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- Author:Alex Bell
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Now Charlotte lived on the mountainside,
In a bleak and dreary spot.
There was no house for miles around,
Except her father’s cot.
When Jay said he’d downloaded a Ouija-board app on to his phone, I
wasn’t surprised. It sounded like the kind of daft thing he’d do. It was
Thursday night and we were sitting in our favourite greasy spoon café,
eating baskets of curly fries, like always.
“Do we have to do this?” I asked.
“Yes. Don’t be a spoilsport,” Jay said.
He put his phone on the table and loaded the app. A Ouija board filled
the screen. The words YES and NO were written in flowing script in the
top two corners, and beneath them were the letters of the alphabet in that
same curling text, in two arches. Beneath that was a straight row of
numbers from zero to nine, and underneath was printed GOODBYE.
“Isn’t there some kind of law against Ouija boards or something? I
thought they were supposed to be dangerous.”
“Dangerous how? It’s only a board with some letters and numbers
written on it.”
“I heard they were banned in England.”
“Couldn’t be, or they wouldn’t have made the app. You’re not scared,
are you? It’s only a bit of fun.”
“I am definitely not scared,” I said.
“Hold your hand over the screen then.”
So I held out my hand, and Jay did the same, our fingertips just
touching.
“The planchette thing is supposed to spell out the answers to our
questions,” Jay said, indicating the little pointed disc hovering at one
corner of the screen.
“Without us even touching it?”
“The ghost will move it,” he declared.
“A ghost that understands mobile phones? And doesn’t mind
crowds?” I glanced around the packed café. “I thought you were
supposed to play with Ouija boards in haunted houses and abandoned
train stations.”
“That would be pretty awesome, Sophie, but since we don’t have any
boarded-up lunatic asylums or whatever around here, we’ll just have to
make do with what we’ve got. Who shall we try to contact?” Jay asked.
“Jack the Ripper? Mad King George? The Birdman of Alcatraz?”
“Rebecca Craig,” I said. The name came out without my really
meaning it to.
“Never heard of her. Who did she kill?”
“No one. She’s my dead cousin.”
Jay raised an eyebrow. “Your what?”
“My uncle who lives in Scotland, he used to have another daughter,
but she died when she was seven.”
“How?”
I shrugged. “I don’t know. No one really talks about it. It was some
kind of accident.”
“How well did you know her?”
“Not that well. I only met her once. It must have been right before she
died. But I always wondered how it happened. And I guess I’ve just been
thinking about them again, now that I’m going to stay in the holidays.”
“OK, let’s ask her how she died. Rebecca Craig,” Jay said. “We invite
you to speak with us.”
Nothing happened.
“Rebecca Craig,” Jay said again. “Are you there?”
“It’s not going to work,” I said. “I told you we should have gone to a
haunted house.”
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