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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

The Paypal Incident (GT Mini)

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Unknown, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7928 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

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Money for nothing. I'm Rebecca Leib. I'm Jason Horton. And this is Ghost Town.

1:05.2

When Chris Reynolds opened up his June PayPal statement, he knew something seemed off.

1:10.0

The 56-year-old Pennsylvania man who sells auto parts on eBay was stunned to see the 92 quadrillion

1:17.4

dollar credit to his PayPal account. That's 15 zeros. And that exact amount breaks down to,

1:24.2

and I'm probably wrong about this because I've never had to count this high, I suppose,

1:28.6

or register this amount of money. Yeah, we don't work for the national treasury.

1:34.2

92 quadrillion, 233 trillion, 720 billion, 368 million, $547,800 was credited to Chris Reynolds' PayPal.

1:49.5

Wow. Wow. They can't even express that in a way that's got the little tiny number in the

1:54.7

upper right hand corner, right? To show just how big a number it is, just how abstract. But not

2:00.8

abstract for this man. So for approximately one minute, Chris Reynolds was the richest man in the

2:06.8

world by far. Leaps and bounds. In June 2013, Reynolds became the world's first quadrillionaire,

2:15.3

but it didn't take long to find that the balance had already returned to the correct amount. Zero.

2:20.1

Bummer. You open up your bank and you're like, I thought there was more money in this. That's

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