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Pining for a Ghostly Companion?

Wish your house were haunted? Need to attract tourists to your creepy old hotel, museum or otherwise spiritless landmark?

Even if your place didn’t come with spooks of its own, you can remedy the situation with Ghosts in a Bottle. That’s right: For a nominal fee, ghost-hunter Jon Deese will capture someone else’s phantasm, bottle it and ship it right to your door. Complete with certificate of authenticity and warning booklet, no less.

Deese won’t disclose his “secret” method for coaxing the spirits out of the ether and into the containers, let alone how he “mysteriously” keeps them from popping their corks. Nor does his website say anything about refrigeration requirements or expiration dates.

Still, you’ve got to hand it to Deese. He’s stumbled on a devilishly clever small-business angle to paranormal investigation, which up to now has mainly been the enterprising domain of celebrity psychics and TV ghost busters.

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