Ouija board played twice; antique mirror moved and later broke
A caller the host introduces as [name withheld] from Fairbanks says that at about 18, after playing with a Ouija board one night, they found a heavy antique Chinese mirror lying face down on the floor at the foot of their bed. It normally sat on their dresser, and nothing else on the dresser was disturbed. The caller says that after a second Ouija session the next night they woke around two or three in the morning to a loud crash. They found the mirror broken into many pieces in the same spot, with the dresser items on the floor. The caller says they never touched a Ouija board again. The host closes the segment with his own warning about inviting things in.
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The story as told
[name withheld] of Fairbanks (the host gives the name and place on air, not the caller) says that when they were about 18, just graduated from high school, they and a girl played with a Ouija board one night and they thought little of it. The caller says they went home and woke the next morning to find a large antique Chinese mirror on the floor at the foot of their bed, face down. The caller describes it as roughly three feet by four feet and weighing about 60 or 70 pounds, and says it normally sat on their dresser. The caller says a collection of model cars they had built and some bottles of cologne on top of the dresser had not been disturbed. The caller states that for the mirror to get where it was, it would have had to be lifted off the dresser over those items, moved about two feet from the dresser, turned at a 90-degree angle, and laid face down on the floor. The caller reports that the next night they played with the Ouija board again, that the caller went home and went to bed, and that early in the morning, around two or three o'clock, the caller heard a big loud crash. The caller woke to find the mirror in the same position on the floor, in the same exact spot, broken into a hundred or so little pieces, with everything from the dresser lying on the floor. The caller says that was the last time they ever touched a Ouija board. The host replies “Good for you” and says that you invite things in when you do that and do not know what you are inviting in.
Reported events, in order
- 0:16
At about 18, just out of high school, [name withheld] says they and a girl played with a Ouija board one night and thought little of it.
- 0:44
The caller says they went home and woke the next morning to find the antique Chinese mirror from their dresser on the floor at the foot of their bed, face down.
- 0:50
The caller says the model cars and cologne bottles on top of the dresser had not been disturbed.
- 1:03
The caller says the mirror must have been lifted off the dresser over the items, moved about two feet, turned 90 degrees, and laid face down.
- 1:12
The caller says they played with the Ouija board again the next night, then went home and to bed.
- 1:29
The caller says that early in the morning, around two or three o'clock, they heard a big loud crash and woke up.
- 1:38
The caller reports the mirror was in the same position on the floor, in the same exact spot, broken into a hundred or so little pieces.
- 1:41
The caller says everything on the dresser was lying all over the floor.
- 1:45
The caller says that was the last time they ever touched a Ouija board.
- 1:48
The host tells the caller “Good for you” and says that you invite things in when you do that and do not know what you are inviting in.
Claims
Each claim is labeled as something the person telling the story noticed (observation), what they made of it (interpretation), something others told them (hearsay), or something the host said (host statement).
- observation· 0:44
The caller says that after the first Ouija session they woke to find their antique Chinese mirror on the floor at the foot of their bed, face down.
- observation· 0:50
The caller says nothing else on the dresser (model cars they had built, bottles of cologne) had been disturbed.
- interpretation· 1:03
The caller says the mirror would have had to be lifted off the dresser over the items, moved about two feet, turned 90 degrees, and laid face down. This is the caller's own reconstruction of how it moved.
- observation· 1:29
The caller reports hearing a loud crash around two or three in the morning after the second Ouija session, and waking.
- observation· 1:38
The caller reports the mirror was in the same spot on the floor but broken into a hundred or so little pieces.
- observation· 1:41
The caller reports everything on the dresser was lying all over the floor after the crash.
- interpretation· 1:45
The caller links the events to the Ouija board only by implication: the caller says it was the last time they ever touched one. The caller never names a cause or a being.
- host statement· 1:48
The host says that using a Ouija board invites things in and that the user does not know what is being invited.
- host statement· 1:57
The host compares Ouija use to opening a door to a world where things exist, good and bad.
Scores, with reasons
An AI model gave these scores using a fixed set of scoring rules (scoring-v1). They are editorial judgments and rough guides, not the odds that anything paranormal happened. How scoring works.
A short firsthand story that hangs together, with concrete physical detail (the mirror's size and weight, the distance moved, the dresser contents undisturbed, the order of events across two nights) and a clear line between what the caller found and what they inferred. It loses ground because no one saw the movements, no date or place detail can be checked, and no second witness or documentation is offered. The caller does not address ordinary physical explanations.
