The Possession

Sam Raimi’s new film, The Possession is based on a true life object called the Dibbuk Box and with the release of the film, we thought it was only appropriate that we look back at the history of the Dibbuk Box and its journey with Mysterious Universe.

With each mention of the Dibbuk Box bad luck seems to follow. Many listeners of the Mysterious Universe Podcast have begged and pleaded never to mention its name again, while others have “mocked the box” only to end up meeting its wrath.

Below is just a small selection of the emails we have received, as well as links to each episode the Dibbuk Box has featured on.

Emails

Upon my boyfriend arriving home, and me having nothing to really talk about, I decide to share the story of the dibbuk box… which I am really beginning to wonder if that is what caused me to wake very early in pain.

The following morning (at around 3am). I woke up to a horrible pain in the lower left back of my skull. It was as if someone had hit me with a hard object and there was swelling to compare to the the right side. I had (and am still suffering) headeaches and swelling to this peculiar injury that seems to have developed over night for no reason whatsoever. I had not been out drinking the night before and I never get headaches…I certainly would remember my head getting hit in any case.

This happened while I was asleep. I can’t describe it better than feeling like I was clubbed over the back of the head

~ Michelle

Stop talking about the D-Box!!!

The last time you mentioned it, I and my bf both got a yeast infection, and I’ve had multiple things break down in my house! My only toilet has broken, my only shower is broken, my pool has developed several problems, and WHO KNOWS what will happen now!

~ Pat

The first night I tried listening to your interview on the box, I fell asleep within the first 15 minutes or so (it was a very loooong day at work that day). About 4 hours later, I woke up to complete darkness. My apartment is off busy streets, and it’s facing a wooded park, so there usually isn’t much light… but it was much darker than normal. Pitch black. Come to find out, the entire complex’s power was knocked out. Nebraska summers are a beast, and it was about 85F at 3 am.

The next night, I finally sat down and listened to the entire show. Great interview! Gave me goosebumps just like the first time I heard about the box. Here’s the strange thing, though. I dreamed the Dibbuk box that night.

I don’t really remember much of the dream before the box… but I remember walking into a coffee shop in my dream, and seeing an old woman sitting at a table with the box. She definitely didn’t match the dread-locked horror that others have described. She was a short, stout babushka. She was in one chair, and next to here in the other was the box. The dark brown grapes and vines on the front of the box, the stone tablet and the chalice, the inscription on the back of the box, the wine rack on the inside of the doors… I saw it all. I don’t usually remember dreams, but the box is still crystal clear in my head, weeks later.

I don’t know if I became lucid at that point, but I knew that it wasn’t supposed to be there. I knew that I wasn’t supposed to interact with it or even look at it. The little old lady sat there silently smiling. She didn’t say a word, but it felt like she was trying to give it to me. At that time, I woke up.

I have a background in psychology, so when I woke up, I kept telling myself that I primed myself for that dream by listening to the show about the box. The only problem was…I had never seen the box before, as far as I can remember. That next day, I checked out the websites, and I was blown away. The box from my dream matched the box on the website exactly.

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