When ghosts or other supernatural beings refuse to leave after death, they remain in our world, frightening living people. Most people believe that only houses, spirits or demons are usually possessed by ghosts, but they can haunt any object - from jewelry to paintings.
Next, you will learn about ten objects from different times that are most closely associated with ghosts:
1. Dibbuk Box contains an ancient, evil spirit
Dibbuk's locker is a wine rack in which, according to Jewish folklore, lives a restless, evil spirit that can take over living people. One dibbook locker in particular became famous when it was put up for auction on eBay, with a gruesome backstory.
The story begins in September 2001, when an antique buyer attended a private vintage collection sale in Portland, Oregon. The auction was for the 103-year-old woman's belongings, and her granddaughter told the antiques lover about the woman's past when she saw that he had bought a regular, wooden wine cabinet. The old woman was Jewish and the only one of the whole family to survive a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. When she immigrated to the United States, she only took her wine cabinet and two other items with her.
The woman's granddaughter explained that her grandmother always kept the closet hidden and said that it should never be opened, as an evil spirit called dybbuk lived in it. She asked to bury the closet with her, but this was contrary to Jewish tradition, and her family decided not to comply with this requirement. When the customer asked if the granddaughter would like to keep the locker for herself out of sentimental reasons, she immediately refused it, got angry and said: "You bought a locker and you have to take it with you!"
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The man took the item to his antique shop and took it to the basement, to his workshop. Soon strange and terrifying things began to happen. He received a call from a desperate assistant who said that the lights had gone out in the store, the doors had closed, and she heard terrible sounds coming from the basement. When the store owner went down to the basement, he found that there was a very strong smell of cat urine, and all the lights in the store were broken.
The man gave a wine cabinet to his mother, and she soon experienced a sudden attack. In the hospital, she spelled "H-E-H-A-V-I-Z-U P-O-D-A-R-O-K," and tears flowed from her eyes. He tried to donate the locker to other people, but it was always returned after a few days because people didn't like it or they felt it contained evil. He began to suffer from the same nightmare, and a little later he learned that all the members of his family who had been near the locker had also seen this dream. Then he began to notice shadows in his peripheral vision.
After he had to admit that something paranormal was happening, he went online to study the matter and fell asleep at the computer. When he woke up, he felt someone breathing on his neck, and when he turned around, he noticed a huge dark figure running away from him down the hallway. He decided to put the item up on eBay, along with a story that happened to him since he bought the cabinet.
Jason Haxton, curator of the Missouri Medical Museum, purchased the locker at auction. He later wrote a book that described the strange history of the dybbuk closet, and in 2012 a horror movie based on a book called The Box of Damnation was released.
2. Annabelle, a doll possessed by a Liar Demon
In 1970, a woman bought a second-hand Raggedy-Ann doll in a store for her daughter, who was in college at the time. Her daughter liked the doll and left it in her apartment, but soon both she and her roommate began to notice strange things about the doll. She moved by herself, often finding herself in another room, although no one touched her. They found small scraps of parchment, although they did not have it, and various messages were written on the scraps in children's handwriting. One day they found a doll standing on its two rag legs.
The frightened girls contacted a psychic who told them that the doll was possessed by the spirit of a little girl who died in the house. “Annabelle” said she liked the students and wanted to stay with her and they allowed her to. Unfortunately, after they allowed the spirit to stay, the paranormal activity in the apartment only increased - one of the students' friends was injured by a doll that left many scratches on his chest and back.
The students' patience ran out, and they turned to the famous psychic investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Lorraine Warren). The married couple soon discovered that the doll was not possessed by a child, but by a demon who tricked the girls in order to be closer to them and after a while move into one of them. The students gave Annabelle to the Warrens, who placed it in a glass case at their Occult Museum in Connecticut. The inscription at the cabinet reads: "Attention: never open."
3. "The crazy picture with eBay" causes fear and illness
In 2000, an anonymous seller put up Bill Stoneham's painting The Hands Resist Him for auction on eBay. The painting is currently considered one of the most obsessed creations in the world.
