This time, a few quotes from the article before giving you the link. But you could just scroll by them to get to the link if you really want.
“For such an iconic thing that strikes both fear and wonder in American culture, how can no one know where it came from?”
For emphasis (because it strikes me as hilarious):“Communicating with the dead was common, it wasn’t seen as bizarre or weird,” explains Murch. “It’s hard to imagine that now, we look at that and think, ‘Why are you opening the gates of hell?’”
‘Why are you opening the gates of hell?’
“People want to believe. The need to believe that something else is out there is powerful,” he says. “This thing is one of those things that allows them to express that belief.”
Okay, here's the link already:In 1967, the year after Parker Brothers bought the game from the Fuld Company, 2 million boards were sold, outselling Monopoly
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ ... d-5860627/