Our Ouija board seemed to be defective: it was always one digit off when it came to numerical predictions!
The first time, we were playing, there was a Pick 4 lottery drawing happening on TV. So, a minute or two before the drawing, we ask it the numbers. It says something like “4898.”
“The first number is 4!” We kinda laughed at the coincidence.
“The second number is 8!” No we’re starting to freak out
“The third number is 9!” What in the fuck? We’re like legit shaking and jumping up and down now
“The fourth number is 3!” Oh, relief. But what the fuck, it got the first three right.
So this was right around the time of the 1991 NCAA basketball championship, Duke vs Kansas. The game was happening in a couple of days, so the next thing we asked was who was going to win and what was the score going to be: It said Duke 72-68.
I call my friend deep into the fourth quarter where it looks like that result may be a possibility. With 1:30 left on the clock, the score was 68-59. We’re talking breathlessly on the phone. There’s a bunch of last-minute fouling at the end of the game, but Duke manages to get a dunk to make it 72-65 with about 30 seconds left. Kansas misses two 2-point shots, Duke gets it back, loses it to Kansas with 5 seconds left, and the final shot is a 3-pointer that would have nailed the score and it just hits the front of the rim and misses. We were screaming on the phone with that last shot.
And the last one – I’m still trying to figure out how this could have been done – but I was at this same friend’s house with two other people, and his gramma (his guardian) was sitting in the front room. We’re dicking around, asking it who we would marry (I don’t remember what it said), but we did ask it to “show us your presence” or something. Within a few seconds, the doorbell rang. We all jumped. We ask gramma “Who was it?” “Nobody.” “What do you mean nobody, like nobody important.” “No, nobody was at the door.”
I think we shortly put the Ouija board away after that. These days, I believe all three were coincidences, but those are some pretty freaky coincidences, looking back at it.