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[EllieT]

"Most people attending an auction bid on familiar items i.e. furniture, jewelry, art work -the "normal" stuff. Then there are others who seek out the unusual bordering on weird.

An online auction in New Zealand recently featured - wait for it - two vials allegedly containing the ghosts of two dead people."

New addition to my Gimme a Break blog here: http://myviewscount.blogspot.com/

Ellie-kins

[Shanda]

"The Emperor has no clothes."
 "Does too."
" Does not"
 "Does too."

I wonder, if you sniffed the vial,  could you get possessed? Which would be better, the old man or the naughty girl? How about a half priced sale on the pyramids?

Ellie, where do you find such oddities?? (One guess: Mad Magazine)

Shanda

[EllieT]

Actually, I found this one on CNN and/or reliable news outlets, due to the unusual nature of the auction. I can't believe "normal" people would pay hard cash for what could be (we don't know and neither does anybody else) empty vials. Weirrrrrd...

Ellie-kins

[The Ninja King, Cobra Angels]

I should sell my empty chocolate milk jugs with this story on the side of the road for tourists! Thanks for the great idea!

[Sir Breakfast]

Er,  the Kiwis tried it out in OZ, didn't work - so they flogged the idea to the Canadians - poor Canada, still in the ether over that marvellous, stupendous, talked about for years, fantastic hockey victory over poor, much maligned Uncle Sam, bought it.