A TV host says Post Malone is cursed after messing with a ‘haunted object’

A US TV host reckons that Post Malone’s recent spate of bad luck is a result of messing around with a ‘haunted object’.

If you’ve been paying close attention to the happenings of Post Malone lately, you’d no doubt be aware that the musician has been having a spot of bad luck in the last few months.

Despite topping charts all over the world, the artist recently survived an emergency plane landing, a car accident, and a botched home invasion. Now, it looks as though it might all be figured out.

Back in January, the television series Ghost Adventures broadcast an episode of their show which featured Post Malone for some reason. In the episode, the rapper accompanies the hosts to ‘The Slaughter House’, a former meatpacking plant-turned haunted attraction in Arizona.

You left @PostMalone alone?! 😱😱😱#GhostAdventures, 9|8c! pic.twitter.com/qxmFesSti0

— Ghost Adventures (@GhostAdventures) January 13, 2018

Now, as TMZ notes, it turns out that Post Malone again hooked up with the folks from Ghost Adventures, and it seems like this is where his newfound run of bad luck might have come from.

As host Zak Bagans explained, Post Malone accompanied him to his museum back in June where the pair checked out a ‘dybbuk box’. Apparently, a dybbuk box is a cabinet which is said to possess a ‘malicious spirit’. Whether or not you believe in this concept, it’s presence in pop culture is well-established, serving as the basis for the 2012 film, The Possession.

Reportedly, Zak Bagans inexplicably decided to take the dybbuk box out of its protective case and touch the ‘most haunted object’ after a few drinks.

Footage recorded by a security camera shows Post Malone getting rather freaked out by this incident, and also touching Zak Bagans’s shoulder, which the host explains is enough to trigger the curse.

Of course, there’s every chance that this whole supernatural angle is indeed a load of bunk, and Post Malone is just falling victim to a series of rather awful coincidences. After all, wouldn’t it be highly unlikely that a chart-topping singer – one of the most prominent celebrities in the world of entertainment – is at the centre of some demonic campaign of terror?

Whatever the case, Post Malone might want to start packing a few lucky four-leaf clovers with him when he heads out on the road from now on.

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