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title: "Ghost potion draws hazmat response"
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url: "https://cbrneworld.com/threats-news/americas/ghost-potion-draws-hazmat-response"
date: "2026-09-11T05:30:47+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
---

#  Ghost potion draws hazmat response

 Written on 29 August 2026.

In an odd story for August, a family in North Carolina required the assistance of a Hazmat team when a ‘potion’ created to ward off ghosts proved more hazardous to the occupants of the house than anticipated. According to reports, a Winston-Salem Fire Department official said that “Someone associated with the home bought a book on psychic home safety practices, then went to Amazon and bought a 68% concentrated nitric acid and set it by the door to ward off the haints”. A “haint” is a malevolent spirit, and the term derives from the African American Gullah Geechee Culture in South Carolina’s Lowcountry, experts say. The potion’s pungent odor is what prompted a plea for help, officials said. The Hazmat team neutralised the acid and no haints or humans were harmed.

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