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This box will KILL you Halloween Scare-A-Thon (part 10) - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Far and away, the scariest part of the story is Jason's,
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Speaker 1: when he brings the Dybbuk box home, and he goes
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Speaker 1: to bed that first night, and then the following night, what.
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Speaker 1: In 2003, Kevin Maness owned an antique shop right in
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Speaker 1: downtown Portland, at the base of the Burnside Bridge, which
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Speaker 1: is considered the gateway to the city. Because Kevin owned
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Speaker 1: this antique shop, he was always at yard sales and
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Speaker 1: estate sales looking to find the next thing he could
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Speaker 1: sell at his shop. And so one day there was
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Speaker 1: this estate sale over at this woman's house. She had
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Speaker 1: just passed away. She was about 103 years old. She
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Speaker 1: was a Holocaust survivor and her estate was being sold.
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Speaker 1: And so he goes over to the house and he
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Speaker 1: sees the way they're selling all of her items is
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Speaker 1: is by bundling them in different lots. So depending on
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Speaker 1: what item it was, they'd be bundled with similar items
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Speaker 1: and then sold as a package. So the people there
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Speaker 1: would be bidding on the whole lot. They couldn't buy
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Speaker 1: individual items. And Kevin had his eye on one particular
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Speaker 1: lot called Lot 29. And Lot 29 included a couple
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Speaker 1: of small tools that he wanted to sell in a shop.
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Speaker 1: And it had this mystery box. And that's exactly as
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Speaker 1: it was labeled. It just says mystery box on it.
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Speaker 1: And he was intrigued by it. And so he placed
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Speaker 1: a bid on Lot 29. And ultimately, he won the bid,
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Speaker 1: and he was really happy about it. So he takes
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Speaker 1: the contents of lot 29, and he wheels them over
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Speaker 1: to his car. And as he's loading stuff into the
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Speaker 1: back of his car, someone behind him says, oh, so
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Speaker 1: you went with the Dybbuk box, huh? And Kevin, in
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Speaker 1: his head, went right back to his childhood, because growing up,
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Speaker 1: he had always been scared of Dybbuks, because a Dybbuk
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Speaker 1: is a malevolent spirit in Jewish folklore, and Kevin was Jewish,
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Speaker 1: and so his parents used to say, oh, you better
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Speaker 1: not do that, Kevin, or the Dybbuk's gonna get you.
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Speaker 1: And so he grew up terrified of Dybbuk's. And so
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Speaker 1: his interest is piqued. And Kevin turns around and he says,
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Speaker 1: did you just call this box a Dybbuk box? And
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Speaker 1: the woman's like, yeah. And my grandmother was terrified of it,
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Speaker 1: and she said no one could ever open it. And
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Speaker 1: Kevin turns to look at the box, and it's about
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Speaker 1: two foot high by one foot wide, and there are
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Speaker 1: these little doors that swing open on the front, And
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Speaker 1: then on the bottom, there's a drawer that comes out
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Speaker 1: and there's one lock that sits across the two doors
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Speaker 1: and it's currently locked with a little padlock.
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Speaker 2: And he looks up at her and he goes, why
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Speaker 2: can't you open it?
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Speaker 1: And the woman just says, we never knew, but our
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Speaker 1: grandmother would always go every time we said the word Dybbuk.
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Speaker 1: And so it was weird enough that we just never
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Speaker 1: asked any questions and we stayed away from her Dybbuk box.
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Speaker 1: Kevin agreed that was pretty weird and he finished loading
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Speaker 1: his car, shut the trunk, said bye to the woman,
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Speaker 1: hopped in his car and he drove away. And he
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Speaker 1: never really gave it a second thought. At this point,
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Speaker 1: he's not thinking the Dybbuk box is anything malevolent. He
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Speaker 1: thinks it's just some random chest that he won at
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Speaker 1: an auction. Kevin drives back to his antique shop and
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Speaker 1: he begins unloading all the things he won at the auction.
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Speaker 1: He brings them inside and he brings them downstairs because
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Speaker 1: the top floor, the main floor, was really where he
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Speaker 1: sold things. When he got new items, he would bring
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Speaker 1: them downstairs to his warehouse of sorts, which was much
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Speaker 1: bigger than the first floor. It had lots of rows
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Speaker 1: of shelving and it had a workstation down there. He
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Speaker 1: would bring his new things down there and he would
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Speaker 1: price them and get them ready before bringing them back up.
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Speaker 1: And at some point, he brought the Dybbuk box in
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Speaker 1: and he brought it down and he put it on
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Speaker 1: the back table. He was about to just leave it
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Speaker 1: there and go back upstairs when suddenly he became really
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Speaker 1: curious and he really wanted to open the Dybbuk box.
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Speaker 1: And so he goes over and he kind of yanks
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Speaker 1: on the front two doors. He doesn't want to damage it,
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Speaker 1: but he can tell this lock is relatively new and
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Speaker 1: it's not just going to come off. And so he
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Speaker 1: doesn't have the key to it and he doesn't have
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Speaker 1: a way to clip the lock. And so he takes
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Speaker 1: a screwdriver and he basically wedges it underneath the actual
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Speaker 1: metal clasps that are attached to the wood. And he
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Speaker 1: slowly kind of bends it up and bends it off
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Speaker 1: and pops.
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Speaker 2: It out of the wood. And as soon as he
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Speaker 2: does that, the doors swing open.
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Speaker 1: And there's like a mechanical device inside of the Dybbuk
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Speaker 1: box that activates the drawer. Basically, anytime the doors open,
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Speaker 1: the drawer also opens at the same time. And Kevin
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Speaker 1: remembered thinking how silly it was that this kind of old,
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Speaker 1: crummy-looking wine closet had this fairly complicated mechanism inside of
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Speaker 1: it that still worked. Inside the Dybbuk box were two
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Speaker 1: pennies from the 1920s. There was a used candle. There
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Speaker 1: were two locks of hair. There was this small tombstone
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Speaker 1: that said Shalom on it. And there was also a
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Speaker 1: small wine goblet that was inside.
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Speaker 2: And that was it.
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Speaker 1: And Kevin immediately thought, well, this is just some older
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Speaker 1: woman's keepsake. And these things maybe have sentimental value to her,
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Speaker 1: but they don't to me. And so he shut the
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Speaker 1: Dybbuk box, pushed it to the side of the desk,
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Speaker 1: and walked upstairs and didn't give it another thought. Kevin
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Speaker 1: had one employee at the antique shop. Her name was Jane.
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Speaker 1: She was a younger woman. She was an incredible saleswoman.
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Speaker 1: And Kevin thought very highly of her. And so the
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Speaker 1: day after he had brought the Dybbuk box into the
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Speaker 1: antique shop and put it downstairs on the desk, he
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Speaker 1: needed to run out and do some errands.
