![]() ![]() ![]() “At the time I created the Dybbuk Box, it was during Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement,” he writes in a Facebook message to me. Mannis was not a millionaire in the mold of Forrest Fenn and his famous treasure chest, but a man with a fancy box in need of a few bucks and a change of luck after some bad experiences. And it became the phenomenon that it is now.”Ĭurt Morris, another friend from that time, confirmed Mannis’ story as well, giving the primary reason why he did it. And in his brilliant mind came up with an incredible story that he knew would sell. The specific box was Kevin at a low point needing some money. “Kevin is one of the most brilliant people that I’ve ever met. Matthew “Shaggy” Christensen, who worked with Mannis at a bar called Club Underground in Beaverton, Oregon, confirmed what Mannis told Moss – the two locks of hair in the box were his. ![]() Mannis himself made the famous carving on the back is his creation, as is the mysterious stone inside. While he indeed bought it at a garage sale in 2001, the seller was an attorney who said it was a wine box. In an interview with Charle Moss for Input Magazine, Mannis reveals that he made up the tale of the Dybbuk Box and explains how he did it. Which is to become an interactive horror story in real-time.” And the Dybbuk Box story has done exactly what I intended it to do when I posted it 20 years ago. The Dybbuk Box is a story that I created. (An excellent account of the alleged history can be read here and one on a recent celebrity opening can be read here.) Kevin Mannis has now come forward with the real story – and may also be worthy of a movie of a different kind.Īn ‘Indiana Jones Opens the Dybbuk Box’ movie? The long list includes rooms mysteriously ransacked, disembodied voices, visions of an old hag, mysterious scratch marks and bruises, strange smells, inexplicable health problems, the stroke of one owner, famous people terrified by it and more. Tales of the bad things that happened (you didn’t think anyone listened to the warnings, did you?) have popped up in articles, books, podcasts and movies (The Possession) all the way up to recently. According to his description, Mannis was told the grandmother always kept it shut and out of reach because there was a dybbuk inside it that would cause bad things to happen. The dybbuk went on to possess popular culture by way of the Dybbuk Box, which first came to light in 2003 when its then owner Kevin Mannis tried to sell an old wine box on eBay that he claimed to have bought in 2001 from the granddaughter of a recently deceased Holocaust survivor named Havela. A dybbuk in Jewish mythology is an evil spirit which can possess a living person – most often a male spirit that sexually invades a woman on the eve of her wedding. ![]()
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