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By the time While there have been those throughout the we're using audio recorders, they're already years who suspected it was more than just here. We’re just trying to find out whom. a board game for children, it was the 1970s Playing with a Ouija Board might give one movie The Exorcist that put a new spin on it, the impression they are hosting one thing, and a time of innocent yuks ended. The rules but it might turn out to be something else drastically changed! altogether. It's best not to play if you don't In the movie, 12-year-old Regan dabbled want to pay. Ouija Boards are still available with the board resulting in demonic pos- in stores in the gaming aisle. They are popu- session. She effectively did it to herself. The lar Christmas gifts. They can be a gift that movie changed the public's perception of keeps on giving. If a store doesn't have them the “harmless” board game and the clergy in inventory, they will most likely be avail- ran with the ball. Literally overnight, the able for purchase online. Ouija Board became a tool of the devil! And a medium of pop culture continuing Buyer beware! to this day, making fruitful appearances on My mother-in-law Jennifer Norris, as was Our Greenwood Branch Is television and cinema. Ouija has become a my wife, Laura, became exposed to a haunt- “spooky” enterprise, far surpassing spiritu- ed house in an Indianapolis inner-city neigh- al overtones of days past when the spiritual borhood many years ago. It was a family res- Open by Appointment Only! movement swept the country. Apparently, idence. The house still stands. They have we can't get enough in our pursuit of ex- their own memories of how a series of séanc- ploring the dark side. es and the Ouija Board changed the fabric of A tool of dark forces? It could be.