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Speaker 2: And so he put Jane in charge of the store.
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Speaker 1: And so Kevin leaves and Jane locks the front door
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Speaker 1: to the shop behind Kevin because she needed to go
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Speaker 1: downstairs and get a few items that she wanted to
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Speaker 1: bring upstairs to sell that day. And it was before
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Speaker 1: opening time. So front door's locked. No one else is
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Speaker 1: inside the shop. and Jane goes down into the basement.
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Speaker 1: Once you went down the wooden steps into the basement,
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Speaker 1: you'd be looking out at this huge room of all
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Speaker 1: these industrial shelves that run the length of the room
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Speaker 1: where they would keep their antiques and other valuables on.
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Speaker 1: And the lighting down there was never that great because
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Speaker 1: they used these long fluorescent tube lights that at best
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Speaker 1: cast a kind of subtle yellow glow on everything.
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Speaker 2: They were not.
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Speaker 1: Particularly bright and it was a real pain to actually
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Speaker 1: go up and change them because you needed to place
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Speaker 1: a ladder but the ladders were not perfectly aligned with
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Speaker 1: the lights. You basically had to reach over the shelving
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Speaker 1: where all the antiques were and you ran the risk
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Speaker 1: of knocking things over.
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Speaker 2: And so a lot of times.
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Speaker 1: Jane and Kevin would wait until you were down to
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Speaker 1: like one or two crappy working lights before they'd say, okay,
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Speaker 1: we really got to go up there and replace some
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Speaker 1: of these bulbs. And so as it happens this day,
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Speaker 1: they're down to like two or three working lights. So
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Speaker 1: in classic horror movie fashion, She's going into this dingy
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Speaker 1: basement with very poor lighting. And so once she gets
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Speaker 1: to the bottom of the steps, she walks to the
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Speaker 1: far end of the room, a little bit away from
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Speaker 1: where the Dybbuk box was placed on that back table.
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Speaker 1: She's in the other corner in the back of this
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Speaker 1: basement and she's getting some things off the shelf when
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden she stops and she can't help
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Speaker 1: but shake the feeling that she feels like someone is
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Speaker 1: watching her. Now, she is down in this basement all
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Speaker 1: the time, whether it's well lit or dark. Whether Kevin
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Speaker 1: is there with her or she's alone, this is a
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Speaker 1: place she goes all the time. And she's never had
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Speaker 1: this feeling before. There's no way to get into the
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Speaker 1: basement unless you come down the stairs. And she locked
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Speaker 1: the front door and she was the only one who
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Speaker 1: came downstairs. She hasn't heard anything. There's no other way
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Speaker 1: to leave this space. So she doesn't know where she's
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Speaker 1: getting this feeling from, but she really can't shake it.
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Speaker 1: And as she's kind of looking around and she's starting
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Speaker 1: to get a little bit paranoid... The phone rings. They
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Speaker 1: had a landline that was on a table right at
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Speaker 1: the base of the stairs. The phone rings down there
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Speaker 1: and it startles her. And then it kind of jumps
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Speaker 1: her back into reality. And she's like, okay, I'm getting paranoid.
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Speaker 1: And she walks over and she picks up the phone.
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Speaker 1: And it's actually her friend who was planning on coming
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Speaker 1: by the antique shop that day.
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Speaker 2: So as they're chatting, Jane hears what sounds like a broom.
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Speaker 1: Imagine if a push broom is lined up against the
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Speaker 1: wall and then it falls over.
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Speaker 2: The sound that the.
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Speaker 1: Wooden stick would make as it hits concrete. That's the
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Speaker 1: sound she hears as she's on the phone. And it
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Speaker 1: startles her again and she goes, hey, let me call
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Speaker 1: you back. She hangs up on her friend and she's
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Speaker 1: looking out and because the lighting is terrible from where
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Speaker 1: she is, she's now at the foot of the stairs
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Speaker 1: looking down all these rows and she's heard that stick
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Speaker 1: land on the ground on the far side back where
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Speaker 1: she had been originally. She's kind of looking around and
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Speaker 1: she can't see anything. And so she takes a deep
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Speaker 1: breath and she begins walking down the rows to see
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Speaker 1: what fell over. And as she's walking down the row,
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Speaker 1: something smashes behind her and she turns around and And
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Speaker 1: one of the fluorescent tube lights has fallen from the
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Speaker 1: ceiling and smashed onto the ground. And so all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, she doesn't want to explore this falling broom
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Speaker 1: that's behind her in the dark corner of the basement.
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Speaker 2: Instead, she's ready to leave.
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Speaker 1: And so she starts walking back towards the stairs to
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Speaker 1: get out of here. And as she's walking down one
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Speaker 1: of these rows, a wooden chair that is on one
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Speaker 1: of the shelves comes flying off of it and lands
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Speaker 1: squarely in the middle, blocking her path. And there's no
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Speaker 1: way this could have happened unless someone pushed this chair.
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Speaker 1: And suddenly she thinks, someone's down here with me. And
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Speaker 1: she screams and she hurdles the chair and she runs
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Speaker 1: to the steps. She starts running up. And to her horror,
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Speaker 1: there is a metal door that locks the basement at night.
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Speaker 1: So if someone were to break in, it's another layer
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Speaker 1: to protect the store from thieves. And it was shut
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Speaker 1: and locked. It can only be locked from the outside
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Speaker 1: and with a key. So there's no way she would
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Speaker 1: have done this by accident. And now she's freaking out
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Speaker 1: because she's trapped. In the basement with some person running
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Speaker 1: around pushing chairs over and breaking lights. And so she
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Speaker 1: grabs the gate and she starts shaking it and she's
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Speaker 1: yelling for Kevin thinking maybe he came in.
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Speaker 2: And forgot I was down here and shut and locked
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Speaker 2: the gate.
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Speaker 1: And she's checking over her shoulder looking down into the
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Speaker 1: basement and she starts hearing more lights falling off the
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Speaker 1: ceiling and shattering on the ground. She is in absolute
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Speaker 1: panic mode. She's just waiting for someone to come bounding
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Speaker 1: up the stairs towards her. She has no idea what
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Speaker 1: to do. She pulls out her phone and she calls Kevin. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: Kevin is making his way back to the antique shop.
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Speaker 1: He's only a couple minutes away and he sees his
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Speaker 1: phone ringing that was sitting on the passenger seat and
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Speaker 1: he picks it up and it's Jane and he answers
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Speaker 1: and immediately Jane is hysterical and she's screaming that someone's
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Speaker 1: in the antique shop that's breaking things and Kevin's like
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Speaker 1: slow down slow down what's going on and all he
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Speaker 1: can hear in the background is the sound of what
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Speaker 1: sounds like glass shattering and things falling and breaking.
