Morbid - Episode 130: The History of the Ouija Mini Morbid

Episode Date: April 6, 2020

We decided to take a slightly lighter subject after a heavy episode this week. Tonight, we dive deep into the emergence of spiritualism and the creation and demonizing of the Ouija Board. We end it all with a couple of listener tales specifically referencing some Ouija Board madness! Come on in, it is spooky as hell in here! Visit our sponsors! Best Fiends Best Fiends has thousands of levels already, with new levels, events, and characters added every month. It’s hours of fun right at your fingertips—and you can even play offline! With over 100 million downloads and tons of five-star reviews, Best Fiends is a must-play! Download Best Fiends FREE on the Apple App Store or Google Play. That’s FRIENDS without the R – Best Fiends! Daily Harvest Go to DailyHarvest.com and enter promo code MORBID to get twenty-five dollars off your first box! That’s promo code MORBID for twenty-five dollars off your first box at DailyHarvest.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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So this episode is on the history of the Ouija board. Ooh. A lot of people have requested that like many at the time. I figure it's a fun little spooky episode. It is? It's gonna bring us down to a fluffier place. Fluffyer place. A fluffier diamond place, but still a fluffy place.

You know, it's funny as you say Damon and some people think it sounds like you're saying diamonds and then in one of our ads you say diamonds this week and it sounds like you're saying demon. Hey, look at that. So, you know, look at you. Fun, so much fun. So what we're gonna do is I'm gonna go through the history

of the Weijabord where it came from how it started, I'm in spiritualism and all this fun stuff. And then at the end, Ash and I are going to read a couple of your listener stories that have to do with Weijiborods. Ooh, I didn't know that. Yeah, so it's going to be fun. Fun. Alright, so it all began in the 19th century during a crazy kooky time referred to as the emergence of spiritualism. Oh, so it really all began in America on March 31st 1848 when 11

year old Kate Fox and her 14 year old sister Margaret Fox claimed that they had contacted the ghost of a man who was haunting their home. They lived in New York State and he had apparently been murdered in the home and so what was happening was they said they were hearing taps and haunting stuff and all kinds of noises and so they started asking him questions and he would tap to answer. So all of a sudden they were saying that they were getting, you know, they were chatting them up. Now, he didn't just sit down and do an interview. He followed a strict one tap for yes, two tap for no guideline.

Got it. When this worked, word got out, and these girls started showing their newfound talent for contacting the dead to locals at their town hall. People would gather to watch them. It became a whole thing. Then the New York Tribune wrote about it it and it started spreading to other news outlets. And a few months later, boom, spiritualism. Whoa. So it had spread into Europe, all over America, by this point, it went nuts. Funny

story. In 1888, the sisters admitted that they completely faked the whole thing. You know, I kind of saw it going there. It's like, are you shocked? But don't worry because that did absolutely nothing to stop the spread of spiritualism. Of course not. And it already erupted. So spiritualism is the idea that you can have a chat with a ghost via the help of a skilled medium who has supernatural abilities to communicate with those of us that have shuffled off this mortal coil of ours. It was and is a religion, it still is. And it was officially added as such in 1893. And it's supposedly, they claim it's based in scientific truths rather than like faith-based methodology, but like, okay. Yeah, that's all the same about that.

It really took off during the Civil War, which is interesting, and it makes a lot of sense. Because as the most brutal and bloodiest war in American history, there were thousands upon thousands of families who had lost loved ones, mostly in unimaginable ways, and oftentimes far away from them, where they weren't able to see them. These families needed comfort, they needed closure, they were looking towards anything, just to hear their loved one again or get something. Of course, spiritualism provided this way to feel like they were able to speak

to those fallen soldiers again and get the closure that they were looking for. It had a ton of proponents from every class. Even Queen Victoria was down for spiritualism. Okay, girl. Get it. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert actually participated in Sances in 1846. Oh, shoot.

Which like, that's bad ass. That is really cool. In 1861, Prince Albert unfortunately died of typhoid. And in that same year, a 13-year-old boy named Robert James Lee's said that he had a sound set his home. And he said, Prince Albert had come through. And he wanted him to pass a message to Queen Victoria for him.

Now, at first, you're like, OK, little boy. No, I'm like, I believe you. But this message called her by a nickname that only she and he knew. Oh my God, it's so sad. And she was like, no one knew he called me that. Right. So that's a little weird.

And after this, the little boy performed sances at Windsor Castle and at Prince Albert came through again and again. Stop this. So then when Queen Victoria passed away, their daughter, Princess Louise, said that she received messages from her mother via Sanchez with the medium Leslie Flint, who was like a well-known medium. That's so cool.

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So some other noticeable, notable spiritualists were biologist Alfred Russell Wallace, which you know that gives a little bit of kudos to it when a biologist gets on board and also Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who created the character and story of Sherlock Holmes. Would you look at that? Now interestingly this was a time when women were under rigid control you know literally physically like corsets in societal rules and shit. Well, spiritualism kind of kind of kind of lended itself nicely to a way for women to kind of shake loose and regain some more control back because it was thought that the most effective mediums in clairvoyance were women. They just thought they were a little more in tune with this stuff. Cause we're in tune with our emotions. Exactly. Except me. So you're not. No. I'm a DJ.

So men just didn't have what it takes. And so it really became a way for women to be in the driver's seat, which was nice. Love that. Spiritualists tend to be more liberal, kind of non-conformist types. The whole idea of spiritualism was supposed to be optimistic, looking at the afterlife just as another plane of existence that you get to go into. That's kind of how I look at it. Which is, that's a nice way of thinking. Who wants to, I mean, is it logical to think like there's not

this wonderful afterlife maybe, but it's much nicer to believe that there's something great happening after this life. Like, who doesn't want to believe that? I think it's logical to believe that there is. Oh, I think that, I mean, I think it's illogical to say there isn't because no one knows. Right. So it's like, you can't say for no. But then you can make the argument that it's illogical to say there is because nobody

knows. Well, that's the thing. So that's why I like to sit in the gray area. I like to be like, you know what? Sometimes I just like the whimsy of it all. You know, it's a nice little whimsical situation. It's a lot of fun for everything. I mean, I love logic, but you know, we'll go with it.

