It's a little board game where it's supposed to make you think that spirits come into your house

and they're moving this little thing around to spell words out and stuff. And it's supposed to make you think that your friends

are moving it around. Let's say you're at your friend's house one day and you're playing outside, but the sun is starting to go down and you have to go in.

What are you going to do next?

Your friend goes to the shelf and pulls out a board game.

What game would you expect it to be? I love

strategy games so I'd be hoping for clue or maybe connect four or maybe it's something

like sorry or monopoly. Or what if it was a board game that would let you

contact the dead? Last week we talked about summoning spirits to answer simple yes

or no questions. This week things are going to get a little more complicated as we learn

about the story behind the infamous Ouigy Board.

I'm Elise Perizian and this is unspookable. It looks like like a yellowish brown board with the alphabet and a goodbye at the bottom and a yes and

no at the top and if you ask it name, it will spell out Weja.

The Ouija, as our friend Al just described,

has existed since the Canard novelty company patented the name and the design in 1892.

But where did the idea come from?

Why did the manufacturers of the game decide to invest in it?

Why did they believe that Americans would buy a piece of wood with

letters on it and sit around their living rooms trying to access the spirit world, the way that

you or I might sit around our living room watching YouTube or playing a game on our phone.

Well, honestly, trying to contact the dead or summon spirits or communicate with other worlds,

however you want to describe it, those things didn't always have the same meaning

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