OTHERWORLDLY PROM
FOREWARNING
October 11, 2025 - This ritual is no longer considered safe to perform. Many users who attempted this ritual in the spring of 2025 reported falling very ill. Furthermore, other rituals, such as the companion-entity ritual, are able to provide one with a companion which is acutally visible.
Is prom coming up? Do you have no one to go with? Do you think that, even if you tried, you would not be able to find a partner to take to prom? Look no further; this ritual purportedly allows one to summon an O T H E R W O R L D L Y prom date to hang out with you in your home while your classmates have fun. Much like you, the prom date whom you will summon with this ritual was not able to attend prom, albeit for reasons much different than yours. This ritual can only be performed once, and it is likely that it can only be successfully performed at a very specific time.
A general rule is that spiritual experiences are not "free". Whether you succeed or fail in performing this ritual, you will be left with a "broken heart". If you're desperate enough for romantic love, though, nothing is stopping you from trying.
DISCLAIMER
-Do not perform this ritual due to it requiring the extraction of enough blood to write multiple symbols, which is extremely dangerous, as well as possible negative psychological effects.
PARTICIPANTS
-One (1) principal participant.
MATERIALS
-REQUIRED
---One (1) piece of cardboard. The larger, the better.
---At least two pieces of paper; one for the "promposal sign", which will be described later, and at least one for the "letter".
---An adhesive material, such as tape or glue.
---A small amount of your own blood. It is unknown if the ritual will still work if diluted blood is used.
---One (1) pillow.
---Two chairs, one (1) of which is comfy. You wouldn't want your date to feel uncomfortable, would you? If you do not have any "comfy" chairs, perhaps cushioning hard chairs with pillow covers or blankets may be enough.
---Salt
---"Dark" clothing, preferably black.
---An area for the prom to be held in.
-NOT REQUIRED BUT RECOMMENDED TO IMPROVE THE LIKELIHOOD OF THE RIUTAL "GOING WELL":
---A paintbrush to paint blood onto the promposal sign.
---A device that can play any audio, such as a computer or a mobile phone; it wouldn't be very prom-like to sit in silence instead of enjoying music, and your date may not like it.
---Soft drinks.
---A spacious room. Your date may want to dance with you.
---Food and snacks. Your date will be hungry.
---Door barricade. It is highly likely that the prom will end if someone enters the area in which it is held.
If you have already "promposed" to someone, it is not recommended to perform this ritual as it will fail.
GLOSSARY
"Date" - The entity which this ritual is intended to summon.
"Promposal Sign" - A sign which will be used in the first phase of the ritual to request a "date". In the United States, a common way for high schoolers to propose to their love interests for prom is to confront them with a sign.
"Prom Venue" - The area in which the "prom" will be held.
END GOAL
This ritual is intended to summon the spirit of a "high-school-aged" student(presumably aged 14-18) of your preferred gender who was not able to go to prom because they committed suicide to be your date for "prom". The "prom" that will be held is far from formal; your date will be dressed in plain black clothing, such as a black t-shirt, not a dress or a tuxedo. You will also be dressed in black or very dark clothing.
Although you are able to describe the physical or mental characteristics that you want your date to have, in most cases, it is not necessary as the physical and mental characteristics of your date will be carefully selected. Do not be concerned that you will find your date unattractive; their physical appearance is guaranteed to be very attractive to you.
The "prom" will begin and end at the same time as your school's prom; however, it will be held in an area of your home. If you are still living with your parents, it is recommended to choose your own room as the "prom venue". The "date" will not leave this area if the boundary of the prom venue is properly defined.
INSTRUCTIONS
PHASE 1 - PROMPOSAL
-You must begin the ritual on the day before your school's prom. Also, you must complete Phase 2 on the day of your school's prom. Your prom will occur at exactly the same time as your school's prom does. It is unlikely that your prom date will appear if you perform this ritual at any other time. If you have been prevented from performing a step of the ritual at the correct time due to circumstances that are not in your control, it is worth it to try anyways.
-The day before your school's prom, gather the piece of cardboard, the blood, the brush(if you are using one), the adhesive material, and one piece of paper. On the piece of paper, write or paint the exact phrase "PROM?" with the blood. Do not write anything except the letters, "P", "R", "O", "M", and "?" on the piece of paper, lest the ritual fail. Then, with the adhesive material, attach the piece of paper to the cardboard so that the side of the paper with writing is facing out of the cardboard. This is your "promposal sign".
-Begin writing a letter to your potential O T H E R W O R L D L Y date explaining why you wish to attend prom with them. Your letter should have a polite, respectful tone. Below are a list of rules regarding the letter:
---DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR NAME IN THE LETTER as it may cause the ritual to fail. ALSO, DO NOT MENTION ANY NAMES. It is unknown if one may include acronyms.
---Begin your letter with ,"To my prom queen/king:", or a similar phrase which contains "my prom queen" or "my prom king".
---Write neatly.
---Do not write less than one entire page.(Note: A "page" is defined as one side of a piece of paper, not both side. It would be enough to fill only one side of a piece of paper). Do not intentionally make your writing larger to satisfy the page requirement.
