Ep. 10: Haunt People While You’re Alive: The Dybbuk Box

This week we get extra spooky as Emma regales Shannon with the story of the most haunted item in the world: The Dybbuk Box. Is it haunted by a Jewish supernatural being, a demon, or is it all a lie? Join us this week and try not to cry! Shannon does and it's fine because scary things are scary, ya'll. 

Sources: 

• The Mother Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk_box, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shema_Yisrael Archived 
• EBAY description: https://web.archive.org/web/20051105000557/http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/rubyc/eBay_dibbuk.htm 
• Questions of Zak Bagans’ idiocy of opening the box: https://www.tvshowsace.com/2020/07/02/zak-bagans-shares-ten-things-to-know-about-the-evil-dybbuk-box-prior-to-opening-on-ghost-adventures-quarantine/ 
• Skeptoid article about the box: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4428?gclid=CjwKCAiA_Kz-BRAJEiwAhJNY75e3xT_wpgal7quQ2Uhl84SDgBMl_9gHtsLOU4Qlo8Z4bBm06A8m5RoCQikQAvD_BwE 
• LA Times article that was the inspiration for the movie The Possession: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-jul-25-ca-gornstein25-story.html 
• The Dibbuk Box website, run by Jason Haxton: http://www.dibbukbox.com/links.htm 
• Keselim meanings: https://www.contdict.com/translate/turkish-english/keselim 
• Truman University site to buy The Dibbuk Box: https://tsup.truman.edu/product/dibbuk-box-the/ 
• Episode 1 of Season 1 of Ghost Adventures: Artifacts: https://www.hulu.com/watch/6554d8cc-ed78-433c-932b-baef056c482d 
• Evidence of Kevin Mannis’s poetic license: https://www.facebook.com/GhostAdventures/posts/hey-zak-just-finished-watching-episode-1-of-your-artifacts-show-which-is-great-w/10154702483432413/ 
• Opening the dybbuk box during quarantine (requires a cable connection): https://watch.travelchannel.com/tv-shows/ghost-adventures-quarantine/full-episodes/dybbuk-box-the-opening
• Post Malone touching the box: https://www.tmz.com/2018/09/16/post-malone-emergency-plane-landing-car-crash-home-invasion-haunted-box/
• Sinisterhood Episode 96: The Dybbuk