Everyone remembers their first sleepover seance in grade school, with the help of the Parker Bros’-owned ‘oracle’: the Ouija board. But why are so many people so scared of a party game? We’re making contact with the Talking Board Historical Society for more on the old Beelze-Board.
SHOW LINKS
- Newsweek: Couple Find “Satanic” Objects
- Talking Board Society website
- American Quarterly: Spiritualism and Science: Reflections on the First Decade of the Spirit Rappings, R. Laurence Moore (1972)
- AustinTexas.Gov: Spiritualism In the 19th Century, Katie Keckeisen (2018)
- American Folklore: An Encyclopedia, by Jan Harold Brunvand (1996)
- The New Black Magic & the Truth About Ouija, by J Godfrey Raupert (1919)
- Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media, by Bill Ellis (2000)
- The Conversation: How the Ouija Board Got Its Reputation, Joe Laycock (2016)
- Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism, by Thomas Allen (2000)
- Inventor’s Digest: Did the Spirits Move Him? (2016)
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