The Possession doesn't hide the fact that it's based on a true story, and instead used this as a prime marketing feature for the film. Even though it didn't get very high ratings, the film still sold well at the box office but more importantly, it got people interested in the story behind the Dybbuk Box and the true aspects behind the film.
Zak Bagans, who is a well-known paranormal investigator from the hit show Ghost Adventures , acquired the Dybbuk Box, which is currently on display in his Las Vegas museum. According to Jewish mythology, a Dybbuk is a restless, malicious spirit with the ability to haunt and even possess the living.
It is sometimes believed to be attached to part of a deceased person's soul, and helps them with unfinished business, not resting until it has accomplished its goal.
The real Dybbuk Box is a wine box that was originally owned by a Holocaust survivor named Havaleh, who escaped from Poland to Spain and purchased the box before coming to the United States. The box ended up in the possession of Kevin Mannis, who bought it in an estate sale in and eventually tried to return it to the family, but they didn't want the box, claiming it was because a Dybbuk was living inside.
According to Mannis, the box contained two s pennies, a lock of blonde hair bound with cord, a lock of brown hair bound with cord, a small statue engraved with the Hebrew word "Shalom," a small wine goblet, one dried rosebud, and a single candle holder with four, octopus-shaped legs.
While the box was in Mannis' possession, his mother suffered a stroke after he gave her it as a birthday present. She suffered the stroke the same day she got the box from her son.
The granddaughter also divulged that the box was never opened due to the belief that it contains a dybbuk, or a demonic spirit, in traditional Yiddish mythology. A series of bizarre paranormal aberrations followed. Not long after Kevin took the wine cabinet to his store, the store was plundered by an anonymous outlaw in his absence. When he tried to direct his employee to call the police, his phone died.
When he returned to his workshop, it had been turned into ruins. Weirdly enough, he could smell cat urine in the workshop, but no animals had ever been kept in the shop. All the lights in the basement were broken, which was also odd. His employee resigned following the event, but that was not the end of it.
Mannis would also experience nightmares following the acquisition of the dibbuk box. Again, there's no reason to doubt that this actually happened — congenital cataracts can often go undetected for the first few years of somebody's life.
Maybe it's just a coincidence, and completely unrelated to the box. That's a little more bizarre, but there's probably a perfectly reasonable explanation for it. Perhaps the box contains some sort of sugary substance, or an artificial light source. Moths love those. Yes, that's probably it. There, they discover a terrifying foreign object nestled inside her.
But there's no cause for alarm. If you squint a bit, the object looks a bit like a set of maracas. Perhaps the true story of The Possession is the story of a little girl who ate some maracas. Makes perfect sense.
An unfortunate reaction to the scan? Hatching moth eggs? Look, I don't know. This certainly doesn't seem like something that would actually happen to a person, but The Possession is based on a true story, so it must have done.
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