Will Forte says a spirit once warned him that he’d, um, be stabbed to death at the age of 73. The actor, 54, shared the story on the latest episode of Rachel Dratch ’s “ Woo Woo ” podcast. He told Dratch, a fellow Saturday Night Live alum, that when he was a teenager, he felt a supernatural presence while playing the Ouija board at the home of a girl he liked.
“I would ask questions of this Ouija board that nobody else would know the answers to, and it would get the answers correct. And so I was pretty blown away,” Forte recalled. “I was thinking, like, is there a way that my hands are moving it because I know the answer? .
.. I was trying not to push it all, but it was pretty nuts — like my grandma’s middle name, that kind of stuff.
” Forte, who had previously thought the Ouija was “so dumb,” said he “would be putting the spirit down, trying to get him really angry. I’m sure I told him he had a small penis or something like that.” All humor aside, he said “it really did get kind of scary.
” Forte summoned the courage to ask the board for details on his future death. “I found out that I was going to die at the age of 73 by stabbing,” he informed Dratch. “I’ve got 19 years left.
” Dratch called Forte’s Ouija experience “extreme” and expressed disbelief. Though Forte didn’t believe the prophecy either, it still crosses his mind from “time to time” that perhaps there was some truth to it. For instance, he said, “when I’m 72.