paintings are dumb television is much better but some losers actually get enjoyment from it
they are called art collectors which is like stamp collecting except these stamps are really big it's
a pointless activity for idiots and it's not just embarrassing it's also dangerous across
the world many paintings are said to be haunted or cursed some of which famously sew and avoided
by superstitious dealers such paintings can simply be visually disturbing or have a tragic backstory
most are a mix of both which you will discover in this video
this painting is said to cause the premature death of anyone who sees it it's even said to
have caused the death not only of its creator but his entire family that creator is called
zdzislaw beksinski? ...zdzisław beksiński? ...i can't pronounce his name so let's just call him
Jim Jim was born in 1920s Poland coming of age in the devastation of world war ii
and the desperation that followed these horrors are clearly reflected in the paintings he created
his art is hauntingly nihilistic often showing the human body in chaotic situations they are never
fully formed or healthy looking bodies though being somehow deformed to the point they barely
seem human and tragedy was not just confined to Jim's art just when life was going well for Jim
his wife died in 1998 then one year later their only son commits suicide in 2005 Jim's own life
came to an end when someone broke into his home and stabbed him 17 times still he is remembered
as Poland's first great modern artist scaring millions of children every year with his works
while many of his paintings are just outright eerie this sole example is said to be cursed could
it be that in creating this artwork he doomed his family and that simply by showing it in this video
is putting you all at risk let's hope not in the year 2000 this painting was listed on eBay
depicting a grim looking child beside a large doll it immediately got attention online the listing
actually came with a long disclaimer warning anybody faint of heart not to buy it within the
disclaimer it literally said this painting may or may not possess supernatural powers
which is never a good thing to hear the seller genuinely believed the painting to be haunted they
claimed to have seen the buy and doll move within the painting and even that the boy could step out
of the painting into reality the work itself has an interesting history it was created sometime
during the 1970s and sold to the Hollywood actor John Marley though unclear how it was discovered
on the grounds of an old abandoned brewery as if intentionally discarded the elderly couple
who discovered the painting took it home with them but soon grew desperate to get rid of it in time
thirty thousand people would visit the listing many of which claimed to see the painting move
most often it was reported the strange hands behind the boy were moving clawing at the window
some say those hands also belong to dolls like for one standing beside him who has also been reported
to move perhaps the doors want to kill the boy hence why he is known to shift away from them
eventually the painting was sold for just over a thousand dollars five times the initial asking
price its location now is a mystery what is known is that several people associated
with the painting died shortly after coming into contact with it it's called the hands resist him
in the city of Galveston can be found an old portrait of its namesake Bernardo de Galvez inside
a hotel also bearing his name the portrait has long been said to contain the ghost of de Galvez
all kinds of strange events are connected to it and from the opening of the hotel
people have been scared of it they say its eyes follow you around the room
and if you stand too close it will make you feel cold and dizzy the most incredible rumor is that
you cannot take its photo any image you capture of the painting will come up blurry or distorted
as if a ghost is reluctant to be seen but apparently if you ask for portrait politely
any photo you then take will come out clear every day people come here to take a picture
of the haunted painting just to see if the rumors are true many leave convinced they are
personally I don't believe it this is not the kind of man to haunt a hotel his nose is too big
in the 1980s a series of strange paintings were mass-produced each depicting a young
boy crying they proved popular in Europe with 50 000 being sold in the UK alone
then in 1985 it got weird newspapers began to report on a series of fires each at a house where
a crying boy painting could be found firemen claim to be paintings were found in the rubble of burnt
houses but entirely unscathed as if fireproof this was just the beginning more houses burned down
and more paintings discovered within them before long the crying boy was said to be cursed some
said the child painted died in a fire himself and some kind of supernatural force bonded his ghost
to the image others claimed gypsy magic was used to create the original version or that its creator
sold his soul to the devil people genuinely began to fear the painting believing it caused fires
many painting owners were seriously injured and many houses reduced to ash eventually a
paranormal researcher claims to have uncovered the truth according to his story he tracked down
the original painter an old Italian man who once knew a young boy whose parents both died in a fire
every family who adopted this boy dies in a tragic fire causing locals to shun him as the devil boy
eventually the boy was chased out of town never to be seen again
but still this painter felt sorry for the boy immortalizing him in art most now doubt the
validity of that story but the paintings remain infamous still believed by some to be cursed