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there's a sucker born every minute and two to take him (PT Barnum):

In her description on the online auction site, she said, "This isn't a joke."

ah, but the person who buys it on the other hand . . .


Woman Sells Dad's Ghost On eBay

UPDATED: 9:36 PM EST December 4, 2004
HOBART, Ind. -- An Indiana woman is selling her father's ghost on eBay.

Mary Anderson said the unusual auction is to calm her 6-year-old son, who is terrified that his grandfather's ghost will haunt their house. He refuses to go anywhere in the home alone.

In her description on the online auction site, she said, "This isn't a joke."


In her posting, Anderson said her son, Collin, told her, "Grandpa died here, and he was mean. His ghost is still around." She reassured bidders that her father "was the sweetest, most caring man you'd ever meet."

She also has put her father's metal cane up for auction, so the winning bidder will get something concrete.

She also asked the winner to write a letter to her son confirming the ghost has moved and is "getting along great" with his new owner.

The auction ends Monday.

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/3971903/detail.html

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...5541303695&rd=1

the bidding is at $5100. unearthly spectres don't come cheap.

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back down to $810. that's a more reasonable figure.

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This is really SICK.... and people think I am a "Fluffy Bunny" ... save it for Opra....

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In her posting, Anderson said her son, Collin, told her, "Grandpa died here, and he was mean. His ghost is still around." She reassured bidders that her father "was the sweetest, most caring man you'd ever meet."

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save it for Opra....

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anyone who bids on that is a complete IDIOT!!!






.....she didn't post a picture of the ghost!!!! it could be damaged, and you'd never know until you got it!!!!!

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This just in.
The ghost has CANCELLED THE AUCTION which was Running at 5100$.
The Seller has relisted the ghost in a new Auction.

Oh dear. Grandpa is angry

Cheers
-m

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I think the whole family is damaged. There's no doubt in my mind that the ghost is damaged.

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doesn't yet beat the guy who sold his soul on eBay.

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=307364

She got $65,000 for it.

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Among the best advice I've ever received (on how to get by in life):

"All you need is a gimmick."

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"plastics!" I'd like to say it's unbelievable, but I can't.

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Bah. When you go down south it seems that ghosts are a dime a dozen. So many old homes are haunted, or people claim they are, that a little ghost here or there doesn't even interest me.

In fact, my family has friends in Tx who live in an old (haunted) farmhouse. Every time I go, I sleep in "the ghost room". This room contains a picture that fell along with another framed one. The newer one with thicker, non rounded glass broke, whereas the more fragile one didn't. But hell, that could have been co-incidence. She said that there was something else... something to do with keys and how they moved, but I don't remember that story.

Luckily, her ghost isn't a nasty one. This ghost LOVES to move things. Not a lot, but just a bit. Enough so that you know "hey, I didn't put that there", but not so much that you can't find your wallet in the morning. I was skeptical, having not seen or heard anything any time I had slept there, but found myself talking out loud to it every night, just telling it that I would likely be upset if it woke me, so please let me sleep.

My dad, however, saw a small container of coffee he had purchased (that was sitting on a couple of coats on a chair) jump up and off the coats. He is the most skeptic one of our family, so, it was surprising to hear that from him. He KNEW that the coffee could not have jumped the way it did without some kind of supernatural explanation. I suspect jumping beans. We were awfully close to Mexico.

My mom's old house in Grosse Point MI wasn't really haunted regularly, but she DID see a ghost once. Unfortunately it was not long after she made some kind of comment like "You'll be dead before you... do (whatever it was... spring cleaning, or something). Less than a week later, she saw the ghost, and found out the woman had died.

Kinda freaky, eh?

I believe in ghosts, and I don't mind them, as long as they don't corrupt my life to the extent that it gets thrown off-balance... more than it already is.

Selling a ghost on E-bay though? What the heck? How do you make a ghost leave? It's not possible, and I suspect that if ghosts are real, that kid's going to be mighty disappointed and untrusting of his mother, who's probably living the rich life at this point.

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There's just a strong pop culture element to both the grilled cheese sandwich and the ghost cane … The sandwich especially has really ingrained itself in American history this year.

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it was bought by the same company that bought ebay's virgin mary grilled cheese sandwich

unfuckingbelievable

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once you tell something so fucked so many times dumbasses start believing it

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Among the best advice I've ever received (on how to get by in life):

"All you need is a gimmick."

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I don't know why somebody here hasnt had a good ebay gimmick yet.. I'd do it, but I'm not the lying type. Religion and Ghosts just got done.. maybe we can do a grilled cheese sandwhich haunted by the ghost of mother thereasa..

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you have a grilled cheese sandwich haunted by mother theresa!?? i bid $50,000

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