- A massively gigantic ouija board, handmade by Rick 'Ormortis' Schreck, a tattoo artist and member of the Talking Board Historical Society (TBHS), was on display this weekend in Salem, MA.
- The board—which weighs a whopping 9,000 pounds—had to be disassembled and reassembled to make the trek from Schreck's home in New Jersey down to Salem.
- Schreck received a certificate from the Guinness World Record organization making his creation officially the largest ouija board in the world.
The world's largest ouija board, nicknamed "OuijaZilla," weighs 9,000 pounds and measures in at 3,168 square feet. If it can summon spirits remains to be seen.
Owned by Rick Schreck, a tattoo artist and the Vice President of the Talking Board Historical Society (TBHS), OuijaZilla is completely functional and outfitted with a planchette that weighs around 400 pounds. The board itself is made of 99 individual pieces of plywood and took Schreck more than a year to complete. According to the OuijaZilla page on the TBHS, the handmade board is able to park "five full-size eighteen-wheelers" on its surface.
The massive board traveled from Schreck's home base in New Jersey all the way to Salem, Massachusetts, where it took a team of friends, family, and volunteers to reassemble and prepare for display at Salem Common.
In an interview with Karen A. Dahlman, Director of the Talking Board Historical Society, Schreck shared that he modeled OuijaZilla after Hasbro's 1998 glow-in-the-dark ouija board because it was his favorite iteration.
Schreck estimates that he used about 20 quarts of black paint on the plywood and several gallons of deck stain to treat the wood. Schreck cited Salem as the place that sparked his love of ouija boards "back in 1992," and inspired him to start collecting and building his own.
