James_H
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http://www.dibbukbox.com/ is still online
Even Buzzfeed is testing the fad by buying boxes on Ebay. Received a box which wasn't even sealed, and a lantern(?).Interesting to see that what, in 2004, was a single, supposedly haunted, artefact (the dybbuk box), has in 2018 become 'dybbuk boxes', some sort of wider species of general ghostly 'thing'. Guff from start to finish, then.
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Most seem to call them a Dybbuk box I never thought of calling it one but then I guess it sounds like one.
Tale about the Old Antique Haunted, small wooden chest.
Most of you will think this is nonsense. This is the story, believe it or not.
About 30 some years ago I moved to a small cottage in a village near Hull. The day we moved in it was already a cold miserable feeling but I just put it down to it being derelict for several years. It needed a lot doing to it to make it liveable but I was much younger then and up for the task. After I unpacked I got started. Straight away, room after room I cleared out, cleaned and some I re-plastered and replaced woodwork. It took weeks. When I got to the master bedroom it had an old iron fire surround which looked amazing, but the chimney was boarded up. I carefully removed the board, behind it was all the fire place parts the old Victorian style kind. Amongst the clutter was a small scrap of paper, which seemed to be written by a rabbi.
It spoke of an old box but I couldn't see one. I had a feel around in the opening but found nothing. It was cold and wet out so I thought I would light a fire in the newly opened hearth. No sooner had I done so, the room filled with smoke. After opening the sash window and attempting to put my fire out I figured there must be a nest that had fallen down the chimney. I felt around in the back of the chimney and I discovered an old sooty looking box. I gave it a bit of a clean. It looked very very old indeed, and was wax sealed on the front. I re-read the old rabbis letter. It said It can't be given away destroyed or hidden but must be sold or traded to pass ownership. It advised about not opening the box as its cursed. I thought "yea right! heard that garbage before" but I resisted opening it any way.
I put it on the side & left it there. So this is when things started to happen, up to you if you believe me or not but it's the truth.
That night the house was unusually cold, I know that's what everyone says about a haunting but it wasn't that the boiler had gone strange as it was less than a year old so I have 24/7 cover and I called out the emergency engineer who was there for hours but couldn't find a fault. The next day he returned with a friend neither of them could work it out. They agreed to replace the boiler.
I had some old heaters so used them for a while.
The next thing I noticed was a slight but nasty smell kind of eggy, I keep finding things broken or disappeared only little things but as a non-believer it freaks me out, its no joke but now I'm a convert.
There is definitely something about this box it's creepy, smelly & weird stuff happens.
So if you don't believe in this sort of stuff I hope you enjoyed my tale but if you do believe I will likely be telling more tales about the spooky goings on, they get too numerous to mention them all.
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Most seem to call them a Dybbuk box I never thought of calling it one but then I guess it sounds like one.
Tale about the Old Antique Haunted, small wooden chest.
Most of you will think this is nonsense. This is the story, believe it or not.
About 30 some years ago I moved to a small cottage in a village near Hull. The day we moved in it was already a cold miserable feeling but I just put it down to it being derelict for several years. It needed a lot doing to it to make it liveable but I was much younger then and up for the task. After I unpacked I got started. Straight away, room after room I cleared out, cleaned and some I re-plastered and replaced woodwork. It took weeks. When I got to the master bedroom it had an old iron fire surround which looked amazing, but the chimney was boarded up. I carefully removed the board, behind it was all the fire place parts the old Victorian style kind. Amongst the clutter was a small scrap of paper, which seemed to be written by a rabbi.
It spoke of an old box but I couldn't see one. I had a feel around in the opening but found nothing. It was cold and wet out so I thought I would light a fire in the newly opened hearth. No sooner had I done so, the room filled with smoke. After opening the sash window and attempting to put my fire out I figured there must be a nest that had fallen down the chimney. I felt around in the back of the chimney and I discovered an old sooty looking box. I gave it a bit of a clean. It looked very very old indeed, and was wax sealed on the front. I re-read the old rabbis letter. It said It can't be given away destroyed or hidden but must be sold or traded to pass ownership. It advised about not opening the box as its cursed. I thought "yea right! heard that garbage before" but I resisted opening it any way.
