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797: Ouija Boards | Skeptical Sunday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
The Ouija Board and the Great Depression
According to the Smithsonian, the Ouija board was very popular almost immediately after it was released. Over five months in 1944, a single New York department store sold 50,000 Ouija boards. In 1967, a year after the Parker Brothers bought the game from the Fold Company, two million boards were sold and they actually outsold monopoly. So even during the Great Depression, Americans were like, yeah, guess food and clothes for the kids are going to have to wait.
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