Case file · Haunting
The Dybbuk box
A wine cabinet sold on eBay with a story that it was haunted by a dybbuk, a spirit of Jewish folklore, which inspired the 2012 film The Possession.
2003 CE · 45.52, -122.67 · status: hoax
The account
Furniture refinisher Kevin Mannis bought the cabinet at a Portland, Oregon, yard sale in 2003 and wrote a backstory involving Holocaust survivors.
The sceptical view
In 2021 Mannis told Input magazine that the story was entirely fictional.
Connections in the atlas
- The spirit in the widow of Safed
- Dybbuk
- The Jews
- William Mumler's spirit photographs
- The Golem of Prague