Not all horror stories are fictitious. Some of the objects that make them extremely scary really exist in our world. The documented circumstances surrounding these things are too convincing to be ignored.
We present you the top 7 most scary items that have ever been sold. But you are unlikely to want to buy them.
7. Box with dibbook
Price - $ 286
Jewish mythology is called the evil book, looking for a sacrifice to which it can inhabit. Today it is the character of the worst horror films. In the case in question, the dybbook moved into a wine box owned by Kevin Mannis, the owner of an antique furniture restoration workshop.
According to Kevin's story, the item belonged to a Jewish Jewel Havel who survived the Holocaust. Havel’s granddaughter told Mannis that her grandmother never opened it, because an evil spirit lives there.
Mannis, not being timid, opened the drawer. It contained two coins of the 1920s, two strands of hair tied with a rope, a figurine engraved with the Hebrew word “Shalom”, a golden glass, one dried pink bud, and one candle holder on the legs in the form of four octopus tentacles. And on the back wall was an inscription in Hebrew.
After Mannis got the box, he began to suffer from nightmares, and his mother suffered a stroke the day he handed her a wine box as a birthday present. Each subsequent owner of the dibbook drawer claimed to smell cat urine or jasmine flowers, and many of them stopped sleeping soundly.
Joseph Netzke, a student from Missouri, was the penultimate owner of the fateful gizmo, and put it on eBay. He honestly warned that the box could be dangerous. It was eventually bought by Jason Haxton, director of the University of Missouri Museum. He subsequently claimed to be suffering from various health problems, including hives and coughing up blood. Hoxton sealed the box and hid it in an unknown place. Let’s hope that he will remain there forever.
6. The painting "Hands resist him"
Price - $ 1,025
In 1972, the artist and writer Bill Stoneham painted a picture, recreating the image of a neighbor's girl and himself at the age of five, as well as adding Jungian and metaphysical symbolism. The door is the gateway to the world of dreams, and the hands represent "other lives."
This painting, also known as "The Haunted Picture from eBay" and "The Creepy Picture from eBay", became famous thanks to the viral memes that appeared on the Internet in early 2000. At this time, it was put up for sale.
According to the seller, the picture causes concern and health problems, and her characters move at night, and even sometimes leave the canvas. And the description also included the seller’s disclaimer of any consequences in case the brave buyer decided to purchase this item.
5. The painting "Martyr"
Cost - 1950 dollars.
This damn picture lasted 25 years in the attic of Sean Robinson's grandmother before he inherited it. Grandma told Sean that the picture was drawn using blood and paint mixed together, and its creator killed himself immediately after completing work on The Martyr. She claimed that she heard mysterious voices and cries, and also saw a dark male figure in her house. These events frightened the elderly woman so much that she took the picture out of sight.
After Robinson inherited the painting, his family began a series of troubles. His son fell down the stairs, and then his wife felt someone stroking her hair and heard a scream in the dark.
At one time, the painting “The Anguired Man” could be purchased for £ 1,500 (almost $ 2,000). Now she is allegedly not for sale.
4. The obsessed Annabelle doll
The price is $ 2,500 per replica.
From paintings and boxes we turn to toys, which ideally should be the personification of kindness and comfort. However, the fourth number in the list of the most terrible and expensive things in the world has nothing to do with kindness. And if you watched the films “The Curse of Annabelle” or “The Curse”, then you will probably agree that giving a child such a doll is at least stupid.
The film is based on events associated with a second-hand doll, which in 1970 was donated to a nurse named Donna. In the room where the doll was located, strange things began to happen: the doors opened and closed on their own, the toy itself moved from place to place, and the nurse and her neighbor found notes asking for help. The medium told the girls that the spirit of its former owner, little Annabelle Higgins, infused the doll.
Donna contacted the occultists Ed and Lorraine Warren. They took the doll to their museum. One motorcyclist who visited this museum with his girlfriend mocked and teased the doll even after Ed warned him not to. On the way back, the motorcyclist lost control and died.
3. Cauldron of Ed Gin
The price is 2800 dollars.
“How can an old dirty cauldron scare me?” A reader seasoned by horror films can snort. Well, first of all, by the fact that he belonged to serial killer and necrophile Ed Gin, who hung severed heads on the walls of his house and sewed himself a whole wardrobe of human skin.
And secondly, by the fact that it was in this cauldron that Gin kept parts of the bodies of his victims.
The story of this psycho killer formed the basis of many horror films, such as In the Moonlight, Silence of the Lambs, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Zach Bagans from the series “The Adventures of Ghosts” bought this cauldron for $ 2,800 from a woman who used it as a flower pot.
2. The painting "The Crying Boy"
Price - $ 5,000 for the original.
The second place in the list of the most creepy and expensive mystical objects is occupied by the work of the famous Italian artist Bruno Amadio (Giovanni Bragolin). Of course, this is not the most expensive picture in the world. There are many versions of this picture, some depict a crying boy, while others show a girl. Some urban legend ascribes a “curse” to these reproductions. September 4, 1985 in the British tabloid The Sun, an article appeared that an intact copy of "The Crying Boy" was found among the ruins of a burnt house.
Over the next few months, The Sun and other tabloids published several articles on house fires with the painting “The Crying Boy”.
Steve Punt, a British writer and comedian, explored the picture and its history. He came to the conclusion that the reproductions of the canvas were treated with some kind of fire-resistant varnish. However, Punt did not take the risk and hang such a picture in his house.
The Curse of the “Crying Boy” was mentioned in the series “This is Weird!” in the 2012 episode.
1. The Cursed Ring of Valentino
Price unknown
Rudolfo Valentino was a famous American actor and one of the sex symbols of the silent movie era. In 1920, he bought a silver ring adorned with a semiprecious stone at a jewelry store in San Francisco.
Something this actor liked the ring, although the seller claimed that the ring was removed from the finger of the murdered man and cursed. Valentino wore the ring during the filming of Young Raja and his last film, The Sheikh’s Son, shortly after which he died of acute peritonitis.
- After the death of the actor, the ring received actress Paula Negri, who was a close friend of Valentino. She soon became ill, but recovered a year later.
- Negri handed the ring to young singer Russ Colombo, who died from a stray bullet during a shootout between two groups of gangsters.
- Colombo's friend Joe Casino was the next owner of the damned ring, but put it on only once. And on the same day he died as a result of a traffic accident.
- The ring went to Joe Casino's brother Delo. He did not believe in mysticism, so for some time he wore jewelry, and nothing bad happened. In Hollywood, they started talking about the fact that “the curse of the Valentino ring” is just a terrible story. However, a thief climbed into the Cottage’s house, who cleaned the safe, but did not manage to escape with the loot and was shot dead by a policeman. Guess what you found in the robber’s pocket? After all these events, the ring was placed back in the safe of the Casino family. However, this is not the end of the story.
- Director Edward Still, who wants to make a film about Valentino's life, asked the Casino Deal for a ring. He was warned about the notoriety of this little thing, but he neglected the information and handed the ring to the young actor Jack Dunn. He was supposed to play Valentino. After 10 days, Dunn died of a rare blood disease.
Now the ring is in the hands of the heirs of the Casino Deal, and it is not known what troubles it has yet to do.
