The Ghost of Super Mario...

A friend of mine sent me a link to an odd auction on Ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62054&item=8176591365&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Here's the text of the auction:

eBay Staff: This auction is not a 'joke' and is intended to be completely serious in nature, as far as my personal experiences are concerned.



I've been an eBay seller in the field of vintage games for close to a year.

I've exchanged hundreds of video game related items, new and used, and still do till this day, but I have never experienced anything like this or even remotely similar.

I don't feel threatened by this, supernatural or whatever it may be, but I do not feel exactly comfortable with it either.

Up for auction is what I would call a haunted, Vintage, Video Game System, The Nintendo NES.

I don't really like using the word 'haunted' when describing this, considering the first thing you would think about is something from a horror movie, but I really can't come up with another way to explain it.

There is a local thrift store here in Brooklyn, NYC, that I've been doing business with for some years now.

About a month and a half ago I made one of my visits to the shop and found this '80s Nintendo System.

When I purchased this Unit I asked the owner of the shop about who brought the System in, and what he actually told me was that a gentleman had donated it that same morning and said "It was just sitting in his attic", and according to him, it supposedly belonged to his son who passed away years ago.

At first I thought the guy was just joking with me like he usually does, so I really didn't think much about it at the time.

Unfortunately, that's all I know about the background of this system. I do not know any specifics about anything else as far as the previous owner is concerned.

I went back there about 2 weeks ago to try to find out more since what has been happening, but he doesn't know anything else.

But I do know something is not so right with this.

As far as technical functioning, the Nintendo System has its occasional 'blinking' screen if a game is dirty, like any other Nintendo System, but for the most part it functions pretty well.

However, that's not what I mean about something not being right with this...

I brought this System home, and on the first night of playing, about 10 minutes into the game, I began hearing sounds similar to human voices, mumbling to the background music of the television.

Naturally I thought it may have been static or something to that effect, or maybe it somehow interfered with a truck driver's CB Radio System, so I didn't pay much attention to it.

But it continued through-out the entire time I was playing, stop for a minute or two, then start again. It got to the point where I went really close to the TV, I paused the game to try to hear it a little better, but then it would get silent. When I would unpause it, there it would go again.

I know it sounded like there was a conversation going on but I couldn't make out any of the words.

I have my beliefs but I've never really been one into believing so much about Spirits and Crossover-Communication, but repeating the conversation I had with the guy in the shop wasn't helping at all. And until this day, I go back there and this man still sticks to the same exact story.

To my knowledge, there is no technical problem with any vintage Nintendo Gaming System that causes any of these 'symptoms'.

Since owning this System, I've experienced hearing sounds of mumbling and laughing in the background music of different games (all sounding Exactly the same and all on numerous occasions).

On 3 separate occasions I've had the game 'Pause' by itself, without having my finger anywhere near the 'Start' button of the controller, and the really suspicious thing about it was the fact the timing of the Pause always happened to be during an intense moment of a game, as if the intentions were made for me to lose.

I even tried different controllers, which I've sold on eBay, thinking it may have been some type of controller glitch with the originals... and yet still have the same exact things happen.

Every time I power this unit on is like getting ready for something new to happen.

And not only with me. I've invited close friends and family members over, and some but not all have witnessed something strange happen, like the one time the 'Arrow icon' on the Main Options screen of a game actually moved down to 2 Player Mode, all while the controller was out of my hand.

I've had some of my friends accuse me of purchasing this Unit from a Novelty store for the sake of pulling pranks, which I doubt even exists in the first place.

It has gotten to the point where my Fiance never lets me turn the System on when she's in the house and I have friends that refuse to even play a game with me.

Even my cat won't go anywhere near this System, unless she's 5 feet away and hesitating to sniff at it, and not only that, she's been running back and forth through the house in the middle of the night during the past few weeks, and that's something she's never done in the entire 8 years that I've owned her.

I sincerely believe there may be some form of strong connection or attachment between this system and its previous owner.

The reason I am listing this... to be honest it's starting to freak me out, as well as the people around me. I don't feel threatened, I just don't understand it and I'm not exactly comfortable with keeping this in my home.

So, at the request of friends and loved ones, I'll be going my separate ways with this system, regardless if it's an actual supernatural presence or everyone is just being paranoid. I'll be putting this unit up for 1 Penny without a reserve price, if you're the high bidder, the Unit and everything with it will be yours

It comes with its 2 original controllers, the original Zapper Gun, a copy of the Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt game, along with its original AC-adaptor which came with black electric tape wrapped around it, but works without any problems, and a naki Rf-switch, which is everything needed to power-up and play.

Genius, pure genius! This person is going to get $200 for $15 of obsolete game equipment... with a cheap RF switch that is letting in some faint signal and nearly 20 year old circuitry. Hmmm I wonder how much I can get for my "haunted" 8 track player, it plays these really creepy noises then the malicious demons inside destroy the tape.

now that's how you write an ebay auction.

i bet i could get alot for all the haunted tissues i have laying around the house. they got ectoplasm and everything.

best haunted ebay auction ever

Damn and I just tossed my possessed Radio Shack TRS [Trash] 80 Model III because it was smoking and spitting green stuff at me.

Always an evil computer, it was completely taken over by Zork and I just couldn't handle the bad attitude - and now I learn that I could have optimized on that by selling it on ebay as a feature.

I'm going to be a sort of naieve believer here and believe he might be telling the truth. LOL. I have heard plenty of sincere stories about "possessed" or seemingly "haunted" objects that pass ownership and seem to cause strange phenomena whatever it may be. If he really did put the object up on auction at 1 penny, he may be really intelligent and knew it would become that high priced, but it seems too long to be a lie. Perhaps he is really just a genious fooling people, but hey he could think it is true and it might be

I SO wanna buy that!!!

Posessed or haunted objects are best delt with by donating it to Goodwill or disposing of it in some far away place. Selling old junk on ebay and saying its haunted isn't the best way to deal with the poltergiest considering the auction is going to take a few days. If I were truely afraid of a demonic Donkey Kong game, I sure as hell wouldn't sit around waiting on an auction. I'd be getting that joystick spining, peasoup spitting son of Duck Hunt the hell out of my house as fast as possible.

Keep an open mind? Sure but at least keep the screen door shut to keep out the vermin.

I thought my original nintendo was haunted... I'd find it taken out when I thought it was in the closet, or game sin it when I was good about taking them out.

Oh, and the evil spirit of Mak'Altuul who would come possess my body and nibble on my souuuulll!!!! GYYAYAAAAHHH!H!!!!!!

Okay, so the first paragraph was real, the second was bogus.

*leaves*

I have a computer named Chuckey

It talks to me and it dosen't like you.

It shocks everyone who turns it on except for me.

My computer is haunted as well, every time I get on a pr0n site...my vision dims and I get all hot and sweaty...Demons I tell you! Running all through me!

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