![]() ![]() Mott said the story "taps into our belief that out in the world there is a supernatural evil that will attack anyone regardless of how good they are. Mott, "we embrace such stories because they tap into our own fears and prejudices". In 2018, fans of rapper Post Malone claimed his spate of bad luck was caused by his contact with the cabinet. Haxton later gave the cabinet to Ghost Adventures star Zak Bagans to display in his museum. The subsequent film The Possession, produced by Sam Raimi, was released in 2012. In 2004, Haxton sold the rights to the story to a Hollywood production company. One owner, Jason Haxton, Director of the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Missouri, launched a website that consolidated claims about the cabinet called that reportedly received hundreds of thousands of hits and created what has been described as an " internet legend". ![]() ![]() Subsequent owners retold Mannis' story when reselling the item and amplified it with their own claims of "strange phenomena". Make no mistake, I conceived of the Dybbuk Box – the name, the term, the idea – and wrote this creative story around it to post on eBay." Mannis' auction description included a story claiming the cabinet was previously owned by a survivor of the Holocaust in Poland who said it contained the malicious spirit of a dybbuk, and that the box had paranormal powers and was responsible for his bad luck and nightmares. The stone that was in the box is something that is a signature creation of mine also. According to Mannis, "The carving in the back of it is my carving. In 2003, writer and furniture refinishing business owner Kevin Mannis purchased the cabinet from the yard sale of a local attorney in Portland, Oregon and began developing a backstory. In 2021, Mannis told Input magazine that the Dybbuk Box story was entirely fictional. Mannis' story was the inspiration for the 2012 horror film The Possession. The box gained notoriety when it was auctioned off on eBay by owner Kevin Mannis, who created a story featuring Jewish Holocaust survivors and paranormal claims as part of his eBay item description. ![]() She suffered the stroke the same day she got the box from her son.The Dybbuk box, or Dibbuk box ( Hebrew: קופסת דיבוק, romanized: Kufsat Dibbuk), is a paranormal hoax consisting of an antique wine-cabinet claimed to be haunted by a dybbuk, a concept from Jewish mythology. While the box was in Mannis' possession, his mother suffered a stroke after he gave her it as a birthday present. According to Mannis, the box contained two 1920s pennies, a lock of blonde hair bound with cord, a lock of brown hair bound with cord, a small statue engraved with the Hebrew word "Shalom," a small wine goblet, one dried rosebud, and a single candle holder with four, octopus-shaped legs. The box ended up in the possession of Kevin Mannis, who bought it in an estate sale in 2001 and eventually tried to return it to the family, but they didn't want the box, claiming it was because a Dybbuk was living inside. The real Dybbuk Box is a wine box that was originally owned by a Holocaust survivor named Havaleh, who escaped from Poland to Spain and purchased the box before coming to the United States. It is sometimes believed to be attached to part of a deceased person's soul, and helps them with unfinished business, not resting until it has accomplished its goal. According to Jewish mythology, a Dybbuk is a restless, malicious spirit with the ability to haunt and even possess the living. ![]()
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