A haunted painting for sale !
Bob Cernohous
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=251789217
Jarred W. Wallace
Bob Cernohous <bcern...@bresnanlink.net> wrote in message
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> A haunted painting for sale on ebay ! :)
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=251789217
>
you get the link with the pictures?
It's a nice little tale that got the guy a few bucks for it. But I will have
to say
the picture is pretty cool. Kind of creepy.
--
Jarred W. Wallace
"It's not the cough that carries you off.
It is the coffin that they carry you off in"
Arinn Dembo
"Bob Cernohous" wrote
A haunted painting for sale on ebay ! :)
Well, technically a haunted painting that *was* for sale on ebay, by the
time I got around to looking at it.
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=251789217
Nice creepy link, dude. Creepy story, creepy painting. I wonder who paid
to have those nasty-looking kids playing in their drawing room at night?
Hope they don't have kids of their own--I'd hate to see more figures in that
painting next time it goes up for sale.
--Arinn Dembo
Shervin Fatehi
but rather all the hands pawing at the window behind them.
Shervin (GKL)
Machine-gun Kelly
> to say
> the picture is pretty cool. Kind of creepy.
The story might be schlock. Then again it might not. The kid's face and
the children's hands pawing at the window were just creepy. Reminds me
of a faked pic I saw on Art Bell's website. Fake, but creepy as Hell.
MGK
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Pyrephox
>I think the creepiest thing about that painting wasn't the two main figures,
>but rather all the hands pawing at the window behind them.
I think the creepiest thing about was what the painter must have been on when
s/he decided to transcribe that nightmare to canvas. That thing belongs on
Friday the 13th: The Series.
*shudder*
Pyrephox
Ponce de Leon Leoront
> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 23:07:36 GMT
> From: Arinn Dembo <arinn...@home.com>
> Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
> Subject: Re: A haunted painting for sale !
What the girl is holding looks like an old Cathode Ray Tube, with the
connecting terminals at the wrong end. However, it looks like it has a
more sinister purpose, and I think I'd rather not go there. This is one
of the most disturbing pictures I have ever seen.
James Russell
<bcern...@bresnanlink.net> wrote:
>A haunted painting for sale on ebay ! :)
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=251789217
Am I the only person who thinks this "haunting" story is a crock of
shit and so is the painting? I don't get it at all…
--
James
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Shervin Fatehi
I agree that the story/photos are probably false. However, I still maintain
that the painting itself is kinda eerie - just those hands pawing at the
windowpanes make me feel uneasy.
Shervin
James Russell <jg...@xoommail.com> wrote in message
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> Am I the only person who thinks this "haunting" story is a crock of
> shit and so is the painting? I don't get it at all.
Jarred W. Wallace
Well of course the story is bull. But they used it to sell there product.
You have to admit that the painting is pretty cool though. Don't you
think the painting is the lest bit creepy looking? I know I do.
--
Jarred W. Wallace
"It's not the cough that carries you off.
It is the coffin that they carry you off in"
James Russell <jg...@xoommail.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 07:33:50 -0600, "Bob Cernohous"
> <bcern...@bresnanlink.net> wrote:
>
> >A haunted painting for sale on ebay ! :)
> >
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=251789217
>
> Am I the only person who thinks this "haunting" story is a crock of
> shit and so is the painting? I don't get it at all.
>
James Russell
<jar...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>Well of course the story is bull. But they used it to sell there product.
>You have to admit that the painting is pretty cool though. Don't you
>think the painting is the lest bit creepy looking? I know I do.
Mmmh, suppose the hands outside the window are a bit weird. I don't
know, though, I don't find it quite as freakish as everyone else seems
to do…
--
In nomine Magnum Innominandum,
Jacob Skaaning
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> On Sun, 5 Mar 2000 05:28:13 -0500, "Jarred W. Wallace"
> <jar...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> >Well of course the story is bull. But they used it to sell there product.
> >You have to admit that the painting is pretty cool though. Don't you
> >think the painting is the lest bit creepy looking? I know I do.
>
> Mmmh, suppose the hands outside the window are a bit weird. I don't
> know, though, I don't find it quite as freakish as everyone else seems
> to do…
Try looking at it at 3am, when you're home alone and listening to Vangelis'
El Greco. Eek.
...I don't get the last pictures of the painting though. What are they
supposed to look like?
Jacob.
Pyrephox
>I agree that the story/photos are probably false. However, I still maintain
>that the painting itself is kinda eerie - just those hands pawing at the
>windowpanes make me feel uneasy.
Anybody else think that the painting would have made a great prop for Cthulhu
Live? Just as an atmosphere setter, it's wonderful.
Pyrephox
Dizzeey
>
I put the picture on my pc, and showed it to both my dog, and my
children....there was nothing at all unusual about the tentacles what sprouted
from their appendages, and the whispers sounded no different than normal, so
yes, I do believe it's crust...
....although why is it so cold in my house now?
Dizz
::still needs to go to the city::
Richard D Magrath
think it was that scary at all, even with the alleged history of it and the
hands pressed against the door. But then I had a closer look at it, and was
really rather scared. 'Tis the dark eyeless sockets of the girl mannequin that
frightened me - instead of looking at the picture as a whole, try just looking
at the close-ups of the boy's face and the mannequin's face. Freaky, eh?
