Is Hands Resist Him the world’s scariest painting? An image on eBay made a user speak in tongues and break down in tears. A web designed reported difficulty breathing when she viewed it. Another woman’s child began crying uncontrollably when he saw her looking at it. It made a horror fan feel anxious and nauseated.
Linked to hundreds of strange occurrences, the painting was found behind an old brewery. An art collector purchased it, but within weeks removed the painting from her home and put it on eBay. The woman claims her motion-triggered camera captured images of the boy and the doll leaving the painting and walking about her home. Once the auction was listed, the woman received messages from users who reported strange happenings after they viewed its image. The person who won the auction was inundated with similar stories, and eventually found the artist who remembered painting the image years before.
What’s the story here? Mass hysteria or something more sinister? What’s traveling with or through that image? What’s the story behind the portrait and its evocative title? What happens next?
