Nov 01 2020 85 mins 11
Episode 292: Halloween Extravaganza Robert Murch is the world’s foremost collector, historian, and expert on Ouija and Talking Boards and serves as the Chairman of the Board for the Talking Board Historical Society which he founded. His bizarre relationship with Ouija began after watching Kevin Tenney’s Witchboard in 1986, a century after the talking board made its debut. Murch purchased his first antique Ouija board in 1992 and became obsessed with unraveling the mystery of its origins. Since then he’s devoted his life to researching the history of the Ouija board and its founders, with Murch often traveling the world to track down descendants of all those involved with the introduction of the mystifying oracle. He was named guest curator of the Baltimore Museum of Industry’s groundbreaking Ouija exhibit Let the Spirit Move You, often collaborates with the Strong – The National Museum of Play, The British Library, and through the Talking Board Historical Society, organized OuijaCon 2015 which celebrated Ouija’s 125th Anniversary with the city of Baltimore. On behalf of the Talking Board Historical Society he co-curated the San Francisco Airport’s “The Mysterious Talking Board: Ouija and Beyond” exhibit and turned his home into a Ouija and Talking Board Museum fulfilling a lifelong dream. Today Murch is working with Nick Groff and Elizabeth Saint on the definitive Ouija docuseries “Board to Death: The Secret History of the World’s Most Terrifying Game” and he’s currently collaborating with the Talking Board Historical Society to create the ultimate talking board coffee table book.
