Ever heard of the Dibbuk Box?
by Night Owl 7 Replies latest jw friends
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mrsjones5
Yes
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Cagefighter
The website you link was made to promote a story to help is sale on Ebay for a whooping $280 in 2004. This should like another JW urban legend to keep us safe from demonized antiques.
I don't believe it.
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ziddina
Hokay, this is funny!!
"...Legend and history
The term "Dibbuk Box" was first used to describe the subject of an original story by Kevin Mannis which he posted as an Ebay auction listing. Mannis, a writer and creative professional by trade, owned a small antiques and furniture refinishing business in Portland, Oregon at the time.[1][2] According to Mannis' story, he purportedly bought the Box at an estate sale in 2001. It had belonged to a German Holocaust survivor named Havela, who had escaped to Spain and purchased it there before emigrating to the United States.[3] Havela's granddaughter told Mannis that the Box had been kept in her grandmother's sewing room and was never opened because a dybbuk -- an evil spirit from Jewish folklore -- was said to live inside it. He offered to give the box back to her, but she became upset and refused to take it.[3]
On opening the box, Mannis found that it contained two 1920s pennies, a lock of blonde hair bound with cord, a lock of black/brown hair bound with cord, a small statue engraved with the Hebrew word "Shalom", a small, golden wine goblet, one dried rose bud, and a single candle holder with four octopus-shaped legs.[3]
Numerous owners of the box have reported that strange phenomena accompany it. In his story, Mannis claimed he experienced a series of horrific nightmares shared with other people while they were in possession of the box. His mother suffered a stroke on the same day he gave her the box as a birthday present - October 28. Every owner of the Box has reported that smells of cat urine or jasmine flowers[4][5] and nightmares involving an old hag accompany the Box.[3] Iosif Neitzke, a Missouri student at Truman State University in Kirksville Missouri and the last person to auction the box on eBay, claimed that the box caused lights to burn out in his house and his hair to fall out.[3] Haxton had been following Neitzke's blogs regarding the box from day one and when he was ready to be rid of the Dybbuk Box Neitzke sold it to Jason Haxton, Director of the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Missouri. Haxton wrote The Dibbuk Box, and claimed that he subsequently developed strange health problems, including hives, coughing up blood, and "head-to-toe welts."[5] Haxton consulted with Rabbis (Jewish religious leaders) to try to figure out a way to seal the dybbuk in the box again. Apparently successful, he took the freshly resealed box and hid it at a secret location, which he will not reveal.[6]..." -
Night Owl
Jason Haxton owns it now, cagefighter.
See what he has to say.
NightOwl
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Cagefighter
Fortunately he wrote a book last year, available for $19.95 plus s&h on amazon (but you knew that I am sure)!
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ziddina
Puh-leeze!!
The "Dibbuk" box can't hold a candle to some of those old Victorian ghost stories!!!