Starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan (WATCHMEN) and Kyra Sedgwick (“The Closer”), THE POSSESSION is directed by Ole Bornedal (NIGHTWATCH), written by Juliet Snowden & Stile. s White, and produced by horror master Sam Raimi along with Rob Tapert and J.R. Young. Lionsgate and Ghost House Pictures present.

The True Story:

Like many possession-based horror films, The Possession is based on a true story. The story is of the Ebay seller Iosif Nietzke, a Missouri college student, who sold an ancient Jewish wine cabinet box online, and warned buyers of the bad luck that came with it--for example, he was only in his 20s and had started losing his hair when he got the box.

Buyers bid on the box very quickly, even knowing about the "bad luck". It sold for $280 to a museum curator named Jason Haxton. After he bought the box, The Forward, a 107-year-old Jewish newspaper, published an article about the mysteries behind the box.

Many rabbis and other high-level Jewish scholars have offered to open the box and one even asked Haxton to take all images of the box off the Internet because it would serve as a way for spirits to invade homes. The spirit people are worried about is the "Dybbuk", which is supposed to be a malevolent spirit of a dead person.

The history of the 'Jinx in a box' begins, when an antique dealer named Kevin Mannis purchased the box in Fall 2001, from an estate-sale. The host of the sale told Mannis the box had belonged to her 103-year-old grandmother, who had always told her family never to open it, because ti contained a "dybbuk" or 'Dibbuk".

Mannis gave the box to his mother as a gift-- apparently, it's a very lovely box... but his mother suffered a stroke & lost the ability to speak. She scralwed the words "HATE GIFT" on a note to him afterward. Soon after, the FBI raided Mannnis' antique shop & seized a lot of electronic equipment, he lost his shop's lease, and became a victim of identity theft...

Mannis decided by 2003 that he had enough of the box & the bad luck & strange events that surrounded it-- he could sometimes smell odd smells emanating from it, as well... He sold the box on ebay, where it was purchased by Iosif Nietzke.  Nietzke made several other claims about his bad luck, in addition to losing his hair-- bugs invaded his home, and he began to see dark shapes in his peripheral vision...

He eventually sold the box on ebay, too, this past February... It was bought by museum curator Joseph Haxton for $280.oo

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