Dybbuk Box

The famous Dybbuk box is a wine cabinet claimed to be haunted by a dybbuk, a concept from Jewish mythology. This first came to life when someone wrote their story, and it all started with a purchase.
The story goes that he purchased an old wine cabinet from the granddaughter of a recently deceased Holocaust survivor named Havela, who escaped Nazi-occupied Poland.
As Mannis paid for the cabinet, Havela’s granddaughter said, “I see you bought the Dybbuk Box.” he didn’t know the term but the granddaughter stated that it should never be opened, if he did, bad things would happen. She also said that it contained a dybbuk; in Jewish folklore, an evil, restless spirit that possesses the living.
Mannis gave the box to his mother, Ida, on Halloween. Ida describes feeling a cold breeze from the box as she opened its doors, then experiencing “pure evil” coming out. She says she immediately had a stroke.
Then he began seeing what he later described as “shadow things” in his peripheral vision.
Wanting to get rid of it, he listed it on eBay in 2003. Since then, the Dybbuk Box has captured the popular imagination, becoming the stuff of internet legend.
In 2011, a subsequent owner of Mannis’ box, Jason Haxton, released a book about the box. he details what befell him, everything from bleeding eyes to random choking attacks to, yes, recurring dreams of a creepy old woman within a few days.
Like other cursed objects and the paranormal, the box inspired movies. In 2012, the most prominent movies about the Dybbuk Box are The Possession, produced by filmmaker Sam Raimi. Both Mannis and Haxton were production consultants on the film.
Over the past five years, dybbuk fever has hit an all-time high thanks to one man: famed ghost hunter Zak Bagans, the host of Ghost Adventures. In 2016, he featured both Mannis and Haxton for an episode in which he brings the box to his Haunted Museum in Las Vegas. Today it’s one of the museum’s highlights, touted as “The World’s Most Haunted Object.”