Get ready to get freaked out by these real-life Ouija board stories. They just may turn you into a believer. Ouija board ...

This led to the birth of “talking boards,” the precursor to the Ouija board, in the late 1880s. It had letters, numbers, and a small cursor to point towards its script.

Are Ouija boards real? There are three schools of thought when it comes to Ouija boards. One, it's all a sham - and the person with their hand on the planchette is sneakily moving it around.

Experiments with Ouija boards have demonstrated that our sense of agency can be manipulated, leading us to think that an invisible third party is moving the planchette.

As a control, the participants were asked to spell the word “Baltimore” using the planchette; their eye movement neatly anticipated the planchette’s trajectory across the board as they looked at the ...

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 ...

The Ouija board has terrified countless slumber party children and served as a plot vehicle in a number of Hollywood films. Here’s where it came from.

“It used to be regular Friday night entertainment for me,” he recalls. He and his friends made their own Ouija board by writing the alphabet on a piece of paper and using an upturned wineglass as a ...