Singer Michael Jackson is reported to be bidding on a genuine Irish ghost "trapped in a bottle". The bottle, owned by retired mill worker John McMenamin from Spamount, County Tyrone, is for sale on eBay. Since then, it has been reported in a national newspaper that an agent representing Michael Jackson is involved in the bidding. Mr McMenamin discovered it partially cemented into a bricked-up window 25 years ago. It is at least 100 years old and was said to be placed there by a priest following a failed exorcism. He believes it contains the ghost of a rogue landlord who took his own life several years ago. John McMenamin's sister, Marie Maguire, told BBC Northern Ireland's Nolan Show that her brother wanted to pass on the responsibility of owning a ghost to someone else. "The bottle has black dust in it and is sealed with a page from the Bible," she said. The McMenamins moved into the reputedly haunted mill house in Spamount in the 1950s.

"The big house we moved into was divided into three homes and we all knew it was haunted," she explained. "The previous people wanted out and did a swap with us because of the ghost. My mother believed in getting the house blessed and the power of holy water." Mrs Maguire said that the ghost was supposed to be that of the house's original owner who got a young girl pregnant in the 19th century. She hanged herself and local people made his life a misery. So he took his own life. Legend has it that the hauntings started shortly after that. She said a priest tried to exorcise the ghost, trapped it in a bottle and sealed it up in a window.

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Eww. I hate Michael Jackson. Seriously.

i've heard of these ghosts in a bottle before. cockeyed.com made fun of it by selling toast in a bottle once. it was great.

chico, you gotta make more time for us man!

Anyway, what does MJ want with a bottled ghost??

If Mr Jackson has money to spend on such silly things I have a garage full of old junk he can buy. Besides I think he has other problems.

lol think about it! you're walking along, bottled ghost in hand, when somebody runs up and starts giving you sass. you try to talk it out with the person but there's no reasoning with this sasser, he/she's just relentless! so you you point the bottle in their direction, pop the top, and bam, the ghost zips out and throws them into an oncoming bus.

Works for MJ i guess.

Then again, he could just LOOK at the guy and send him running too.

with a face like this, you're right, he doesn't need a ghost in a jar.

Ahhh Jesus!!!

Ive got a genie in a coke bottle... if he's interested...

Maybe hell buy my bottle in a ghost.

Holy COW! That's one of the ugliest faces I have seen...

One question...how do you suppose they even got the ghost to go IN the bottle in the first place?

I was just about to ask that too.

hahahah!!

Tossed a cookie in it. Fetch!

Ghosts like boo berrys duh

LOL...good one

well i supose after he is put in prison 4 life ( cum on every ones he is guilty) it will be his only freind

looks like he was using a blow dryer for too long and his face melted.



But you think he'll try and bid on something more useful, like a new nose

what im wondering is how can you trap a ghost in a bottle when they can travel thru solid objects?

"Michael Jackson Prepares For The Online Bidding."

Everyone knows that ghosts cant get out of bottles duh

Its now going for a million and a half pounds!!!!
check it out

Ghost in bottle

But once you've read that, I also found this which really made me laugh...

GENUINE ghost in bottle

hahahahahahahaha

lol oh lord, the genuine ghost in the bottle, it's face cracks me up...

That's very genuine indeed. It's as if a little cartoon bubble was coming out of its mouth saying "I just saw Michael Jackson" -- MM

That's um- okay strange. Now I've seen everything! Now wait heard everything!