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Speaker 2: And And he's like, wait, what's going on? Are you okay, Jane? Like,
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Speaker 2: where are you?
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Speaker 1: And he hears her say, someone's in the basement.
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Speaker 2: And he goes, where are you? And she's like, I'm
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Speaker 2: in the basement. And he was like, get out of
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Speaker 2: the basement. Call the police.
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Speaker 1: But as he's trying to get her to do that,
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Speaker 1: the phone cuts out. Kevin was only about a block
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Speaker 1: away from his shop, so he floors it to his shop.
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Speaker 1: He parks outside and he's thinking to himself, what am
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Speaker 1: I walking into? Is there going to be like an
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Speaker 1: active burglary going on? Is she going to be held hostage? Like,
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Speaker 1: are the police going to be there? But he just
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Speaker 1: knows he needs to get in there to Jane and
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Speaker 1: he gets to the front door and it's locked. So
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Speaker 1: he unlocks the front door and he goes inside and
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Speaker 1: it's silent. He's looking around. There's no damage to the
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Speaker 1: first floor. There's no damage anywhere. And he yells for Jane.
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Speaker 1: There's no answer from Jane. And he starts walking kind
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Speaker 1: of tentatively through the store towards the back. And he
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Speaker 1: gets to that door leading down into the basement, the
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Speaker 1: same one that Jane couldn't open when she ran up
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Speaker 1: the stairs to get out of the basement. And he
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Speaker 1: looks at it and Jane's not at the top of
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Speaker 1: the stairs anymore. And he's thinking, I didn't lock that door.
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Speaker 1: And I'm the only one with the key to lock
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Speaker 1: that door. How is it locked right now? Does Jane
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Speaker 1: have a key that I don't know about? And why
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Speaker 1: would she lock it? Does that mean Jane's up here somewhere?
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Speaker 2: Is that what happened? And he's like, Jane, come out.
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Speaker 2: Did you lock this door?
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Speaker 1: But Jane's not on the first floor and their first
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Speaker 1: floor is very small. And so he thinks, okay, she
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Speaker 1: has to be downstairs. And so he opens up the gate,
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Speaker 1: he swings it open and he starts walking down the
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Speaker 1: steps and he's really cautious as he's going down because again,
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Speaker 1: he has no idea what he's walking into. He hits
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Speaker 1: the lights, but the lights don't work down there. And
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Speaker 1: as he starts to bend around the corner where he
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Speaker 1: can actually see into the basement, He sees Jane sitting
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Speaker 1: at the chair right next to that table where that
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Speaker 1: phone is. And she's just sitting there kind of stunned.
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Speaker 1: And he goes to Jane and he's like, what happened
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Speaker 1: down here? And he glances out quickly at all the
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Speaker 1: rows and he sees all this furniture that's come off
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Speaker 1: the shelves and there's glass all over the ground. And
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Speaker 1: he's looking at Jane and Jane's just showing no reaction.
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Speaker 1: She's sitting there like she's in shock. And he turns
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Speaker 1: to Jane again and he says, come on, you got
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Speaker 1: to tell me what happened down here. And Jane just goes,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how to explain what
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Speaker 1: happened down here. I was walking down the row and
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Speaker 1: then I felt like someone was watching me and then
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Speaker 1: things are falling off the ceiling and the shelves.
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Speaker 2: I've never seen anything like this before. Now at this point,
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Speaker 2: Kevin's adrenaline is through the roof.
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Speaker 1: He came charging in here thinking he was going to
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Speaker 1: have to save Jane from some person breaking in and
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Speaker 1: breaking stuff. But as far as he can tell, there's
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Speaker 1: no one here but Jane. And so he decides he's
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Speaker 1: going to take a flashlight and he's going to explore
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Speaker 1: the basement because either there's someone here or Jane did this.
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Speaker 1: So he grabs his flashlight and he starts walking around
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Speaker 1: and all he sees is a bunch of broken glass
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Speaker 1: and some furniture that's come off the shelves and a
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Speaker 1: couple other things that are on the ground. But other
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Speaker 1: than that, there's no one down here and there's no
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Speaker 1: other way to come in or out of here besides
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Speaker 1: the stairs. So after Kevin is certain that no one
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Speaker 1: else is here, he turns to Jane and he regrets
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Speaker 1: this now. He says in an interview that he feels
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Speaker 1: horrible about this now, but at the time he's thinking
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Speaker 1: to himself, you know, This had to have been Jane.
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Speaker 1: Who else would have done this? I don't know why
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Speaker 1: she did this. But there's no one else here. And
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Speaker 1: he goes, Jane, did you do this? And this is
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Speaker 1: when Jane's emotions came through. Because before she was in shock,
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Speaker 1: now she's mad.
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Speaker 2: And she goes... F you, Kevin.
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Speaker 1: And she leaves and she doesn't say another word to
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Speaker 1: him and she doesn't come back. She quits on the spot.
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Speaker 1: But at the time, Kevin believed she had done it.
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Speaker 1: So he was kind of like, oh, well, he was
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Speaker 1: not even a little bit thinking the Dybbuk box had
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Speaker 1: anything to do with this. Just a couple of days
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Speaker 1: after the basement incident, Kevin's mother was supposed to come
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Speaker 1: by the antique shop and the two of them were
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Speaker 1: going to leave and get lunch together to celebrate her birthday.
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Speaker 1: As soon as she walked into the shop, Kevin goes, hey, mom,
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Speaker 1: I got a gift for you. And he brings over
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Speaker 1: this wrapped box and he sets it down on a
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Speaker 1: table right in front of his mother who's sitting on
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Speaker 1: a chair. And he unwraps it and it's the Dybbuk box.
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Speaker 1: Before Kevin can explain what it is, the phone rings
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Speaker 1: at the other end of the store and he was
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Speaker 1: expecting a call. And he goes, hold on, mom, I
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Speaker 1: gotta get this. He goes to the back of the
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Speaker 1: store to answer the call while his mom is just
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Speaker 1: sitting there looking at the box. And so while Kevin
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Speaker 1: is at the other end of the store, his mother
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Speaker 1: opens the Dybbuk box and she says she had to
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Speaker 1: sit down as soon as she opened it because she
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Speaker 1: had this unbelievable, overwhelming sense of dread as soon as
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Speaker 1: the doors were open. And she's staring at it like
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Speaker 1: she can't take her eyes away. And then all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden she has a massive stroke. And so she
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Speaker 1: keels over and she can't move and she can't talk.