---At the end of the letter, with the remaining blood, draw one horizontal line across the entire page if you would like your date to be female, or two lines if male. Try not to cover any text with the blood.
-IF YOU WISH TO SUMMON A SPECIFIC SPIRIT, in the letter, you may not mention their names. Instead, you may only hint that you would like your date to be them by describing them and mentioning their attributes. Mention enough details of the person whom you wish to summon will "narrow down" the number of possible referents to one: your intended date. The person whom you wish to summon must still meet the criteria for summoning: they must be "high-school-aged" and have committed suicide before they were able to attend prom or "prompose" to anyone.
---Example: Suppose you wish for your prom date to be a specific deceased person whom you had known for eight years and who had brown hair and blue eyes and liked French fries and vanilla ice cream. One possible phrase that you could include in your letter is: "There is nothing that I want more than to see your beautiful brown hair and blue eyes and to eat French fries and vanilla ice cream with you, your favorite food. The eight years that I spent with you were the best of my life."
-Before you sleep, place the "promposal sign" and the letter underneath your pillow.
-That night, shortly before you wake up, you may have a dream, at the beginning of which you might confront your potential date with the sign and ask them out. The possible scenarios that may occur in your dream are described below, ordered from "best" to "worst":
---Your potential date smiles and accepts the sign and then kisses your cheek. Proceed to Phase 2.
---Your potential date unenthusiastically and roughly snatches the sign from your hands. Proceed to Phase 2, although take extra precautions. Bring lots of food, snacks, and drinks.
---Your potential date starts crying and shouting at you, lamenting that someone like you was assigned to them instead of someone more "ideal", before grabbing the sign. Although performing Phase 2 will still begin the prom and summon the date, they will not want to be with you. Throughout the entire prom, they will be moody and irritable and might not allow you to touch them or even talk to them.
---Your potential date does not take the sign. Regardless of their behavior or facial expressions, this occurrence always indicates that the ritual has failed, even if they were smiling. Dispose of the promposal sign and the letter. Do not proceed to Phase 2; it will not work.
---Your potential date is not high-school-aged. The ritual has failed. Dispose of the promposal sign and the letter. Do not proceed to Phase 2. Although it may result in something appearing, it may not be your intended date. It is unknown what happens if someone who receives this outcome proceeds to Phase 2.
---Your potential date enthusiastically PROPOSES TO YOU, not the other way around. The ritual has failed. Do not proceed to Phase 2. Dispose of the promposal sign and the letter. Do not sleep in the room in which you slept that night whenever possible. Spread salt all over the room. Do not perform similar rituals in the future.
-IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A DREAM THAT DOES NOT MATCH ANY OF THE ABOVE SCENARIOS, performing Phase 2 will result in no positive or negative consequences, nor will it summon a date. Note that you may only perform Phase 1 ONCE; you may not try again the next night.
-Not performing Phase 2 even if you can does not have any negative consequences.
PHASE 2 - SETUP
-If, upon waking up, you find that your letter has vanished from underneath your pillow, you may continue. If not, the ritual is unlikely to succeed, but you may still continue. Recall that not performing Phase 2 results in no negative consequences; if you do not feel comfortable proceeding, feel free to stop.
-Before beginning, consider a location for the prom venue. It is recommended that you choose your room. Also, make sure that you are hygienic and clean. Make sure that you smell good.
-Begin at least thirty minutes before your school's prom to give yourself enough time to set up the prom venue properly.
-Transport all items that you intend to have access to during the prom, such as food, snacks, or a device that can play audio, inside of the prom venue.
-Remove the promposal sign from underneath your pillow and transport it out of the prom venue if it is located inside of the venue.
-If the two chairs are not already in the prom venue, transport them to it. Rotate the chairs so that they are facing each other. Leave a gap wide enough for a person to pass through between the chairs.
-Put on the dark clothing.
-If the prom venue is a room, which is recommended, barricade all exits and entrances. If someone else enters the prom venue, the prom will end.
-Define the area of the prom venue by enclosing it in a ring of salt. Walls count as boundaries, so it is not necessary to place salt along them. However doors do not; one must still place salt along a door if they intend to define it as a boundary of the prom venue. THE RITUAL WILL NOT WORK IF THE AREA IS NOT PROPERLY ENCLOSED. When in doubt, simply surround the entire area with salt.
-Make sure that the prom venue is as dark as possible by turning off any lights that affect its brightness. The less light there is, the greater the chances of the ritual succeeding.
-Sit on one of the two chairs. Make sure that there is a "comfy seat" for your date.
-Five minutes before your school's prom begins, start speaking as if your date is in front of you and invite them to the prom. Convince them to show up. Encourage them to go to prom and remind them that both of you never got to go to prom.
-One minute before your school's prom begins, start repeating one of the following phrases. Do not translate the phrases as it is unknown if saying the phrases in a different language will still cause the ritual to succeed.
1) "If you truly want to be seen,
then come here and be my prom queen."
2) "My classmates dance, but I have nothing,
So come here and be my prom king."
-Continue to repeat the phrase until six minutes after your school's prom begins.
