Fitz vs. The Parker Bros. Ouija Board Death Curse Prophecy-This is A Very True and Very Scary Story About My Life- Fitz of Horror

Written by Bryan Fitzgerald (Fitz of Horror)- September 16, 2018

For 25 years I have lived with this secret and have never shared it with anyone for fear that it would become a reality. This story is 100% true and 100% unspoken…..Until now.

Back in 1994 when I was just 14 years old, I was given a Parker Bros. Ouija board as a birthday gift. 14 is about the time I started getting in trouble and hanging with the wrong people. One of my best friends at the time, Peter B., was the one that was my designated “partner in crime”. We would bounce between his parents house and mine spending the night and sneaking out or doing whatever to get in trouble.

When I got that Ouija board that changed our pattern of troubled behavior. We began staying in and trying this thing out asking it crazy question after crazy question with little to no results, but we kept trying.

One evening at Peter’s house, there were 4 of us in his room that was lit only by candles, for greater Ouija effect. This evenings line of questioning was for some reason more personal than it had ever been before and the board was much more responsive than it had ever been. I remember the scariest part of that night was when Peter asked the board where he would live when he grew up and the board started leading us to an actual address starting with numbers and then moving to letters when all of the sudden the TV in the other room started inexplicably blasting the Tales From the Darkside intro theme, signaling that it was midnight. It is worth noting that I have no idea of Peter’s current whereabouts to know if his reading became a reality.

This scared the hell out of us but we laughed it off and after a while returned to ask the board more personal questions. It was always known that you NEVER ask a Ouija board when or how you will die but when you’re a teenage boy with nothing to lose and have ran out of “meaningful” questions on a Friday night/Saturday morning, that question seemed to be the exact right one to ask at that moment.

To this day I can’t remember what the answer was that Peter got or if he even took his turn but I remember my turn and what the answer was.

I turned 39 years old on October 6th 2017 and within a month I will be 40. This is significant because when I asked the Ouija board that taboo question about “my time” it simply led us to the numbers “3” and “9”. This didn’t bother me when I was 14 because 39 seemed like it was old anyways and a really long time away. When I hit 35 this notion began to rent a small space in my head but that’s all. When I was 38 nearing my 39th birthday, not feeling old, that thought was prominent but I never spoke of it for fear of sounding crazy or awakening the prophecy.

My 39th year on this earth has produced some gray hairs for various reasons and I have had a few trips to the ER with hives and most recently surgery for a hernia (which I am recovering nicely), but as I stare down the age of 40 in a few short weeks on October 6th, I will begin counting down the last days of being 39 with a very watchful eye and whereas hitting 40 is miserable for some it will be a glorious new chapter in my life where I never have that Ouija board evening brooding over a portion of my thoughts.

I am hoping that this article cleans my conscience and finally lends some clarity to my mind after 25 years of harboring this secret that becomes eminently closer by the day and is now just days away.

Part of me imagines this on my birthday-

But I am hoping for this-

Thanks for taking the time to listen to my darkest secret-FITZ