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Speaker 1: And Kevin sees this happening. He runs over and he's like, mom,
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Speaker 1: what's going on? He calls 911. And as the paramedics
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Speaker 1: are working on her, she would say that while she
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Speaker 1: was in this kind of paralyzed state when she couldn't
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Speaker 1: talk and she couldn't move, all she wanted to communicate
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Speaker 1: was to somehow get her son.
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Speaker 2: To get rid of that box.
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Speaker 1: She didn't know why, but she felt like the box
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Speaker 1: had something to do with her having the stroke. And
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Speaker 1: so all she could do was move her eyes. And
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Speaker 1: so she found herself, because her son's right here, looking
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Speaker 1: at the Dybbuk box and looking away. Looking at the
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Speaker 1: Dybbuk box, looking away. Hoping her son would see her
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Speaker 1: eyes as a signal to look at the Dybbuk box
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Speaker 1: and put it together that that thing's bad. And Kevin
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Speaker 1: does realize that his mom is flicking her eyes at
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Speaker 1: the Dybbuk box. But in the moment, he's much more
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Speaker 1: concerned about the health of his mother. And it wasn't
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Speaker 1: until she got put in a hospital and she was
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Speaker 1: being taken care of and he knew she'd be okay.
15:10
Speaker 2: Then he remembers, he.
15:11
Speaker 1: Kind of went over it in his head later that day,
15:14
Speaker 1: that his mom was really scared looking, and she was
15:17
Speaker 1: looking at the Dybbuk box, like that was the thing
15:19
Speaker 1: that was causing her to be scared.
15:21
Speaker 2: Not the stroke, the Dybbuk box.
15:23
Speaker 1: And Kevin starts thinking to himself, I don't know, there's
15:26
Speaker 1: something off about the Dybbuk box.
15:27
Speaker 2: Either it's really bad luck, or there's some truth.
15:31
Speaker 1: To you don't open up this Dybbuk box. Either way,
15:34
Speaker 1: I don't want to take any more chances, because so
15:36
Speaker 1: long as I've owned this thing, I've had a horrible
15:39
Speaker 1: thing happen in the basement and now my mom's had
15:41
Speaker 1: a stroke.
15:42
Speaker 2: So I want to get rid of it.
15:43
Speaker 1: So Kevin puts the Dybbuk box at the front of
15:45
Speaker 1: his antique store and he puts it up for sale.
15:48
Speaker 1: And very quickly, a young couple came into the store
15:50
Speaker 1: and they bought the Dybbuk box. And Kevin's relieved. He's like,
15:53
Speaker 1: thank goodness that bad luck charm, that whatever's going on
15:57
Speaker 1: with that thing is gone and out of my life.
15:59
Speaker 1: But just a couple of days later, he was in
16:01
Speaker 1: the back of the shop when he heard the door
16:03
Speaker 1: open and then the door shut.
16:04
Speaker 2: And he walked out expecting to.
16:06
Speaker 1: See some customers, but instead he sees the Dybbuk box
16:09
Speaker 1: that's sitting right inside his store. Someone must have just
16:12
Speaker 1: dropped it off. And so he walks up to it
16:14
Speaker 1: and he sees there's a piece of paper that's been
16:16
Speaker 1: taped to the top of the Dybbuk box and there's.
16:18
Speaker 2: Writing on it. And all it says is, this has
16:21
Speaker 2: an odd darkness about it.
16:23
Speaker 1: This really freaked Kevin out because in a way it
16:26
Speaker 1: was like other people were confirming that something was wrong
16:29
Speaker 1: with this box. Kevin did not want the Dybbuk box
16:32
Speaker 1: to be in his store. So he put it in
16:33
Speaker 1: his car and he drove back to his house and
16:35
Speaker 1: he put it in his storage locker and he locked
16:37
Speaker 1: it up and then went back to work for the day.
16:39
Speaker 1: That night when he went home, he went to bed
16:42
Speaker 1: and he had this dream where in the dream he's
16:44
Speaker 1: walking in this courtyard and he's holding the hand of
16:47
Speaker 1: this woman who he believes is his friend and he
16:49
Speaker 1: trusts this person. And the area he's in feels very friendly.
16:53
Speaker 1: And it's a very positive dream. And as he's walking,
16:56
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, this person starts to pull away
16:58
Speaker 1: from him. And he can't move anymore. And he's losing
17:01
Speaker 1: the grip on this person's hand. And they keep moving
17:04
Speaker 1: and moving until their hand is out of his. And
17:06
Speaker 1: they disappear into the corner of the courtyard where it's
17:08
Speaker 1: totally dark. And so he's looking into the darkness, waiting
17:11
Speaker 1: for his friend to come out again. And he can't move.
17:13
Speaker 2: He's anchored to the spot.
17:15
Speaker 1: And as he's looking, he sees what looks like an
17:17
Speaker 1: old woman walking out of the mist. And her head
17:20
Speaker 1: is down and he can't tell what she's doing. And
17:22
Speaker 1: she's pretty far away and she's walking closer and closer
17:25
Speaker 1: to him. And when she's about five, six feet away,
17:27
Speaker 1: she raises her head up and her whole face is
17:30
Speaker 1: falling off.
17:30
Speaker 2: All the skin is falling off of her face. It's rotting.
17:33
Speaker 2: She's like a corpse.
17:34
Speaker 1: And she raises her hands up in front of her.
17:37
Speaker 1: Then she grabs his face and begins pulling off pieces
17:40
Speaker 1: of his face until he suddenly wakes up. Kevin had
17:42
Speaker 1: to compose himself in bed because he was so scared
17:45
Speaker 1: from the dream he just had. He sits up and
17:47
Speaker 1: he goes into the bathroom to get a sip of water.
17:50
Speaker 1: And as he walks past the mirror, he notices there
17:52
Speaker 1: are marks on his shoulders and his arms that he
17:54
Speaker 1: did not have before. It looks like bruising almost. And
17:57
Speaker 1: he's looking at them and he's thinking, no way. That
18:01
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with the dream. This is just
18:02
Speaker 1: coincidence that she was grabbing me in this area in
18:05
Speaker 1: the dream and now I have marks there. It's just coincidence.
18:08
Speaker 1: And so he kind of writes it off and he
18:10
Speaker 1: goes back to bed. And he has the same dream.
18:13
Speaker 1: He gets up again and he's breathing heavily. He's sweating
18:16
Speaker 1: because he just had the same dream. It was this
18:18
Speaker 1: terrifying dream. And he goes back into the bathroom and
18:21
Speaker 1: now his entire back is covered in bruises.
18:24
Speaker 2: He has bruises all over his back, all over his arms.
18:27
Speaker 2: He's got red marks on his neck.
18:28
Speaker 1: And now in his mind, he feels like it has
18:31
Speaker 1: to do with the Dybbuk box.
18:32
Speaker 2: The Dybbuk box is now in my backyard.
