Woman sells bottled ghost spirits online for $3,500

Christchurch - In an online auction in New Zealand, two glass bottles purportedly containing the captured ghosts of an old man and a young girl have been sold for $3,500 US.

The seller of the "bottled ghosts," Avie Woodbury of Christchurch, New Zealand, said she captured the ghosts in her house after an exorcism session. She had put the spirits up for sale online which resulted in a bidding war. The auction attracted more than 214,000 pageviews and received hundreds of comments in a week. Mrs. Woodbury said they were the spirits of an old man who lived in her house during the 1920s and a powerful, disruptive little girl. She said she had to hire an exorcist to capture these spirits after she had experienced outlandish activities in her home. Mrs.Woodbury said:

I would get things like the jug boiling itself, touching on the back of my neck, voices from other rooms, and items going missing then turning up in weird places.I just want to get rid of them as they scare me. But someone might like these to play with.

She plans to donate the auction amount minus the exorcist's fee of $100 to an animal charity. Meanwhile, the buyer of the spirits, an electronic cigarette company, asked the people to suggest ideas on what to do with the spirits. The company asked the people to vote on the following questions.

Would you release the spirits to live out the rest of their spirit lives to the full? Would you bury or burn them for safety? Do you think they'd make a refreshing beverage?