Evidence for and against
- A concrete description of the mirror: [quote withheld]
- The caller separates what they saw from what they infer: the caller found the mirror, and then reasons [quote withheld]
- The order of events holds together: the first night the mirror moved with the dresser items undisturbed, and the second night [quote withheld]
- The caller was asleep or away for both displacements, so no one saw the events themselves.
- No date, address, or other detail that can be checked.
- The second-night passage is fragmented and partly credited to the host, which makes the exact order harder to verify.
- No one saw the mirror move, only where it ended up.
- The final lines of the second incident come in short, garbled pieces.
- 0:30
- 0:44
- 1:03
What the model inferred (not said on air): The component scores (source proximity 19, specificity 16, internal consistency 15, alternative explanations 8, calibration of claims 11) are my editorial judgment applied to the transcript text. The caller says nothing about possible ordinary causes.
The story rests entirely on the caller's own word. No documentation, photograph, recording, or independent on-air witness is present. The named specifics ([name withheld], Fairbanks) come only from the host and do not back up the story.
Evidence for and against
- A firsthand report that hangs together, with specific physical details.
- No physical evidence is claimed to exist or is produced on air.
- No second person speaks on air about the events.
- No date is given for the events.
- It is not stated whether the girl present at the Ouija sessions ever saw where the mirror was.
- 1:45
What the model inferred (not said on air): With only the caller's word available and no outside check, the score sits at the bottom range (the caller's word only).
The story involves an intrusion into a bedroom while the caller slept and a heavy object that moved and then shattered, which makes it mildly to moderately unsettling. It lacks a being, a threat, an injury, or lasting dread, and the host's closing remarks are advice, not fright.
Evidence for and against
- The object is found [quote withheld] on the floor after the caller slept.
- The caller is woken by [quote withheld] in the early hours.
- The mirror is said to break into many pieces.
- No figure, presence, threat, or harm is reported.
- The caller treats the first discovery matter-of-factly ([quote withheld]).
- It ends with a decision to stop using the board, not an ongoing menace.
- The garbled telling of the second incident makes its emotional tone hard to judge from the text alone.
- 0:44
- 1:38
What the model inferred (not said on air): This is a judgment about how the story reads to a listener, not about whether the events happened.
Ouija use followed by household objects moving or breaking is a familiar recurring theme. But a heavy antique mirror found displaced with the surrounding dresser items untouched, then breaking in the same spot the next night, gives it a modest distinctive element.
Evidence for and against
- A Ouija session followed by strange events is clearly present.
- The claim about the exact arrangement is specific: the mirror lifted over undisturbed model cars and cologne bottles.
- No images or events beyond objects moving and breaking.
- The mirror-breaking detail overlaps with common broken-glass and moving-object stories.
- The comparison with the rest of the archive is provisional and depends on other stories in the archive.
- 1:03
What the model inferred (not said on air): This provisional model score reflects overlap with stock themes on the fixed list of themes. It is not a judgment of truth.
Scoring confidence 0.68 · analysis confidence 0.78 · checked against outside sources: no · evidence available: The caller's own firsthand word only (no second on-air witness); No claimed photograph, recording, or document; Caller name and location supplied by the host on air, not by the caller. The originality score blends the model's score (48) with how rare the story's details are across the archive. This method is still provisional.
Ordinary explanations to consider
These are possibilities only. None is a finding about what happened.
- Another person in the household moved the mirror, or it shifted during the night by some ordinary mechanical means, while the caller slept and so did not see it. · The caller was asleep or away at the time of both incidents. The caller reports only finding the results (“I woke up”). No one is said to have been watching the mirror.
- A mirror already lying face down on the floor could break from stress or settling. The objects on the dresser could have been knocked off by an animal, a vibration, or the fall itself, producing the crash the caller reports. · By the second night the mirror was already on the floor ([quote withheld]), so its breaking needs less movement than the first night's move. The crash is given with no witnessed cause.
What stands out
The distinctive part is a heavy antique mirror said to have been moved overnight without disturbing the objects around it on the dresser. The next night, that same mirror, already out of place, broke into many pieces in the same spot. No figure, sound, or presence is reported during the movement itself, and the only link offered between the Ouija sessions and the events is the timing.
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