Hello!
Welcome back to Most Amazing Top 10, I am Rebecca Felgate and today we are delving into
the terrifying world of auctions!
Okay, so auctions themselves aren’t terrifying…except maybe the hammer part at real auctions…but
sometimes mysterious and often creepy items show up for public sale that make headlines.
Today we are talking about the Top 10 terrifying things sold at Auction.
10 - Bassano Vase This spooky vase was unearth in 1988 but dates
back several centuries.
Since then it has become a topic of Italian folklore, with many news publications reporting
on the supposedly cursed object.
The vase, that was presumably buried, contained a warning note about the bad luck associated
with its possession.
Without mentioning the note, the owner auctioned it for four million lira, so around $2,500
dollars at the time.
Legend has it the vase was a 15th century wedding gift of a bride who died on her wedding
day and vowed to see vengeance.
The new owner died, and triggering a similar pattern in a new era of deaths.
The vase has now been buried…and you should not go looking for it.
9 Cat Slam Dunkin a Bird It might not allege to be haunted, but this
cat dead, shrivelled cat, slam dunkin a dead shrivelled bird through a basketball hoop
is as terrifying as everything else on this list.
This …urm….collectors piece was listed in 2012 at 550 dollars on ebay with a buy
it now price of 750 dollars…what a steal……
8 - Dybukk box –….a piece of containing the tortured spirt of a holocaust survivor.
In September 2001, an antique buyer went to an auction in Portland, Oregon and bought
an old wooden wine cabinet.
The cabinet had belonged to a lady who survived the holocaust and her granddaughter explained
that it had to….under all circumstances…. be kept closed because her grandmother believed
it contained an tortured spirit.
The buyer became freaked out when his new cabinet started causing havoc in his antique
shop, leading to weird occurrences like furniture breaking and lightbulbs smashing.
The shop owner made the mistake of giving the cabinet to his mother who suffered a stroke.
The dealer also began suffering extreme nightmares and thought he saw shadows coming from the
box.
He eventually sold the cabinet on ebay for 280 dollars… and the new owner wrote a book
about the box, which sparked the 2012 horror, The Possession.
7 - A human Kidney In 1999, bidding began at 25 thousand dollars
on ebay for a human kidney.
Bidding reached 5.75 million before the auction was stopped…of course selling organs is
not only a violation of those all important Ebay Ts and Cs…but it is also a felony in
most countries.
Auctioning organs may be banned, but there is a red market out there that manages to
trade human body parts illegally...which is terrifying.
So auctioning organs may be frowned upon, but lets not forget William Shatner auctioned
his kidney stones for 25 thousand dollars.
The buyer, the increasingly creepy Golden Palace.com
I have absolutely no love for this at number 6…Hands Resist Him Painting.
Hooo….no!
No sireee….one look at this horrifying painting tells me all I need to know….it’s evil.
This painting, by Bill Soneham, was listed on eBay in February 2000 and the seller suggested
the previous owner had cursed the picture.
The eBay description said that the characters in the picture move at night, sometimes out
of the frame…and those creepy hands...they move too!
NO THANKS.
The painting went for over 1000 pounds on the auction site.
The artist admitted both the owner of the gallery the painting was displayed at and
the first art critic to review it died within one year of viewing the painting.
I am so not on board with the soulless dead doll face of his mate in the background.
5 - Harold the Baby Doll JUST STAY OUT OF THIS HAROLD.
Like Anabelle and Robert and all the other scary haunted dolls out there, Harold was
purchased for 720 dollars on ebay.
The lister said that Harold is allegedly responsible for ruining a family wedding, for misplaced
luggage on a flight to Bermuda and for a mysterious emergency surgery.
Now Harold seems to be owned by a one Anthony Quinata who has made some youtube videos about
his experience since coming into Harold’s possession.
I do not like the look of Harold.
4 - Mirror containing trapped souls Two guys living in a shared house in Muswell
Hill, London, started experiencing weird goings on when their Landlord hung up a mirror in
the house, which was reportedly found in a skip, or dumpster right outside the property.
20 year old student Joseph Birch and 34 year old painter Sotiris Charalambous say they
were immediately met with bad feelings, followed by bad luck, misery and even sickness.
Charalambous even said he woke up in the night screaming with stabbing pains, attributing
the horror to the mirror.
Things became enough for the pair when Birch said he saw flickering shadows and glimpses
of black darkness from the mirror and then woke up with scratch marks all over himself.
The pair put the mirror on ebay for £100 and sold it for just over the asking price.
Maybe not so much an item…but something pretty terrifying to go up for auction if
you think about it…at number three…we have
3 – A persons Virginity Perhaps not haunted, but something that will
haunt you forever….In November 2016 18 year old Romanian teen by the name of Alexandra
appeared on British TV show, Good Morning Britain and told hosts she planned to sell
her virginity.
It appears the virgin used site Cinderella Escorts to auction her virginity for 2.3 million
Euros to a Hong Kong Business Man.
Imagine how scary it would be to meet this person that had paid to have sex with you
and know that you kind of have an obligation to go through with it even if they’re creepy.
Don’t sell your virginity….kids…. 2.3 million is nothing compared to the price of
your safety, or your soul.
Extremely haunting at number 2… 2 - Titanic Violin
This violin sold at auction in the UK for 900 pounds, so well over a million dollars…..what
makes it creepy is that this violin was owned by Wallace Hartley who was aboard the Titanic
when it sank in 1912.
Hartley famously played this very violin, along with his band, as the ship sank.
Hartley’s body was found floating dead with his life jacket on and his violin strapped
to him in a leather case.
The instrument was authenticated and is said to still contain salt deposits in its wood
from that fateful night.
There are no fanciful tales of it being haunted or anything….it just played 1500 peoples
swansong as they died that evening…which is very haunting.
Finally, at number one…we have an absolute ebay classic, we couldn’t get through this
list without mentioning the Ghost in a Jar.
What is now a Rick and Morty Character, the Ghost in a jar, started as a big ol viral
ebay listing.
Back in the dawn of ebay, TeaJay 101 sold a haunted jar contained a trapped ghost for
over 50 thousand dollars.
The winning bidder was Gary the Gimp Horn, although Gary had been warned that the previous
owner could not be held responsible for anything that happened to him.
Creepy.
Apparently the jar was found in a cemetery….ghost already inside.
So…there we have it..that was the top 10 terrifying items sold at auction….I officially
would like absolutely none of these things….so better just stick to buying horcrux replicas
and gold body paint on ebay.
Geek life.
If you HAD to own one of these…which would you go for?