From the Daily Mail Online: For Sale: Two Captured Ghosts, Trapped in Bottles of Holy Water That Made Them Sleepy
A New Zealand woman has solved the mystery of what gift to get for the person who has everything.
But she's raised a whole lot of other questions in the process.
Avie Woodbury claimed she was so tired of being haunted that she called in an exorcist to rid her house of two ghosts.
The exorcist trapped the spirits in bottles of holy water - which Ms Woodbury has now put up for sale on internet auction site TradeMe.
'The holy water dulls the spirits' energy, sort of puts them to sleep' she said.
Bids on TradeMe have already shot as high as NZD$2,000 (£923).
'I just want to get rid of them as they scare me,' Ms Woodbury, from Christchurch City in Canterbury, wrote on the site. 'But someone might like these to play with.'
For the ghosts can be released from the bottles, she explained.
'To revive the spirit, I have been told that you pour into a little dish and let it evaporate into your house,' she wrote on the website.
The bottles are carefully labelled so users can tell which ghost they are releasing, she claimed.
Ms Woodbury said she had managed to identify one of the ghosts as a man named Les Graham, who died in her house in the 1920s.
The exorcist, from a spiritualist church, told her that Les likes to spook people - but is a weak ghost.
The other spirit, that of an unidentified little girl, is far stronger, the exorcist claimed.
She 'likes to move things and turn things on and off,' Ms Woodbury said.
I've heard of hitting a bottle of spirits to drown one's sorrows, but using a bottle to drown one's spirit? That's a twist. And just how did the exorcist get the ghosts in the bottles, anyway? I remember in Ghostbusters they had to use those ray gun thingies to capture the ghost, and then it was sucked into the trap. What would convince a ghost to go into such a tiny bottle? How big are these ghosts?
Here's another thought: say the person who buys these ghosts lets them out. First of all, I think they're going to be pretty angry (once they wake up and all), but I don't think the buyer will be in any danger. So will they grant him six wishes as a reward for being released? And then wouldn't these ghosts just go back to the home they were haunting in the first place?
I don't believe there are ghosts in the bottles. I think they're pranking the lady, and when the bottles get sold, they're gonna start spooking her again. That's how ghosts roll.