So now, so at this point, Sances were all the rage. They involved many phenomena that people really fell hard for, obviously. One of these things was table tipping. Table tipping is when a ton of people are around a table, lights low, in full sance mode, with a supernatural, lady or bro nearby to aid in the communication. Everyone puts their hands on top of the table, and after a long time, like almost an hour, sometimes I'm just sitting there with your hands on the table, poof, the table will begin to move around.

It will like tip and rock and sway all over the place, and everybody's like, whoa, all our hands are here. How's this happening? The table surfing. Like so crazy. Then there was the alphabet, something called alphabet calling, where someone went through the alphabet out loud, and when a spirit tapped or made a sound, you would write down that letter

and see what it spelled out. I see where we're going here. Oh, you see where we're going here. I see it. Well, the next thing that used to work for everybody was called automatic writing, and that's when the medium went into like a trance, let the spirit move their hand around on paper

and boo. Something would get written some special fancy spirit message. I bet it was a beautiful script. You know it. So French spiritualist Alan Cardic said in 1853 during a sance that the deceased visitor from beyond told the people doing the sands that they should just stick a pencil through an upside down basket to what everybody placed their hands on the basket to help guide the pencil to right. Oh that was a pretty good idea. Yeah like thank you deceased stranger from beyond. Well this turned into what we know as a

planchette. Uh-huh. Can you guess what came next? The board. The Ouija board. So originally called talking boards or spirit boards. Their true origin has a little bit of confusion to it. It was created in 1886 for sure, but it was either invented by a guy named E.C. Reich, or Reich, who was a cabinet maker slash coffin maker. Okay. Or it was invented by Charles Canard who owned the Canard novelty company. Most people believe that race invented it and then sold it to Canard. Okay.

It's because then later, race said that he invented it and that canard stole it from him and Canard claimed he invented it. So one of them invented it and Canard ended up with it. I mean, someone invented it. Somebody invented it, it's here. So after being sold as a talking board or spirit board in 1890, Kinnard and

his lawyer Elijah Bond went to a sance in Baltimore. The sance was held by Elijah's medium sister named Helen Peters. That made me laugh a little bit when I just said that because it's like his medium sister. Not just old or's like his medium sister. Not as old or younger. His medium sister. Helen Peters. So during the Sands with Helen Peters, Elijah's, what is it, sister in law? No sister. His medium sister. One of those. Medium sister. During the Sands, they asked the board what it would like to be called.

Okay. Because they were like, well, you got to name it something snappy. And I can just play spirit board, which I like, but whatever. So they asked the board, what would you like to be called? And it spelled out Ouija. Okay. So then they were like, what does that mean? And it spelled out, good luck. Oh, yep.

That's a little ominous. Boogie. According to a time article, the building where this all happened, the Sions, is still standing at 529 North Charles Street in Baltimore. It's actually a 7-11 now. Let's go to the 7-11 and get a Captain Crunch Slurpee. I won't do that.

Live our lives. And then we can die and come back with a spearboard. Yeah, yeah. There's a plaque we can die and come back with a spearboard. Yeah, yeah. There's a plaque on the wall at this 7-11 that says this is say on tap and that they named the Ouija board here. I love that of all things. They decided to make it a 7-11.

Yeah, you know, you got to do what you got to do. We all love the 7-11, so I'm not hate. We all have to evolve, you know, even buildings. So now they need a patent because that's just how this shit works. You can't just throw something out into the market without a patent or everybody's gonna rip it off. So they go to try to get this patent at the patent office and they were like, yeah, this is cool, but you can't have this patent unless you prove that it really works. Like that's how patent works. And so they were like, okay, cool. So Helen Peters, the medium,

was called to the patent office in Washington, D.C. by Elijah and Charles Cmarne. So the worker there who was in charge was like, all right, listen, if it can spell my name, then you can have the patent. And because they didn't have his name tag or anything, and he was like, no one knows who I am. Helen used it and boom, it spelled his name.

That's so, so apparently everyone in there freaked the fuck out, they got the patent. I love it. But the patent doesn't say how it works. It just says that it works. Which adds to the mistake of it, because we got a patent that says it works, but even there, we don't know how it just does.

Because it's like, how does it? How spooky spooky. So in 1882, William Fulze became supervisor of the company. He sold and made a ton of them of the Canard novelty company. He sold and made a ton of money selling the new Weija Borge. Borge. I was like the one. The new Weija Borge.

I was like, I feel like you skipped a part that I'm not familiar with. The Weija Borge. And with this money. I was like, I feel like you skipped a part that I'm not familiar with. The Ouija board. And when this money that he was making, he opened a ton of new factories to make more Ouija boards. Right. He opened one huge one in Baltimore

because the board told him to. Oh. And it said, prepare for big business. Damn. So he was like, all right, Ouija board. He was a slave. Well, unfortunately, he died in 1927. Of law. How you ask? He was on the roof of that huge building that the board had instructed him to build.

And he was overseeing a flagpole being put in on the roof. According to the Baltimore Sun, quote, he was standing there the edge of the roof, grasping an iron support of the pole to study himself. The workman said when the support suddenly pulled away and he toppled over backwards. That's terrifying. If that's not crazy enough, on his way down, he grabbed an open window sill to try to stop himself. The window crashed close as he did that.

Oh my God, he hit the pavement below. Initially, he only had broken ribs, and they were like, oh, he'll survive. Well, on the way to the hospital and the ambulance, they hit a bump in the road, and one of his fractured ribs went through his heart and killed him. Oh my God.

If that is not some day and shit from beyond, I don't know what is. Like what? That was like some day or shit from beyond, I don't know what is. Like what? That was like some final destination shit. Yeah. Everything he did to try to stop that from happening. It was like no. It was just supposed to happen.

