Thrifting Fail: A Haunted Ceramic Bowl Brings Sylvester Helm’s Ghost Home

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Shopping at a thrift store, or
a garage sale or an antique store is

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not only a great way to save
a couple of bucks, it's a great

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way to turn something as mundane as
shopping for household goods into an adventure.

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But what happens when that adventure turns
straight horror? With an item you bring

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home? What's that you want to
be scared to? Come with me?

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Thrifting failed, we are now haunted
by Bruce Haney. Sarah and Keith's

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day had been a bust. The
young couple had spent the day thrifting and

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hitting yard sales while trying to find
a new vacuum cleaner for their apartment.

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While they searched, they used half
a tank of fuel, went to lunch,

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and had a good time, but
they never did find a reasonably priced

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vacuum that was to their liking,
and for what the day ended up costing

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them, they could have had a
new one shipped to their door. Sarah

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was excited about her fines. She
found a dress that looked new at a

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thrift store and found a small lamp
at a garage sale. Keith was both

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frugal and particular, so he didn't
find much. But on their way home,

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after they had decided they were done
for the day, they saw a

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sign for a yard sale. Want
to hit it? Keith asked, then

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made the turn before she had time
to respond. Sure, might still find

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a vacuum, Sarah said, wouldn't
that be nice? Keith responded it had

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been a lovely day. But as
they approached the house with the tables and

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junk on their lawn, a few
clouds in the sky began to shift.

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They drifted in front of the sun, blocking it and bringing darkness to the

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street. The yard sale had nothing
that interested Sarah, but Keith was drawn

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to an amateur looking home made ceramic
bowl. She thought it was ugly,

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but it was only a dollar and
Keith was going home with something, so

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she kept her mouth shut for the
time being. Back at their apartment,

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what are you going to do with
that thing, Sarah asked, I don't

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know. Put my keys and wallet
in it when I come home, I

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guess. Keith answered, okay,
Sarah said, I was just kind of

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drawn to the thing. It is
kind of cool looking with its uneven shape

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and poor execution. It's like punk
rock pottery. Keith said, while turning

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it over. I'm surprised that it
even has a maker's mark on it.

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Keith continued, a maker's mark,
Sarah asked, yeah, like how an

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artist signs their paintings, someone who
does pottery signed the bottom of the piece,

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or stamps their logo, or what
have you. This one is marked,

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Sylvester, Keith said, and then
laughed. Sylvester. Sarah asked,

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yep. Keith responded, like the
actor. I have never heard of someone

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having that name in real life.
Sarah laughed. Pretty sure, it's not

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the actor. Keith joined in the
laughter. It wasn't long after that strange

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things started to happen in their apartment. The first thing, though it went

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unnoticed by the two, was that
the ceramic bowl was never exactly where it

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was left. It moved an inch
or two each time they would leave the

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room. Keith was the first to
notice it, but figured that Sarah had

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just bumped it. One night,
when Keith woke up to use the restroom,

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he found the ceramic piece on the
floor. His first fear was that

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someone had broken in and took his
wallet in keys, but he checked and

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they were where he left them,
just no longer in the bowl. Keith

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woke up Sarah. She knew nothing
about it, so they searched the apartment

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together looking for other disturbances. With
none found, they checked the locks and

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that the windows were secured before they
laid back in bed to go to sleep.

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Ten minutes later, their alarm went
off. It was time to get

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up for work. OK. When
they came home, they felt a false

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sense of security because the ceramic peace
hadn't moved well. It had moved a

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little, but not enough for it
to register to them. It was Friday

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night, so they stayed up watching
spooky movies despite their recent experiences. It

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had been a long week and they
got so little sleep the night before,

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so before the credits could roll on
the first flick, they were fast asleep

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on the couch. Sarah was the
first to wake up and was about to

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wake up Keith to drag him to
bed when she noticed the ceramic bowl sitting

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on her TV tray. It was
next to the diet soda and the oil

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free corn based crackers she had been
munching on. Sarah shook Keith to point

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it out to him. They searched
the apartment again, leaving their bedroom for

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last. They didn't find anything,
so they were just about to head to

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their bedroom when Sarah decided to run
back to the living room and grab the

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ceramic bowl. What are you doing
Keith asked. Sarah said nothing as she

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walked to the kitchen and put the
bowl in the freezer. Let's see it

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move around the apartment now. She
gave Keith a little smile and headed to

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their room. In their room,
there was a shape under their blanket,

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the shape of a large man.
When Keith hit the light switch, the

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shape deflated and the blanket fell back
to the bed. That night, they

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slept on the couch using a spare
blanket from the closet so they didn't have

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to use the one from their bed. It was a bit thin and scratchy,

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but it wasn't recently involved in a
haunting, so they made do.

