Spirited Games: Why Ouija Won’t Let Us Go

We have two rules at home: Don’t make fun of your little brother, and no Ouija before homework

Mitch Horowitz
5 min readMay 31, 2017

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Family scareloom: Our Ouija board, circa 1966.

Actually, we don’t allow the kids anywhere near our antique Ouija board (pictured above). But they resort to their own, um, devices.

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Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China