I put it on the side & left it there. So this is when things started to happen, up to you if you believe me or not but it's the truth.
That night the house was unusually cold, I know that's what everyone says about a haunting but it wasn't that the boiler had gone strange as it was less than a year old so I have 24/7 cover and I called out the emergency engineer who was there for hours but couldn't find a fault. The next day he returned with a friend neither of them could work it out. They agreed to replace the boiler.
I had some old heaters so used them for a while.
The next thing I noticed was a slight but nasty smell kind of eggy, I keep finding things broken or disappeared only little things but as a non-believer it freaks me out, its no joke but now I'm a convert.
There is definitely something about this box it's creepy, smelly & weird stuff happens.
So if you don't believe in this sort of stuff I hope you enjoyed my tale but if you do believe I will likely be telling more tales about the spooky goings on, they get too numerous to mention them all.
What is the source of this text?
The bold title and italics suggest a quotation, but I cannot locate it on the Internet.
Is it a personal tale from you yourself?
What is the source of this text?
The bold title and italics suggest a quotation, but I cannot locate it on the Internet.
Is it a personal tale from you yourself?
The same Pete Dickinson who once said
"I'm not usually prone to having weird things happen to me, or around me" after reporting a "time slip" type story
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/a-step-out-of-time.61730/#post-1616837
but who has also written about
His haunted doll: https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/know-any-haunted-dolls.3366/page-2#post-1887355
His encounter with a ghostly carriage: https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/crossroads-spirit.12811/#post-1616587
A strange driving experience: https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/crossroads-spirit.12811/#post-1616639
All of which seem to be completely made up
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/know-any-haunted-dolls.3366/page-2#post-1887368
Is there a sub-forum for totally fictional accounts where these all belong rather than cluttering up a more serious thread?
Yes its my own story, in the accompanying note I found it was signed Rabbi Rashi Halvi as far as Im aware Dybbuk boxes are only from that film, but a medium and ghost hunter friend of mine told me they also did private exorcisms so from time to time one pops up some real most probably fake or over embellished stories.
There are probably a few fictional stories on It Happened To Me that we don't know are made up. I think we managed to find out a few of them through the years.The same Pete Dickinson who once said
"I'm not usually prone to having weird things happen to me, or around me" after reporting a "time slip" type story
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/a-step-out-of-time.61730/#post-1616837
but who has also written about
His haunted doll: https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/know-any-haunted-dolls.3366/page-2#post-1887355
His encounter with a ghostly carriage: https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/crossroads-spirit.12811/#post-1616587
A strange driving experience: https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/crossroads-spirit.12811/#post-1616639
All of which seem to be completely made up
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/know-any-haunted-dolls.3366/page-2#post-1887368
Is there a sub-forum for totally fictional accounts where these all belong rather than cluttering up a more serious thread?
:rim:My cat was trapped in a dybbuk box once and was half possessed by the spirit of a dead dog.
Was it Schroedingers dybbuk box?
Quite a gaggle of charlatans and haunted people, there.The original seller confesses it all cobblers.
https://www.inputmag.com/features/dybbuk-box-dibbuk-kevin-mannis-zak-bagans-haunted-hoax-revealed
Strange box found in Welsh house behind wall.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird...ewHyTS_ZuvFvz_1LNQjCy0_GZOvBrKGBt84AXKxjTAa4I
Next week he finds a gateway to an enchanted kingdom.Tiktoker ( ) finds mystery box, complete with clichéd, theatrical pentagram carved on it.
A week later, guess what? He only goes and finds the key to the box somewhere else! By smashing a seven-years-bad-luck mirror!
Inside the box, guess what? There’s only another key!
Next week…
maximus otter
Excellent!I once left a box full of fake occult stuff behind a little door that let to a crawlspace In my student house in Leeds in the 90s. It also contained a key for a lock cellar room where i had set up an altar to a spider god created by Clark Ashton Smith. The results were ace. Altar burned in back yard and not one but two full exorcisms of the house.
It was all part of a tulpa creating experiment.Excellent!
Oh great, now we're all going to be eaten by your spider-god.It was all part of a tulpa creating experiment.
It's entered Leeds urban folklore. There is a thread about it on the ghost section of the Secret Leeds site.Oh great, now we're all going to be eaten by your spider-god.