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Sarah again was the first one to
awaken, but this time it was because

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of the cold feeling she felt on
her right shoulder. When she opened her

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eyes, she saw a big man
standing in front of her, leaning over

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and touching her shoulder. The cold
radiated from that spot and she began to

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feel chills all over. She knew
the person touching her wasn't of this world

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because she could see through him and
there was a blue glow surrounding him.

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Sarah looked him over, noticing his
disheveled appearance his apron. His shirt and

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pants were covered in paint and bits
of clay from where he had used them

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to wipe his hands off while working. His teeth chattered as he spoke,

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sorry to disturb you, miss,
but I'm freezing, the ghost pleaded.

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Sarah just stared at him, never
taking her eyes off the apparition as she

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hit Keith to wake him up.
By the time Keith awoke, it had

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lost its courteous demeanor and a scowl
began to form on his face. Keith

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screamed when he saw him. Then
the ghost screamed while moving his gaze from

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Sarah to Keith. I'm cold,
the ghost yelled. What Keith stammered,

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I said, I am freezing.
As the ghost began to head towards Keith,

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something clicked in Sarah's head. She
jumped from the couch and ran to

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the freezer, where she opened the
door and grabbed out the ceramic bowl.

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She then turned around to show the
ghost, but he was gone. Sarah

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and Keith spent the next morning driving
around trying to find the house they had

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bought the bull from so they could
return it. Sarah was sure she knew

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the way, but without the signs
and the tables of junk in the yard,

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it was hard to determine which house
it was. Eventually they agreed on

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a house that they believed it could
be. Nobody answered the door, but

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they had been expecting that after spotting
the for sale sign on the lawn.

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What do we do now, Keith
asked, I don't know. I don't

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think we're going to get any answers
this way. We should just throw it

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out, Sarah responded. Before they
went back home, they stopped at the

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coffee shop where they had their first
date. It was Sarah's turn to buy,

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so Keith found them a comfortable spot
to sit so they could talk.

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While he waited for her, he
got on his phone and did a couple

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of quick searches. When Sarah came
with their coffees, he was ready to

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tell her what he'd found out.
As she handed him his quad shot over

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ice, he told her all about
Sylvester. I don't know the connection to

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that house, but I think I
found information on our Sylvester. He was

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actually a respected artist, Keith said, But that thing was so amateurish,

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Sarah argued, true, do you
remember when you first started painting? Last

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summer? Keith asked, Oh God, I'm glad I tossed all those awful

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early paintings. Sarah replied, well, Sylvester like you got much better according

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to his Wikipedia page. Wait,
he has a Wikipedia page. It's not

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the actor, is it, Sarah
interrupted, No, it's not the actor.

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His name was Sylvester Helm. Displays
of his paintings in ceramics can be

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found in museums all over the world, Keith said, reading a sentence from

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his Wikipedia page. You bought that
thing for a dollar. How can you

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be so sure it's the same guy, Sarah asked. Keith responded by handing

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her his phone. On the screen
was a picture of his maker's mark on

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the bottom of a ceramic piece.
It does look similar, but that could

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easily be faked, Sarah said,
with a little doubt in her voice.

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Scroll, Keith said. Sarah did
until she saw a photo of the artist

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who bore more than a striking resemblance
to the frozen man she had seen in

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their apartment. Yeah, I think
it's him, Keith said, Crazy,

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Sarah said, keep scrolling to the
death section, Keith instructed. Sarah read

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the short blurb out loud. Sylvester
Leroy helm is assumed dead. The artist

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was last seen in twenty ten at
an antiquarian book fair. Helms had been

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a lifetime collector of rare and obscure
books of the occult. After his disappearance,

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his aunt became the heir to his
fortune and reported that many of his

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rare books were missing. A Death
in Absentia was completed in twenty seventeen.

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As he is presumed dead. Wow, so what does all that mean?

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Why does that equal us being haunted? Sarah asked Keith in a whisper.

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So other people in the coffee shop
wouldn't hear? I don't know. I

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don't think we have enough pieces of
the puzzle to figure it out. Keith

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said, So we need to figure
out what the next step is to figure

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this out, Sarah said, Or
we just don't pursue this further. Keith

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said, why not? Sarah inquired, have you ever read H. P.

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Lovecraft or watched the Blair Witch Project? Keith asked no, and yes.

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Sarah responded, okay, good.
Have you ever noticed that trend and

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horror movies that have a deep lore
or mystery to them that as the people

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search, they become more and more
screwed and eventually go mad, disappear,

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or get killed. I mean,
look at Sylvester here. He did just

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that. He looked for evil until
it found him. Now he's stuck in

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the worst piece of art he ever
created. Yes, I want to know

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what happened, but I'm not trading
this beautiful life we built together for that,

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Keith said, So what do we
do? Sarah asked? Could destroy

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it? Keith said, but we
don't know what that will do. Look

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what happened when we put it in
the freezer. What if it appears in

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front of us, all mutilated and
gross from being broken apart? Sarah said,

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Do you think that's what will happen? Keith asked, We have no

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clue, and without further research,
we won't, Sarah said. When they

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arrived back at the apartment, Sarah
took the bowl out of her purse and

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set it on the counter. What
can we do for you, Sarah whispered

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towards it, not wanting Keith to
hear her. No response came, so

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she followed it up with another question. Are you stuck? Sarah asked?

