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. [SOCIAL MEDIA, OUR TV SHOW, PATREON, & MORE]LINK to EVERYTHING: https://solo.to/etpia[MUSIC USED IN THIS EPISODE]Music from https://filmmusic.io "In Your Arms" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)[THANKS & MENTIONS FOR THIS EPISODE]Stephanie Kemmerer, researcher & writer for Even the Podcast is Afraid, conducted all the writing and research for this series on the Ouija Board.Created, produced, & hosted by Jared OrdisCo-hosted by Nick Porchetta & Samantha VazquezEven the Podcast is Afraid is an original Ordis Studios ProductionCopyright © 2022 by Ordis Studiossolo.to/ordisstudios