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Truth or Lie? By Kay Yendole
It
was 1966 at Mayfield Girls School.
At
lunchtime the group of seven 5th formers met in the Common Room to
chat, play music, and on this occasion for fun, to dabble with the mystical
oracle, a magical game of the material and the immaterial, a link between the
known and the unknown, the Ouija Board.
Giggling
and laughing at the answers it gave them clearly to questions about career
choices, who they would marry, how many children would they have, would they
travel, clues about the love of their life, where they would live and more
superficial curiosities.
Diana
was told she was pregnant which had us all falling around in stitches but we
all knew she was in a relationship with an older man.
The
laughter continued as the glass spelt out the name Colin as Kay’s intended as
the only Colin they knew was some goofy boy from their primary school. Patti
received career advice about art and books. Jeanne was not surprised to receive
Mick in answer to her question; she’d been dating him since she was fourteen.
Denise would be working in travel and Marianne was told she would go East. We
were all laughing but Christine was alarmed when asking her question about how
old would she live to as the glass started spinning round and round and spun
right off the table smashing to smithereens on the floor.
Then
entered the lofty Miss Greenfield their R.E. teacher, normally pleasant and
mild mannered, taking in the scene with the letters and numbers and broken
glass she shouted at them clearly furious at what they were doing.
“
You are inviting the devil into this room, opening the gates of hell, you
foolish girls, clear it up immediately, you may no longer be trusted to use
this room for the rest of term.’
Shocked
at her reaction they were subdued and a little frightened at what she clearly
thought to be an evil act.
By
the end of term Diana confirmed she was pregnant, Jeanne was engaged to Mick,
Denise got at job at British Airways, Patti became a librarian, Marianne got a
job in a Japanese bank. But tragically Christine died in a car accident when
her father had a heart attack at the wheel.
None
of them ever dared mess with the Ouija Board again.
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2 comments:
Well written Kate, creating that unsettling feeling that anything to do with the supernatural gives me. I grew up in an 18C house where my dad used to frighten us with ghostly happenings he genuinely believed were true and had actually taken place. Thank you.
Sorry, Kay, not Kate
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