Two Ghosts in a Jar is Worth About $3,400

When the Ghostbusters got back to the fire house after a long day of trapping spirits, they disposed of their ghostly waste in the famous containment unit, which was basically a small, red device lodged in the wall of the fire house that (if the Ghostbusters cartoon was to be believed) housed an entire parallel universe of abstract emptiness…and ghosts.

For as silly and purposefully comical as that idea may have been, some woman in New Zealand just found a way to make it dumber and less purposefully comical. Avie Woodbury has somehow been able to forgo all that great silly science in Ghostbusters by trapping ghosts not in a big machines invented by physicists, but in a tiny glass vial that’s filled with blue stuff that’s supposed to be the distilled essence of two ghosts. And someone bought this half filled jar loaded with 100% pure premium stupid for what equates to $3,400 US.

“At night, there would be footprints by the door that couldn’t be made unless you were standing right against the glass.

“I’d hear voices like my partner was yelling out, but he’d be somewhere else in the house.

“Our dog wouldn’t go in certain rooms at certain times; he’d really get quite nasty and groan.”

I like to think that there were no evil spirits haunting Avie’s house, and she actually ended up exercising and capturing the spirit of a rapist that was hiding in a guestroom closest – which in itself would be pretty damn spectacular and worth every penny. But, the truth of the matter is probably that Avie filled a tiny jar with Windex and sold it to the first paranoid sap on the internet that was willing to dish out a few thousand bucks for some ghost juice that won’t leave streaks on your windows.