The Original Ouija Board

Early Kennard Ouija Board

Over the last century, spirit or talking boards have brought endless hours of entertainment to those who have dared to play. Spirit boards, witchboards, oracle boards, and mystery boards are all guises of the talking board. 

Though talking boards made their debut in America circa 1880, many precursor incarnations appeared by the mid-1800s in Europe. 

Edward O’Brian discovered the earliest known patent for a talking board in the patent offices in London, England. 



Adolphus Theodore Wagner, a professor of music and resident of Berlin of the Kingdom of Prussia, filed his patent for a “PSYCHOGRAPH, OR APPARATUS FOR INDICATING PERSONS THOUGHTS BY THE AGENT OF NERVOUS ELECTRICITY” on January 23, 1854. That was 30 years before the first talking board patent was even filed in the United States.....

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Home-made Ouija board

This is a home made Ouija board we created with 1/4" masonite board. It is 14" x 22" and hand painted letters.
The plachette is about 7" long.

We will create a series of 10 questions and see how well the Ouija can predict the Future.

We will post videos to our New Youtube Channel....

Ouija Science.

The strange and Mysterious History of the Ouija Board

In February, 1891, the first few advertisements started appearing in papers: “Ouija, the Wonderful Talking Board,” boomed a Pittsburgh toy and novelty shop, describing a magical device that answered questions “about the past, present and future with marvelous accuracy” and promised “never-failing amusement and recreation for all the classes,” a link “between the known and unknown, the material and immaterial.” Another advertisement in a New York newspaper declared it “interesting and mysterious” and testified, “as sProven at Patent Office before it was allowed. Price, $1.50.”

This mysterious talking board was basically what’s sold in board game aisles today: A flat board with the letters of the alphabet arrayed in two semi-circles above the numbers 0 through 9; the words “yes” and “no” in the uppermost corners, “goodbye” at the bottom; accompanied by a “planchette,” a teardrop-shaped device, usually with a small window in the body, used to maneuver about the board. The idea was that two or more people would sit around the board, place their finger tips on the planchette, pose a question, and watch, dumbfounded, as the planchette moved from letter to letter, spelling out the answers seemingly of its own accord.....

Read more: 

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-strange-and-mysterious-history-of-the-ouija-board-5860627/

Classic Wood Ouija board $17.89

Found this Classic Wood Ouija board on Amazon.com for $17.89

Classic Ouija Board Game by Winning Moves Games http://amzn.to/2kQBzUe