I picked this up from another link at another place I frequent and read it over. Its a interesting story and sounds quite the creepy lil item. No its not that weird painting a while back but a lil wine cabinet.
Check it out here
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=27254&item=2934101644
So can anyone read hebrew on that picture on the end?;j
The inscription is a prayer, the shema. It’s a basic statement of faith in the allmighty, and very common. Still, the story is kinda fun.
I asked my friend who is a native Hebrew speaker (it’s choppy b/c he told me over IM and I just deleted his screen name)…
First line reads “Shma israel, adonai eloheinu, adonai echad”
It’s the Shema.
The most common Hebrew Prayer
“Hear ye, o Israel, the our god is lord and he is one.”
Second line reads:
“Baruch shem kevod malchuto leolam vaed”
And may his glory reign over the world forever and ever.
Thank you…really the only question I wanted to know.
And yea…the story is cool. Proabably total hogwash but if it sells the product…
YEah but it really made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. IIf he made all that up he should really write novels, especially the frantic way he sounds at the end and the common language “I still hope this is [sic] all just coincidence and a bunch of crap” . That was waaaay cool.
Wow, that was actual pretty creepy. Brrrrr. Shame the ghost in the jar people couldn’t have done as well!
Interesting. Not translating “dibbuk” (or “dybbuk”) was a nice touch. It refers to the soul of a dead sinner transmigrated into a living person (according to cabalistic folklore). I couldn’t find a translation for “keselim”, but it appears to be a term used in Turkish folklore–and seems to have been more recently applied to Dubya, Tony Blair, and Avril Lavigne. We would probably not be too rash to speculate that it refers to something not far removed from “demon” or “evil spirit”, but I could be wrong. There’s doesn’t look to be anything especially odd about the candleholder, but the description lends itself well to the Mythos air of the story. I don’t read Hebrew, but I don’t doubt that the word on the piece of granite is “shalom”, which I believe means “peace”–the stone appears to be part of a larger marker of some sort, so we don’t know what else it may have said; it could be anything from a grave marker to a lawn ornament, but it doesn’t seem at all sinister in itself.
I call it a hoax, but a well-executed and entertaining hoax. It may be worth the price to the purchaser just for the tall-tale value of it.
As a nice Jewish boy ;j , I’d like to weigh in.
Yes, the shema is a common prayer. Think of it as the Jewish equivalent of Our Father. It’s fairly short and makes a statement of faith.
Keselim- Off the top of my head, the only thing I can offer is that the im suffix indicates a plural.
The hair- I am familiar with a version of this. I’ve heard that it exists in other cultures as well. At a child’s first hair cut, the mother should keep a lock of hair. As long as this is kept safe, so is the child.
the ribbon-The same Jewish mothers who mentioned the lock of hair insisted on a red ribbon of some kind being on the crib. This wards of Lilith and other evil spirits.
Dibbuks/Dybbuks in general-
The dibbuk described in the e-bay page is far nastier than any I’ve come across in Jewish folklore. Often, the dibbuk is more lost than anything else. The Yiddish opera The Dibbuk even features the title character mistaking a very pale girl for another ghost and haunting the house because he’s fallen in love with her.
From Do They Keep Kosher On Mars?
The mezzuzah upon the doorpost is also a great way of keeping out dybbuks.
Should you have dybbuk problems you can’t resolve on your own, it’s best to seek the aid of a zaddik, a righteous man. With a combination of faith, knowledge of Jewish law, and various Kabbalistic procedures he’ll take care of it.
Let see - she found a cast-iron candleholder with octopus legs? 
I was looking for that.
Wow
there is a lot more to this than I thought…Thanks Cathode.
So are you the official Straight Dope Zaddik?
“keselim” is a Turkish word, if “.tr” is internet for Turkey. There is a internet link to something like Dan and Angie where a poster suggests what the word might be.
I hope it’s crap. My metaconscious mind isn’t ready for vengeful furniture.
Ah, but we’ve already had that.
An interesting side note on the whole freaky Ebay story (which I agree if is fake, is a freaky story regardless), there is a section of the story where the previous owner of the furniture woke up at 4:30 in the morning and noticing a shadow and he mentioned the room smelled of Jasmine flowers.
After some annoyingly extensive searches I found that the smell of Jasmine is tied in with dreams to an extent, ‘psychic’ dreams in part. Some other links say to burn jasmine to induce sleep.
I couldn’t find much of anything on the smell of cat urine on yahoo or google.
Like I said, if the story IS fake it’s a good story. Tres freaky.
Sanscour
Please don’t ask me to find those links on Jasmine. That would make baby Jesus cry.
That’s what I thought of when I saw that. Buy a Ghost in a Jar. 
S-C-A-R-Y!!! Thanks a lot! Now, I can’t go to bed, you meanie! What a freaky, freaky tale!
Someone BOUGHT it!!! OMFG!!! I have to know if scary crap will happen to the new owner!! I have to! How will we ever know???
I am so darn clever, I emailed the new owner and asked if they’d keep me posted. Aren’t I just so smart?
OoooOooh, will you keep US posted then?
Obviously the story is a fake.
Who waits two weeks to cut the lock off a mysterious box to see what is inside? I would have been sawing off the lock with my leatherman in my car before I even left the auction site.
And why did he never contact a Rabbi? That’s what I would have done if for nothing else to get the Hebrew read.