In 2003 the box hit eBay after Mannis couldn’t bare keeping it any longer, Jason Haxton eventually won rights to the box in 2004 with a winning bid of $280. He gave the box to his mother who died shortly after from a stroke, then the box was giving to other Mannis’s family members who all returned it report the same paranormal experiences he had. He opened the box to investigate, he found two wheat pennies, two small locks of hair, a statue engraved with Hebrew letters, dried rosebuds, a golden wine cup, and a black cast iron candlestick holder.
The light bulbs would flash and shatter, strange smells, nightmares, doors slamming and moving, as well as a general dark feeling seeming to follow the box. Once the box was at his furniture shop strange things began to happen and even caused an employee to quit. Mannis was very interested in the box and was instructed to never open it. When she pasted in 2001 the family sold the box among other things at a yard sale to help with the costs of laying her to rest. The famed story of Mannis’s box entails a 103-year-old Grandma bringing the box to America while escaping the Holocaust. The owner of a furniture shop in Portland Oregon, Kevin Mannis, listed the box on eBay with a fantastic horror story to go with it. There are many tails of these “cursed boxes” through-out time, but the most famous and well-known tale came in 2003. The Dybbuk Box comes from Jewish lore and dates back to the horror story from the Holocaust. The box that held the Dybbuk is an old-style wooden wine box that contained various bottles and jars of wine and trinkets. The Dybbuk is said to be a disembodied malicious demon that possesses a living person’s soul to gain domain in the mortal world.
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