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You're listening to Unexplained, Season

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seven, episode twenty three, The

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Box, Part two of three.

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It's June two thousand and four in

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Kirksville, Missouri, about

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two thousand miles from Kevin Manis's

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home in Portland. Twenty

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year olds Brian and Joseph are browsing

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the aisles of their local grocery store

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when Joseph mentions a curious

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item he's seen for sale on eBay.

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The pair are students of Truman State

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University and share an apartment

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close to their campus along

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with four other students who are currently

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away for the holidays. Less

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than an hour later, the young men

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are in front of a laptop pouring

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over a listing titled de Book

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Box put up by a user called

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w net Trade. It

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begins, all of

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the events that I'm about to set forth

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in this listing are accurate. It

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was, of course, the peculiar wine

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box that Kevin Mannis claimed

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to have bought from a car boot sale.

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The young men read through the entire

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listing that details all the

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terrifying events Kevin has supposedly

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experienced since purchasing the

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item. He's convinced

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it's haunted, he says, Joseph

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thinks they should buy it. Brian

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doesn't agree. He's

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not convinced it really is haunted,

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but why risk it, he thinks.

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Without Brian's help, Joseph

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isn't sure he can justify the one hundred

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dollars asking price, but the

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more he tries to forget about it, the

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more he can't seem to let it go. Just

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what if it really is haunted? How

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cool would that be?

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A few days later, alone

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in his room, Joseph pulls

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up the listing again and finds

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an update from Kevin June

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fourteenth, at five twenty one.

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For those of you wanting to know if I'm still

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experiencing anything out of the ordinary.

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I thought everything was okay until

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I got home on Friday, the thirteenth

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of June and found that the

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fish in my aquarium, all

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ten, were dead. For

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Joseph, it's just too good to

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resist. He selects the

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bidding box, types in a

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number, and clicks the mouse.

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It's a week later when Brian returns

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home to find the apartment

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reeking of urine. He

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follows the scent into the living room, where,

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much to his alarm, he finds the

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bizarre box. He and Joseph had been

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looking at online, now sitting

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for real right in front of him.

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When Joseph returns home a few hours

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later, he takes it to his bedroom

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and jokes with Brian that he should

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listen out in case anything

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strange happens. That

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first night passes without

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incident. Brian

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works a part time job at Truman State

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University's Museum of Osteopathic

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Medicine. Every Monday,

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the department, led by director

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Jason Haxton, holds a team

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meeting to set their goals for the week

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and give the team the chance to catch up

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after the weekend. Usually,

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Brian stays silent, preferring

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just to listen to the contributions of others.

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But at the first Monday meeting, after

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Joseph bought the box, he just can't

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keep it to himself. With

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everyone settled in and taking a seat,

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Jason asks if anyone has anything

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interesting to share from their weekends.

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We bought a haunted wine box, says

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Brian, before anyone else can

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talk. The words

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seem to hang there for a moment as the

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rest of the team try to process

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what he just said exactly. There

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are a few raised eyebrows and nervous

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smiles, but Jason, whose

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special area of interest is the

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spiritual context of ancient art

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pieces, is genuinely intrigued.

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Brian fills the team in on the details,

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well aware how ludicrous it all sounds.

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Jason offers to examine the box for

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them to see if he can shed any light

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on its origins. Brian

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is unsure, but he says he'll let him

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know if there's any peculiar activity.

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He doesn't have long to wait. It

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starts with the lights,

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just like Kevin said they had in his shop.

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Bulbs suddenly pop or blow

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entirely, even when newly

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replaced. A urine

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like smell seems to emanate

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from various places throughout the apartment.

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Then Brian's laptop crashes inexplicably

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due to a critical failure of the hard

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drive. Despite attempts to

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fix it, a source for the failure

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could not be found. It's

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then that Joseph decides to

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do some research into just what exactly

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it is that he's bought. What

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he discovers terrifies

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him. Although spelt

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with an eye instead of a y by

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Kevin in his eBay listing ad

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book as a demon from Jewish folklore

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often used in stories to scare little

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children. Only it isn't

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just an old bedtime story, as

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Joseph finds out, but something

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that some believe to be very real.

