Dybbuk Box
There are objects in this world that seem to hold dark entities or negative energy for seemingly no reason or perhaps the object belonged to a dark soul before they passed an the soul clung on becoming trapped . But Then there are those objects that are said to have a dark energy, intady or curse where a person has bound a spirit purposefully to an object in order to trap it.
The Word Dybbuk means just that
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Dybbuk is derived from a Hebrew word which means the act of sticking or to cling In Jewish Mythology to usually means a malicious possessing spirit believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. It would possess people causing mental illness an other such things an supposedly leaves the host body once the spirit had been helped or once it had accomplished it's goal.
These possessions often needed a exociem to rid them of the Dybbuk spirit this is where the dybbuk box would come in many times the spirits where drawn out of the person and into one of these Boxes often times along side objects that they may have owned or locks of there hair is available.
The tale of what has come to be known as the Dybbuk Box, also spelled Dibbuk Box, has achieved almost urban legend status, in recent years with one story of a peticulure Dybbuk Box This story revolves around an old, antique wine cabinet steeped in a shadowy an Peculiar past. There was a man named Kevin Mannis he found the Dybbuk Box at an estate sale in Oregon . The box came with a spooky bit of lore and colorful history , The woman selling it to Mannis claimed that the box had been owned by her grandmother, who had been a holocaust survivor in World War II. The grandmother had apparently been the only one of the family to survive the atrocity, and with some other holocaust survivors had managed to escape and make her way to Spain, which was where she had acquired the box.
When she had immigrated to the United States, the grandmother had apparently taken the box with her, and had warned her daughter to never open it, as it was claimed that it held within it a type of spirit called a dybbuk, which had been accidentally summoned and then imprisoned within the box long ago. Her grandmother kept it put up in a sewing cabinet until she died. Despite this rather scary story, Mannis bought the box anyway, intrigued by this sinister history. Then as he realized it was a family arlum an perhaps they just needed the money he offered to let them keep the box an the money the grand daughter replied No we don't want it it is yours now. The Mannis Did not put much stock in the tale. He would soon realize that there was perhaps more to the ominous and creepy legend than he could have ever imagined.
Upon returning home he immediately broke the rule not to open the cabinet and found that it contained an Peculiar mix of odd items, including a wine goblet, a small granite slab with the Hebrew word “Shalom” etched into it, a dried rosebud, a candlestick, two pennies from the 1920s, and strangest of all two locks of human hair bound by cords. Not long after this, on that very same day, strange things began to happen, beginning with an incident when Mannis left his shop to go on an errand and returned to find the place ransacked, as if someone had thrown a tantrum there, and nothing had been stolen. A terrified clerk at the shop also said that she had seen lightbulbs smashing by themselves and had heard what sounded like a disembodied voice cursing. Oddly, an isolated patch of area seemed to be infused with the scent of jasmine flowers, and Mannis would say of the incident:
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When I got back to the shop, I went to investigate. I remember heading toward the back and walking into what I can only describe as a wall of scent. It smelled like jasmine flowers. You could take one more step and not smell a thing, and take a step backward and be surrounded by it again.
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Mannis then gave the box to his mother as a present, still not connecting the Peculiar occurrences with it, and she allegedly suffered a stroke a mere 5 minutes after receiving it. She survived the incident, which partially blinded her, but not surprisingly did not want the box anymore and gave it back, saying the words Evil gift. Things got even stranger when later that same day the FBI supposedly raided Mannis’ shop to search it and take some electronic gear before leaving without explanation or elaboration.
The box was then given to Mannis’ sister, but she too soon complained that there was some inexplicable feeling of dread orbiting it and claimed that it would open on its own when no one was around. She also spoke of having Peculiar nightmares of a scary old lady, and she soon gave the box back after only a few days. The box passed to his brother and his wife, with the wife claiming it smelled like cat urine while the brother thought it smelled of Jasmine, then on to Mannis’ girlfriend he gifted it to her an other friends , but they all complained that there was something evil about it, that they had been haunted by paranormal phenomena and horrifying nightmares, and refused to hold onto it for long. A customer bought the object and promptly returned it, saying it was evil. Mannis finally decided to hold on to it for the time being and put it in his basement.
