

I also consulted my Jewish encyclopedia from 1966 “(Heb. The term appears neither in Talmudic literature nor in the Kabbalah, where this phenomenon is always called ‘evil spirit’” (JVL 2018). So, what is a dibbuk? According to the Jewish Virtual Library, “in Jewish folklore and popular belief is an evil spirit which enters into a living person, cleaves to his soul, causes mental illness, talks through his mouth, and represents a separate and alien personality is called a dybbuk.
#Opening dybbuk box full
For a full description of those events, visit the website in the references below (Mannis 2009). It didn’t take long for all sorts of Hollywood-horror antics to manifest including apparitions, people getting sick, and even causing a stroke. Wheat Penny one small lock of blonde hair one small lock of black/brown hair a granite statue engraved and gilded with the Hebrew word shalom one dried-out rosebud one golden goblet and a very strange black candlestick holder with the legs of an octopus.

Inside the box, he found several items: a 1928 U.S. The granddaughter also stated she and her siblings were always told it “was to never, ever be opened.” Of course, Mannis opened it once he got it home (I would too). (Wait-if the original woman’s entire family was killed, where did a granddaughter come from?)

The granddaughter of the woman noticed that Mannis had purchased the box and related the history behind it and how it was always called a Dibbuk (or Dybbuk) box. She escaped with some other prisoners and somehow made it to Spain, where she acquired the wine cabinet. Her entire family-parents, brothers, a sister, husband, two sons, and a daughter-were all killed. Mannis claimed to have purchased the box at an estate sale of a 103-year old Polish woman who, after growing up and raising a family, was sent to a Nazi concentration camp. The backstory is much too long for the scope of this article, so I’ll give you the CliffsNotes version. He proceeds to spin a tale of a paranormal experiences that rivals many horror films and seemed destined for the big screen itself (which it eventually did). In his eBay description, Mannis claimed to have acquired the box (thought to be a wine cabinet) at a 2001 estate sale.
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This allegedly haunted object first appeared in pop culture in a 2003 eBay auction from Kevin Mannis, a professional writer and recording artist from the Pacific Northwest (Broadjam 2018). As luck would have it, this is another one of the “Big Four” haunted objects in Zak Bagans Haunted Museum. In this installment of my column, we’re going to focus on an item that I’ve wanted to write about for some time: the Dibbuk Box.
