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April 24, 2022 46 mins
The Ouija board appealed to people from across a wide spectrum of ages, professions, and education—mostly, Murch claims, because the Ouija board offered a fun way for people to believe in something. It was marketed as both mystical oracle and as family entertainment, fun with an element of other-worldly excitement. But the people who disliked the Ouija board the most tended to be spirit mediums, as they’d just found their job as spiritual middleman cut out.

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