Step again to a time when Portland’s drawing rooms hummed with questions for the past. Whispers within the Parlor, the newest episode of Antiques Mysteries, revisits the Portland’s temporary however fevered bout of “Ouijamania,” when speaking boards promised messages from misplaced family members and the newspapers fanned a craze of séances, spirit pictures, and midnight experiments.
Our host unfolds true tales from outdated Oregonian clippings—widows tracing the letters of a soldier’s destiny, parlors scorched by mysterious candle flares, and the good-looking early boards now prized by collectors. Alongside the best way, listeners will discover ways to spot genuine Kennard and Fuld boards from the 1910s and ’20s, their easy edges nonetheless carrying the contact of stressed fingers.
Half historical past, half haunting, Whispers within the Parlor invitations you to listen to the echoes of a metropolis looking for consolation after conflict and pandemic. Tune in, and let Portland’s forgotten season of spirits converse once more.
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Cowl: An unique Ouija board created c. 1890 by way of Wikipedia
