Parker Brothers, the board game manufacturer now owned by Hasbro, still make and sell Ouija boards.
Growing up, I thought Ouija boards we’re only available at weird hippy stores, but you can pick one up at Wallmart, and I think that’s weird.
My mother tells a story about a friend of hers who played with a Ouija board in the 1970′s and went mad. Apparently she started contacting the ‘spirit world’ all alone at night and they (the spirits) told her she was going to die in a matter of days. Naturally, she went bonkers and they had to lock her up. I don’t think she’s in the loony bin anymore, but still- thanks Parker Brothers… and ghosts… and probably schizophrenia… and also the creepy dude who invented the Ouija board in the first place…
In 1890 Elijah J Bond created and patented the first modern Ouija Board. The following year he sold the rights to the entrepreneur William Fuld, who made the board famous by shopping it around like a mother-fucker. In 1966 Parker Brothers purchased the rights to the Ouija Board and sold more than 2 million units in the first year of production. The Ouija board- a game about contacting long dead relatives and celebrities- actually outsold Monopoly in 1966. That’s weird.
What’s even weirder, Ouija boards date back to the 4th century and the time of the Roman Emperor Valens. Valens was all about talking to ghosts with his buddies and getting freaked out. He was also all about being beaten and burned to death by barbarians. The 4th century was ages ago, literally, but Ouija boards were also used before that by the Greeks, way back when Jesus was just a twinkle in whoever it was that got Mary pregnant’s eye. My point is: Ouija boards have been around since before Christ, but you can go buy one at Toys ‘R Us- today. That’s weird. Don’t tell me it isn’t, because it is. Yeah Chess has been around longer… probably… but Chess has nothing to do with talking to ghosts. Get a grip.
Right now for around $19.99 Hasbro have a ‘glow-in-the-dark’ Ouija board for sale… It looks like this:

That’s creepy as hell; not as creepy as this, but still pretty creepy.
Once again, I’ve freaked myself out before lunch time, so I’m ending the post here and getting on with my life. Thanks titty-city for the picture at the top of the page. x
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