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According to one description, a

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dibuk is a misplaced spirit

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that can neither rise to heaven nor

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descend into Hell, an

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evil spirit that will attach

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itself to an unsuspecting victim

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like a parasite, causing mental

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illness, rage, and

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changes of personality. Joseph

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can feel his pulse quicken as

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he reads it. Turning

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back to the box, he notices some

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Hebraic text carved into

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the back of it. It's a Jewish

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prayer that translates to here

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o Israel, the Lord is our

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God, the Lord is one.

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Blessed is the name of his honored kingdom

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for ever. It's a common

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and well known prayer, the

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sort of prayer perhaps that one

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might say when fearful for their

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life or just

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before they die.

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In August, after six weeks

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of peculiar events, Joseph

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and Brian's four other flatmates return

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from their summer break. When

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term time starts up, words

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soon gets around about the apparently

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haunted item in their apartment. For

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a short time, the place becomes

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a popular hangout for the brave and

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curious, until events

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take an even more ominous turn.

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Two of the flatmates begin to suffer from

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itchy and irritated eyes, another

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contracts bronchitis, and Yosef

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breaks a finger. Most

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of them feel they've become unusually

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listless, as if something is

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draining them of energy. When

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one flatmate's car breaks down, a

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check under the bonnet reveals the

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bodies of numerous dead mice.

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This has followed a few day days later by

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the discovery of a biblical infestation

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of gnats in the room the box

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is being kept in. At

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first, Joseph is determined not

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to give in to superstition. It's

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merely coincidental, he says to himself,

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just a series of completely unexceptional

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events given an illusory supernatural

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context through the presence of

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the box. But outwardly,

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the cracks are beginning to show as

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its behaviour becomes increasingly

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erratic. Brian and the other flatmates

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start noticing it, and slowly

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Joseph's certainty weakens. After

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Thanksgiving, Joseph's flatmates

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return to the apartment relieved

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but a little perplexed to find

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that Joseph has left, and the

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box has gone too. Like

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a turning of the tide, the strange

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events appear to immediately

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stop. The smell of urine

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clears up. There are no more inexplicable

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electrical shortages, and the

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bugs have gone. Since

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first mentioning the box to his colleagues

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at the museum, Brian frequently

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updated them on the strange occurrences.

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His boss, Jason, had become especially

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fascinated by it all, hanging

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on every word until Brian left

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his job at the end of the summer to

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concentrate on his studies. It's

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a few months later when Jason

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spots him in the audience at a lecture

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he's presenting. When it's finished,

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he approaches Brian, hoping to hear

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more about the cabinet, but is dismayed

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to find that Joseph is no longer

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living with him. As Brian

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explains he hasn't seen Joseph

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or the box since, Jason

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is gripped by an eerie and profound

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sense of loss, as if the ring

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from Rivendell has just slipped

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from his grasp. A month

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or so later, Jason receives

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word from Bryan that Joseph

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has been back in touch, and

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he's decided to sell the box. Reluctant

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to tell his wife Laurie for fear

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that she won't want anything to do with it, Jason

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turns to his colleague Michael for some advice.

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Michael is a friend but also a

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keen magician in his spare time.

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He's intrigued at the thought of building an

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act around a haunted artifact

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and offers to go halves if Jason

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wants to buy it, and

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so in early February

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two thousand and five, Jason

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logs into eBay under his handle

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age Tron and finds item

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number three seven zero one

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three four seven six

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four eight, otherwise known

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as the Dibbuk Box. As

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Jason reads the listing, he feels

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a surge of excitement. Everything

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Brian had described, including

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Kevin's story from the original listing,

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is here, but there is more. Joseph

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writes, around October

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sixth I started feeling bad

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with trouble sleeping. This problem

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has persisted through today. I've

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started seeing things in my peripheral

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vision. Most disturbingly,

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last Tuesday, my hair began

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to fall out. Now it's about

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half gone. I'm in my early

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twenties and I just got a clean

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blood test back from the doctors. Maybe

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it's stress related, I don't

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know. The description

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reads more like a distress beacon than

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an auction listing, and it's clear

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that the last few months for Joseph, who

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for unknown reasons, decided

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to move back in with its parents, have

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been increasingly dark and bizarre.

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Jason scrolls back to the top of the page

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to the text from the original listing.

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He reads those fateful words again

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from the original seller to Kevin,

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you bought it, we don't want

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it. Jason hesitates

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for a moment, then types an opening

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offer of ninety nine cents. He

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takes a deep breath, then clicks

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bid, knowing that whatever happens

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next, you will forever be a part

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of the box's mythology. For

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the next few minutes, Jason sits

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transfixed, his face lit

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up by the dim glow of the computer screen

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as he stealthily ups his bid while

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the auction clock ticks steadily

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down to zero.