That evening, Mannis experienced what he called some of the most potent nightmares he had ever experienced, in which he was stalked and attacked by a hunched over old hag, a series of recurring nightmares that would haunt him for weeks and which were even said to invade the sleep of people who stayed over. Scarier still, he claimed that upon awaking from these nightmares he would sometimes find scratches, bite marks, and bruises on his body,
In addition to these nightmares, Mannis claimed that he began to see indistinct, shadowy figures lurking about his home. Guests reported this oddness as well, and it was all unsettling to say the least. Mannis would eventually become too spooked to keep it anymore, and he decided to sell it on eBay, along with a full account as to how it had come into his possession, as well as its history and all of the ominous phenomena associated with it. He would say in part of the description of the box:
I would destroy this thing in a second, except I really don’t have any understanding of what I may or may not be dealing with. I am afraid (and I do mean afraid) that if I destroy the cabinet, whatever it is that seems to have come with the cabinet may just stay here with me. I have been told that there are people who shop on EBAY that understand these kinds of things and specifically look for these kinds of items. If you are one of these people, please, please buy this cabinet and do whatever you do with a thing like this. Help me.
None of this deterred a buyer named Iosif Nietzke from purchasing it in 2003. For the price of $140 he got the box, its creepy contents, and apparently the evil spirit inhabiting it as well. Almost immediately after buying the cabinet Nietzke was plagued by all manner of Peculiar Occurrences. Electronics in his house would malfunction or simply cease to work, lights would turn on and off by themselves, and objects would be misplaced or moved around even when no one else was around, as well as strange smells that would appear and disappear abruptly and blurry spectral figures roaming about. He also claimed that his hair began to fall out and that he had a sudden insect infestation in his home that came from seemingly nowhere. This was enough to convince him to put the box up for sale on eBay as well, after which it was purchased by a university museum curator and collector of religious paraphernalia named Jason Haxton, of Kirksville, Missouri, who does not seem to have had much more luck with it.
Haxton reported that he began to have health problems shortly after acquiring the box, such as unexplainable welts, rashes, and hives upon his body, constant coughing, fatigue, a metallic taste in his mouth, persistent nasal problems, and even coughing up blood for no discernible reason. He also says that his home had frequent phantom scents of things such as jasmine and cat urine. Oddly, despite all of this he has also said that he believes the box reverses the ageing process. He had the box tested by a lot of people an hid it away for many years then he sold it to Zak Bagans of the show Paranormal adventures after it inspired a movie in 2012 called possession it now sits in Zaks museum in vegas
But before he sold it Intrigued by these phenomena, Haxton then had it looked at by a specialist on Jewish artifacts named Rebecca Edery, who determined it to be a sacred relic for imprisoning a spirit. She would say of the box:
The two doors on the outside open up just like the Holy Closet, or Aron HaKodesh, a receptacle for Torah scrolls. And I saw round, metal hoops on the inside of the doors that would hold scrolls. This particular size is used when going to comfort the family of the deceased. This (the insertion of the spirit) was done deliberately, for a specific purpose.
So putting this evidence together with what rebecca said about this being for a family member an with what we know of the box's history it is my personal opinion that this was suppose to hold family members of this woman who died in the holocaust perhaps it was her way of holding on to there souls she may have felt they where lost or perhaps she thought she escaped with the help of s Dybbuk an was trying to rid her self of it we will never know
Skeptics have been quick to point out that the story lacks very little verification or substantiation, with some of the alleged owners, such as Iosif Nietzke impossible to track down, meaning there is no guarantee that this is even a real person. The original owner of the box, Mannis, is also an aspiring writer, which has also raised some eyebrows, and the theory that it could have all been a hoax. In this theory the history of the box likely started as a spooky story to generate interest, after which it was picked up and further exaggerated by later owners, building upon the myth. Then there is the usual argument against purportedly real cursed items that these frightening rumors and tales tend to draw exaggeration and the tendency to blame anything bad that happens on the object, regardless of if it really had anything to do with it or not. Chris French, of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths’ College, has said of this in relation to the Dybbuk Box:
[They were as in the owners where already primed to be looking out for bad stuff. If you believe you have been cursed, then inevitably you explain the bad stuff that happens in terms of what you perceive to be the cause. Put it like this: I would be happy to own this object.
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While it appears that the mysterious Dybbuk box is a real object, there still seems to be much debate as to just whether it is just an old wine box wrapped in a tall tale or an actual haunted or cursed artifact, and the story just seems to pick up more mystery as time goes on. But I don't know what do you think of this peculiar occurrences let me know down below
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