The Salem Witch Board Museum, Part One | Grave Talks CLASSIC
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!
Tucked away in Salem, the Salem Witch Board Museum houses the largest public collection of Ouija boards in the world — and the only museum dedicated entirely to their history. Curated and owned by John Kozik, the collection features roughly 100 talking boards on display at any given time, spanning decades of design, cultural shifts, and public fear.
As a founding member of the Talking Board Historical Society, Kozik approaches the Ouija board not as a novelty or a menace, but as a cultural artifact. Many of the boards in the museum come from private collections or donations, each carrying its own story — not of demons or possession, but of how people have interacted with the unknown across generations.
The Ouija board’s reputation has long been shaped by Hollywood and rumor, casting it as a dangerous portal rather than a product of its time. But stripped down to its materials — wood, cardboard, ink, plastic — the question remains: where does the fear really come from? Is power embedded in the object itself, or does it come from belief, expectation, and human intention?
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| 0:00.0 | Today on The Grave Talks, a conversation about the Salem Witchboard Museum with owner John Kozick. |
| 0:18.9 | The Salem Witchboard Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, is the world's only Ouija Museum. |
| 0:27.3 | Curated and owned by John Kozik, the museum boasts a personal collection of around 100 Ouija boards on display at any given time. |
| 0:36.8 | As a founding member of the Talking Board Historical Society, Kozik and his fellow enthusiasts |
| 0:43.2 | are dedicated to preserving and unraveling the mysteries surrounding the Ouija board. |
| 0:50.0 | From personal collections to donated artifacts, each item within the museum holds its story |
| 0:55.4 | waiting to be told. |
| 0:58.5 | Is the Ouija board simply an icon of entertainment, or does it serve as a portal to the |
| 1:04.2 | beyond for some? |
| 1:05.9 | Has Hollywood unfairly tarnished its reputation with dark tales, or does it actually wield genuine power? |
| 1:13.6 | Can something as innocuous as wood, cardboard, and plastic harbor malevolent forces? |
| 1:19.9 | Today on the Grave Talks, we discuss Talking Boards with John Kozik, the owner of the Salem Witchboard Museum. |
| 1:33.4 | John, thank you so much for doing this show tonight and chatting with me about the |
| 1:38.6 | Salem Witchboard Museum. |
| 1:41.4 | I'm very excited to dive into this. |
| 1:44.1 | So I'm going to start with two big questions. |
| 1:47.5 | Okay. |
| 1:47.9 | What's the difference between a witch board and a Ouija board? And here's my other question. Is it Ouija or Ouija? |
| 1:59.3 | Well, Ouija is a brand of witch board, talking board, spirit board, which are all the generic |
| 2:07.6 | names. So Ouija is technically the brand. It was the first brand ever mass produced. And you pronounce |
| 2:15.6 | it Ouija, but if you ask someone if they use the Ouija board, you would ask them, sorry, do you WiiG? |
| 2:22.6 | So you verb on the noun. |
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