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For chicken worth dipping, it better be bird's eye. So the Ouija board was a very controversial toy in my house growing up.

I think my mother was just very much against having one because of

its associations with magic and the occult, but I was able to finally convince her to buy me one because I pointed out to her that it was manufactured by Prucker Brothers and I figured if they could create a board game like Monopoly that the Ouija Board must not be that dangerous.

I mean that is a winning argument if I ever heard one.

Yeah, yes.

I'm Andrea Valdez, I'm an editor at the Atlantic.

And I'm Megan Garber, a writer at the Atlantic.

And this is how to know what's real.

Andrea, when I played with Ouigu boards, which was exclusively at slumber parties and exclusively to ask this mysterious portal to another world about people

we had crushes on, I remember feeling really entranced by it, but also a little creeped out by it and I think I still might

feel that way just a little bit even though I know now the science behind it you know

we do boards work through something called the

Idiometer effect where thoughts in the player's minds in a way that's pretty

unconscious to the players themselves end up guiding their movements across the

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