-If your date does not appear, the ritual has failed. Rotate the chairs so that they are facing away from each other and exit the prom venue. Do not return to the prom venue until your school's prom has ended. Dispose of the promposal sign, wherever it may be.
-If your date appears in the comfy chair and is conscious, congratulations! You now have a prom date! You may hang out with them until your school's prom ends. Proceed to Phrase 3.
-If your date appears in the comfy chair but is not conscious, the ritual has failed. Exit the prom venue immediately. As soon as you do, your date will disappear. Then, rotate the chairs away from each other. Dispose of the promposal sign.
-If your date appears in any other area, the ritual has failed. Exit the prom venue immediately. Dispose of the promposal sign.
PHASE 3 - PROM :P
-You may now turn on the lights.
-For the first minute or so, introduce yourself. You may reveal your name. Your date will also briefly introduce themselves, describing their lives and explaining how and why they killed themselves. They will not say their names.
For the rest of the prom, your prom date will not talk much, although they will be able to understand everything that you say to them. They may not even say a word to you after they introduce themselves. Feel free to converse with them, listen to music with them, hold hands with them, cry into their shoulders, or do anything that is not prohibited. Barring extreme circumstances such as sexual advances, they will not physically harm you at all. Your date has feelings too, so don't be inconsiderate. Offer them soft drinks, snacks, or even a meal that you have prepared for them before the ritual. If you want to dance with your date, politely ask them to.
If your date shouted at you during the promposal in your dream, they will be extremely moody and will not want to interact with you. You may attempt to win their affection by offering them snacks. However, it is likely that they will leave the prom early.
PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES
-ANY SEXUAL ADVANCES. DO NOT make any sexual advances towards your prom date. You may hold their hand, cuddle with them, or even kiss them. However, you may not fondle them inappropriately. Ask before kissing them.
-LEAVING THE PROM VENUE INTENTIONALLY. As soon as you leave the prom venue, the prom ends, causing your date to disappear. If you leave the prom venue unintentionally, although the prom will end, it does not count as a, "prohibited activity".
-RUDENESS. Respect your prom date at all times. If you shout at them or insult them, they may decide to end the prom.
-IGNORING YOUR DATE. If you do not address or interact with your date for a long period of time, the prom will end.
-ASKING THEM TO REVEAL THEIR NAME. Just don't. Even if you have summoned a specific person successfully, asking them for their name will end the ritual. However, you may reference events in their lives or any other information unique to them.
Refer to your date as "prom queen" or "prom king".
Your date will never break any of these rules. Even if they strongly dislike you, they will not ignore you during the prom.
If anyone else enters the prom venue, the prom will end.
Once the prom ends, you cannot restart it. You can tell if the prom has ended if your date is no longer present.
If you do not perform any prohibited activities and if no one else enters the venue, your date will remain until your school's prom ends, at which point they will kiss you once and vanish, ending the prom. This will be referred to as "the proper end".
As you may have noticed, taking photos of your date is not prohibited. Feel free to photograph the prom.
PHASE 4: END
-If the proper end occurs, your date may choose to leave behind a souvenir to remember them with, such as their shirt or a lock of their hair. Keep this with you. Also, keep the promposal sign with you.
-If the prom did not end because of a prohibited activity being performed(i.e., if the proper ending occurred or if someone entered the venue), for the rest of your life, you will frequently dream of your date. Some of these dreams may be quite violent and contain imagery of their suicide, while others may be sweet. You will develop an intense bond with your date, even if you will never speak to them again, which may interfere with future romantic relationships. In fact, it is likely that you will not fall in love with anyone else. Long after the prom, you may feel their presence, although you will not see them. Perhaps they may stroke your hair gently to comfort you as you cry or, during a walk, whisper things in your ear. In rare instances, they may even become visible, although this will only occur in private. Your only romantic experiences will likely be one-sided conversations with your prom date, which would seem to be strange soliloquies to others. Consider whether you want to develop such a connection before performing this ritual.
-If the prom ended due to a prohibited activity being performed, exit the prom venue as soon as possible and wait outside until your date vanishes. Then, reenter the prom venue and rotate the chairs so that they are facing away from each other. Dispose of the "comfy chair"; it is recommended to completely dismantle it, although damaging it so that it cannot be sat on is sufficient. You will have a very hard time developing any romantic relationships as they will always seem to fall apart. However, you will not necessarily develop an attachment to your prom date. Your prom date will not frequently appear in your dreams.
-Your prom date was once a real, living, person. If they reveal enough details about themselves, it may be possible to find their identities. If you do, do not attempt to contact their relatives or loved ones.
-There is no known way to prevent the development of a strong attachment to your prom date.
FiNAL RECOMMENDATIONS
-Choose your room or one that people rarely enter as the prom venue.
-Provide lots of snacks and drinks.
-Bring a music player.
-Allow them to choose their favorite music.
-Bring a clock into the prom venue before the ritual starts so that you can tell when the prom is about to end. That way, you will know exactly when the prom will end so that you can embrace your date in your final moments together.
-If you discover the identity of your date and you did not know them when they were alive, do not contact their friends or loved ones when they died.
-Have fun!