the haunted side of Facebook. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town.

We've touched upon haunted paintings on eBay, buying haunted things, but honestly,

not enough for my taste. You know, the internet sells everything, memorabilia,

designer stuff, concert tickets, car parts, drugs, whatever you're looking for.

But there is a whole industry and community on eBay and Etsy and now big time on Facebook of haunted

paranormal and cursed dolls and a legion of concerned living people who want to help

these dolls and the spirits within them. Today we're going to talk about Facebook's haunted

doll community, which is vibrant, creepy, concerned and absolutely fascinating.

When I say that there's a big industry for all of this, I absolutely, absolutely mean it.

The buying and selling of haunted items on social media platforms is rich. It's something that

I've been involved with, you know, with tarot and other metaphysical things. eBay has a whole

section dedicated to metaphysical and new age products. Just search haunted on Etsy. It will bring

up over 30,000 results. You might think of it as like a pandemic thing, but it's not. It's before

the pandemic. We all know someone that carries crystals and their bras underwire or has a shrine.

Me, me, I have these things. In 2018, Sephora launched its $42 starter witch kit, which included

crystals, sage and tarot cards. Goop has a $100 medicine bag of crystals, which seems like a

steel for goop and is also offensive. Marketers called this movement in retail mysticore.

And in many Facebook groups, it's kind of the crossroads between mysticism, disposable income

and philanthropy. We'll get to that. Haunted dolls are Facebook's biggest haunted industry

hands down. And I've done a lot of research. For example, there's Charles, the insane clown doll

who, according to his description, liked to bang doors and shout from time to time. There's

Sylvia, an absolute gorgeous, sexy, sultry, seductive and very flirtatious spirit doll,

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