Over at the paranormal section of About.com, Stephen Wagner shares a story written by a Lauren A. By her own account Laura (19) began to experience paranormal happenings at a very early age. She writes:

One of my earliest memories is a voice calling to me from the corner of my room one evening, just calling my name, over and over. I remember feeling compelled to go to it. When I found nothing in the corner except a heaviness in the air, I screamed and flew terrified down the steps. This is one of the things my mother says I dreamed. I disagree. Completely.

Things took a turn for the worse years later when she and her friends began experimenting with the ouija board. At first the experiments proved intriguing, but soon the harmless pasttime seemed to open a door to malevolent forces. One of her friends called her in the middle of night:

One night, my best friend at the time called me in a panic. She had been using her board and it told her that she would die soon. She also revealed to me that every night she swore she had seen a pasty figure with red eyes at the foot of her bed. She believed it was real.

Read her fascinating account at About.com.