When you’re in the business of vintage electronics, you get used to the idea that some stuff is just plain haunted. You never know what could have happened in some of these VCRs, for example. Someone could have died in one.
So to honor our haunted vintage gear, and to help our customers get into the Halloween spirit, we decided to do a countdown of the top 13 spookiest electronics we’ve ever had the pleasure of putting up for sale. So if you’re a brave soul, read on! Just be sure to keep the lights on.
Haunted Rating: 7/10
Played such a beautiful, haunting melody. I mean, come on, it was from the early 1900s. It absolutely was haunted! Though its ghosts never attempted to cause harm. Or played unless told. It was a very polite, gentle phonograph. Haunted by someone like Casper.
Haunted Rating: 10/10
Definitely haunted. Zero doubt. Not only did it refuse to power on, according to Spencer, company owner, this thing made, and I quote, “unusual internal noises when plugged in.” Weird internal noises?? This power conditioner had to have carried the ghost of someone who got electrocuted. Plus, it literally has Monster in its name.
Haunted Rating: 2/10
This would make excellent Halloween decor - imagine webbing and spiders dripping off it. Even without all that, this is definitely the skeleton of a dead projector. Looks like shriveled flesh stuck tight to bone. American Horror Story, anyone?
Haunted Rating: 10/10
Wait - another Keystone projector?? Yes. The secondborn, the evil twin of the firstborn. While that one simply looks creepy, this one actually tried to kill us. It literally attempted to burn the building down. Or maybe it was bluffing. Either way, it blew smoke at us. We caught it on film here.
Haunted Rating: 9/10
Speaking of fire…This is another one that tried to burn us all to the ground. This subwoofer had “Fire Inside!” (don’t worry - we did add that zinger to the title of the listing). And indeed, this angry, haunted box got hot enough to catch fire on the inside! Good thing the other organs - ahem, we mean, the other parts - were salvageable.
Haunted Rating: 8/10
Nothing too creepy about a cracked phone, right? After the bricks that were Nokias, it seems like half the phones in the world today were designed to shatter. But this particular one appeared to keep the ghost of an old woman. If you held the dark screen up to your face and angled it correctly, sometimes you caught a flash of an old woman standing behind your shoulder... *shudder*. No wonder the screen is cracked. I’d drop my phone too if I saw a strange old lady ghost behind me. Bloody Mary has nothing on that.
Haunted Rating: 10/10
Half of all organ pianos are haunted. That’s just fact. And this one was no exception. A couple members of our staff heard it playing one night while no one else was around. And not a melody, like it was playing back a recording. But like someone was just randomly hitting the keys. I guess the poor ghost haunting it never learned how to play….
Haunted Rating: 6/10
These we sold without any bulbs or shades. Why? We didn’t have shades. Okay, nothing spooky there - However! The reason we didn’t sell them with bulbs is because no matter which ones we screwed in, they would flicker. Great for Halloween ambient lighting. But not so great for usual sensibilities. Like reading.
Haunted Rating: 9/10
Would ring, randomly, when it was plugged in. Only a few times, then it would stop. We often wondered what we would hear on the other end if we answered it in time – Silence? Static? A creepy child’s voice? Even now, we can’t figure out why it did that. It must have simply been stuck on a “demo” mode, right? ...Right??
Haunted Rating: 5/10
Definitely used as a murder weapon at some point. It was too heavy not to be carrying the weight of some sin. And I saw a bit of red “rust” on the sharp corner of it when it came in. But would “rust” come off with a bit of rubbing alcohol? Perhaps. Perhaps.
Haunted Rating: 8/10
Our tech swears poltergeists haunted this one. Turned on seemingly by itself one time when he was alone at the warehouse at night. “They’re here,” he told us the next morning. We hoped he was joking. Though we should maybe check up on the guy we eventually sold the TV to…we haven’t heard from him since….
Haunted Rating: 100/10
While the sides of this register crack open easy as a walnut, we haven’t been able to open up the drawer no matter what we try. Perhaps it’s caked shut due to dried blood. Perhaps it’s simply waiting for a sale from the afterlife. Perhaps it's holding on to something it shouldn't. Either way, it’s 100% haunted by its past and is locked tighter than a spirit's grip. But we’re not sure what’s scarier: the ghost or the assumed tax rate.
Haunted Rating: -9/10
This one is special. Our warehouse has always felt rather haunted (strange noises, things disappearing then reappearing elsewhere), but after we tested this vacuum? Far fewer incidents have occurred. We used it on the concrete to make sure it rolled and picked up debris, and we used the hose to clean up the workstations a bit. It seemed to work too well, though…It sucked up some of the warehouse’s ghosts with it, we fear. So I suppose if you have ghosts and you’re looking for someone to call…the SpenCertified Ghost Busters are at your service.
And there you have it! Thirteen of the spookiest things we’ve ever had the pleasure to welcome into our warehouse. We hope you enjoyed reading through our creepdown - er, we mean, countdown! It’s enough to give you the heebie-jeebies, right? Not to mention all of the spider carcasses we’ve discovered behind speaker covers and inside amplifiers….
Thanks for reading! We hope you have a wonderfully spooky Halloween this year!
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