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Jason leans back from the screen and

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puffs out his cheeks. Approaching

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footsteps from outside his door are

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followed by the arrival of a very

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tense looking Michael. He'd

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been watching the whole thing unfold on another

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computer. Please tell me

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your age, tron, says Jason

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smiles, I am.

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They were now the new owners of

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the box. Joseph

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originally bought it for one hundred and forty

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dollars, Jason paid two

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hundred and eighty. But there's a snag.

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When Jason emails Joseph to arrange

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delivery, Joseph doesn't

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reply. After several

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unanswered emails, Jason

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tries contacting the young man's parents,

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but neither have any knowledge of their

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son's association with the box.

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Jason eventually receives a call

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from Brian, who's now in charge

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of completing the sale because

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Joseph, in a fit of desperation,

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begged him to take the box away.

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The following Tuesday, a bleary

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eyed and distracted looking Brian arrives

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at Jason's office with a large

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cardboard container. Any

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other day, Jason might have noticed

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the death inspiration on Bryan's face,

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or maybe wondered why he was so eager to

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leave the building immediately after

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dropping the package off, without even

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pausing to say goodbye.

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But today Jason only

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has eyes for the box. As

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he peels the cardboard back to

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reveal the bubble wrapped curio inside,

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he feels almost euphoric. It's

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a piece well suited to its new environment,

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he thinks, looking round at the various

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displays in the museum, the

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gruesome tools for primitive brain

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surgery, the dissected

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human nervous systems, and

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wallets made from human skin.

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Having agreed not to open the package

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until Michael is free, Jason

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has to resist until eight pm before

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his friend is able to join him. In

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the eerie silence of his deserted

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and dimly lit office, they

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ease the box from its container. Jason

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slips on a pair of white examination

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gloves and runs his hand over the

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top before taking the drawer

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handle and pulling it. As

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the drawer opens, the two front

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doors follow suit, swinging

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open to reveal the hidden treasures

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inside and releasing a pungent

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scent into the air. Michael

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lays down a cloth of blue velvet

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next to the box, which he's brought

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especially for the occasion, and

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one by one Jason carefully

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places the various items onto

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it. He takes a black light,

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the kind you might use to examine

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a bloody crime scene, and sweeps

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it over the box, but finds

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nothing. Unusual. Then

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Michael notices something interesting,

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the letter N written on the

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inside right Edgeson

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wonders if it has a ritual purpose, an

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instruction to angle that side of the

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box to point north perhaps, or

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maybe it isn't an N at all. But

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the Hebrew character Aleph,

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the very first letter of existence,

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the first point of the alpha, and

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the omega its numerical

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value of one hundred and eleven, symbolizing

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the divine, spiritual, and physical.

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They find the same symbol again marked

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on the gold cup, only

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it isn't gold, as Kevin Mannis

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had assumed, but brass with

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a silver plating that is all but worn

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away. Going by

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the box's fairly modern design and

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the style of the hinges, Jason

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estimates that it was built in the fifties

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or sixties. But looking at the

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pieces spread out before him on the

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cloth, the two pennies, the

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strange candlestick, the two

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locks of hair, and the strange

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granite statue, he's unable

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to say quite what it was used for. None

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of the items have any traditional, supernatural

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or occult connections. Whatever

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this is, thinks Jason, it's

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not like anything he's ever seen before.

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While Michael takes a closer look at

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the pieces. Jason slowly

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removes one of the gloves and places

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his bare hand on top of the box,

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then hurriedly pulls it back. That's

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weird, he thinks. He

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closes his eyes and puts his hand

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on top of the box again and

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again he gets the strange,

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bizarre sensation. It's

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as though he can feel the wood moving,

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rippling like water, vibrating,

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even as if it were alive.

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Jason recoils suddenly, letting

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out a stifled cry as a sharp

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and searing pain grips him from

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inside and moves into

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his stomach. Michael

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was too distracted to notice, and

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Jason keeps it to himself.

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They finish by taking some pictures,

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then return the items to the box

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and pack it away.

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That night, back at home, Jason

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is in bed, his eyelids

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flicker and pulsate with therim

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twitch of deep sleep.