Yeah. Unfortunately. So that's fucked. Well, that maybe feels spooky. Yeah. Some type of way. So Helen Peters, who originally, who was the medium sister,

she originally had invested in the company because she was like so into this. And she had a falling out with this board. Oh, after this. So she was totally a proponent of it at first. And then she ended up denouncing it later. Apparently some civil war family heirlooms went missing in her home.

And so she went to the board. And was like, who took these heirlooms? And the board named a family member. Uh-huh. And so she was like the board and was like who took these heirlooms and the board named a family member Uh-huh, and so she was like well shit So she said half her family believed this half her family was like this is bullshit They had a huge conflict huge fight over it and they never got over it She said it literally tore her family apart and Peter sold all her stock in the company after this and family apart and Peter sold all her stock in the company after this. And apparently until her dying day, she said don't use that board, it's evil.

It will ruin your life. That made me get goosebumps. And I also feel the same. Yeah, I'm saying. So now for its sinister reputation, as if the stories of like crazy juju from the initial creators and seller wasn't bad enough, it definitely gets a little worse It just gets a worse reputation Not things to get worse, but first we must know that although

Spiritualism started as like you know like we're talking like an optimistic You know non-occult related religion. It was like very whimsical and like just looking towards the future. It had a lot of people against it. It had a lot of detractors. So although many Christians and Catholics actually considered themselves spiritualists, because it does make sense. Yeah. You know, a lot of Christians and Catholics decided that it was basically just witchcraft,

which is somehow bad. That's not fair. So it just kind of had both. It was like some were like, got it. And just witchcraft, which is somehow bad. That's not fair. So it just kind of had both. It was like some were like, got it. And we're like, yeah. And this is kind of part of our religion. So like in the other words, we're like, no. So now this doesn't make sense because it's supposed to be like a happy kind of whimsical

religion, again, looking towards the future. We all get to hang out after death. The rule, in fact, and it's like, that rules. Why would you be against this? Like, I don't understand that. Yeah, that's the thing. Like, there's like, shitty about that. That's what I don't get.

I'm like, just let people practice it. Right. Why is it bothering you? It's not taking away from your religion. I don't understand that. You know? And all that has to do with people rising from the dead and like, after life and different worlds after death,

it's like, we can all just, just like let's all just put it together. It's like let's just meet halfway. Let's just hold hands and talk about it. Let's do it. Yeah, I hate holding hands. Um, that's what we're talking about, man. But yeah, so it's like it rules. I don't understand why there be, you know, being so against it.

Well, spiritualist writer Andrew Jackson Davis said he didn't even believe in hell. He believes so he said he thought all deceased went into a really rad place called the summer land after they died. Okay. I want to go to the autumn land, but that's fine. Like that's cool. And like I said, it was more like on the, you know, liberal leaning way of thinking. So some conservative members of

exhalicism or Christianity, it just went against their values. So that's a reason why they were not into it. It kind of challenged them. So they turned against spiritualism. So the Ouija board in particular also lended itself to some of those broken values that religious people were kind of mad about. At the time of its creation, men and women weren't supposed to be all touchy-feely and alone together. Don't be touchy-feely and alone. That was just not a good thing.

That is way too saucy. But to use this board, it intended to be used by at least two people, preferably a man and a woman. Oh, see, I didn't know that. And you would put it on your laps facing each other and put your knees together. Oh, your knees would be touching. Your knees, like crazy. Oh, spicy knees. Getting hot and heavy. So then you would both had to gingerly touch your fingertips to the plan. And you know, it would get kind of romantic and spicy. It's like footsees, but with your fingers and But with your fingers. And raising a Damon.

Exactly. So romantic. So as spiritualism kind of started to be looked at as darker, more macabre, more taboo, some physical mediums in the spiritual, as were caught as frauds. And like physical mediums were like, they would stick kids in like a cabinet and have the kid knock out on the cabinet. Like, how do you explain that to your kid?

Yeah. It was just like, I'm gonna need you to just chill in this cabinet. I'm gonna knock when I tell you, because we're gonna pretend you're a ghost. The kids are gonna be like, cool, all right. But the problem was these few bad apples, these few frauds really turned people into like, well, this is bullshit and you're crazy if you believe it.

Right, right, right. So it did start to become like, womp, womp. And then there was also the idea that like, you know, religious leaning people like Christianity, Catholicism, like more conservative religions, we're looking at it as this isn't raising your spirits of your loved ones or like nice spirits, it's raising demons. Like this is an evil board and you're bringing it into the mainstream and that's not okay. I high key agree with that. So it was like, you know, everybody's gone, they're on opinion, it's cool. Yeah. So yeah, so people were, you know, starting to get down on all this stuff And it looked like things were gonna get decidedly less awesome and spooky But then world were one happened and the Ouija board suddenly became all the rage again

Particularly among the younger crowd up to like college age. Okay. It was so crazy that in 1920 a Professor said it was quote a serious national quote, a serious national menace. A serious national menace. And it kind of makes sense that, like, and I'm gonna go into it in a minute that, like, in the 20s, it became big because it seemed to become big in times of turmoil. Right.

A little bit, you know? I mean, that does make sense. It really does. So, Jay Godfrey Rupert, or Rupert, was initially this guy who was a psychic investigator. He set out to try to scientifically validate spiritualism at first. So before he was able to actually do it, he suddenly converted to Catholicism and suddenly thought it was just all witchcraft and it needed to be eradicated.

