The Haunted Story Behind The Devil’s Board, Part One | Grave Talks CLASSIC
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
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🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In the 1987-1988 school year, a small American college dorm became the epicenter of chilling paranormal activity. What started as a harmless, fun experiment with a Ouija board quickly spiraled out of control as students summoned spirits almost daily. But one spirit in particular would leave a lasting mark, revealing his name and his story, much to the horror of everyone involved. This episode takes a deep dive into the bizarre and unsettling events that inspired the book The Devil’s Board, chronicling how a simple game led to an unforgettable and terrifying chapter in college history.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Grave Talks, the Devil's Board. |
| 0:04.0 | During the school year of 1987 into 1988 into 1988, shocking paranormal events took over a dorm in parts of an American college campus. |
| 0:28.6 | These events would later be chronicled in the book The Devil's Board. |
| 0:32.6 | Many of these events are blamed on an infatuation that one student had with what many thought of as a harmless board game, the Ouichi board. |
| 0:41.8 | Spirits were summoned almost daily, and one in particular would continue to stand out and let his name and story be known. |
| 0:51.0 | The spirit claimed to have ended his life on the very same campus where the students were using the devil's board. |
| 0:57.0 | What at first seemed like an innocent student reaching out for help from beyond the grave very quickly turned malevolent. |
| 1:05.0 | The spirit seemed to nearly possess and manipulate this one girl to an extreme point, |
| 1:10.0 | almost resulting in her death and the |
| 1:12.6 | death of her friends. Today on the Grape Talks, we discuss these real accounts with L. Sidney Fisher. |
| 1:19.1 | As far as the devil's board, the book is concerned, I actually am a living witness to the events |
| 1:26.3 | that transpired on this community college campus back in |
| 1:30.4 | 1987. |
| 1:31.5 | So I knew these characters that were in this story. |
| 1:34.8 | And it's a story that I had thought about writing for a while. |
| 1:38.3 | Just had several other projects going on at the time. |
| 1:41.4 | But it finally came around and I knew that this would be a really good story. |
| 1:48.5 | And that's how it transpired. I just knew about these events that happened and actually was in the same dorm with Josie and Rachel and Stephanie and Amber. |
| 2:06.7 | Amber Simmons was probably the really the main character that got really, really into the |
| 2:13.8 | Ouija board playing and she was just totally fascinated with the board and it this |
| 2:24.0 | the spirit just kind of like took over and she as strange as as as sounds she developed a |
| 2:32.9 | sort of friendship with a spirit and just could not leave him alone. |
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