The $50,000 Ghost in a Jar

How much would you pay for a real "Ghost" trapped inside an old Mason jar?  When it was offered on Ebay some years ago thousands of people queued up for a chance to be haunted by the eerie occupant of the jar, which was found in the cemetery pictured below:

The auction was posted by "Teajay101" who related the following account of how he became the unhappy owner of the 'evil spirit'.

“Back in the early 1980s while out metal detecting, I came across an old abandoned cemetery with the foundation of a home-site or a church, or something, nearby.  My detector indicated there was something in the ground close by: the southwest corner of the foundation.

After digging down about two feet, my shovel struck a wooden box that was nearly rotted out.  The metal hinges and hasp were about all that was left of it. I thought I had discovered a fortune! Boy did that ever turn out to be wrong!!

There were two jars and an old journal in the box.  The jars had some strange writing and symbols on them.  While getting the jars out of the ground, I dropped one and it broke.  A black mist or something seeped out of it.

I should have known something was wrong right then and covered the thing back up – but being young and foolish, I didn’t.

I left the broken jar with what looked like a candle in it, there where it fell and took the other one and the old journal home.

What I was able to read in the journal before the pages crumbled made the hair on the back of my neck stand up!

That night I had my first visit from what I can only describe as “The Black Thing”. This thing fell on me while I was lying in bed and it felt like I was being pushed down through the bed and the floor into a pit!!! I struggled with it and managed to somehow escape its clutches.  Since that time, I have been attacked twice more and both times the unopened jar was in the close vicinity.

I and others have caught fleeting glimpses of a black, shadowy thing out of the corners of our eyes, as it would pass from one room to another."

Fifty thousand dollars! That was the high bid for the 'Ghost'.  It was made by a man from the Netherlands.  What of that man today?  What of the "Ghost"?  The answers to these and other questions are in the new Kindle book, Weird Tales of Ebay Sales.  Pictures and stories of the most bizarre  auctions in the Ebay Bazaar make this quick read a must for anyone looking for a a few laughs or a peek into a sideshow of curiosities! 

www.amazon.com/Weird-Tales-Ebay-Sales-Bizarre-ebook/dp/B01LW2MFBK/ref

Ghosts Take Top Spot in New England!

For the first time since its publication one year ago, The 'Ghosts of Cape Cod' has reached the top spot in its niche in the Amazon Kindle Sales Charts.  Bill Russo's book that takes readers on a virtual 'spectral' tour of the 64 mile long island/peninsula had previously reached as high as the fourth position before finally attaining Number One on its one year anniversary.

Click the link to view the book on its Kindle page...  www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Cape-Cod-Bill-Russo-ebook/…/B01BL1TP7U
#1 in Books > Travel > United States > Massachusetts > Cape Cod
#16 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Reference > Trivia & Fun Facts > Curiosities & Wonders
#47 in Books > Humor & Entertainment >

A message from the author, "YIPPIE!!!! The Ghosts of Cape Cod finally hit number one in its genre!!!!! Thanks eveybody."

Dallas Changes the Course of Mankind Forever

Make no mistake about it. Dallas really did alter the lives of everyone on the big blue marble - forever! The monumental action is detailed in my short story D B U L- which has received a fair
 amount of attention. Three reviews are listed below.

 You can read about Dallas' seminal action for free by clicking the link -www.smashwords.com/books/view/649363

1-"Review by: Mike White on Sep. 06, 2016 :
Given the way this brief story unites two disparate time periods through its pop culture and news references, it's enough to make one wonder about how people will connect with what happened in Dallas when they read about it in the future."

2-"Review by: James Jenkins
At the time of reading I did not associate this work with any real life events.

It works well as a stand alone story. Credit is given where credit is due."

3-"Review by: Malcolm Torres
That is an interesting spin on what happened in Dallas. When I heard the news about this event, the robot, I thought it was weird and didn't think of it again until I just read your story. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this."