Maybe he said it in a real bad happen. I'm saying. So the Pope actually brought this dude on board to put out a like the warning bells to Catholics everywhere. That spiritualism was witchcraft and that the Ouija board was the devil. So in 1919 he published a book called The New Black Magic and the Truth about the Ouija board. In, he claimed that using it would give you dementia, make you insane, that it was a means for a spirit intercourse. Like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, the book online and I found like an actual like PDF version of the like yeah It's like a picture of the book that you can flip. It's pretty cool And uh it literally just he's like it is a means of

Spirit into intercourse, okay, so like the spirits are going at it I don't know which I'm like all right like let them be just means they're fucking you I don't know like maybe that's like his really like a subtle way of being like the spirits are gonna fuck you. Like, I think they're fucking you over. I think both to be honest. You don't know, maybe. You just don't know.

Honestly, probably. Honestly, probably. He also said it was a pagan invention and he called their use quote, a return to distinctly heathen and anti-Christian beliefs and practices an additional evidence of the fact that the world is once more relapsing into paganism.

I really love the word heathen. I use the word heathen on the right. No, like that is one of my favorite things to say. You often call me a heathen actually. I usually do it in a very loving way. Yeah, like you're such a heathen. Hey! Yes. All right, let's be heathen actually. I usually do it in a very like loving way. Yeah. Like you're such a heathen. Like, hey, yes. So like, all right, let's go, let's be heathens, I guess.

So in the 1960s, it blew up again. It actually beat out sales of monopoly, which is- Well, monopoly fucking sucks. But everybody has monopoly. That's accurate. Raise your hand if you don't have monopoly. I'm looking, no one's raising their hand. Because everyone has monopoly. That's accurate. You raise your hand if you don't have monopoly I'm looking no one's raising their hand because everyone has monopoly We have monopoly. We have not played it. Minotauri will ruin a family just as much as a major

Well in the Ouija was sold to Parker brothers and still beat out monopoly But it was still looked at as an occult item like it was like this taboo thing that you were getting I know it is funny that it's like an occult item. Yeah, by like yeah, spiritual distributed company. I know like a toy company Yeah, so in 1971 William Peter Blattie wrote the exorcist and it was published then turned into a film in 1973 I have a confession. Oh God. You haven't seen the exorc accessists have you? I've never seen the exorcist Reagan and me are not bros. We have so much work to do. I know. We're gonna get you there. We're gonna get you there. I'm on here for it Actually John last year for Christmas got me a signed

poster of the exorcist and he also got me the signed screenplay for the exorcist. I don't even think I knew that. Yeah, it's like the script. And I like the actual script. Wow, I know. He's awesome. So the whole inspiration for this tale was a real story from Maryland.

In the 40s, it was a boy who became possessed after being introduced to spiritualism and the Ouija board So of course that had to do with everybody being like and And of course now there's like a ton of this like all kinds of movies about strictly about Ouija board It's like you know horror movies and it's in pop culture everywhere It's just you can find it everywhere in fact fact, when we were in the Lizzie Board and House, there were several Ouija boards,

one of which they said don't touch. And they told us that they got rid of it, but somebody like, but they like came back. And they were like, please make it stop. Please make it stop. Or something like that. And it was like, whoa. I was like, oh, don't worry, I'm not gonna touch

or look at any of them. I'm not gonna touch them. I don't even like to look at them. I love them. I think they're so cool. I think they're beautiful. I think they're very pretty, but I love Leechabord. So I love how much you hate Leechabord.

No. I would get angry at you if you brought one near me. Like I would genuinely be like really upset with you. That's so funny. I don't want anything to do with it. Wow. I don't like sayances either. I think that. Oh, I love sayances either. I think that-

Oh, I love a good say, I think that the wall is there because it's supposed to be there. Oh, I want to bust through that wall. If somebody would like to bust through the wall, that's fine, but I'm not inviting anybody too. Oh, yeah. I'm all about free will. I know, you really, but inviting would be free will. You're just inviting them, they can come or not.

Yeah, but I'm not. it's my free will to not Yeah, it is because when we were in the Lizzie board and house there was a medium there Mm-hmm, and she wanted we wanted to do a say on and I was like I was okay with the say on but she was like can we use the Wege board and I was like no you're like I will fucking drive out of here and I'm your ride home in a monsoon so yeah, so it's busy. Like I said earlier, the biggest times that the wage aboard really like sales and in profits and just in everybody's homes are definitely when it's clear that people need escapism or something to get their minds elsewhere. For example, the 1910s and 20s were really popular because the stress and devastation caused by World War I.

You could probably hear my kids in the background, I don't know if you can tell. You know, they're having a bath and they're real excited about it. So during the Great Depression is when Fult had to open those new factories because the demand was so high. Right, right, right.

And like we said in the 60s, it beat out monopoly, well in 1967, two million boards were sold. Wow. 1967 was also a rush of American troops in Vietnam. And it was the race, well, I can't speak. Race riots in Newark Detroit, Minneapolis, and Milwaukee. So this is all times of turmoil. It's times when people just need to focus on other things, maybe take their mind away a little bit. And I think the Ouija board, the Spirit board,

just kind of takes them to a place of whoo. You know what it is like? Tristan's to me is that it's like so, like there's so many of them and they're so like overly, like produced. It's so crazy to me that they all contain so much power when it's mass production. Exactly, it's really funny.

I believe it, but it's like holy cow. It is kind of funny. I've done Weechabords when I was in junior high, high school. I haven't done one since. I mean, maybe it's because I'm too careful. I think the reason why I'm so against Ouija boards is because two of my best friends, like that don't even know each other,

like one of my best friends from like, when I was like way younger did a Ouija board and like this crazy shit happened to her that she told me about. And then my best best friend did a Ouija board and like so much shit in her life went down and like I stayed in her dorm room, which was like the dorm where they did the Ouija board

and the fucking energy in that room. I stayed there like weeks later and I could not sleep. Like there was absolutely something there. I think they just didn't close it out properly. Well, that's the thing. And I'm not. You just gotta close it out properly. I gotta say goodbye.

Yeah, but it's like even like when we were talking about the spooky games, like you think the demons are gonna just listen. Because you said bye for my wife. Maybe. I don't know. I think you were lucky. Yeah, yeah, cause I definitely did them. And I feel about we gibwords, how I feel about spooky games. I'm just, I'm good.

