The American surrealist artist Bill Stoneham took this picture rather innocent in which he captured his younger sister. This photo is not the most successful and there was nothing sinister in the image, but in the photo the girl turned into a doll and the peaceful landscape behind the two childish figures, turns into the glass door to which the palms of the children are pressed.
According to the artist, the glass door is a barrier that separates the real world and the dream world, and the doll is a guide to the dream world. Perhaps the idea was sincere, but in the end the image itself it was a guide to the world of madness.
"Hands resist"
by Bill Stoneham
The first person to see the image and, at the same time its first victim, he was the art critic and owner of the Los Angeles Times: almost immediately after becoming acquainted with the image, the man died. Then the image was acquired by the actor John Marley and shortly thereafter he died during a heart operation. After that, photography had ended up incomprehensibly in the landfill, where a certain man found her and decided to decorate her wall with this picture. The first night after, his four-year-old daughter she entered the bedroom of her tearful parents saying that the children in the photo fought. The next night everything happened again, only now the children stood outside the door. The new owner hastened to get rid of the photo and it was sold on eBay's online auction for a thousand dollars. The new owner has exposed the photo in his art gallery, but soon he started receiving letters with requests to destroy it. Visitors have complained that the image leads them to panic attacks, confusion and even infarcts.
One of the most famous "damned" canvases is "Weeping Boy" of the Spanish artist Giovanni Bragolin. The story of his creation is as follows: the artist wanted to paint a portrait of a crying child and he took his little son as a model. But, since the child could not cry to order, his father brought him to cry by lighting the matches in front of his face. The artist knew that his son was in a panic for the fire, but for him art was more precious than his son's nerves, and he kept mocking him. Once the child was brought to the point of hysteria, his father could not stand his screams and in his turn shouted: "Burn yourself!" This curse did not come true: two weeks later the boy died of pneumonia and soon the artist's study burned with many of his works. This is just the beginning. A reproduction, found in 1985, in England, has helped to increase the left reputation of this framework. This happened due to a series of strange coincidences: in northern England, one after the other, fires began to occur in apartment buildings. There were human victims. Some of the victims said that only a cheap reproduction with the image of a crying baby, miraculously survived the fires. And these relationships became more and more numerous until, finally, one of the fire department inspectors publicly declared that all the non-burnt houses had been found without the reproduction of the "Piangente". Immediately the newspaper was invaded by a wave of letters, where it was reported of various accidents, deaths and fires that occurred after that the owners have purchased these reproductions.
Of course, the "Weeping" immediately started to be considered damned, the story of his creation emerged, grew up with voices and fictions ... As a result, one of the newspapers published an official statement according to which all those who have this reproduction should immediately get rid of it and the authorities have banned it from buying it and store it at home. Until now, the "Weeping Boy" is famous, especially in the north of England.
By the way, the original has not yet been found.
"Weeping Boy" by
Giovanni Bragolin