A picture that makes you feel bad. A picture that makes people go crazy. Not recommended for the faint of heart

Before looking at the picture, read the text carefully. Not recommended for the faint of heart.

The painting was painted by Bill Stoneham. The scandal began after one of the exhibitions. Mentally unbalanced people viewing this picture became ill, they lost consciousness, began to cry, etc...

It all started in 1972, when the painting was drawn by Bill Stoneham from an old photograph of him at age five found in the Chicago house where he lived at the time.

The painting was first shown to the owner and art critic of the Los Angeles Times, who later died. Maybe it was a coincidence, maybe not. The painting was then acquired by actor John Marley (died 1984). Then the fun begins. The painting was found in a landfill among a pile of garbage. The family who found her brought her home and already on the first night the little four-year-old daughter ran into her parents’ bedroom screaming that the children in the picture were fighting. The next night, the children in the picture were outside the door. The next night, the head of the family set the video camera to be activated by movement in the room where the painting hung. The video camera went off several times.

The painting was put up for auction on eBay. Soon, eBay administrators began receiving alarming letters with complaints about deteriorating health, loss of consciousness, and even heart attacks. There was a warning on eBay (as well as in this post), but people are notoriously curious and many ignored the warning. The text of the message is shown in one of the images.

The painting was sold for 1025 USD, the starting price was 199 USD. The page with the painting was visited over 30,000 times, but mostly just for fun. It was bought by Kim Smith, who lived in a small town near Chicago. He was just looking for something for his newly renovated art gallery on the Internet. When he came across "Hands Resist Him" he initially thought that it was painted in the forties and would be perfect for him as an exhibit.

This would have been the end of the story, but letters now began to arrive at Smith's address. Many of them were, as before, with stories about feeling unwell after viewing the film, but there were also those who wrote about the evil emanating from it.

Others demanded that it simply be burned. Even Ed and Lorraine Warren, famous for exorcizing demons at the Amityville House in 1979, offered his services. Some even recalled the famous Satillo murder in the forested hills of California. The ghosts of two children are said to haunt the house in the hills. Psychics claimed: “We saw a boy. He wore a light T-shirt and shorts. His sister was always in the shadows. He seemed to protect her. Their names were Tom and Laura and they looked exactly like the children in the picture.

What's wrong with this picture? Maybe it's all about the distortion of proportions and shape, slight, but intrusive, forcing you to look closely. Look at the boy's head: his top is flat, his face is flat and shapeless, as if covered with a piece of raw dough. Look at the door. Don't you have the feeling that the boy is taller than an adult, and that the door is huge? Hands behind an invisible barrier seem very small. The boy’s legs, there’s something wrong with them too.

There is a terrible wrong. She's scary.

Of course, to understand this picture you need to think like an artist, because he painted himself.

Imagine that you are standing at a locked door, squinting from the bright sun. THEY won’t let you in the door and it makes you want to cry (you bit your lip), but you won’t, because you’re already adults.

The girl next to you is not an enemy at all, but your only companion behind this door. Even though she is a doll, and has no eyes, and is empty inside, she knows where to go - after all, she is an inhabitant of this world-behind-the-door. She will lead you in a way where hands cannot drive you away. Everything is fine, it’s just a little disappointing that they didn’t let me in right away.

The street is a dream, the house is our world. The door is the border between sleep and reality, and the hands are “other living ones.” Or maybe it’s not THEY who don’t let their children in, but the children who don’t let THEM in? Children are afraid, especially the boy. but he's an adult and doesn't show it. A girl cannot be afraid because she has no feelings. But they, the boy and the girl, know for sure that HANDS from THAT world will not get through to them, will not break in, because this is a completely different world. But there is something to be afraid of... at least the unexpected. but what if?

The artist himself writes about her this way:

The boy in the picture being himself, the hands being other lives, the windows/door being a thin veil between waking and dreaming with the small doll like girl being the guide through.

The picture that makes people go crazy - article

Before looking at the picture, read the text carefully. Not recommended for the faint of heart.

The painting was painted by Bill Stoneham. The scandal began after one of the exhibitions. Mentally unbalanced people viewing this picture became ill, they lost consciousness, began to cry, etc...

It all started in 1972, when the painting was drawn by Bill Stoneham from an old photograph of him at age five found in the Chicago house where he lived at the time.

There is a terrible wrong. She's scary.

Of course, to understand this picture you need to think like an artist, because he painted himself.

The artist himself writes about her this way:

The boy in the picture being himself, the hands being other lives, the windows/door being a thin veil between waking and dreaming with the small doll like girl being the guide through.

