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American history is littered with bizarre and obscure stories, many of which I am absolutely obsessed with. There was the Ford Pinto and its tendency to burst into flames. There was the great Kentucky ...

The oldest talking board on exhibit at the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver is on loan from the Talking Board Historical Society. It is an 1891 board and is representative of “The First Ouija Boards ...

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Finally, talking boards would become irrevocably linked to the devil during the “Satanic panic” of the 1980s and 90s. Historian Sarah Hughes' "American Monsters," published in the Journal of American ...

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Once a beloved game that bridged the living and the dead, the Ouija board’s reputation has changed dramatically, from Victorian entertainment to a symbol of supernatural mystery. Once seen as a ...