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It's only a game, isn't it?( continued...)

Although unable to verify the functions or accuracy of a Ouija board, Johnson said, "Friends of mine back in high school say it works, although I don't know if that was them or the beer. I took it as a joke. I don't believe in the supernatural."

But that self-proclaimed nonbeliever quickly recalled an incident involving a Ouija board.
"The curtain moved, a door closed, and something fell off the shelf," he said.

Johnson attributed the occurrences to wind, adding he has not thought much of it. Nevertheless, Johnson said it was on his mind. He said he was uncomfortable with totally denouncing the preternatural.

"I believe there is something out there," he added. "I just haven't had any personal experiences ... I have to see it for myself."

Radford University junior Jennifer Kuszmaul was less hesitant than Johnson to admit her feelings about past experiences with Ouija boards.

"They scared the crap out of me," Kuszmaul said.

Having used a Ouija board when she was between 7 and 12 years old, she said, "I knew then that it was a tool used for talking to spirits." She acknowledged what she had used was only a toy but added, "I think Parker Brothers exploited old tools that were used, and those tools should have never been made into toys.

"Enough bizarre things have happened that it makes me wonder," Kuszmaul said. She recalled a time when the Ouija board told her "there was a lady with three children in an old farm house on [Kuszmaul's] property, and she was stabbed to death by her husband.

"I've never checked into whether the answers were correct because I was fearful that they might actually be true," she said.

Kuszmaul also recalled some funny experiences she had while playing with a Ouija board.