The artists' creations do not leave people indifferent and cause a storm of emotions - from joy to tears. But there are also such paintings, the mere sight of which makes you shiver. They say about some paintings that spirits live in them: these paintings give off a cold air; when you pass by, it seems that the characters in the paintings are watching you. They can drive their owners crazy and even kill them. Looking at these paintings through a monitor is not dangerous (but this is not certain), but we do not advise you to look for them, much less buy them and hang them in your bedroom.

There is a truly terrifying story behind The Suffering Man. No one knows who painted the picture, but it is known that the artist mixed his own blood with the paint, and after finishing the masterpiece, he committed suicide. The painting's current owner, Sean Robinson, says he inherited the painting from his grandmother, who in turn claimed that the painting was cursed. When Sean hung the painting in the bedroom, the household heard whispering and crying from it at night and saw a strange shadow.

Not only do Beksiński’s paintings already look like illustrations of hell, but there are also such legends about them that people believe that the paintings are cursed.

Beksinski's life was tragic: his wife died, his son committed suicide. Six years later, the artist was found murdered in his own apartment. Some people believe that if you look at Beksinski's paintings for too long, you will soon die.

"Hands Resist Him" by Bill Stoneham

There are legends around the painting, painted in 1972, that supposedly spirits live in it. Previous owners said that at night the characters in the painting move and even come out of the frame. And the owner of the gallery where the painting was first exhibited, and the art critic who worked with it for a long time, died a year after coming into contact with the canvas.

“Man proposes, but God disposes,” Edwin Henry Landseer

The painting depicts a horrific scene: the supposed demise of John Franklin's expedition in 1845, which disappeared without a trace. The painting is in King's Holloway College, University of London. During exams, the room where the painting hangs is hung with a British flag. The tradition began when one of the students could not sit near the painting and began frantically looking for something to cover it with. A British flag came to hand. There is a superstition that a person looking at a painting goes crazy.

Reproduction of "Love Letters" by Charles Trevor Garland, Richard King

The painting hangs in the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas, where U.S. Senator Samantha Houston's four-year-old daughter fell down the stairs and died in 1887. And although it is not Samantha that is depicted on the canvas, many believe that the spirit of the girl has entered the picture, and some argue that the girls are like two peas in a pod. People feel uncomfortable and even weak when they look at a painting for a long time. Some hotel guests say they saw the ghost of a little girl playing with a ball.

“Rain Woman”, Svetlana Taurus

The artist Svetlana Taurus said that she painted the picture in about five hours and felt as if someone was guiding her hand. They say that everyone who bought the painting returned it, complaining of insomnia, sadness and the feeling that the portrait was watching them.

"The Crying Boy" by Giovanni Bragolina

The artist painted a series of paintings of crying children, which he sold to tourists. The most famous painting, The Crying Boy, is said to be cursed. The British newspaper The Sun reported that firefighters often find reproductions of “The Crying Boy” at house fires, completely unharmed. Many believe that the image attracts fire and misfortune.

"Portrait of Bernardo de Galvez", unknown artist

The painting is located at the Hotel Galvez, in Galveston, Texas. Hotel guests talk about strange incidents associated with the canvas. Some claim that Bernardo de Galvez is watching them, and besides, it is very cold and uncomfortable next to the painting. But perhaps the strangest thing is that every time the painting is photographed, the picture turns out blurry. But some people still manage to take a clear photo - you just need to ask the portrait for permission to take a photo.

Untitled, Laura P.

Laura P. painted from a photograph of James Kidd. Kidd claimed that he did not photograph the headless man (to the left of the van), the figure appeared during the development of the photograph. The artist complained that when she completed the work, strange things began to happen - objects fell around her, broke, and something kept disappearing. Some believe that the spirit that appeared in the original photograph haunts the painting.

This picture was painted by an artist named Bill Stoneham. After one of the exhibitions of the “masterpiece” a huge scandal began. Some of those who viewed the picture began to cry, they felt bad, people lost consciousness.

Stoneham painted his picture in 1972, based on an old photograph in which the artist was depicted at the age of five. The first person to see the most terrible picture was the art critic of the Los Angeles Times, who died some time later.

Then the canvas is acquired by actor John Marley (who died in 1984). But the most interesting things are yet to come...

The painting was found in a landfill, among a pile of various garbage. The family who discovered the masterpiece took it home. On the very first night, the four-year-old daughter ran to her parents, she screamed that the children depicted in the picture were fighting. The next night they disappeared out the door. The head of the family decided to experiment - a video camera that responded to movement was installed in the room with the painting overnight. The camera worked several times that night, but failed to capture anything.