Yeah, I mean, I'm good with the spooky games. I don't want to do that shit. I feel like that's like taunting, but I don't know. I don't feel it's. I feel like in the same level. I'm like, kind of, I'm like whatever. And I don't like that because one of my first best friends level. I'm like, kind of... I'm like whatever. And I don't like that. Because one of my first best friends that I was talking about,

when she did it, they were like pretending to be somebody else, and then she talked to a medium, and the medium was like, yeah, that wasn't that person. Yeah, well, that's the... I've heard things like that. And I don't like that. Yeah, I don't love that. I mean, we won't be doing a Ouija board any time soon. Ever, so, you know?

Yeah. So I ever... You're like, ever, remember, ever, no, ever. So that is the history of the Ouija board where it came to be. And now I think we should read a couple of quick little listener stories that have to do with Ouija boards, because I just thought that would be fun. I think that is real fun.

Let's do it. OK. So we'll start with a nice one. And Ash will read it, because she's so scared. Ouija broads with a nice one and Ash will read it. She's so scared. Okay, so it says, hello, ladies. I recently stumbled onto your podcast and I love them. I'm slowly catching up. I'm very impressed on the way you both deliver a story. I'm hooked. I apologize in advance as I'm neither a great word Smith or nor storyteller. Well, first of all, thank you and I bet you are. You are. I

feel like I need to provide context. I know. Blah, blah, blah. I met my wife when we were in junior high school. We experimented on each other, played house, and I got her pregnant at the age of 15, at a 16-year-old. If you're life. If you're life. Hey, yo.

A year later, we got pregnant again and had our second child. Babies, making babies. I wish I wouldn't wish that on anyone. Oh. We tried to work things out but ended up presenting one another and she left me with the boys and said she needed to grow up. Oh, don't worry, it has happy ending. I know. I was like, you said this was happy. It is. I guess I robbed her teenage years. I took the boys and moved into a crappy apartment.

Here I am 18 with two kids. Oh my god. Wow. Yeah. A full-time dad, a full-time high school student getting ready for college and working full-time as a load-doc worker. You bet, right? I just should have like high five. I want to like, wow, we should make you a plaque, right? A year later, my boy's mom would take them on the weekends while I worked and completed my college studies. One evening, I had a good friend Mark persuade me to be a quote normal 19-year-old and hang with some young ladies from another town. They didn't know me and if they knew I had two kids I'd probably scare them. So being broke I couldn't afford to take them out.

We all met up at Mark's house with some takeout yes and a case of Mickey's wide mouths. Do you love it? I do. I don't. After a few beers, my buddy broke out his sister's Ouija board. That was me. These are all going to have a Ouija board, by the way. No way.

At first, I was like, fuck that. I was going to the University of California, Irvine, as an engineering major. I felt that I was pretty practical and didn't believe in that kind of stuff. The young lady I was matched with, Lizette asked if I would do the board with her for, quote, fun.

I would have been like, nah, nah. I reluctantly agreed. So Lizette and I asked the board some basic question. It was entertaining. She asked the board, who will Esteban Mary? It spelled out, M-E-L-I-S-S-A. That was the name of the mother of my kids. I didn't say anything but my asshole puckered.

That's amazing. We continue to ask how many kids will I have? The board gave my answer as three. I was like, oh, this is some bullshit. Was that new very little personal stuff about me? So I didn't think too much about it after the night ended. Nothing manifested with the lasette and life moved on. Fast forward six years.

My boy's mom and I decided to work things out. Yeah, we had always been in each other's lives but not together. It was always for the boys. She did tell me that she had been told by her OBGYN that her body took a lot of trauma having the boys so young and we most likely could not have another child. 11 years later we did. Three kids. Wow. We have our daughter, that fucking Wege aboard. It's been 24 years since that Wege board incident and I'm reminded of it every Halloween season. As for our family, our boys are 28 and 27. Our daughter is 11. We are happy. Life has blessed us. I'm not poor anymore and I spend a lot of time and excuse me, I spent a lot of time in money trying to be

the dad. I wish I could have been for my boys. Oh my god Right you were a great dad. I just am like oh I Personally, I haven't experienced much supernatural stuff life is spooky though Congratulations on the recent birth of your child. I wish you the best and continued success I love your podcast and listen to you every chance I get thanks for reading Esteban Esteban that was really nice Esteban and I love you You're cute isn't that just like that was a beautiful one? You know what? That's a really nice one. I'm happy that you and Melissa got me reed. I am too. I love that.

So let's see. The next one is going to be less fun and whimsy. Of course it is because it is. So this one is named, I messed with a Ouija board and all I got for it was a lifetime of trauma. Perfect. You know what? So not as cute. I believe that, right? Hi, Ashina Lina, this story happened about a year ago in December 2018. It started on December 2nd when my friends had a Ouija board in their closet. I had never played Ouija before and they agreed to play. I know. Bad mistake right off the bat for even touching one. And I will never let my future children bring one into the house. I'm sad. So before we even start, they talk to me about the rules. Don't let the

plant check go off the board. It is a bad spirit say, if it's a bad spirit, say goodbye immediately and do not give it permission to enter you. They also told me of how they have made contact with spirits that, spirits that lived on their land a long time ago, and then they have a possible portal to hell in their fucking basement. So, basically left. Why did you stay? Whenever your friends say, hey, I have a portal to hell in my basement. I'm like, I don't know what like funny juice you been drinking. But I'd be like, part of me is like, you better get out of here. Part of me is like, can I see it though?

I know you all too well. So basically this was set up for a nightmare week and we broke every fucking rule they said not to do. Oops, there were five of us in their house plus their mom, but only three of us were playing. Me, Easton, and Dee, Noble, and Blue. He did these in air quotes, so. I was like, last names.

