This page compiles everything we could find on destroying a possession-vessel — whatever object it happens to be. Not a registry of specific artifacts. Not a symptom log. Just the research: what's been tried across reported cases, what held, what didn't, and what's left to try.
Before the methods below, it's worth being clear about what doesn't count as one. Every household in these reports tried the same three things first. None of them held.
Slows contact but doesn't stop it. The presence reached through any reflection — screens, glass, standing water — not only mirrors.
A closed drawer or a dishwasher buys hours, not days. The carrier reported an involuntary pull back to it, wherever it was hidden in the same house.
Storage delays the timeline. It doesn't close the file. That's the whole reason this research exists — the methods below are what's left after containment stopped working.
Compiled across reported cases. "Confirmed" means witnessed and repeatable — right now, nothing qualifies. Read this as a shortlist to investigate, not a manual.
| Method | Theory | Requires | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fire | Removes the physical anchor entirely rather than just breaking its shape. | Carrier separated from object first; sustained heat, not a quick burn | Untested to completion |
| Running water + salt | Older accounts describe moving water as inhospitable to whatever's attached — theory, not confirmed. | Continuous flow, not a bath or basin; extended exposure | Weak evidence |
| Return to origin | Some reports suggest returning the object to where it was first sealed resets whatever bound it there. | Original sealing location, unknown condition requirements | Speculative |
| Structural destruction | Breaking the object beyond reconstruction — on the theory that it needs a whole shape to anchor to. | Full breakage, not cracking or chipping; carrier must not be holding it | Attempted once, incomplete |
| Combined method | Structural destruction followed immediately by fire, on the theory that a single method alone hasn't been enough in any recorded attempt. | Both of the above, in sequence, without delay between them | Not yet attempted |
This is the sequence the case file currently points toward. It has not been carried out to completion. Written down here so the next attempt isn't starting from zero.
Every failed attempt so far started with the object still in the carrier's reach. Move it to another person's hands before anything else happens.
Not because it stops anything on its own — it doesn't — but because every prior escalation across these reports happened through a reflection the carrier could see.
The one attempt that got furthest combined structural damage with fire, in that order. Neither alone got the same reaction from the carrier.
The doll case (the only closed file we know of) wasn't marked resolved until two independent witnesses confirmed it separately, days apart. One witness, one glance, hasn't been enough anywhere else.
What's actually been tried, across reported vessels, in the order attempts occurred. Nothing below is a success story.
Not disclaimers for their own sake — every point below came from something that already went wrong once in a reported case.