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In his subconscious a dark

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and disturbing set of images are

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playing out, faces

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morphing from one into another, hideously

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disfigured, bleeding and wounded,

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and through it all the recurring

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image of a ghoulish, elderly

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woman with dark, sunken eyes.

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Jason wakes with a start in the dark,

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sweating and short of breath. His

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wife, Lorrie, is sound asleep

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signed him. He closes

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his eyes again and soon drifts

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back to sleep. Moments

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later, he finds himself in a

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small department store, this time

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with a different benign, elderly

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woman. She seems to be

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pleading with him in anguish, pointing

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toward an empty box about

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the same size as the dibook box.

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The following morning, Jason is

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rinsing his face in the sink when

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he notices with shock that both

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of his eyes are red, raw and

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bloodshot. A

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few days later, the irritation still

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hasn't cleared up, and he is now

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plagued by a dull, metallic taste

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in his mouth, dominating everything

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he eats. He chokes on the

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smallest SIPs of water, but

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worst of all, can't fight

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the continual feeling that something

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is lodged inside his throat. Jason's

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doctor suggests he might be suffering

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from dyscusia, a distortion

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of taste that can be caused by any number

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of illnesses, but Jason

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isn't convinced. It might

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explain the strange taste in its mouth,

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but it doesn't account for his irritated

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eyes or his difficulty swallowing

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not to mention the mysterious stomach

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cramps. The cause of

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it all seems clear to Jason

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his body has been poisoned. After

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testing a variety of substances

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the methodical, Jason theorizes

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that it's most likely ammonia. Apart

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from all the issues he is suffering from.

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An exposure to ammonia can result

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in hallucinations as well as

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sensing the smell of urine. Finally,

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he thinks all the stories from

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the previous owners begin to make

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sense. Jason

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runs a series of tests on the box

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and its contents, but it all

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comes back completely clean. Meanwhile,

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strange things have started occurring

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at the museum. Light bulbs

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are blowing, popping, and exploding

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all over the office. Jason's

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deteriorating health hasn't gone

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unnoticed either. Brian,

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now back working at the museum, approaches

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him first. It's clear to him

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that whatever had lashed onto Joseph

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has now focused its attention on

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its boss. The other staff,

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irrevocably spooked, plead

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with their colleague to take his box

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home. Jason

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eventually agrees to take the box.

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The only problem is his wife, Laurie,

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having heard all about the cabinet from

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Michael's partner Erin, she makes

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it abundantly clear that her husband

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is not to bring it anywhere near the family.

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Since Michael is unwilling to take it off

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his hands, Jason has left with

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only one option, has

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to bring it home in secret. It's

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a decision he'll soon come

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to regret. It

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starts with unusual fluctuations

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in temperature. Entire

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parts of the house become so cold

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that the family can see their own breath

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even in the height of summer. Jason's

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nightmares intensify, becoming

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even more terrifying, and

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soon it isn't only when he's asleep

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that he sees things. One

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evening, he and his thirteen year old

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son are watching television together

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in the lounge when they witness a strange,

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billowing mass like a black

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fire, crawling up the wall.

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The following day, an agitated

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Jason makes a phone call. It's

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to Steve Mass, president of

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the Long Island Paranormal Research

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Group. When Jason

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first bought the box, he hadn't accounted

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for the vast interest it would online

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tens of thousands of people across

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the world had watched as he won

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his bid, and many had contacted

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him later on, eager to hear of

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any strange happenings. Steve

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had been one of the first enthusiasts

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to get in touch and had impressed Jason

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with his sincerity and extensive

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knowledge of similar artifacts. Steve

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listens patiently as Jason details

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what occurred in just the last few weeks

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before giving his chilling verdict. One

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way or another, Jason must

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have unleashed something when he opened

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the box, and now it's

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in the house with his family. Steve's

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suggestion is that Jason carry

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out the appeasement ritual from chapter

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twenty two of a fifteenth century

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book of spells known as

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The Key of Solomon. The

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ritual asks for a sacrifice

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to be made to the demonic spirit

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that evening. In secret, Jason,

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an ordinarily rational, unflappable

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midwesterner, heads into his

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garage where he stashed the box.