The canvas was put up for auction on eBay. The original price for the lot was $199, but the painting was sold for $1,025. The page with the painting has been viewed more than 30,000 times. The next owner of the diabolical painting was Kim Smith, to whose address letters began to arrive demanding that the mysterious painting be burned. Lorraine and Ed Warren, psychics known as psychics, even offered their services to him. They claimed that the ghosts of the two children in the painting were haunting our world and needed to be stopped.

But what made everyone recognize this painting as the most terrible picture, which has such a negative effect on susceptible and mentally unstable people? Maybe it's all about a slight distortion of shape and proportion. Take a closer look at the door - don’t you have the feeling that it is huge, and that the boy is taller than an adult? The top of his head is shapeless and flat, and his face appears to be covered with a piece of raw dough. The boy’s legs also catch his eye; there’s something wrong with them too. Behind an invisible barrier are hands that seem very small.

Do irregular, slightly surreal shapes scare you? Only the artist can understand the most terrible picture, because he painted himself...

The girl who stands next to the boy is an empty doll, a resident from the world beyond the door. Hands that reach out from behind the door, what meaning did the artist put into this image? Do they not let the boy in or, on the contrary, is the boy trying to not let them into this world? The artist himself characterizes his work with the following words:

“The boy in the picture being himself, the hands being other lives, the windоws/door being a thin veil betwеen waking up and dreaming with the small doll like girl being the guide thоugh.”

Here, in fact, is the most terrible picture (not recommended for the faint of heart):

BEFORE LOOKING AT THE PICTURE, READ THE TEXT CAREFULLY!!!

NOT RECOMMENDED FOR THE WEAK NERVOUS!!!

It all started in 1972, when the painting was drawn by Bill Stoneham from an old photograph of him at age five found in the Chicago house where he lived at the time.

The scandal began after one of the exhibitions. Mentally unbalanced people viewing this picture became ill, they lost consciousness, began to cry, etc.

The painting was first shown to the owner and art critic of the Los Angeles Times, who later died. Maybe it was a coincidence, maybe not. The painting was then acquired by actor John Marley (died 1984). Then the fun begins. The painting was found in a landfill among a pile of garbage. The family that found it brought it home, and already on the first night, the little four-year-old daughter ran into her parents’ bedroom screaming that the children in the picture were fighting. The next night, the children in the picture were outside the door. The next night, the head of the family set a motion-activated video camera in the room where the painting hung. The video camera went off several times.

The painting was put up for auction on eBay. Soon, eBay administrators began receiving alarming letters with complaints about deteriorating health, loss of consciousness, and even heart attacks. There was a warning on eBay (as well as in this post), but people are known to be curious and many ignored the warning. The text of the message is shown in one of the images.

The painting was sold for 1025 USD, the starting price was 199 USD. The page with the painting was visited over 30,000 times, but mostly just for fun. It was bought by Kim Smith, who lived in a small town near Chicago. He was just looking for something for his newly renovated art gallery on the Internet. When he came across "Hands Resist Him" he initially thought that it had been painted in the forties and would be perfect for him as an exhibit.

This would have been the end of the story, but letters now began to arrive at Smith's address. Many of them were, as before, with stories about feeling unwell after viewing the picture, but there were also those who wrote about the evil emanating from it.

What's wrong with this picture? Maybe it's all about the distortion of proportions and shape, slight, but intrusive, forcing you to look closely. Look at the boy's head: his top is flat, his face is flat and shapeless, as if covered with a piece of raw dough. Look at the door. Don't you get the feeling that the boy is taller than an adult and that the door is huge? Hands behind an invisible barrier seem very small. The boy’s legs, there’s something wrong with them too.

There is a terrible wrong. She's scary.

Of course, to understand this picture you need to think like an artist, because he painted himself.

Imagine that you are standing at a locked door, squinting from the bright sun. THEY won't let you in the door, and it makes you want to cry (you bit your lip), but you won't, because you're already adults.

The street is a dream, the house is our world. The door is the border between sleep and reality, and the hands are “other living ones.” Or maybe it’s not THEY who don’t let their children in, but the children who don’t let THEM in? The children are afraid, especially the boy, but he is an adult and does not show it. A girl cannot be afraid because she has no feelings. But they - the boy and the girl - know for sure that HANDS from THAT world will not get through to them, will not break in, because this is a completely different world. But there is something to be afraid of... at least the unexpected. But what if?

The artist himself writes about her this way:

The boy in the picture being himself, the hands being other lives, the windows/door being a thin veil between waking and dreaming with the small doll like girl being the guide through.

If anyone understands what is written, please translate it!

Very interesting!

AND HERE IS THE PICTURE: