John B. Allen (MrBallen)

So we had one growing up.

My sisters and I would always get out the Ouija board.

Now that I'm thinking about it, that's kind of weird.

Like little... Me and my sisters as young children are having seances in our basement.

So actually, I'm open to it.

I'm open to it.

So anyways, these two, they're like, okay, we want to...

We want to try to contact mom.

And so they get their Ouija board and their little planchette and they go down into the basement and they literally set up like a seance.

You know, the basement is just like this blank slab basement.

There's a washer dryer, there's a couple of tools on a shelf, but it's a blank, you know, concrete slab basement.

And they put their Ouija board down, they light some candles and they sit down and they put their fingers on the planchette and they begin asking questions like sort of to the room, you know, hey mom, you know, if you're in here, you know, give us a sign, you know.

And they look at the board and they're,

They're hoping it's going to move, but nothing happens.

And over the course of the next hour, these girls tried every combination of question that they could ask to try to inspire the spirit of their mother to come in here and talk to them.

But no matter what they did, they just, they couldn't get the planchette to move.

And in some ways it was sort of devastating.

You know, they, again, they're grieving the loss of their mom.

They haven't really come to terms with it.

And this felt like hope, you know, mom's going to come through.