18:35
Speaker 1: It's not a coincidence that all of a sudden I'm
18:36
Speaker 1: having these horrific dreams that are apparently manifesting themselves.
18:40
Speaker 2: In bruises and marks on my actual body.
18:42
Speaker 1: And so Kevin is done with the Dybbuk box. And
18:44
Speaker 1: instead of going back to bed, he goes to his
18:46
Speaker 1: computer and he puts the Dybbuk box on eBay up
18:49
Speaker 1: for sale. And that night, two college kids named Sam
18:52
Speaker 1: and Brian, who lived in Missouri, they buy the Dybbuk
18:54
Speaker 1: box and Kevin could not be happier to package that
18:57
Speaker 1: thing up and ship it off. Sam and Brian had
19:00
Speaker 1: seen the ad on eBay for the Dybbuk box. And
19:02
Speaker 1: at first it did not seem remarkable, but they saw
19:05
Speaker 1: that Kevin had given this really detailed description of all
19:08
Speaker 1: the strange things that had happened for him since he
19:11
Speaker 1: owned the Dybbuk box. And I think clearly Kevin's angle
19:13
Speaker 1: was he was almost trying to advertise it to groups
19:15
Speaker 1: of people that might be interested in that. And Sam
19:18
Speaker 1: and Brian were exactly that demographic because they were looking
19:21
Speaker 1: for things online that were considered haunted. They wanted to
19:24
Speaker 1: see if ghosts and the paranormal were real. And so
19:27
Speaker 1: they were eager to buy the Dybbuk box and test
19:31
Speaker 1: it out. And so three weeks later, when this package
19:33
Speaker 1: finally arrives in Missouri at their house, Brian was still
19:36
Speaker 1: out at class, but Sam was home, so he receives
19:38
Speaker 1: the package, he eagerly brings it into the kitchen, he
19:41
Speaker 1: unpackages it, and he sets it on the kitchen table,
19:44
Speaker 1: and just a few minutes later, Brian comes home, and
19:46
Speaker 1: Brian would say in interviews that when he walked in,
19:49
Speaker 1: it smelled like someone had peed all over the apartment
19:52
Speaker 1: like there was urine everywhere and he's walking around thinking
19:55
Speaker 1: what happened this smells so bad in here and he
19:58
Speaker 1: walks into the kitchen where it was the strongest smell
20:00
Speaker 1: and there's Sam proudly standing next to this awful looking
20:03
Speaker 1: chest which was of course the Dybbuk box and he
20:06
Speaker 1: realizes Brian does that the Dybbuk box is what smells
20:09
Speaker 1: like urine And he goes, Sam, do you smell that?
20:11
Speaker 1: And Sam's like, yeah, that's the smell of ghosts. Sam
20:14
Speaker 1: would pick it up and go to Brian as soon
20:17
Speaker 1: as he walked into the kitchen. And Sam joked about
20:19
Speaker 1: how he couldn't wait to sleep in the same bed
20:21
Speaker 1: as the Dybbuk box.
20:23
Speaker 2: They were just making a big joke out of it.
20:24
Speaker 1: Sam had also set up a blog where he was
20:26
Speaker 1: gonna document everything that happened from day one of receiving
20:30
Speaker 1: this Dybbuk box to whenever they got rid of it
20:32
Speaker 1: or till whenever something happened. And for the first two weeks,
20:35
Speaker 1: they had the Dybbuk box in their possession.
20:37
Speaker 2: Nothing did happen.
20:38
Speaker 1: But when Sam started bringing the Dybbuk box out and
20:41
Speaker 1: leaving it right in the middle of these huge parties
20:43
Speaker 1: they would throw, where people were spilling beer on it
20:45
Speaker 1: and they were opening it up and putting things inside
20:47
Speaker 1: of it and making jokes with it, when they were
20:50
Speaker 1: doing that to the Dybbuk box, suddenly they started seeing
20:53
Speaker 1: a pretty significant uptick in strangeness inside of their house.
20:56
Speaker 1: It started with their technology. Sam's laptop crashed and the
20:59
Speaker 1: hard drive was unrecoverable, so he had to replace his laptop.
21:03
Speaker 1: All of their watches just didn't work while they were
21:05
Speaker 1: in the house. No matter what they did, no matter
21:07
Speaker 1: when they fixed it, the watch just simply did not work.
21:10
Speaker 1: Their Xbox would not turn on, but when they brought
21:12
Speaker 1: it to another person's house, it worked just fine. It
21:15
Speaker 1: just couldn't work inside of their house. And the toaster,
21:18
Speaker 1: anytime you turned it on, it basically immediately incinerated whatever
21:22
Speaker 1: you put inside of it. But none of these technological
21:24
Speaker 1: difficulties were frightening to Sam or Brian. They were just frustrating.
21:28
Speaker 1: And I don't even think they were connecting them with
21:30
Speaker 1: the Dybbuk box. It was just this thing that was
21:33
Speaker 1: happening to them. It wasn't until the light bulbs in
21:36
Speaker 1: their house started bursting in the middle of the night
21:38
Speaker 1: that they started to get pretty creeped out about some
21:40
Speaker 1: of the things that were happening in their apartment. That
21:43
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden it did seem like, you know,
21:45
Speaker 1: maybe if the Dybbuk box really is cursed, this might
21:48
Speaker 1: be how it would manifest. And so they'd replace the
21:50
Speaker 1: light bulb and then sure enough it would burst again.
21:53
Speaker 1: And they couldn't keep light bulbs in because they kept popping.
21:55
Speaker 1: And so their house was dark a lot of the time.
21:58
Speaker 1: But the worst part was when they had this massive
22:00
Speaker 1: insect infestation inside of their apartment. And they were really
22:04
Speaker 1: localized around the Dybbuk box. All these insects would.
22:07
Speaker 2: Come out of the walls, out of the toilets, out
22:09
Speaker 2: of the sink.
22:10
Speaker 1: They'd come from behind the fridge and they would all
22:12
Speaker 1: kind of like converge on the Dybbuk box and go
22:15
Speaker 1: inside of it. The Dybbuk box at one point was
22:18
Speaker 1: swarming with insects all over and they had to shut
22:20
Speaker 1: the door. They couldn't even go in the room with
22:22
Speaker 1: the Dybbuk box because it was just covered in insects.
22:25
Speaker 1: But despite how scary this was for the boys... They
22:28
Speaker 1: had become kind of like a cool talking point on
22:30
Speaker 1: campus because of Sam's blog that a lot of other
22:33
Speaker 1: students were following, and so the boys kind of liked
22:36
Speaker 1: the clout they got with that, and they decided they
22:38
Speaker 1: didn't want to get rid of the box after all.
