25 October 2007
Talking boards are best known under the popularized name Ouija boards, but are a tradition going back at least to the mid-1800s, and possibly thousands of years before that. Spiritualists used them to contact the dearly departed, but since the 1960s their primary use has been by wise-ass high school boys trying to scare the knickers off high school girls, or by writers using a popular culture shortcut to getting their evil phantasms on stage.
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