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He stands there alone in the pitch

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dark, holding the two cuttings

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of hair from the inside drawer, hoping

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they will make a sufficient offering. He

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writes a promise to make better

24:23

gifts in future on a strip

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of paper, as per the ritual

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and ties it all together around

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a pine twig. He

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lights a match and holds it underneath

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until the bundle catches fire. As

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it burns, he repeats its

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promise. Better gifts

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shall come from me. Better

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gifts shall come from me. Better

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gifts shall come from me, Better

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gifts shall come from me. The

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flames finally die out, Jason

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steps from the dark of the garage into

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the clear night air. It

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feels like surfacing from underwater.

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That night, no grotesque

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old ladies haunt his dreams, and

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over the next few weeks his ailments

25:19

all but vanish. With

25:21

the appeasement ritual appearing to

25:23

have worked, Jason returns

25:25

his focus to finding out more

25:27

about the supposedly haunted artifact.

25:31

Afraid that it might still be active, He

25:33

needs to know what exactly he might

25:36

be dealing with. However,

25:38

despite consulting a number of experts,

25:41

from rabbis to historians, Jason

25:44

discovers little more than what he already

25:46

knows. The man he needs

25:49

is Kevin Manis. Jason

25:52

manages to trace Kevin to Portland

25:54

through the original eBay listing. By

25:57

chance, he is due to travel there

25:59

for a word trip in the coming months,

26:01

and so he doubles his efforts. He

26:04

discovers one mannis listed in

26:06

the phone book and calls the number.

26:09

It turns out to be Kevin's sister.

26:12

However, she is unwilling to give

26:14

out her brother's details and wants

26:17

nothing to do with Jason's quest

26:19

to find him. Under

26:21

tret Jason turns to the

26:23

Internet and through a genealogy

26:25

site, discovers that Kevin

26:27

had a grandmother called Ethel, who

26:30

died some years previously. Then

26:33

Jason finds a contact for another

26:35

relative of Ethel's who reveals

26:37

some intriguing information. Kevin's

26:40

grandmother was a Russian Jewish

26:43

immigrant who arrived in the United

26:45

States sometime at the beginning

26:47

of the nineteen hundreds and died

26:49

around the age of one hundred and three. Similar

26:53

to the alleged original owner of

26:55

the box, who Kevin claimed

26:58

was a Jewish emigray from Europe,

27:01

Ethel also had a fascination with

27:03

Jewish mysticism and kisheff

27:06

a form of Judaic magic. Then

27:09

the relative drops a bombshell. It's

27:12

their belief that the wine box never

27:15

was haunted and that Kevin has

27:17

made the whole thing up, using

27:19

Ethel as inspiration. Jason

27:22

is stunned. It can't be. He

27:25

thinks, for a start, if

27:27

it wasn't true, then what on earth

27:29

had been happening to him and even

27:32

Joseph before that neither

27:34

had ever met Kevin, and yet both

27:36

had been clearly affected by the Dibbuck

27:39

Box, and in identical ways

27:41

to what Kevin himself said

27:43

he'd suffered. Then something

27:46

weird happens. Confused

27:49

by the prospect that nothing about

27:51

the box is true, Jason

27:53

asks if the relative can at least

27:56

email him a photograph of

27:58

Ethel. When he recive leaves

28:00

it and opens it up, staring

28:02

back at him on his screen, he is

28:05

absolutely certain is the

28:07

same elderly woman he's

28:09

seen in his dreams, the

28:11

one standing in a department store, pointing

28:14

with great anguish toward an

28:16

empty box. Ethel,

28:18

it turns out, had also owned

28:21

a department store. When

28:24

Jason finally travels to Portland

28:26

in June, he's almost given up

28:28

on speaking to Kevin entirely. When

28:31

he makes one final effort to locate

28:33

him, looking through local

28:36

courthouse records, he finds a

28:38

phone number. Later that

28:40

night, he makes the call from his hotel

28:42

room, and a woman answers the phone

28:45

She assures him that nobody by

28:47

the name of Kevin lives there, but

28:50

Jason isn't convinced tell

28:53

him. He says, I've got one hundred

28:55

and fifty dollars if he can just call

28:57

me at the hotel.

29:00

On the other end, says she'll see what she can

29:02

do before hanging up. It's

29:06

nearly midnight when the phone rings

29:08

in Jason's hotel room.

29:10

It's Kevin. Finally,

29:13

now he can get some answers.

29:19

You've been listening to Unexplained Season

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seven, episode twenty three

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The Box, Part two of three,

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next Friday, June fourteenth.

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