Ebay Haunted Painting

[The Lady Elanor]

Now me personally I only took a glimpse and saw the boys face and every hair on my neck stood up. I had to close the window and I can't look now. It may be irrational fear but there was something really odd there and I'm of the belief if the painting is haunted, maybe the evil in it can also be transmitted from pictures of it. I dunno. I'm really freaked out.

 

I showed this to a few of my friends, the opinions were, ugly picture, evil and one friend had nightmares about a doll in it coming after us. She's a pretty sound person normally.

 

Umm if you search on yahoo or google for Ebay haunted painting you'll find it. I won't look at it again.

[Narago]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/unexplained/200...inting_01.shtml

 

 

is this the painting?

 

if it is, i must admit it didnt bother me

[Jason_Voorhees]

Thats no big deal really.

 

I wouldnt mind it on my wall though.

[Adam]

Really?

Your kidding right?

[Indiana]

Ugly little bugger aint he? lol

 

Obi-Wan

[Narago]

You got that right Obi

[Indiana]

You got that right Obi

Hee hee hee! How are you Jules - I'm just dropping in for five mins!

 

Obi-Wan

[dragonmate1]

I wonder where it is now.. and whether the current owners are experiencing anything?

[Indiana]

I wonder where it is now.. and whether the current owners are experiencing anything?

I expect they are gonna broadcast it on Children's BBC lol It'll be like the Hypnotoad!

 

Obi-Wan

[dragonmate1]

Do you remember years ago, the popular print of the little boy crying..

 

Went through a stage of it being in a lot of houses that caught fire.. and thought it was related to the picture..

 

Personally, I think that as it was such a popular picture, that there were good odds of it being in many houses that caught fire anyway..

[Indiana]

Do you remember years ago, the popular print of the little boy crying..

 

Went through a stage of it being in a lot of houses that caught fire.. and thought it was related to the picture..

 

Personally, I think that as it was such a popular picture, that there were good odds of it being in many houses that caught fire anyway..

Vaguely remember that yes. There was also another one of an Asian looking woman that people said had similar effects.

 

Maybe it was a sign that all tacky 60's/70's paintings should be burnt?

 

Obi-Wan

[Narago]

Hey Obi, hope you are okay?

 

I looked at the piccie again before i went to bed last night just to see if i would have any bad dreams ect.

But nothing to report I'm afraid.

Whilst looking at the painting the only thing that i kept thinking was why would someone paint something so ugly and who in their right minds would buy it?

[amy_s]

im getting off of that s**t its scarying the f***ing crap out of me, Im sorry but thats bloody terrifying, I wont be able to sleep tonight.

[KAT]

Do you remember years ago, the popular print of the little boy crying..

 

Went through a stage of it being in a lot of houses that caught fire.. and thought it was related to the picture..

 

Personally, I think that as it was such a popular picture, that there were good odds of it being in many houses that caught fire anyway..

Vaguely remember that yes. There was also another one of an Asian looking woman that people said had similar effects.

 

Maybe it was a sign that all tacky 60's/70's paintings should be burnt?

 

Obi-Wan

the tretchikov painting of the asian woman? who is greeny coloured?

[Adam]

Its scary just looking at it!

[The Lady Elanor]

Do you remember years ago, the popular print of the little boy crying..

 

Went through a stage of it being in a lot of houses that caught fire.. and thought it was related to the picture..

 

Personally, I think that as it was such a popular picture, that there were good odds of it being in many houses that caught fire anyway..

Vaguely remember that yes. There was also another one of an Asian looking woman that people said had similar effects.

 

Maybe it was a sign that all tacky 60's/70's paintings should be burnt?

 

Obi-Wan

the tretchikov painting of the asian woman? who is greeny coloured?

I believe the painting was the Suzi Wong one, my Grandparents had it over the fire in the dining room as a child but when my Grandfather died my uncle threw it away saying it was cursed.

Personally I love the picture and if anyone ever see's one I really want to have it again. Loved the way her eyes followed you round the room, many hours of amusement as a child.

 

 

As for the little boy one. Here's some useless information on it. It was a total hoax though!

 

The Crying Boy (TCB) is a mass-produced painting and exists in several forms. The subject is a boy ranging in age from 4 to 10 years old. His clothing and the painting style differ depending on what period the artist has set him in. The jinx story seems to have been started by "The Sun" in 1985 and went from strength to strength with all sorts of reasons (the boy was a Romany whose family placed the curse, the boy was an orphan, the boy himself had died in a fire etc). One version of the myth is that the original TCB picture was a portrait painted by a Spanish artist and that the subject was an orphan. The artist's studio burnt down and the boy himself was later killed in a car crash. Psychics claimed the boy's spirit was trapped in the painting and that the curse extends to all the many different versions of the painting! The curse apparently only affects those who are aware that the painting is cursed - hardly surprising since any subsequent misfortune will get blamed on the painting.

