{"id":12547,"date":"2021-11-05T09:52:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T15:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12547"},"modified":"2021-11-05T11:10:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T17:10:45","slug":"monetize-your-doll-collection-add-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12547","title":{"rendered":"Monetize Your Doll Collection: Add Ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People are always trying to make money off podcasts, Instagram, etc., but have you thought about dolls? Haunted dolls, that is. And who is to say they are haunted? You, the seller!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12554\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/rabbit-holes\/ebay-fantastical-earnest-world-haunted-dolls?itm_content=footer-recirc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12554\" class=\"wp-image-12554 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/haunted-doll.jpg?resize=169%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/haunted-doll.jpg?resize=169%2C300&amp;ssl=1 169w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/haunted-doll.jpg?resize=576%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 576w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/haunted-doll.jpg?resize=84%2C150&amp;ssl=1 84w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/haunted-doll.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Haunted doll Erwin,&#8221; currently for sale on eBay.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/rabbit-holes\/ebay-fantastical-earnest-world-haunted-dolls?itm_content=footer-recirc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On eBay, a Fantastical, Earnest World of Haunted Dolls<\/a>&#8221; in the <em>New Yorker.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But whether any of these dolls are truly haunted seems beside the point. As I scroll through pages of smudged cheeks and wonky eyes, pausing on \u201c \u2018Gracelyn\u2019 (not vampire)\u201d and \u201cBethany, Sad, Lonely Spirit\u201d and \u201cMECA VERY OLD POWERFUL SOUL,\u201d I feel smug that even a sprawling corporation like eBay, with all its accompanying blandness-inducing powers, can\u2019t suppress the batty and outright bizarre. In their unapologetic weirdness and scrappy prose, haunted-doll listings offer a reprieve from the Internet age\u2019s slick, ironic posturing and its distancing effects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/i.html?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=p2380057.m570.l2632&amp;_nkw=haunted+doll%27s&amp;_sacat=238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A quick search this morning turned up quite a few listings.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is not just pop American occulture either; &#8220;Erwin,&#8221; for instance, is priced in British pounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are always trying to make money off podcasts, Instagram, etc., but have you thought about dolls? Haunted dolls, that is. And who is to say they are haunted? You, the seller! &#8220;On eBay, a Fantastical, Earnest World of Haunted Dolls&#8221; in the New Yorker. But whether any of these dolls are truly haunted seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[411,97,410],"class_list":["post-12547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dolls","tag-ghosts","tag-occulture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-3gn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2983,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2983","url_meta":{"origin":12547,"position":0},"title":"Idolatry 101: Kachina Dolls","author":"Chas S. 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