Chains. We're in the other rooms playing video games. And Easton and Blue's mom was in her room. We sat on the floor in the kitchen. We just started off sitting for a couple of minutes concentrating on the board. It takes quite a bit of concentration sometimes, and we instantly got an evil spirit.

Straight to goodbye, and it's gone. Next one, good spirit. We talked and just asked random things, getting kind of boring, and it eventually just stops responding. Then shit went south pretty fast. Because it was pretending to be a good spirit. Probably. Being clueless as to the different spirits that typically appear in the Ouija board, I did not get the panic that struck eastern when the board started moving in rainbow motion back and forth between Z and U. Z U, Z U, Z U. It did this for several minutes before we got frustrated. We tried to say goodbye when it got the hint and stopped. We decided

to see how powerful this entity was and asked if it had something in the physical realm. Typical ghost stuff like flicker a light or close a door, etc. Nothing happens. We just keep repeating questions and it gives us answers. Typical 17 year old questions. Who are we going to marry? Do you know my girlfriend's name? Answered that one correctly. Now I believe in supernatural occurrences, but I was not convinced by this board. I thought Easton and D could be messing with me. That opinion started to change when Blue went to get a drink. He walks in and is lightly chatting with us about how it's going as he decided not to participate. We tell him who we're talking to as Easton and Blue have made contact with it before. He goes and grabs a drink of water and sits on the island in the kitchen. Not anywhere close to the edge. I was about three feet away. I was in the middle of the island.

He starts to walk towards the counter to grab something. As I turn my attention back to the board, it moved the planchette towards the edge of the board. I hear a crash of glass. So the planchette moved to the edge and then the glass went crazy. And holy fuck from blue as his glass of water falls over the top of the island and smashes into the ground. Fucking panic.

Noble in the other room walks out and is like, what the fuck was that? Noble is not convinced, and says blue knocked it off on accident or to fuck with us. We're holding onto the planchette without saying goodbye because at this point, Easton's just trying to prove to me he isn't moving the planchette. More time goes by asking her to do something else. All of a sudden, every light in the right side of the house is out. Power's gone.

We don't even realize until we hear at guys, what the fuck did you do from Noble? We look to see what the whole side of the house is completely dark. Their mom comes out and is visibly confused until she sees the Ouija board. She tells us her story of how the table levitated when she played. Oh my God.

Eastern says we should move this downstairs. We say goodbye to Zuzu and take a breather. After the after the power going out, I am pretty intrigued by the board, but also in panic mode because what the hell just happened. I wish we just stopped there, but it gets much worse. Oh, after moving it to the basement where the portal to hell was, wait, you know ZUZU. No, I don't want to say the name, but it gets much worse. Ugh. After moving it to the basement where the portal of telewasps, you know ZUZU. No. I don't want to say the name, but it's, I don't know,

to actually spell it, but it's like PA, ZUZU, ZUZU, and it's like a known demon. Oh, snap. And that's why we drink actually mentioned that specific demon on one of their episodes. Oh snap. Yeah, not feeling it. After moving to the basement,

Easton says we should try to summon his friendly ghost, test. We set up, test. We set up candles and darkened the worm to help. We begin and almost instantly, Zuzu is back like he never left. Is that really his name? No, it's short, but don't say it.

Well, that's not his real name. Don't fucking say it. I'm just fucking telling you. We tell him he can go now, but he tells us he doesn't not want to go. Yeah, I bet. Easton's getting pissed off and we all tell the asshole to fuck right on off down the mainstream. You're not supposed to say that. That's for sure. But Easton changes his mind and we keep talking to him. It's the most we got out of any spirit and he's actually being interesting. At some point, Easton must have fucked up when talking to him because he stopped talking. We say goodbye to make sure he was gone and went upstairs.

Easton looked insanely pissed off and Dee was asking him what's up. Easton pushed him away so Dee went to the fridge and told him he didn't have to be an asshole. Now Easton is a big dude, but Dee is pretty strong. So when I say the man gained unholy, unfucking natural strength, I am not kidding. Easton charges at D and before he can barely react, he picks him up and slams him into a chair and onto the ground. Oh my god! I'm flipping my shit trying to get Easton off D. Eventually, Easton just stops and gets put in a chokehold. He looks very confused and we let him go. Yep. Zuzu now has a physical attachment to him.

Eastern begins to feel uneasy the rest of the night. Day one is over. Day two begins when Eastern says he feels a very dark present, when the presence one entering his home. So D and I agreed to come over again after school and talk to Zuzu again to leave him alone. I'm saying. Dude, that's the name of a Disney character, too. Really? Yeah.

You just get enjoyment out of freaking me. Well, it's just not, you said it's not the whole name. I know. So it's just a nickname. It goes about as well as you probably fucking guessed. He decides against it. We now have our friend E over, and he is talking to D in the room next to us when the bathroom connecting the room's slam shut. It sounded hard enough to break the door

off the hinges. All of us jump and E and D run back into the room and freak the fuck out. Then I look down and realize we just fucked up. The planchette was now half on the board, half on the carpet. I instantly set it back and Eastern looks absolutely terrified. At this point, I'm 100% convinced, by the way. Nope, weija boards work. I now have to fucking destroy this one. I'm told by Eastern that it is a bad idea and can actually be worse. We asked how many demons are present and the board responds 12. Oh shit. Eastern asks where it responds, B-E-D. Bed. I swear when I looked at that bed, I saw them for a half second.

The image of them is burned into my brain. We asked him to leave again, or we will cleanse the house. We really pissed him off with that. Eastern starts breathing heavy, and we're all fucking confused when we see the scratches are now appearing on his wrists. My God! Not just light scrapes, deep scratches that have drawn blood. Noble and one of our other friends claimed he was doing it

to himself and there was no way. There was way too deep of cuts, and especially not after we were standing right there when he starts to gasp and arches his back. An upside down cross forms in the middle of his chest. By the way, he sent pictures of these scratches. Oh my God, I wanna see. Yeah, we were standing there watching as it happened.