 

On 4 September 1985 "The Sun" ran a story reporting that TCBs were jinxed. Yorkshire fireman Peter Hall was quoted as saying that unscathed copies of TCB were frequently found at the scenes of fires. He and his colleagues were serious enough about this to vow never to allow the painting into their own homes. Peter’s own brother, Ron Hall (Swallownest, South Yorkshire), had ignored this warning: fire damaged his kitchen and living-room, but the TCB in the living-room wall unscathed. The jinxed painting was destroyed by his family.

 

The following issue (5 Sept 1985) reported a flood of calls about the TCB jinx. It reported several cases. Dora Mann (Mitcham, Surrey) whose house was completely gutted by fire only 6 months after buying a TCB. All of her paintings were destroyed, except for TCB. Sandra Craske (Kilburn), her sister-in-law, and a. friend had all had bought TCB and all had suffered fires soon after. Ms Craske had even seen the jinxed painting swing from side to side! Linda Fleming (Leeds) and Jane McCutcheon (Nottingham) both had fires where TCB survived unharmed. Janet Wyatt (Wroxall, Isle of Wight) heard about the jinx and tried to burn her two copies of TCB, but they would not catch fire.

 

Rather than conclude that fire-retardant materials or physical location enabled TCB prints to survive, there was a rash of reports about TCBs linked to fires and surviving the fires. The dates given are report dates, not incident dates. Most people were reporting events which had happened previously and had probably forgotten about the real causes of the fires e.g. unattended cookers, dropped cigarettes etc. What they did remember is that they had suffered a fire and that they had owned a TCB painting. For example, students in a shared house (location not given) had a cellar fire in July 1984 - well before the story in the Sun - which destroyed everything in the cellar of their house except TCB.

 

"The Sun", 9th Sept 1985: Brian Parks (Boughtor, Notts) destroyed his TCB after a fire hospitalised his wife and 2 children. On the same date, both the Sun and "The Daily Star" reported that Grace Murray (Oxford) was hospitalised at Stoke Mandeville with severe burns after a house fire, but her TCB was almost undamaged. The Daily Star is a tabloid appealing to the same audience as the Sun.

 

"The Sun", 21st Oct 1985: The Parillo Pizza Palace, Great Yarmouth, destroyed by fire, but TCB was undamaged. The newspaper invited readers to send in their ‘cursed’ TCB paintings for destruction. By now, TCB stories had been picked up by local papers and by individuals keen to get their 5 minutes of fame. Not to be outdone by the Sun and the Star, another tabloid, the "Daily Mail", 24th Oct 1985, reported that Kevin Godber's family (Herringthorpe, South Yorks) were made homeless by a fire which left TCB unscathed, while pictures on either side of it were destroyed. The following day, "The Sun", 25th Oct 1985 : An explosion destroys the Amos's home (Heswall, Merseyside). Two TCBs paintings (living-room and dining room) were retrieved unharmed. Mr Amos destroys the jinxed paintings.

 

Local papers were also picking up curse of TCB. "Shropshire Star", 26th October 1985: Fred Trower's home in Telford was damaged by fire. Mr Trower, an ex-fireman, refused to believe TCB curse and kept his TCB in the hallway where it would remain "unless there was a second fire". "Western Morning News", same date reported that 6 months after restaurant owner George Beer (Holsworthy) installed two TCBs, the premises were severely damaged by separate fires 12 months apart. On both occasions, the prints were not even singed. Mr Beer did not believe in the jinx and kept the paintings. Linking TCB to fires 6 months and 18 months later is stretching belief to snapping point!

 

"The Sun", 26th October 1985 carried a follow-up report on collection of TCBs for burning, thus fuelling (pardon the pun) TCB curse stories. By this time, its jinx story was building up quite a following. Also a summary of improbable incidents. A male stripper’s fire-eating act went wrong after he taunted his wife’s TCB. A woman blamed the death of her husband and 3 sons on TCB. Dr Peter Baldry of City University, London, cited saying there was no reason why TCB pictures shouldn’t burn. Roy Vickery, secretary of the Folklore Society, speculated whether the artist had mistreated his model resulting a vengeful curse (no mention of whether all artists had mistreated the models for all versions of TCB though!).

