eBay Pulls "Ghost" Auction

eBay pulls 'ghost' auction

by CELIA WIGG

14 February 2006 17:24

Three teenagers who were selling a ghost by post have had their listing removed by auction website eBay, because they couldn't prove it existed.

The enterprising trio was trying to raise money for St Mary's Church at Saxlingham Nethergate, near Norwich, and claimed to have captured the ghost at a haunted college in Suffolk, as the EDP reported last week.

The 16-year-olds - Giles Peters and Nicolas Goff, who live in the village, and James Stanford of Elmswell, near Bury St Edmunds - decided to go ghost hunting with a net.

They claimed to have caught the spectre of a woman they saw walking around the golf course at Framlingham College, where they are students, and popped it in a sealed plastic bag.

By the time eBay pulled the plug they had received 66 bids, the highest being £310.

A disappointed James said today: “They took it off eBay because apparently we couldn't prove we were selling anything. We are trying to get hold of the highest bidder and see if he still wants to buy the ghost.”

If that fails, the lads will be looking for another money-spinner.

“We are still going to try and raise money for the church but we will have to think of something else,” James said.