This is our special Halloween episode so I'm going to turn up a little bit of this is our

special Halloween episode so I'm going to turn up a little bit of this and 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 pushing it.

You're out, you are! That night at my house we turned out all the lights and lit candles and attempted to

summon the spirit world with a widget 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 wejiboard, two arched rows of letters, the top row A through M, the second. a 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 we

just supposed to work is participants participants, usually too, though sometimes more, ask a question to the

spirits. And then they, the participants, lightly rest their fingers on a planchet, which is the pointer that slides around the board.

And you're not supposed to push the planchet, 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.

EQUP? 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 around a board like this one

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