I remember when the "Ouija board," "séances" and that sort of stuff was reported on when the Clintons were in the White House... Linda Bloodworth-Thomason was in on it, IIRC. Communicating with Eleanor Roosevelt, eh? Not by phone, at any rate.
I always wondered if it was all sort of floated out as a trial balloon to see how far people would tolerate such things, or if it was sort of a diabolical casting call for like-minded necromancers.
I thought it was a bunch of silly old women having a seance. That sort of thing used to be quite popular. Perhaps its part of why we’re so beset by demons today. People kind of wised up. Also lack of corporate prayer.