06/18/2026
π THE SHABTI β A 3,000-Year-Old Funeral Servant... And It Came With a Feeling.
Some objects carry weight. Not just physical weight β but something else. Something you feel the moment it's in your hands.
This is a Shabti doll. A funerary figurine from Ancient Egypt, placed in tombs to serve the deceased in the afterlife. This particular one came to me through an archaeologist β an object I didn't take lightly. When I received it, I was in Colorado. It was wrapped, sealed, and handed to me without ceremony. But the moment I held it β even through the wrapping β something shifted. I felt good. Genuinely, unexplainably good. Like I could walk into a casino and own every machine in the building. Like luck itself had decided to sit next to me. Call it what you want. I call it undeniable.
Now it lives behind blessed glass. It stays there most of the year, watched over, respected. But during special investigations, it comes with us.
And here's where it gets interesting.
We tried using a spirit box with this item present. Nothing much at first β the usual static, the usual noise. But then someone had the thought β what if language matters? What if it doesn't understand English? We pulled up Google Translate, began speaking in Ancient Egyptian... and the room changed. Anomalies appeared on camera. Responses came quickly. Whatever is attached to this object, it recognized its own tongue.
That raises a question I want to throw out to all of you:
π΄ What items do YOU hold onto that feel different?
π΄ Are there objects in your home you refuse to touch, move, or even look at too long?
π΄ Do you have things that may be drawing something in β and you don't even realize it?
Here's something worth sitting with: the Bible itself warns about this. There's an account of a soldier who took coins bearing the image of a foreign god into his possession β and in doing so, brought a curse upon himself and those around him. The idea that objects can carry spiritual weight isn't new. It isn't fringe. It's ancient, cross-cultural, and documented across nearly every belief system on earth.
Spirits cling to objects like glue. The material matters. The history matters. The events that happened around that object matter. You could have something sitting on a shelf right now β something you picked up at an antique store, a garage sale, passed down through the family β and have no idea what came with it.
I keep this Shabti behind blessed glass, and it's not going anywhere. I love Egypt. I love its history, its mystery, its reach across thousands of years into our present. And speaking of collections β I also own a 2,000-year-old Roman glass bottle, likely used for perfume, from around the time of Christ. These aren't props. These aren't decorations. They are artifacts with lives, histories, and in some cases... passengers.
My collection is extensive now. And every piece has a story.
What's in YOUR collection? What followed YOU home?
π Drop it in the comments. I want to know.
