

It was one of the few items she owned when she immigrated to America. The grandmother had managed to flee a concentration camp and find refuge in Spain. The woman explained that her grandmother was Polish in descent, and had been a Holocaust survivor. When he made inquiries about the box, a woman told him it belonged to her recently deceased grandmother, whose belongings made up the items in the Estate sale. Portland native Kevin Mannis found an old, locked wine box at an Estate sale.

I stumbled upon an episode about the box on the show Paranormal Witness (which I recently made a post about here).

It wasn’t until a few years later when I discovered that the Dybbuk Box is real. What pleased me more than the plot was the idea behind the film…a demon locked inside of a box? What a creepy and awesome idea!
#Dybbuk box story movie
And then she starts behaving as if she were possessed.Īll around the movie is decent, and perhaps one of these days I will write a full review of it. While weird and interesting, the girl’s fascination with the box takes a peculiar turn, almost to the point of obsession. Soon, the girl finds a way to get the box open, and discovers all manner of strange objects inside: human hair, insects, a nail. The wooden box is sealed in a way that indicates that it is not meant to be opened, however the girl could hear contents inside the box. The trailers were intriguing, and as it was undoubtedly a horror movie, I happily went to see it.įor those of you who are unfamiliar, The Possession is a movie about a young girl who finds a locked antique wine box in an Estate sale. In 2012, a film called The Possession hit theaters. Dybbuk: a malevolent, violent spirit or demon in Jewish folklore.
