The “Ouija, the Wonderful Talking Board” game became a cultural staple when it hit shelves for $1.50 in 1891. It was a direct path to ancestors but also a bit of intriguing and escapist Friday ...

Douglas Smith (from left), Olivia Cooke and Ana Coto play the classic Hasbro game in ‘Ouija.’ Matt Kennedy/Universal Pictures. As Smithsonian Magazine details, the Ouija board was born out of ...

OUIJA boards have a dark history, with some people believing the game has supernatural powers and others insisting it’s just a basic board game. They’ve delighted and terrified in equal… ...

The Ouija board’s history is just about as mysterious as how the “game” works. Ouija historian Robert Murch has been researching the story of the board since 1992, when he first purchased a ...

Despite being around for more than 100 years, Ouija boards (a wooden board covered with the letters of the alphabet, the numbers 0-9 and the words “yes”, “no” and “goodbye”) continue ...

To many, the Ouija board conjures stories of ghostly encounters and eerie warnings. Yet over a century ago, it was just a parlor game, offering lighthearted entertainment in Victorian homes.

This Halloween, Hasbro is bringing the classic game to your computer screen, but like a ghost, it’s disappearing by Nov. 1. And since this is a 2023 update, the virtual board is enhanced by AI.

What they would discover later was that the Ouija board actually did work. “Weird stuff happened in the house ever since that night, and to this day, it hasn’t stopped,” says the 29-year-old ...

The Ouija board is often associated with the supernatural, but its origins are surprisingly down-to-earth. Patented in 1891, the board was marketed as a parlor game long before it was linked to spirit ...

OUIJA boards have a dark history, with some people believing the game has supernatural powers and others insisting it’s just a basic board game. They’ve delighted and terrified in equal… ...

The “Ouija, the Wonderful Talking Board” game became a cultural staple when it hit shelves for $1.50 in 1891. It was a direct path to ancestors but also a bit of intriguing and escapist Friday ...