so it turns out that the biggest collector of ouija boards lives right here in denver colorado
so i'm gonna see if we can actually have an interview with him well you're gonna
call and ask for an interview yeah don't you just give one of those ouija boards and channel his ass
i wish i wish indeed
that my mother whose memory i cherish across the veil of years could have been here to see
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so today i'm at the fairmont cemetery in denver colorado and i'm visiting
helen noseworthy and helen is known as the mother of the ouija
board
so
so this cemetery is one of the most amazing cemeteries in all of denver it's actually
one of the greatest cemeteries i've ever been to i've heard conflicts
about how many people are buried here anywhere from 133 000 people to 170 000
but some of the best known pioneers and wealthy people
from the day are buried right here in fairmont
cemetery
many of our streets and buildings and even towns were named after the people in the cemetery
but the one behind me is who we're here to see today helen peters noseworthy she's considered
the mother of the ouija board and the person who helped name it one evening about april 1890 while
trying the board with a miss peters better known as norrisworthy i remarked that we had not yet
settled upon a name and as the board had helped us in other ways we would ask it to propose one
it's spelled out o u i j a when i asked the meaning of the word it said good luck
miss peters there pawn drew from her neck a chain which had at the end a locket
on it the figure of a woman and at the top the word ouija
we asked her if she had thought of this name and she said had not we then adopted the word
charles w canard the first manufacturer of the ouija board
i went to washington with miss peters a strong medium and there demonstrated it to one of the
chiefs of the patent office so fully was he impressed that he assured me
then and there that the patent would be allowed mr eli t bond patentee of the ouija board
so how do you find helen in a graveyard that's got over 133 000 people we'll all put coordinates down
in the description and on our blog so make sure you check that out before you come to the cemetery
so when you're looking for helen there's a parking lot over here here's the ivy chapel
there's a mausoleum with william barker on it and you're looking for the science as military area
and you're going to turn right there you kind of know it by the lady sitting in the chair statue
and this is the road that you go up to find helen
so there's quite a few headstones here um she does have a very distinctive one that's helen right
there um but she does have a couple of landmarks that are nearby there's this beautiful statue here
that you can look for as a landmark off in the distance you'll also see some military headstones
um there's a cannon right there and that is the world war one um memorial and helen is right
here i'm gonna put these coordinates down in the description or on our blog
this is the road where the pen is going to be and helen is right there
she's right there
helen peters noseworthy was lost to history but you wouldn't know it by looking at her gravestone
bob murch the founder and chairman of the talking board historical society
was researching the ouija board
it was through his research he found that helen was not only the one who helped name the board
but in fact was the sister-in-law of elijah bond the patentee of the board
and that helen was buried in his own hometown of denver colorado
with the help of the fairmont cemetery he found her grave and found that it was unmarked in a sea
of headstones the plate that marked her grave was void
of her name in 2018 the talking board historical society placed a new gravestone on her family plot
a headstone more befitting to her contribution to the ouija board
bob merch was furthering his research of the board and he was astonished to find that the patentee of
the ouija board elijah bond was also buried in an unmarked grave in green mont cemetery in baltimore
if it wasn't for the talking board historical society and their fundraising efforts
elijah would be lost to a sea of headstones
but through their efforts they were able to erect an iconic ouija board on his gravesite
the seance that named the ouija board occurred in elijah bond's room
in the langhem hotel boarding house located at 529 north charles
that building still stands today and is now a 7-eleven convenience store
in 2015 the talking board historical society installed a plaque in the 7-eleven
that tells the story of the ouija history that occurred at that very building
the talking board historical society seeks to promote the study of talking board history
publish important findings and to preserve and officially designate locations with historical
connections to the talking board i'll put a link down in the description to their organization
it is through donations and events that the talking board historical society
is able to continue their efforts to preserve history please consider a donation today
we must be up over here somewhere wait wait what what's the name of that oh
yep that's the name on the grave all right weirdo
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