The archive's youngest demonology file, and its best specimen of folklore being born in observable time. Zozo is the name that talking-board users worldwide report arriving mid-session: the planchette begins sweeping in rapid figure-eights or rocking between Z and O, the tone of answers turns hostile or obsessive, and the entity claims the name Zozo — or its documented aliases Zaza, Oz, or Mama.
The pattern was first compiled in 2009 from Darren Evans's accounts, after which reports multiplied into the thousands — some plainly contaminated by the publicity, some claiming encounters predating it. A frequently cited 1818 dictionary entry about a possession case in Picardy naming 'Zozo' gives the legend a tantalizing, disputed anchor a century before the modern flap.
Skeptical reading: the ideomotor effect plus a memorable name equals a self-propagating script. The archive's reading: that is also a precise description of how every entity in this wing got started, and the file stays open either way. Board practitioners' own protocol is recorded below as folklore.