Ouija Boards
The Morbid Curiosity Podcast
Hallie Lloyd
4.8 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Originally posted on Patreon on March 11, 2024.
As we're exploring tools used by ghost hunters and mediums, let's take a look at the Ouija board, a mass produced version of the talking board, which was born out of the impatience of Spiritualists attending seances in the late 1800s.
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| 0:00.0 | Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved. |
| 0:18.0 | Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity, and it has gripped millions of people throughout the ages. |
| 0:27.3 | I am one of those people. |
| 0:29.7 | My name is Halley, and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast. |
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| 0:47.3 | ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Since we're exploring ghost hunting tools, I thought it would be interesting to look at one of the most popular tools for talking to spirits. |
| 1:01.9 | The Ouija board has been around a hundred years or more and has enjoyed ups and downs in popularity, but has never completely gone away. |
| 1:10.6 | The Ouija board is the mass-produced |
| 1:12.6 | version of the Talking Board, which was developed to aid mediums in receiving messages from the beyond. |
| 1:18.6 | Let's explore where talking boards come from, and other aspects of supposed spirit communication. |
| 1:24.6 | As with previous explorations of these topics, I want to preface with the fact |
| 1:29.4 | that I'm a skeptic. That doesn't mean I don't consider the existence of ghosts to be a possibility. |
| 1:35.0 | It just means I need proof, proof that can stand the test of rigorous scientific investigation. |
| 1:41.1 | That means the phenomena is observed in controlled conditions and is repeatable and measurable. |
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