S5 Ep13: Patience Worth and a Ouija Board Extravaganza!

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

True Crime, Society & Culture, Science

4.1 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In the midst of the Spiritualist Movement, a woman with very little formal education claimed to channel a spirit through her Ouija board who had... a lot to say. We'll learn about Patience Worth and the history of Ouija Boards!

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1:13.3	Hey, strangers, this week I'm bringing you two older bonus episodes about spirits
1:18.7	coming through from the other side to communicate with us regular folk. But as per usual
1:25.0	with these kinds of things, the answers may be less strange and unexplained than at first glance.
1:31.3	Enjoy.
1:35.1	The headline of the article in the New York Times from Sunday, February 27th, 1916, read,
1:46.8	Patience Worth, a psychic mystery!
1:50.0	The article began this way.
1:52.8	Genius via the Ouija board.
1:54.8	After all the inanities and drivelings of psychic messages without number from the unknown land,
2:00.6	would that not be an amazing outcome?
2:03.2	Amazing enough, whatever be its explanation, is this psychic mystery of patience worth,
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