 

"Portsmouth News", 30th October 1985: Stella Brown (Portsmouth) burns her 2 TCBs. She blamed them for a long run of bad luck and family health problems. Her son tripped over while fetching water to put the fire out. A day later in the "West Briton", 31st October 1985: Richard Reynolds & wife (Falmouth) hear of the curse. They dump their two TCBs on a bonfire being made for Guy Fawkes’ night (5th Nov). They had twice given those TCBs away to friends, only to have the paintings returned.

 

"The Sun", 31st October 1985 carried yet another follow-up report, keeping the story going. "Thousands" of TCBs were burned under supervision of the fire brigade. This ritual burning was later transformed (by the process of urban legend, faulty memory or a reporter giving the story a new lease of life) into the story that the warehouse where the paintings were being kept had suffered a fire which destroyed the paintings. The Sun also carried further reports of TCB jinx. Sandra Jane Moore's home had been flooded after she'd drawn punk hair on her friend’s TCB. Mrs Woodward (Forest Hill) blamed TCB for death of her son, daughter, husband and mother.

 

"The Guardian", 1st November 1985: The Guardian, one of Britain's broadsheet (quality) newspapers, carried an entertaining account of The Sun’s TCB bonfire. It wrote that Sun editor Kelvin McKenzie was a believer in the TCB curse and that he "went bananas" when a prankster hung a TCB in his office. The Guardian's account notes the refusal of several fire brigades to join in the burning.

 

"The Sun", 12th November 1985 reported that Malcolm Vaughn (Churchdown, Gloucestershire) destroyed a neighbour's TCB and later, his own living-room caught fire. On 24th February 1986, "The Sun" reported that 61-year-old William Armitage (Weston-super-Mare, Avon) died in a house fire in which the room was gutted, but an unscathed TCB was found on the floor near the pensioner’s body. A fireman was quoted as saying it was "odd".

 

By now, TCB curse tales were entering modern folklore. "The Daily Mirror" Letters page on 5th March 1986 advised a frightened old lady who owned TCB to ignore the jinx stories. It advised that the succession of disaster claims were coincidence, but apparently refrained from saying "and people wanting to get in on the act". A few days later a columnist for the "Western Morning News", 11th March 1986, wrote of his neighbour’s son's anxiety after slipping while holding a knife and accidentally slashing the mother’s TCB.

 

After 6 months, it was reported that TCB would reward those who were kind to the painting. "The Sun", 20 March 1986, wrote how Bob Cherry (Glasgow) claimed his rescued TCB brought him nothing but good luck. One day when his old car broke-down in a lay-by, he noticed a TCB propped up by a dustbin. He put the picture in his car and the vehicle started first time and had given him no problems ever since (give it time, Bob!) Within a week of rescuing TCB from the dustbin, he had won £20 at bingo, £4 on the football pools and £11 on a fruit machine.

 

By then, after 6 months, TCB curse stories should be dying a natural death. But ... as with many such stories, it had taken on a life of its own as part of urban legend. TCB curse stories had spread from Britain to be reported abroad. The Sun's curse story had become accepted as fact. It is now claimed that a match held to the front of the painting will not ignite it, but a match held to the back will set it alight. A medium claims the spirit of the boy is trapped in the painting and it starts fires in an attempt to burn the painting and free itself. Others claim the painting is haunted or attracts poltergeist activity. Stories of the artist's and subject's misfortune had attached themselves to the painting. If all the many versions of the motif are cursed, does this mean anyone who draws a picture of a crying male child will automatically have a cursed picture?

Edited April 18, 2004 by The Lady Elanor

[Willow28]

omg.... sum1 was hospitilised at stoke mandeville coz of that painting......... ill live there!

[yeltz-lass]

Ugly little bugger aint he? lol

 

Obi-Wan

I agree, Obi!

 

It's one hell of a creepy picture, mind - there's definitely something unsettling about it. I'd like to see it closer-to, though - what are those hands you can see through the window, for a start.

[Serkette]

tres bizarre!! I do feel kind of unerved by the whole thing as I read more and more of it, and obviously with the close up on that doll...intriguing though!!

[stanmarsh]

i only just found this thread so apologies for being so late. the close up of the doll is kinda freaky, and the painting does have an eeire feeling but maybe because of the legend surrounding it?

[Kari]

I darent look Shoosh how stupid i am lol

[stanmarsh]

its not that bad helen!

[Kari]

Ok so i looked..Even like for a second It didnt look too bad but it did make me feel kinda...funny...Im not lookin again!

[POTATOES]

you know the 'gun' and supposed changing....is it just me or is that actually no different at all??? just dodgy lighting that means you cant see the bar of the window and the thing in the girls hand arent the same thing?????

[The Reaper]

Nice want that on my wall