The painting depicts a boy and a creepy doll standing in front of a glass door. The painting was painted in 1972 and sold to Hollywood actor John Marley. It was then bought by a family in California, after which it was put up for auction on eBay, accompanied by a warning of the dangers associated with owning the painting.
According to the married couple, the boy and the doll walked around the painting at night, sometimes completely disappearing from the canvas. The boy from the picture was able to move into the room in which the picture was located, and everyone who saw the picture felt sick and weak. Small children, at one glance at the picture, threw a tantrum. Adults sometimes felt as though they were being grabbed by invisible hands, while others felt a whiff of hot air as if there was an open oven in front of them.
Even those who looked at the painting on their computer monitors experienced anxiety, fear, or despair. One person even claimed that his new printer did not print a photograph of the painting, although everything else was printed fine.
The painting was purchased by an art gallery from Grand Rapids, Michigan. When representatives of the gallery contacted the artist who painted the painting, he was very surprised to learn that his creation was the subject of a paranormal investigation, but said that the two people who first saw and made a critical review of the painting died within a year.
4. Myrtles Plantation Mirror is home to the souls of a woman and her children
The Myrtle Plantation is a haunted inn widely considered to be home to the largest number of ghosts in the United States, as well as one of the most famous haunted houses in the world. The hotel was built in 1796 on the site of a Native American cemetery. In addition, according to rumors, at least ten murders have occurred here, and paranormal events are common, daily routine.
Perhaps the most obsessed object here is the mirror, which was brought into the house in 1980. Hotel customers talked about people wandering in the mirror, as well as children's handprints on the mirror. According to legend, the spirits of Sara Woodruff and her children live in the mirror. The Woodruffs were poisoned with poison, and although, according to tradition, mirrors should be hung after death so that souls are not trapped there, this mirror was not covered, therefore superstitious people believe that the souls of the Woodruff family still live in this mirror.
5. The obsessed wedding dress dances on its own
In 1849, a girl from a wealthy family named Anna Baker fell in love with a poor metalhead. Anna's father, Ellis Baker, banned her from marrying her beloved, kicked the young man out of their hometown of Altoona, Pennsylvania, and doomed his daughter to the life of an old maid. Anna was so angry that she never fell in love with another, and did not marry anyone, remaining angry and disappointed until her death in 1914.
Before her father chased her true love away, Anna chose a beautiful wedding dress in which she wanted to appear before her fiancé. When the wedding was canceled, another wealthy woman from a local family, Elizabeth Dysart, wore this dress to her wedding, showing off to Anna. A few years later, the wedding dress was donated to the Historical Society, and then the Baker mansion was turned into a museum. The wedding dress was displayed in Anna Baker's former bedroom. After her death, visitors said that the wedding dress moves by itself, especially during the full moon. The dress sways from side to side, as if an invisible bride flaunts in front of a mirror.
Researchers who have tested if any common phenomena (such as a draft) can cause this phenomenon have not come to a convincing conclusion. No one knows why the dress moves on its own, but many believe that the offended bride, Anna Baker, was finally able to wear the dress.
6. Chairs push out the seated, who then feel bad
Newport, Rhode Island is one of the oldest cities in the United States. Founded in 1690, the seaport became one of the favorite summer vacation destinations for wealthy American families by the beginning of the 20th century. The Newport mansions are widely known, as are the many ghost stories that reside in the long-standing buildings.
Belcourt Castle was built by Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, a wealthy American politician and socialite, in 1894. There is ample evidence of obsessive objects in this luxurious home, however, perhaps the most famous obsessed objects are the two chairs in which spirits are said to live. People sitting on chairs say they feel cold, uncomfortable, and nauseous. Their hands seem to be hit by static electricity emanating from the chairs, and many people claim that they get the impression that someone other than a living person is sitting on the chair. Some visitors to the castle say they were violently thrown out of their chairs.
7. Possessed doll curses anyone who photographs her without permission
In 1896, this creepy doll belonged to a child named Robert Eugene Otto, who lived in Key West, Florida. The doll was presented to him by a servant who was engaged in black magic and who did not like the boy's family. The boy adored his doll and often talked to her. However, the servants of Otto's house soon became agitated, as many of them could swear that they heard a ghostly voice respond to the boy, and neighbors said that they saw the doll moving from window to window when Otto was not at home.
Soon, the doll began to play pranks, and the frightened child claimed that he did nothing. Vases broke, objects turned over and fell in the rooms - little Robert was blamed for everything, although he looked very frightened and insisted that all this was done by a doll.
Robert inherited the house and died in 1972, after which the house was bought by another family. A little girl who had just moved here found the doll in the attic and was very scared of it. She said the doll was alive and wanted to kill her. In the end, the doll ended up in the Art Gallery and Museum of the History of Key West, where it is still an exhibit. Museum visitors claim that they have to ask permission from the doll in order to photograph it. If they do this without permission, the doll will curse them. The museum displays letters from “damned” people who wrote apologies to the doll for taking pictures of it without asking and asking to remove the curse.
8. Statue of Women from Lemb brings death to its owners
The Lemb Woman, also known as the Death Goddess, is a statue carved from pure limestone, discovered in 1878 in the village of Lemb, Cyprus. The item dates back to 3500 BC and is believed to represent the goddess of fertility. The first owner of the statue was Lord Elphont - during his six years of possession of this statuette, all seven members of the Elphont family died under mysterious circumstances.
The next two owners, Ivor Manucci and Lord Thompson-Noel, also died along with all members of their families a few years after they brought the statue to their homes.
The fourth owner, Sir Alan Biverbrook, also died, along with his wife and two daughters. Beaverbrook's two sons survived, and although they did not believe in the occult, they were so frightened by the strange and unexpected deaths of four of their family members that they decided to donate the statue to the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh, where it still stands.
Shortly after the statuette was brought to the museum, the head of the department in which it was displayed died, although none of the museum's curators admit that the statue may have supernatural properties. No one has touched the statue since the museum worker died, and it is currently enclosed in a glass box where no one can touch it.
9. "The Anguished Man" captured on video
This gruesome painting lay in the attic of Sean Robinson's grandmother for twenty-five years before he inherited it. Grandmother always told Robinson that the painting was evil, explaining that the artist who painted it mixed his blood with paints and committed suicide shortly after its completion. She claimed that when the painting was hanging in the house, she heard crying and voices, and also saw the shadow of a person, and then decided to move it to the attic.
When Robinson brought the painting to his home, all members of his family began to experience all sorts of terrible phenomena. His son fell down the stairs, his wife felt someone stroking her hair, and they also saw the shadow of a man and heard crying.
Robinson decided to install a camera at night to capture the strange events on video. On Robinson's YouTube channel, you can watch various videos in which doors are slammed, smoke appears from nowhere, and you can also see the moment when the picture falls from the wall for no reason.
Robinson decided not to risk it and took the painting to the basement, but he does not want to sell it.
10. The cursed "Chair of Death" kills everyone who sat on it
In 1702, the convicted murderer Thomas Busby was to be hanged for his crimes. His last wish was to dine one last time at his favorite pub in Thirsk, England. He finished his lunch, stood up and said, "Anyone who dares to sit in my chair will die suddenly."
The chair remained in the pub for several centuries, and visitors often suggested that each other sit down on the damn chair for a bet. During World War II, Air Force privates serving at a nearby base often visited the pub, and locals noticed that the soldiers sitting in this chair did not return from the war.
In 1967, two RAF pilots sat in a chair before crashing their car into a tree. In 1970, a bricklayer tested his fate by sitting on a chair, and then died the same day, falling into a failure at work. A year later, a roofer, sitting on a chair, died after the roof on which he worked fell through. After a pub cleaning lady tripped and fell into a chair, she died of a brain tumor.
The list goes on and on, and eventually the pub owner moved the chair to the basement. Unfortunately, even there, the chair managed to take another victim with it. After the loader sat down on a chair to rest after unloading several crates for the pub, he died in a car accident the same day.
The pub owner decided to get rid of the chair in 1972 and donated it to the local museum. The museum exposes the chair suspended at a height of 1.5 meters so that no one will ever sit on it by mistake. Fortunately, since then, the chair has not taken the lives of innocent people.