At this point, we're freaking out. We're trying to say goodbye, but Eastern is in tears as more scratches are appearing over his arm. Some are deep enough that they leave faint scars on him that he still has. Wow. I won't say the name. The demon stopped responding and we had no choice but to just leave it alone for now.

Eastern would occasionally just wince and a new scratch would appear. He was so upset that he asked Dee to stay the night over there because he did not want to be there alone. Oh! We all decided to come back the third day and cleanse the house with him. Eastern is a wreck at school and has never looked so intense in his life. He told us every time he entered the house, Oli felt was his wrist burning like handcuffs were on them. Oh my god.

Dee had brought incense and oil and began putting it around the basement and the entrances of the house and also used a prayer. Since burning the board could release the spirits and Easton decided burying it was also a bad idea. He chose to stuff it away in a safe space where people could not use it. Not much have to happen after this. Easton said he felt much better and had kept a cross above his bed, as well as wearing a necklace with one for the next couple weeks. The house still has an eerie feel to it, and the basement bedroom still definitely does. Easton has

not touched another Ouija board since, but we did pull it out once to move it, and it was broken. Oh, it was put in a safe spot, yet had mysteriously bubbled up and aligned down the middle after the house was cleansed. That's wild. Since the board is no longer flat, it is worthless and unusable for the fucking best. Easton refuses to get rid of it still,

saying it could bring even worse things to the house and stores it away. Personally, I would still fucking bury that thing where no one would ever fucking find it. Bonus story. The house is still fucking weird as shit. To further fuck around with spirits, they brought a spirit box. Remember they did that at the Lizzy Born House? Yes. If you do not know what that is, it sweeps radio frequencies. The white noise and the

fast scanning of radio frequencies is believed to provide the energy and transmission that spirits need to get their voices through to us. This was used for about 20 minutes when we got a horrifying message saying, you will all die before going completely dead. Oh my God. The thing was drained of battery. Easy enough to fix, we get more batteries, put them in, still nothing. Take the batteries out, put them back, get different ones, nothing. So we put the batteries in a TV remote, nothing. We take new batteries, put them back, get different ones, nothing. So we put the batteries in a TV remote, nothing.

We take new batteries, put them straight into the TV remote, works. Then we take them out, put them in the spirit box, nothing. Put them back into the remote, nothing. I don't know what the fuck happened that anything that goes to the spirit box was instantly drained. It still does not work. We've attempted multiple times. We don't fuck around with anything spiritual in the house anymore. Never will again, the fucking end. Hope you enjoyed

the story. It really truly, I really enjoy the podcast and thank you for bringing education and awareness to cases like Elissa Turnie. Oh. Would love it if you could do a live show in Missouri. My friends and I could attend. Keep it weird. Nicholas. Whoa. Nicholas. That fucked me right now. That's for sure. And he sent pictures. Holy Mother fucking shit. Whoa. Nicholas. That fucked me right up, that's for sure. And he sent pictures.

Holy mother fucking shit. Oh. And there's the Ouija board. That's an old ass Ouija board too. That plancheon does really pretty. Yeah, it does a really pretty. It's like a really pretty old wooden Ouija board. Yeah, that upside down cross on his chest.

It's truly something. It's like somebody scratched their nail. Yeah, they're demon gloves. And you know what? That's crazy, Nick. Even if that's a tall tail, which I refuse to believe, it's a good one. That's the least good of a tall tail.

So yeah, so I think maybe read one more. Read one more. And then we'll close this out. Yeah, we'll say goodbye. We'll say goodbye. So the next one, Ash will read and it is. It's called listener story. My dad's bitch, Asks wife, brought a demon into our house.

That is bitch, Asks wife. I said, love it. Hey, weirdos. So this is an edit of my listener story I sent in. I'm sorry if it's paid in the Asks, but I was just so excited when you invited listeners to share our stories that I immediately jumped on my laptop and just spewed out some jumbled word moment of what happened to me. I love that. I went back and re-read it and realized I left some important facts out. So here's the full-ass story that changed my life. Ooh, okay. But before that, oh, I have to say you,

two girls, you girls have ruined all other podcasts for me. I've been a devoted follower since episode two, and I fell in love with the banter facts mixed with humor, and everything else you offer in between. Listen to you. I know. Listening to this podcast is like sitting around

with best friends, or my sister's talking about weird shit. Thank you so much. You are our sister. And then she says, so anyway. So, she's onto my story. As a kid, I lived lived with my parents and my two sisters in a newly built house. Nothing crazy or weird ever went on pretty normal and suburban. Fast forward to me at 15. Pretty dumb and thinking me and my friends were the funniest people on the planet. Plot twist we weren't.

Honestly, I think I'm the funniest person on the planet all the time and plot twist I'm not. Yes you are. Well thanks. So back to the story. One night in October, a friend was spending the night. I don't know what glue we were sniffing, but we both put the idea to hold a say-ons in my room. So sitting in the middle of my bedroom surrounded by breaking Ben and Avril Lavigne posters, yeah, that's it. That's it. She's breaking Benjeman. She let a candle and started doing the speech you see on TV, you know, summoning whatever spirit is around, asking if there's a presence to make itself known We get gold like idiots for a few minutes before moving on to something else

This will come back later, but Kathy was sitting with her back to my closet. I'm bad idea Kathy Yeah, I'm not a cat It was a few hours later when she suddenly set her back hurt She pulled up her shirt a bit and there was a large red X on her back I thought like these scratchy. I don't either. I don't like to be touched ever. I thought she scratched herself trying to freak me out so I brushed it off and nothing else happened. It was a few years after that when my dad remained, excuse me, remarried this evil dragon of a woman named Vanessa. Her being a crazy bitch life

ruiner doesn't have anything to do with the story But I'd like to just spread the word for other so yeah, Vanessa's from Indiana and I stay far away from her That's hilarious Oh no, she said Vanessa from Indiana stay far away from her At the time she seemed a little cookie, but fine She moved in and would tell me some strange things She said when she was a child she moved around a lot and each time she moved a poltergeist would follow her and torment her for a few weeks. No big deal. I'd be like, Vanessa, maybe you could jump.