22:39
Speaker 1: But it wasn't long after the insect infestation that Sam
22:43
Speaker 1: began losing all of his hair, and at the same time,
22:46
Speaker 1: he started having this constant hallucination. that there was an
22:50
Speaker 1: old woman in his peripheral vision on either side of
22:52
Speaker 1: his head, pretty much at all times. Anywhere he went,
22:55
Speaker 1: there basically was someone he couldn't quite see following him around.
22:59
Speaker 1: Whether he was well-rested, whether he was totally exhausted, it
23:02
Speaker 1: didn't matter. He always saw this shrouded, dark figure that
23:06
Speaker 1: he believed was an old woman, and it scared him
23:08
Speaker 1: so much he couldn't sleep, and so he began going
23:11
Speaker 1: into Brian's room and sitting on Brian's bed because it
23:14
Speaker 1: was the one place he felt a little bit of comfort.
23:17
Speaker 1: And as he's sitting on the bed, he would see
23:18
Speaker 1: these dark figures standing on either side of him all night.
23:22
Speaker 2: And so finally, no matter.
23:23
Speaker 1: How cool their blog was, it became too much and
23:25
Speaker 1: they decide we have to get rid of the Dybbuk box.
23:28
Speaker 2: And so they put it on eBay.
23:29
Speaker 1: And very quickly it gets sold to a guy named Jason,
23:32
Speaker 1: who was this museum director over at this other university
23:35
Speaker 1: in Missouri. And he had actually been following along with
23:38
Speaker 1: Sam's blog. He was very interested. and what was going
23:41
Speaker 1: on with the Dybbuk box. And when it was listed
23:43
Speaker 1: for sale, he was all over it.
23:44
Speaker 2: He wanted to buy it.
23:45
Speaker 1: So the boys eagerly ship off the Dybbuk box, and
23:48
Speaker 1: Jason receives it in the middle of a workday. So
23:50
Speaker 1: he puts the package in his truck, and he goes upstairs,
23:53
Speaker 1: and he works through the day. And then afterwards, when
23:55
Speaker 1: everyone's left the office, he goes downstairs, gets the package,
23:58
Speaker 1: brings it back up to his office, puts it on
24:00
Speaker 1: his desk, and he cuts open the packaging. Jason decided
24:03
Speaker 1: he wanted to evaluate the Dybbuk box the way he
24:06
Speaker 1: would evaluate any other antique or item that was coming
24:09
Speaker 1: into the museum that he was the director of. And
24:12
Speaker 1: so Jason starts by taking a whole bunch of pictures
24:15
Speaker 1: all around the outside of the Dybbuk box. And then
24:17
Speaker 1: he gets his black light out and he begins scanning
24:20
Speaker 1: around the outside and he finds all these traces of
24:23
Speaker 1: wax all over the outside, which leads him to believe
24:26
Speaker 1: this was probably used in some sort of ritual. And
24:28
Speaker 1: then he takes a deep breath and he sits down
24:30
Speaker 1: right in front of the Dybbuk box and he pops
24:33
Speaker 1: off the lock and gets ready. And he opens the
24:36
Speaker 1: doors and the drawer slides out with that whole mechanical device.
24:39
Speaker 2: It all kind of comes open.
24:41
Speaker 1: And Jason's totally let down because nothing happens. And part
24:44
Speaker 1: of him thought, like, if this thing is haunted, as
24:47
Speaker 1: soon as you open it up, the haunting's going to begin.
24:50
Speaker 2: And nothing happened. And he's pretty let down about it.
24:52
Speaker 1: And so ultimately, after staring at it and looking at
24:55
Speaker 1: the pennies that are in there and the Shalom statue
24:58
Speaker 1: and the locks of hair, he's just kind of let
25:00
Speaker 1: down by it. And he decides, OK, I kind of
25:02
Speaker 1: got my hopes up for something. This was clearly a hoax.
25:05
Speaker 1: There's nothing going on here. It's just a random old chest.
25:08
Speaker 1: And so he closes it up, and he puts it
25:10
Speaker 1: on another desk that wasn't the one that he worked at,
25:13
Speaker 1: but was just kind of another table inside of this
25:15
Speaker 1: office that he shared with some other people. And he
25:17
Speaker 1: figured it would be a good talking point to tell
25:19
Speaker 1: his colleagues about, and it would be kind of like
25:21
Speaker 1: a showpiece. So the next day, his colleagues come in,
25:23
Speaker 1: and he explains what a Dybbuk box is, and the
25:26
Speaker 1: history around it, that it's supposed to be haunted, and
25:29
Speaker 1: it makes people sick, and gives people strokes, and there's
25:32
Speaker 1: been insects that have been known to come out of
25:35
Speaker 1: it and go into it.
25:36
Speaker 2: It's this very creepy thing. And his colleagues are like, wow,
25:39
Speaker 2: that's pretty cool.
25:40
Speaker 1: But they don't think much of it until all of
25:43
Speaker 1: the electronics inside of their office start to fail. Namely,
25:46
Speaker 1: their computers start crashing and their IT department comes up
25:49
Speaker 1: and they're like, we don't know why this is happening,
25:51
Speaker 1: but sorry, we.
25:52
Speaker 2: Can't recover it.
25:53
Speaker 1: And the light bulbs kept going out to the point
25:55
Speaker 1: where they went out and got this huge pack of
25:57
Speaker 1: extra light bulbs to replace the light bulbs as they
26:00
Speaker 1: went out.
26:01
Speaker 2: Something they never had to do before. But all of
26:03
Speaker 2: a sudden, the Dybbuk box is.
26:04
Speaker 1: In the room and the light bulbs are going out
26:06
Speaker 1: left and right. And then finally, Jason's co-workers that share
26:09
Speaker 1: that space with the Dybbuk box, they all got sick
26:12
Speaker 1: and they blamed the Dybbuk box. They said, you know what?
26:14
Speaker 1: We were fine until that thing came in here. Now,
26:16
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, our computers don't work. The lights
26:19
Speaker 1: don't work and we're getting sick. Get rid of it, Jason.
26:21
Speaker 1: So that day after work, Jason goes and takes the
26:24
Speaker 1: Dybbuk box, puts it in the back of his truck
26:26
Speaker 1: and his truck had a cover on the back.
26:28
Speaker 2: So he secures it in the back. He drives home.
26:30
Speaker 1: And he doesn't want to bring it inside because it
26:32
Speaker 1: just seemed weird to bring a cursed object inside that
26:35
Speaker 1: his coworkers just made him get out of their space
26:38
Speaker 1: because it was making them sick and it was.
26:39
Speaker 2: Ruining their thing.
