The two brothers had been conjuring up spirits for for many years but they did it in secret without their parents knowing. The Da Salvo twins named Clint and Chad would go into the basement cellar of their parent's house which sat on an isolated acreage. For years the boys were able to successfully conduct seances to communicate with dead spirits from a graveyard that was less than half a mile away. The process the boys used was this. They would walk down the dirt road to the graveyard at night and they would enter it with their flashlights beaming at the tombstones. And when they found a name that was interesting they would write down all of the vital information from the tombstone engraving and head back home to conjure up the spirit. 

Donald Wattershed was father of six children which consisted of three boys and three girls. Donald had a wife but she passed away two decades ago and he never married again. As Donald aged he found the pressures of life too much. His kids were already grown up but as they aged they developed all sorts of personal problems. One of his daughters named Nancy was dumped by her fiancee on their wedding night and her life went into a tailspin as she became depressed and eventually became addicted to valium. After three years of failed therapy she was forced to live with her father Donald. His two other daughters had problems of their own. Dayna, his youngest daughter was a floozy and had four kids with four different men. She was now living with Donald as well and would go out when she pleased leaving him alone with the kids. His third daughter, Sarah, was a bum and said she did not want to work for a living and chose gambling as her profession. She also lived with him.

Everything seemed to be going so well in his life. He had a beautiful wife, three wonderful kids, a professional practice in law that was burgeoning and over two million dollars in a savings account. So nobody could figure out why at the age of 31 John DeWitt decided that this would be the perfect time to take his own life. The manner that he did it in was most unusual and bizarre. I'm not talking about the method in which he took his life I am talking about the circumstances that surrounded it. It was Christmas Eve 1985 and he was supposedly finishing things off at work. His wife was picking up the kids from a party. 

​As a ten year old boy I was sitting at home watching television and just as I was about to get up from my chair during a commercial break a most interesting advertisement came across the set. There were four kids sitting in a dark room with a mysterious light shining on their faces and they all had their hands on some type of strange board. The one child asked a question and they all closed their eyes and mysteriously their hands moved across the board in an unconscious manner. Then one of the children screamed and the commercial was over. I sat back in my chair shocked. The announcers voice came on the television and said, "Ouija Board, now available at all toy stores."