If a unseasoned Rick “ Ormortis ” Schreck ever asked a Ouija control panel if he ’d end up arrive at the world ’s largest Ouija dining table , the answer should ’ve been yes .
“ OuijaZilla , ” as it ’s affectionately called , weighs 9000 pounds and covers 3168 square feet — as crowing a footprint as five 18 - wheelers . According toPopular Mechanics , the panel took 99 pieces of plyboard , 20 quarts of calamitous paint , several gallons of deck stain , and one whole year to nail .
It contain all the Hellenic ingredient of a traditional Ouija board , including the full alphabet , number zero through nine , and the wordsyes , no , andgoodbye . Instead of using their digit tomovethe planchette across the board , a few people stand inside the 400 - British pound sterling planchette ’s orbitual cutout and shuffle their way into a seance .
Schreck , a tattoo artist and vice president of the Talking Board Historical Society ( TBHS ) , originally build the giant Ouija card in New Jersey and then transported it to Salem , Massachusetts , where it was reassemble and unveiled to the public on October 12 .
The town , ill-famed for itswitch huntsin the late seventeenth century , seems an especially eerie resting place for yet another skittish patch of America ’s history . But it ’s in reality whereOuija boardswere manufactured for years , after Salem - base miniature company Parker Brothers bought the right to the plot in 1966 . It ’s also the town that exhort Schreck ’s initial involvement in Ouija boards in 1992 .
concord to the TBHSwebsite , the huge card is nigh 2.5 times larger than thecurrentGuinness World Record holder , and Ripley ’s Believe It or Not ! has bestowed the title of " creation ’s largest Ouija panel " on Schreck ’s creative activity . It ’s also “ full useable , ” which hopefully means that you may use it to commune with excess - large dead people .
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