26:40
Speaker 1: So he thinks, okay, I'll leave it in my truck
26:42
Speaker 1: overnight and I'll figure out what I'm going to do
26:44
Speaker 1: with it tomorrow. He goes inside, he says hi to
26:46
Speaker 1: his family and before long it's time for bed and
26:48
Speaker 1: Jason goes to sleep. In order to understand what happened
26:51
Speaker 1: to Jason, you need to understand the layout of his house.
26:54
Speaker 1: When you open the front door, you walk inside and
26:56
Speaker 1: there's a wall on your right hand side.
26:58
Speaker 2: That's the side of the house.
27:00
Speaker 1: And you walk forward about five or six feet, and
27:02
Speaker 1: on your left is a staircase that goes up to
27:04
Speaker 1: the second floor. If you walk up that staircase, straight
27:07
Speaker 1: ahead of you is going to be a bathroom. If
27:10
Speaker 1: you go left and walk down the hall another five
27:12
Speaker 1: or six feet, you come to the master suite where
27:14
Speaker 1: Jason and his wife would sleep. If you walk through
27:17
Speaker 1: that door, there is a wall on your left where
27:19
Speaker 1: there's a big bay window that looks out onto the street,
27:22
Speaker 1: and there's a big streetlight that sits right outside that
27:24
Speaker 1: projects very orangey-yellow light into.
27:27
Speaker 2: Their room at night.
27:27
Speaker 1: Even though they have a shade up, it's this orange
27:30
Speaker 1: glow that comes through this window.
27:31
Speaker 2: Right here on this side. And then on the other
27:33
Speaker 2: side of the room is the bed. And the bed is.
27:35
Speaker 1: Situated where the feet are pointed towards this window over here,
27:38
Speaker 1: and the head of the bed is against this wall.
27:41
Speaker 1: And it's centered on this wall here. And Jason, if
27:44
Speaker 1: you were looking overhead at the top of this bed,
27:47
Speaker 1: Jason's on the left side, so he's the farthest into
27:49
Speaker 1: his room, and his wife is the closest into the room.
27:52
Speaker 1: So that night, Jason goes to bed, and he falls asleep.
27:54
Speaker 1: But just a couple hours later... He wakes up suddenly
27:57
Speaker 1: and he can't move his body. He can only move
27:59
Speaker 1: his eyes. He's laying on his back and the light
28:01
Speaker 1: from the streetlight is very strong. It's this orangey glow
28:04
Speaker 1: in their whole room. And he's laying there trying to
28:06
Speaker 1: move his hands and his legs, but he can't do it.
28:09
Speaker 1: And as he's doing that, he starts hearing footsteps out
28:12
Speaker 1: on the stairs. And they're distinctive sounds. Slow, plodding steps
28:17
Speaker 1: all the way up to the second floor. And Jason's
28:19
Speaker 1: laying here with his eyes looking towards the door because
28:21
Speaker 1: his door is open and he can barely see into
28:24
Speaker 1: the second floor landing. And he's waiting to see who
28:27
Speaker 1: came up the stairs. And his heart's racing and he's looking.
28:30
Speaker 1: And out of the corner of his eye, he sees
28:31
Speaker 1: what looks like a dark figure begin to walk into
28:34
Speaker 1: the room. And his heart starts racing even faster when
28:37
Speaker 1: he can tell it's definitely not someone he knows. It's
28:39
Speaker 1: this woman, this older woman with a shawl over her head.
28:42
Speaker 1: And her head is tucked down so he can't see her.
28:44
Speaker 1: And this is all out of the corner of his eye.
28:46
Speaker 1: And because of the orange hue coming in from the window,
28:49
Speaker 1: he can definitely tell that there is a real solid
28:52
Speaker 1: figure right there. This is not in his imagination. It's
28:55
Speaker 1: right there. And this woman begins shuffling her way across
28:58
Speaker 1: the foot of the bed. And right at the foot
29:00
Speaker 1: of the bed, as Jason's looking at her, she turns
29:02
Speaker 1: and looks directly at him. And then she runs around
29:05
Speaker 1: the corner. And she looks down at him and she
29:07
Speaker 1: takes her fingers and she drives them into his eyes.
29:10
Speaker 1: And Jason thinks it's real and he's screaming in pain.
29:12
Speaker 1: And he wakes up and his wife is grabbing him
29:15
Speaker 1: and she's like, Jason, Jason, what's wrong? And he's like,
29:17
Speaker 1: what's going on?
29:18
Speaker 2: And she says, honey, it's just a bad dream. You're fine.
29:21
Speaker 1: And he's shaking up, you know, his heart's still racing
29:23
Speaker 1: from this dream he's just had. And he's trying to
29:25
Speaker 1: think like that felt really real. And he's like feeling
29:27
Speaker 1: his eyes. And he can't believe that that was a dream.
29:30
Speaker 1: That was the most vivid dream he's ever had in
29:32
Speaker 1: his life. And so eventually he goes back to sleep.
29:34
Speaker 1: And then the next morning when he gets up, he
29:36
Speaker 1: goes in the bathroom and he looks at his eyes
29:38
Speaker 1: and they're all red around the eyes. and the whites
29:41
Speaker 1: of his eyes are covered in blood. His eyes look horrible,
29:44
Speaker 1: like he's having this terrible allergic reaction to something or
29:48
Speaker 1: it looks like someone might have punched him in the eyes.
29:49
Speaker 2: Or maybe gouged his eyes. That's how it looks.
29:52
Speaker 1: And his wife comes in and she's like, what happened
29:53
Speaker 1: to you?
29:54
Speaker 2: And he's like, oh my God, I have no idea.
29:56
Speaker 1: It was around this time that Jason began to think
29:58
Speaker 1: the Dybbuk box might just be cursed because the two
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Speaker 1: previous owners have said in their disclosures on eBay that horrible,
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Speaker 1: vivid dreams, just like the one he had, to include
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Speaker 1: physical manifestations, are part of having this Dybbuk box. Jason
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Speaker 1: considered just dumping this thing in a dumpster somewhere, but
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Speaker 1: then he was concerned that that he might be passing
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Speaker 1: on this Dybbuk box to someone who wasn't ready for it.
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Speaker 2: And so he decided he would.
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Speaker 1: Give it another day and he would do some research
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Speaker 1: about how to properly dispose of a Dybbuk box. And
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Speaker 1: so that night when Jason came back from work, he
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Speaker 1: left the Dybbuk box in his truck covered up in
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Speaker 1: his driveway. And so Jason goes inside, he has dinner
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Speaker 1: with his family, and then he's sitting down in the
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Speaker 1: TV room and he's watching TV with his son. And
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Speaker 1: as they're watching TV quietly, Jason hears his son.
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Speaker 2: Say, hey dad, who is that? And he looks over.
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Speaker 1: At his son and his son is pointing behind him.
