Does a demon named Zozo prey on humans who experiment with Ouija boards? The idea might seem outlandish, but many people believe they’ve encountered the dark entity.
Zozo
Oklahoma’s Darren Evans appears to have the most experience with Zozo. The self-proclaimed “zozologist” runs a site about the demon and appeared as himself in the 2012 film, I Am Zozo
For Evans, it all started when he found a double-sided Ouija board at his girlfriend’s home near Tulsa. “Zozo” was inscribed on what Evans describes as the dark side of the board, and an entity by the same name seemingly controlled the planchette each time Evans and his friends sat down for a session. Darren soon became obsessed with the board and believed Zozo chose him to share information from the other side. Soon, the demon appeared on any Ouija board Evans used, not just the double-sided one.
Naturally, many people scoffed at Evans’ claim that he could summon a demon at will. Unperturbed, Evans hauled a Ouija board to skeptics’ homes and, in his words, turned them into believers. On one occasion, the board repeatedly spelled the word window. The group saw nothing outside, but when the homeowner went to the kitchen and glanced out the window, she saw a bald man peering in from the backyard. Evans and the woman later learned that the man had escaped from a nearby mental institution and that he had told cops the devil made him look in the window.
Zozo Gets Worse
In the early nineties, around five years after discovering Zozo, Evans had a nervous breakdown because he believed demons were following him in human form. His mom and grandmother performed an exorcism of sorts and Darren fell into a deep sleep for two days. While he slumbered, the women saw dark shadows flitting around the home.
However, Evans worst experience with Zozo came after the demon claimed it was going to devour his daughter’s soul and strike her with an “iron tongue.” The day after this warning, Evans’ three-year-old daughter nearly drowned in the tub and was later diagnosed with MRSA. She was hospitalized and kept in quarantine for two weeks, her swollen tongue hanging grotesquely from her mouth. The child survived, but it was then that Evans realized Zozo was nothing to be toyed with.
Today, Darren no longer plays with Ouija boards and runs Zozo the Ouija Spirit to share information about the demon and give others a chance to share their experiences. On October 18, Ghost Adventures will feature Evans’ story on an episode of the show.
Other Encounters
Darren Evans isn’t the only Ouija board user to encounter Zozo. Chilling tales have appeared on True Ghost Tales, Ghost Theory, and Yahoo, among others. Once Zozo visits a user, the demon typically returns every time the person experiments with a Ouija board and will not allow any other spirit to communicate. After ending a session, Zozo victims experience everything from strange shadows and noises to apparitions and outright possessions, or so the stories go.
What do you think of the Zozo tales? True, false, or somewhere in between? Have you encountered Zozo yourself? Share your story here!
Visit Unexplained Mysteries or LiveSciFi TV for more detailed information about Darren Evans’ Zozo experience.
UPDATE: Here’s the “Zozo” episode of Ghost Adventures…
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I read Darren’s story on his website. I felt for him. I had an occurrence in 2005 when I play ouija board alone. When it starts to works, its exciting, scary and addictive (adrenaline). But its also truly life changing. Every bit of his experience right on the money. These spirits, or whatever they are, they start out pretending to be someone you know or someone that eases your mind, and then after several hours, their tone changes. But before diving into that, its important to mention how dizzy you get as minutes pass during communication. In addition, lights begin brighten and then dim, and then occasionally repeat this off and on. But, back to the change of personality, just prior to the ‘spirit’ changing its tone, sounds of footsteps, random displaced thuds, and whispers begin to manifest (gradually over a period of an hour). Each time a sound is heard, it seems to be louder and more pronounced than the one prior to it. And then it happens, you get this overwhelming feeling of lack of trust in this ‘spirit’, and then it starts saying the more horrible things, and quite randomly at that. Well, not to extend my experience, but I will say that the following 3 months were horrible, I’ve never fallen so depressed and not to mention the paranormal happenings that never seemed to let up. Whatever it was, it tormented me for those few months, but continued to be semi-present for about year and half after. I will make not of just a few things before I end this: first, these paranormal occurences I had, were also experienced by others in the house, including a cat and a dog, and second, while ZOZO was Darran’s contact, mine went by the name Defove (but also it spelled Defose — the second time I asked), not that the name mattered, because it probably wasn’t its real name anyway.
I think this is fascinating. I did want to use a ouiji board but now. NOT any more