On an episode of Ghost Adventures in 2018, the box affected one of Bagan’s friends musician Post Malone. In the episode, Zak Bagans opens the Dybbuk Box while Malone is in the same room. Though Bagans is touching the object, Malone had his hand on Zak’s shoulder.
You can see some of the video from the show above. According to reports, two months later Malone had to make an emergency landing when his private jet’s wheels had become damaged in flight. Not only that, but he was in a car crash and an old residency of his was broken into. Bagans is reported saying, “I think there is so much more to the Dybbuk Box and regardless of its origins, it is very much cursed and evil.” Zak continues, “I’m not surprised that more controversy and conflict keep arising from it. The Dybbuk Box has always raised questions and intrigue. And this adds to its narrative.”
You can see the Dybbuk Box and decide for yourself at Zak Bagans Haunted Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. I recommend the RIP tour. The captivating film The Possession, is available to stream on Prime, Vudu, Apple TV, and Google Play.
4. The Hills Have Eyes (1977, 2006)
In 1972, Wes Craven shocked audiences with his film, The Last House on the Left. His following film, The Hills Have Eyes, once again polarized theater goers.
The movie starred: Susan Lanier, John Steadman, Janus Blythe, the legendary Dee Wallace and the iconic Michael Berryman. In fact, Berryman was featured prominently on the film’s posters. In the film, a family is traveling across the Nevada desert on their way to California. After stopping at a seedy gas station, their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. As the hours pass, violent savage cannibals begin to hunt them.
In 2006, a remake was greenlit. Alexandre Aja took over director duties and Craven oversaw the script. Ted Levine, Dan Byrd, Kathleen Quinlan, Aaron Stanford, Tom Bower, and Laura Ortiz all starred in this bloody, gut-wrenching retelling. The remake handled the source material with honor and upped the gore and violence. The only glaring difference in the two films is that in the ‘77 movie, the cannibal inbreds were not mutants from nuclear fallout. The 2006 film showcased the savages as mutated mine workers. But was there really an inbred cannibal family in the Mojave Desert? There was not, but there was a family in 1700 Scotland.
In 1719, Alexander Smith wrote, “A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen.” In this selection, there reads a tale of a husband and wife riding horseback through a new road by the North Channel. They were attacked by what the husband claimed to be wild savages. The wife did not make an escape, however, the husband survived. The Monarch sent out 400 men to try to find these savages. What they found haunted them forever.

Living inside a cave was a man named Sawney Bean with his wife, ‘Black’ Agnes Douglas. They had spawned up to nearly 50 family members who they raised, hunted with, and copulated with. The men who discovered them were terrified. Pieces of human flesh were hung around the cave drying as if tobacco leaves or hides of beef. Bones, along with gold and silver decorated the walls of the cave. Piles and piles of victims’ belongings were strewn in heaps across the ground.
Swords, rings, pistols, and other trinkets sat amongst the family. The women were playing with entrails and the men were drinking what looked like blood. After a brief confrontation, the group of 400 were able to round up the Bean family and return them to the Monarch for judgment.

When it was concluded that they were indeed inbred cannibals, the Monarch decided that Sawney Bean would be castrated and have his limbs removed. This included both feet and hands. The punishment would also befall all the men in the Bean family. Each man including Sawney bled to death. Agnes along with the women and children were all burned alive at the stake for what the Monarch deemed as “crimes against humanity”. But what then separated the actions and lifestyle of the Bean’s compared to the Monarchs rule? This was something that inspired Craven.
























