Subcategories : Some real horror movies : The Possession (2012)

"The Possession" is loosely based on a true story and is about a haunted wine cabinet, otherwise known as a dybbuk box. The wine box is supposed to be haunted by a dybbuk, a restless, usually malicious spirit.

In the movie, a young girl is drawn to an antique wooden box she finds at a yard sale but in real life, this wooden box was actually sold on eBay.

In both versions, fictional and real, strange and spooky things started happening to the new owners of the box.

The original buyer, Kevin Mannis, says that this box was purchased at the estate sale of a 103-year-old Holocaust survivor. Before the buyer could even get home with the box, Mannis received a nervous and frantic call from one of his employees at the furniture shop that he owned, claiming that someone was in the shop destroying the place.

Mannis gave the box to his mother for her birthday and within minutes of receiving the box, she had a stroke and lost the ability to speak for some time. Mannis attempts to give the box to many of his friends and family members; all of which who did take the box gave it back to him shortly after. All of the family members who had taken possession of the box suffered from the exact same nightmare.

Mannis was so afraid to destroy the box that he worried it would cause whatever evil spirit that he believed might be haunting it would stay with him forever. Traditionally, if something like this happens they say you are supposed to formally transfer ownership for the spirit to move on, except he could never find anyone who would keep it for more than a couple of days. So instead, he sold it on eBay.  

Many buyer brought the box from eBay and the passed in on again with the same website.

Currently the box is in the hands of a university museum curator by the name of Jason Haxton in the Still College of Osteopathic Medicine Museum in Kirksville, MO.