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I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's

news archives for stories that can't quite be explained.

Strangers, we've shared stories about cursed objects on this show before, and the setup is almost always the same.

There's a strange thing for sale.

The current owner gives a vague warning to prospective buyers.

A prospective buyer ignores the warning, takes the object home, and is subjected to misfortune,

ranging from minor accidents to death.

Unlike us, it seems that not everyone has a horror movie audience in their

head at all times, yelling things like, no, don't buy the obviously evil doll. Of the objects

that we've covered before, the internet usually plays a role in how quickly the story of an object

spreads, and how quickly the story takes

on a life of its own. And in this context, by the internet, we often mean eBay, because

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