The History of the Ouija Board

In 1886, the fledgling Associated Press ran an article in papers all over the country about these new talking boards coming out of the spiritualist movement in Ohio. A few years later, a businessman named Charles Canard of Baltimore, Maryland realized this talking board could make him lots and lots of money. The name Ouija is not a combination of the French and German words for yes, we and yah. They called the board Ouija, the Egyptian luck board.