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Again no response. Keith walked into
the room and saw her talking to the

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bowl and decided that he had a
plan. Keith walked over and snatched up

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the bowl, then headed to the
front door. What are you doing,

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Sara asked, I'm going to throw
it away. Keith responded, but what

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about when it goes into the garbage
truck and gets smashed. It seems like

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from the freezer situation he can feel
pain that that wouldn't be right for us

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to do. He is scary,
but I'm not sure he's evil, Sarah

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explained. Keith thought about this for
a moment. What if I just leave

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it on the side of the street, Keith asked, same result, It'll

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end up in the trash. Sarah
responded, okay, okay. How about

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I give it to a thrift store. Keith asked, okay, yeah,

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I'm okay with that. Sarah said
that plan didn't work. By the time

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they arrived home after donating it,
it was back on their counter. Later

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that night, they went back to
plotting how to get rid of the thing.

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After the scare of the cabinet,
Sarah was warming up to the idea

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of just destroying the thing. There
must be another way. Why is it

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attached to us? What makes us
so special? Keith asked, we bought

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it, Sarah responded. They both
stared at each other for a moment.

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That was the key. The purchase
is what had attached them to it.

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We have to sell it, Sarah
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make a pretty penny, being that
it's an authentic Sylvester Helm's piece. But

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every auction house an antique store laughed
at them when they presented the piece.

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Nobody believed that it could be the
work of the renowned Sylvester Helms. So

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they did what anyone else would do
in that situation. They threw it up

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on a popular online auction site and
hoped for the best. That night,

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they didn't wake up when their covers
were pulled from them. Sarah did wake

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up when she felt a hand on
her ankle. She woke up Keith with

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her screams and the loud bang that
came from her body hitting the floor.

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They both knew things were escalating,
and they hoped it would sell quickly.

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They watched the auction eagerly, but
Sarah began to have a change of heart.

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I'm not sure it's right to sell
it, Sarah said, I don't

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care if it is. You could
have gotten really hurt. Keith responded,

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the ankle incident was scary, but
is it fair to curse someone else with

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this? What if something worse happens
to them? Sarah asked, what if

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they knew it was haunted? Would
it be okay? Then Keith asked,

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yeah, then they know what they're
getting into. I think that would be

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fair. Sarah responded with that,
Keith changed the title of the listing to

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haunted ceramic bowl scary item. Then
in the description he wrote about what had

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happened to them. Then something told
him to list the item higher, asking

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one hundred and fifty dollars instead of
eight dollars would make it feel more legitimate.

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An hour later, the item sold. The next day, they mailed

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the package off, and they never
saw the ceramic bowl or the ghost again.

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With the one hundred and fifty dollars, they bought a new vacuum cleaner

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and swore off thrifting, antiquing,
and all yard sales from then on out.

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I hope you enjoyed that story as
much as I enjoyed reading it to

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you. And a big thank you
to our good buddy Bruce Haney, who

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has sent in two more stories that
I'll be narrating. In the very near

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future. Bruce has a flare for
the Spooky that I'm glad he's expanding on

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by sharing more stories with us.
I also want to mention over on Patreon,

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we are getting close to the end
of our first Patreonic exclusive series,

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The Weekend. That's right, it's
a twelve part series that takes place in

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Strickfield, available only on Patreon.
It's all about a group of camping teenagers

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who decide to break into a campground
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not necessarily fun in the sun,
but blood and revenge. And you can

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hear it exclusively at Patreon by going
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subscribing for as little as one dollar
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there's a brand new series coming as
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Strickfield Universe series, but this one
has a lot more installments, but we'll

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get to that soon. But speaking
of Patreon, I want to say an

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extra special thank you to our Patreon
podcast boosters. These are folks who pay

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just a little bit more to hear
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and they are Johnny Nicks, John
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Green, Brent mccallough, Karen Wee, met Jack Kerr, and Craig Cohen.

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And hey, our good buddy Craig
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out from Philadelphia to hang out with
us for the big eclipse that's going to

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be hitting the Dayton, Ohio area. So I'm looking forward to hanging out

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with you, Craig. And if
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end of every episode, just go
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and select a tier at fifteen dollars
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the show keep going and going and
going. But really all I need from

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you is your ears and your fears. So for myself, for my producer

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Dan Wilder, my composer Ray Madison, my executive producers Mark Shields and Robert

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Fields, I will talk at you
next time. Thank you so much.

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I love love, love scaring you. Thank you for listenings. Make sure

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to find your way back next week, but for now you are safe.

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Trust me.