Ouija boards were not invented by ancient shamans communicating with the spirit realm, but by a 19th-century businessman named Elijah Bond who just wanted to make a quick buck off the spiritualism craze.

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Ouija boards were not invented by ancient shamans communicating with the spirit realm, but by a 19th-century businessman named Elijah Bond who just wanted to make a quick buck off the spiritualism craze. Bond actually took the board to the patent office and supposedly asked the spirits to spell out the patent officer's name to prove it worked, which somehow succeeded in getting the patent approved. Today, this supposedly terrifying portal to the demonic underworld is literally a trademarked toy manufactured by Hasbro, the exact same company that produces Mr. Potato Head and My Little Pony. It is incredibly funny that teenagers think they are summoning ancient evils using a piece of mass-produced cardboard from the board game aisle