Man Sells Bottled Ghosts In Online Auction

If you're in the market for a couple of ghosts trapped in vials of holy water, online auction site TradeMe has a listing for you. The seller claims the vials contain spirits that were exorcised from his home. Bidding has reached $NZ410 ($284), and has generated quite a list of comments ranging from how to get rid of the ghosts, to the ethics of selling a captured immortal essence. From the article: "The seller claims that one spirit belongs to a man who died in the house in the 1920s. 'We have had no (paranormal) activity since they were bottled on July 15, 2009,' the seller said. 'So I believe they are in the bottles.'"

Dualism

[AP31R0N]

Substance dualism makes people stupid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsPn5dXfTvA [youtube.com]

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[flyneye]

Well lessee...I got something physical we can put in a jar and sell to dualists as spirit energy.
*farts*
Now catch that, paint it purple and we'll squeeze it into the jar.
We can call it spirite of bratwurst, habanero and cabbage.

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[Locke2005]

Why is it blue? Because the only "spirit" in these bottles is Blue Curacao [barnonedrinks.com]!

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[Ellis D. Tripp]

The man who died in the house (and then got bottled) was this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPPBnciNAqI [youtube.com]

Better get insurance

[Locke2005]

Spirits have been known to escape from their bottles during shipping.

Oh, and I have some elephant repellent for sale, cheap! Ever since I started using it, there have been zero elephant sightings in my neighborhood!

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[scottblascocomposer]

Spirits have been known to escape from their bottles during shipping.

Even if they did escape, surely they would leave some sort of mark or essence in the water, right? Actually, perhaps the seller could dilute a bottle with a few Olympic-sized swimming pools of water and sell it as homeopathic ghost water!

Is goldenpalace.com still around?

[bistromath007]

If so, this guy's set for life.

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[Kell Bengal]

Unless the particular ghost you're talking about is holy, I'm not sure what the bible has to do with any of this. Now, if you could find a way to bottle the holy spirit and maybe use it to power a lightbulb, that's a technology worth patenting!

Look Around You

[mysteryvortex]

You could get some delicious ectoplasm or have them help you in the lab.

Learn more about ghosts here (video link) [google.com]

Man doesn't sell bottled ghosts

[Kapiti Kid]

"Man" sells bottled ghosts? Wrong. Slack journalism, just jumping to assumptions. It was a woman -- Avie Woodbury --and they sold for NZ$2800. How do I know? She was interviewed on telly yesterday.