Strange Dealings

The “ghosts” of a man and a woman exorcised from a Christchurch woman’s home have been sold in phials of holy water on Trade Me for $2830. The auction attracted more than 200,000 page views on the website. The top bidder, electronic cigarette company Safer Smoke NZ, said it was looking for ideas on what to do with the ghosts. Avie Woodbury told bidders she had experienced “bizarre activity” in her home. “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,” she said. But after a member of a local spiritualist church performed an exorcism in July last year, the house had returned to normal, said Woodbury. She said all profits from the sale would be donated to an animal charity, after she had paid the exorcist’s fees.