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Speaker 1: And Jason turns around and standing right behind him is
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Speaker 1: the same woman who had come in his room with
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Speaker 1: a shawl on that gouged his eyes out in his dream.
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Speaker 1: And then she suddenly disappears. And Jason's looking at his
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Speaker 1: son like, you just saw that too? And he's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: who was that? And so Jason grabs his son. He
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Speaker 1: yells for his wife and says, we have to leave
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Speaker 1: the house right now. His wife comes downstairs and she's like,
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Speaker 1: what's going on? And he was like, I will explain
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Speaker 1: in the car and we have to take your car.
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Speaker 1: And so his wife sees how serious Jason is.
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Speaker 2: And she says, okay.
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Speaker 1: And they get into her car and they drive down
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Speaker 1: the road. And that's when Jason explains what's going on
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Speaker 1: with the Dybbuk box and how he and his son
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Speaker 1: just saw the same woman that he had seen in
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Speaker 1: his dream the night before that gouged his eyes and
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Speaker 1: his eyes were red. And his wife's starting to get
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Speaker 1: really scared and his son's really scared of what's going on.
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Speaker 1: And so the solution they came up with was they
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Speaker 1: were going to drive back to their house, drop Jason off,
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Speaker 1: who was going to get in his truck where the
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Speaker 1: Dybbuk box is still in the back. It's still locked
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Speaker 1: in the back of the truck. and he's gonna drive
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Speaker 1: it a few miles outside of town to a rental
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Speaker 1: property they owned that no one was staying in and
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Speaker 1: he was gonna put it in the basement and it
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Speaker 1: was gonna stay there until they figured out how to
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Speaker 1: dispose of it because they didn't like the idea of
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Speaker 1: just dumping it somewhere because they felt like if this
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Speaker 1: is real and it's actually this cursed Dybbuk box, then
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Speaker 1: somebody else is gonna be cursed by this Dybbuk box
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Speaker 1: unless we find a way or at least attempt to
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Speaker 1: find a way to contain it and destroy it. And
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Speaker 1: so Jason gets dropped off, he gets in his truck,
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Speaker 1: he drives to the rental property, He puts it in
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Speaker 1: the basement, he seals it up, and he goes back
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Speaker 1: to his house. Once Jason got back to his house,
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Speaker 1: his wife and his son came back as well. And
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Speaker 1: that night, Jason would go on eBay and he would
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Speaker 1: find the contact information for Kevin, the original owner of
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Speaker 1: the Dybbuk box after the estate sale. And he called
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Speaker 1: him that night and Kevin actually picked up and the
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Speaker 1: two of them spoke. And Kevin ultimately agrees to help
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Speaker 1: Jason find a way to properly dispose of this Dybbuk box.
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Speaker 1: And what Kevin offers to do is drive back to
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Speaker 1: the house where he had originally purchased this Dybbuk box
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Speaker 1: and see if he can get some more information about
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Speaker 1: what it is and what they do with it. The
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Speaker 1: next day, Kevin, the antique shop owner, he goes back
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Speaker 1: to the house where he originally bought the Dybbuk box.
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Speaker 2: At the estate sale. He knocks on the door and
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Speaker 2: an old woman comes to the door and.
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Speaker 1: Kevin introduces himself and he says, hey, you know, I
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Speaker 1: was here not too long ago and I purchased lot
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Speaker 1: 29 that included that Dybbuk box and I wanted to
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Speaker 1: know some more information about it. And the woman reacted
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Speaker 1: and she's like, you know, I told my family not
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Speaker 1: to sell that. I know what was inside of it
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Speaker 1: and I know you're not supposed to open it. And
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Speaker 1: I tried to tell my family and they didn't listen.
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Speaker 1: I really hope you didn't open it. And Kevin's like, actually.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I did open it.
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Speaker 1: And he described all the horrible things that happened and
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Speaker 1: he described selling it and all the subsequent owners, how
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Speaker 1: they've had all these issues and how they've arrived at
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Speaker 1: this place now where Jason in Missouri is having all
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Speaker 1: these issues and they're trying to find a way to
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Speaker 1: dispose of it. And that's when Sophie describes what's actually
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Speaker 1: inside of this box. Sophie said she lived in Poland
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Speaker 1: before World War II with her cousin Habila, who was
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Speaker 1: the woman who had passed away and all her things
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Speaker 1: were being sold at the estate sale. And she said
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Speaker 1: that at the time, it was all the rage to
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Speaker 1: have seances and try to talk to dead people and spirits.
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Speaker 1: And they would just do it for fun, Sophie, Habila,
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Speaker 1: and their mother. They would just, they would do this
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Speaker 1: for fun. And Habila had made this Ouija board where
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Speaker 1: she had stitched letters onto this blanket, and they put
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Speaker 1: it over this table, and they would all hold this
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Speaker 1: pendant that was suspended by a chain, and they would
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Speaker 1: ask questions, and they would hope that a spirit that
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Speaker 1: they were interacting with would interact with this chain, and
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Speaker 1: it would swivel around the pendant, and it would point
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Speaker 1: to the different letters whenever they asked a question, and
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Speaker 1: it would spell out whatever their answer was. And Sophie
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Speaker 1: said nothing ever happened. It was just kind of a
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Speaker 1: fun thing for them to do, But one time it
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Speaker 1: did work and they said the chain would go rigid
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Speaker 1: and it would point over and over and it would
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Speaker 1: spell the words, release me, release me, release me. Sophie
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Speaker 1: said the women were incredulous and didn't believe it at first,
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Speaker 1: but then they started to worry that if they didn't
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Speaker 1: help this thing, that if it were a dybbuk and
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Speaker 1: were a malevolent spirit, they would find a way to
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Speaker 1: attach itself to one of them.
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Speaker 2: And so Sophie said they devised this.
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Speaker 1: Ritual where they released it, but into this wine box
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Speaker 1: that they were able to shut and lock. And that
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Speaker 1: wine box became the Dybbuk box. And that Dybbuk box
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Speaker 1: is the same one that was sold to Kevin. Kevin
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Speaker 1: told Sophie that, what do we do? We've already opened
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Speaker 1: it up. And she said, you need to contact a rabbi.
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Speaker 1: And so they would call a rabbi. And apparently they
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Speaker 1: were able to reclaim the Dybbuk inside of the box
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Speaker 1: and lock it and put it away in a secret
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Speaker 1: location where it's been since 2003. And apparently since it's
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Speaker 1: been sealed off, Jason and Kevin have said they've experienced
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Speaker 1: no demonic activity whatsoever. And they never plan to tell
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Speaker 1: anybody where this thing is because they don't want anyone
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Speaker 1: else to have even the opportunity to reopen the Dybbuk
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Speaker 1: box and have to deal with all the horrible things
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Speaker 1: that they went through.
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