Vanessa, you need to leave. Let's go now. I had seen Ghost Hunter shows in America's most haunted, but like most people, when you hear others' accounts of Ghostly encounters, they're hard to believe. I moved in with my mom shortly after that, because like I said, fire-breathing bitch dragon named Vanessa. I love this. I love this. Three years later, my dad and Vanessa divorced and she moved out. My sisters and I came back to the house to repair the relationship with my dad.

It was when I moved back in that I started noticing odd things. I always felt a presence like I was being watched. I would walk up the stair sideways, convince something was behind me. My sisters always felt the same way. My dad was a police detective and the time, excuse me, at the time, and worked murder hours. So I was used to spending the night alone. One night alone, I heard footsteps upstairs. It was very late, so I assumed my dad was home from a case. I went upstairs, but found no one. I went upstairs several times after hearing footsteps, check the garage, house alarm windows. Everything was locked because unlocked shit is for dead people.

Plus when you're dead as a cop, you don't fucking trust anybody. Finally, the last time I heard footsteps, I took a Louisville slugger with me upstairs to check the house. How many times I've done that? You did that like a week ago. Makes up with a curtain round. Earlier that day, I had closed all the bedroom doors,

but when I turned on the hall light they were all open Oh, we both hate that yeah, no anything that opens. I'm just no once I've shut things if it opens again I'm just I'm not down for that. No, thank you The master bedroom door was open and I looked into the darkness I did the whitest curl white thing I could do and I said hello Yes I got a girl The bedroom door slammed and I fucking booked it nope

I ran out of the house and drove to my mom shaking and trying to convince myself it was the wind or anything else. I tried to forget about the incident and only told my boyfriend. He spent the night there with me a few weeks later so that I felt safe. He's now my husband, so all the feels. Oh, I love that.

I love love. When he slept over, I told him about what happened. He was skeptical that helped me move a very heavy dresser in front of my bedroom door. He woke me up around 2am freaking out because my dresser was shaking violently against the door. Fuck that. There were loud bangs on the other side of the door.

He moved the dresser and went out into the hall thinking he would find an intruder, but once again the alarm was still on and all the doors and windows locked. I shrugged and said, there's something in this house. I was like, yep, told ya. My boyfriend was never a believer in the paranormal, but after that, he definitely was spooked and didn't like being on my dad's house. I wonder why?

Why? My sister's also had a similar experience, and the worst was when I had to pick up my little sister Abby from the house. She was on the front porch crying when I picked her up and refused to go back inside. She was trying to fall asleep in my old room, the seyons room, and said the closet door

kept creaking open. Oh no. No. She had gotten up to close it, but when she got back in bed, the door handle fucking turned and opened. All the hangers and clothes inside were shaking and moving back and forth on the rack.

After that, Abby refused to sleep at the house by herself. The last straw for me was when I fell asleep on the couch and woke up. It was around 3 a.m. Oh, none of that's okay. And for the first time, I understood sleep paralysis. I was lying on my side and could it move because there was a face staring at me in the dark

about six inches away. Oh, I just got full fucking that. That's what happens when I get sleep paralysis. It's not close to your face. Yeah. Hold on. No, no, no, no. I could see an outline like it was waiting for me to wake up.

When I was finally able to move, I reached my hand out. I touched something warm and sat up trying to scream, but my voice was gone. I simply laid back down and tried to pretend it was a dream. We told my dad. What, I just said. We told my dad. We told my dad.

We told my dad. We told my dad about what happened my dad, we told my dad, we told my dad about what happened, but being a very reasonable man, he chalked it up to overactive imaginations combined with a love for horror movies. I blamed it on his now ex-wife and said, you brought the devil into this house and look what she learned. The day my dad moved into his new house is a day I'll never forget. He looked at me and said, you know, I think there might have been something in that house. I was so exasperated, but glad at last, glad he at last believed us, at least believed us, I suck, sorry. He told me there was times he was home alone and he would wake up hearing voices assuming it was the TV or noises

from outside. He said, these voices always sound like whispered arguments and coming from my bedroom. Oh, I hate that. Later on while working at a bakery in college, one of my regular customers pulled me aside and said, I'm paranormal sensitive and I can read other people. You are paranormal sensitive as well and you need to be extremely careful about what you invite them. Oh, shit. They will be drawn to you and you have to protect yourself. I laugh about it now, but all these experiences definitely made me a believer in the paranormal

and I take that chit seriously. The lame ghost hunting shows are still my guilty pleasure, but now I take it all with a grain of salt. I do all the weird superstitious bullshit. Weed of boards are not a lot of my house burning sage is my jam and fresh airs for dead people. I still don't know if it was my dumb ass self trying to perform a science. Maybe my closet was a legit ported of hell or my dad's second wife brought a demon in. I know I have all. She goes, I know I have way too much fun believe me. Thankfully, I live a ghost slash demon-free life now with my husband and fur babies. Thanks for reading this, girls. I hope the podcast goes well. Oh, excuse me, goes on for a million years and can't wait for all the episodes. Love you,

ladies. Keep it weird. Oh man, shoe. Shoe. That's an even evolve a Ouija board, and it was like so scary. I know, it's a sound. So I figured it was like the same kind of. Yeah, same deal. Deal. Same vibe. But yeah.

I think that we need to go get some chicken wings and watch like Gilmore Girls again. We need to bring it back down to a fluffy level here. Yes, please, and thank you. Yay. Well, that was a fun one. Yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed learning about the history of spiritualism and the Ouija board and all that fun stuff.

And thanks for your listener tails, because I just love reading those. I do too. They're always fun. Yeah. They're just at a little, they add a little spice to all that sense. A little pazazz. I love it. So keep them coming. We love them.

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