When we were kids we got a hold of one that was found in the city dump, unopened. Someone threw it away without opening it...
As soon as they (not really me) started playing with it, weird things happened. Scratches started appearing on two of their backs for one thing.
That sort of thing.
Finally we took it to the concrete driveway and try to set it on fire. It would not burn, a cardboard game-board should burn right? Finally we put some kerosene on it and lit that up.
It took forever for even the plastic ‘pointer’ thing to burn and the flames were about 7 feet high by this point, the fire looked strange too. Some of the others thought they saw “figures” in the fire.
we were just glad it was gone.
One of my neighbors, who is a strong Christian but not trying to impress anyone said that a Ouija board was brought into their house and they knew they didn’t want it there because of the spiritualism that is associated with it, so they burned it.
It was apparently hard to get it to burn (they threw it in the fireplace that already had logs burning) - when it finally caught fire, like with you the flames went very high and there was a sound like a loud scream coming from the fireplace as it was burning.
You have no way of knowing my friend or the truth of the story, but I’ve known her for years as a very trustworthy person.