This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars. This is our special Halloween episode so I'm

gonna turn up a little bit of this in a little of this just to get us in the

mood. Oh and here here's some moons. Loons are creepy. All right a couple of

weekends ago. The whole 99 P.I. team got together to do something. None of us had

done since we were 13 net slumber parties. I feel like we need to like recite

something first right? And it basically sounds exactly like it did when we were

13 at slumber parties. Who's there? You're out of your hour. That night at my

house we turned out all the lights and lit candles and attempted to summon the

spirit world with a Ouija board. That's producer Katie Mingle she was our host

that evening. We were using a homemade board that Avery designed in the style of

a store bought Ouija board. Two arced rows of letters the top row A through

M, the second row and through Z and then below the letters a straight row of

all the single digit numbers. And then of course yes and no in the upper left

and right corners respectively and goodbye at the bottom of the board. So the way

Ouija is supposed to work is participants usually to those sometimes more ask a

question to the spirits and then they the participants lightly rest their

fingers on a plan chat which is the pointer that slides around the board and

you're not supposed to push the plan chat Sam Greenspan you're supposed to allow

the spirits to guide it around the board indicating what letters or words

they're attempting to communicate. You pee. The Ouija board is so simple and

iconic and it looks like it comes from another time like it has real history

which it turns out is more than just good design. People have been gathering

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