This is the weird but true tale of some poor schmo who thought he was getting a great deal on a wine cabinet at an estate auction, when in actuality, what he bought was a cage for a demon. Dibbuk (or dybbuk) is the Yiddish for a malicious demon that looks to posses a human host.
After much research one, in a long line of many owners who sold or gave away what would become known as the Dibbuk Box, in terror, discovered that the box originally belonged to two sisters in Poland. In 1938, these sisters first made contact with what they thought was a benevolent spirit during a series of seances. However, as time went on, they came to realize that it was more than one entity that they were dealing with and none of them were benevolent. They would be punished for not making regular contact by having intimate secrets divulged to others attending the seance. It also seemed that the entities were somehow able to influence the members of the seances outside of the seances.
But when the demons then began trying to bargain with them to perform a ritual that would allow them to enter our world, the girls knew that the only way to stop them was to trap them. The entrapment went very wrong, however. The girls felt that their entrapment of the demons in a series of boxes somehow made them stronger and unleashed their evil upon the world, starting with the night of Kristallnacht, when Nazis went on a rampage, destroying Jewish shops and synagogues. For, it was on this night that they first started entrapping the demons.
And although the story is now being made into a movie, the people reporting it seem genuine and legitimate and were not looking to capitalize on it. As you will see from things like the desperate eBay listing, the accounts of the mayhem being unleashed from the box started long before anyone had the idea of a movie. Or of a podcast. Or of a sequel to a podcast.
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