![]() In a post to the Haunt ME Facebook page, dated Octo(see screencap), Kevin Mannis, the originator of the Dybbuk Box legend, admitted that he fabricated the story: ![]() The article also claims that Mannis admitted to faking the Dybbuk box story in 2015. I’m not a fan of such approaches, so I took a closer look at Haxton’s time owning the box. This book straddles the line between “it’s haunted” and “it’s a hoax,” never making a final decision and evoking the trite, open-ended method of “I’ll let the reader decide.” Haxton published a book in 2011 entitled The Dibbuk Box, which reached a much wider audience and solidified the object’s place in paranormal lore. When I began researching the history of this box, it appeared that Haxton was the driving force behind the box becoming popular in the paranormal community.Īlthough Mannis was the first to write about it, his eBay auction never reached the viral status a seller hopes for. This article says that it was Jason Haxton that gave Zak the "Dybbuk box", originally owned by Mannis, for free. Mannis didn't even sell the box to Zak, but it was given to Zak, supposedly for safe-keeping. It was made up with a viral eBay listing in 2003." It further details that a Jewish rabbi is needed to dispel the claimed dybbuk spirit, and I don't think that Zak has ever had a rabbi, to my knowledge, on the show. "There's no such thing as a dybbuk box in Jewish folklore. To add to this, since Mannis first listed the "Dybbuk box" for sale on eBay in the 2000's, an "explosion" of claimed "Dybbuk boxes"- clearly from scammers, as Mannis claims "there are only ten Dybbuk boxes in the entire world" - have also been posted to eBay.Īccording to this article, Mannis is also making up, as well as appropriating, Jewish mythology, culture, and folklore as part of the hoax. Mannis is a creative writer by trade, and as a writer myself, his story comes across as highly fabricated, and something that you might find on r/nosleep. To me, it just seems like Mannis is not only lying to Zak, and is probably trying to scam Zak by selling him more boxes, but made up the whole "Dybbuk box" story for attention, as well as to make money on eBay. ![]() ![]() Instead, the manifestation was described as an old woman, or a "hag". Zak bought a second "Dybbuk box" himself, and Mannis claimed that, instead of just sealing away a demon in one box, the lady he bought the original box from used ten boxes "to split and seal the demon".įurthermore, there was no prior mention of a "tall shadow man with a cape or cloak" as part of the box's manifestations. Instead of there just being one "Dybbuk box" - which was the case when Mannis owned the box - now that Zak owns the box, Mannis suddenly claims to have come across "six more Dybbuk boxes". In the last episode of Quarantine, however, in the time since Zak received the box, Mannis has since made up new information about the "Dybbuk box" story. While some of the story details of the "Dybbuk box" were changed, generally, the key points of Mannis's story remained the same. I always found the story of the "Dybbuk box" to be fishy - many of the details changed from show to show, and many of them appeared to be made-up and exaggerated for dramatic effect - but the last episode of Ghost Adventures: Quarantine really made the story reek of "hoax". (One poster says in the comments that the box first appeared on Paranormal Witness in 2012.) On many of them, the story of Kevin Mannis and the "Dybbuk box" has appeared. I've been watching several different ghost shows, including Ghost Adventures, for several years now.
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