — physical contact, strange voices, and the first signs that whatever was speaking through the board may not be what it claimed to be.

Atmospheric, intimate, and deeply unsettling, this opening Halloween episode explores Ouija boards, childhood fear, spiritualism, religious warning, teenage obsession, and the moment curiosity becomes something much harder to control.

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