By the way, what was supposed to be happening on the last two pictures? It just
looked like the colour was all messed up. Still sent a chill through me though.
Those eyes... yikes!
Richard D. Magrath (IMO it would have been better if the "history" of it had
talked about who the painting was of... the son of a child-murderer and the
favourite doll of his dead sister? Answers on a postcard please.)
LtRi...@aol.com
"I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the
government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and
transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are
uptight" -Danny, WITHNAIL & I
Booji Boy
Richard D Magrath <ltri...@aol.com> wrote in message
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>
> By the way, what was supposed to be happening on the last two pictures? It
just
> looked like the colour was all messed up. Still sent a chill through me
though.
> Those eyes... yikes!
>
It does tell you what the last two pictures are.
"TO MY AMUSEMENT HE SET UP A MOTION TRIGGERED CAMREA FOR THE NIGHTS. AFTER
THREE NIGHTS THERE WERE PICTURES.THE LAST TWO PICTURES SHOWN ARE FROM THAT
'STAKEOUT'. AFTER SEEING THE BOY SEEMINGLY EXITING THE PAINTING UNDER
THREAT, "
Richard D Magrath
<booj...@mindspring.com> writes:
>Well if you read the description of the painting on the auction page.
>It does tell you what the last two pictures are.
>
Yes, I can read (or at least feign it very well >:-) ), but I didn't see what
was *different* about those two pictures. If they were supposed to show the boy
leaving the picture, why did they photograph the doll instead? eh? answer me
that, "Booji Boy".
Richard D. Magrath
Glaaki
Doll House.
as to the probabilities or signifigance of the last two jpgs posted:
The family kids reported the painting children were out of their painting
and arguing. There was suspicion that the children... one is obviously a
doll(girl) about the heigt of a "My Size Barbie". Eye socket empty and what
is perhaps the dolls own motor in her hands. The last two photoes depict the
face of the girl Doll growing red. In the last picture the boy is in full
like and she in deep red shadow. I have some experience with Photography and
know this red shift can hapen under certain lighting conditions.
If the light of a passing car struck the room, it's movement would have
activated the camera. The shot (last) is probaly the result of such an
effect either acidental or deliberate. The boy is not out of the painting.
To prove it look at the other photos on the site. Measure the distance
between the doll and the boy. In all the photos this distance and indeed the
exact posstion never changes.
It is the tale of argueing which makes the account spooky and the fact that
it was reported by the children of the house and the advisories regarding
displaying the work around children which makes it down right scary!
In James' story, every night a drama unfolds within a doll's house. There is
an arguement. A fight. The whole family slain and the house burnt to the
ground all under a stayr night sky.
In the morning the house is as it was. the next night the tale of murder and
arsen unfold again.
spell check isn't working and I am pleagued by the TypoDemon.
applolies.
:)
and thnx
Glaaki
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> On Sun, 5 Mar 2000 05:28:13 -0500, "Jarred W. Wallace"
> <jar...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> >Well of course the story is bull. But they used it to sell there product.
> >You have to admit that the painting is pretty cool though. Don't you
> >think the painting is the lest bit creepy looking? I know I do.
>
> Mmmh, suppose the hands outside the window are a bit weird. I don't
> know, though, I don't find it quite as freakish as everyone else seems
> to do…
>
> --
> In nomine Magnum Innominandum,
> James
>
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"James Russell" <jg...@xoommail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 5 Mar 2000 05:28:13 -0500, "Jarred W. Wallace"
> <jar...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> >Well of course the story is bull. But they used it to sell there product.
> >You have to admit that the painting is pretty cool though. Don't you
> >think the painting is the lest bit creepy looking? I know I do.
>
> Mmmh, suppose the hands outside the window are a bit weird. I don't
> know, though, I don't find it quite as freakish as everyone else seems
> to do…
>
Wanda Sherratt
of, Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw", with the two children being beckoned
to by dead hands from outside. I don't see anything in the last two pictures
except a lighting change, but the whole thing gives me the creeps.
Wanda
Arinn Dembo
> I don't see anything in the last two pictures
> except a lighting change, but the whole thing gives me the creeps.
The last two pictures add an element of spookiness to the tale, yes--but the
reason they're spooky is not just the red hellish-looking light on the doll
figure. The pictures are scary because they exist at all...they shouldn't.
Don't forget, according to our narrator, these photos were taken by a motion
sensitive camera...if the camera hadn't detected motion, there would be no
pictures at all. And there shouldn't *be* any motion in an empty room, at
night, in front of a creepy old painting.
As for the need to explain away the painting and the little haunting story
associated with it as a load of hogwash...my response to that is something
to the effect of "Well, duh!" Of course it's hogwash, folks! But it's the
sort of hogwash that gives one a little half-pleasurable frisson. That's
all I ask of any work of horror, be it painting, fiction or film.
I personally would not buy this painting for my own use, whether as a prop
in a game or as something to hang on my wall. I wouldn't keep it in my
house, or in any place where people were expected to live night and day.
But I do think that it's a very evocative image, and that the artist
succeeds in his/her intention, which is obviously to creep people out. I
would buy it if I had to fill the collection of a Museum of Disturbing Art
somewhere--so long as I had a nice safe building to put it, far away from
where my kids play and sleep. I'd even put a little placard with the false
history of the thing, and a couple of prints of with the horrible
"red-litten" image of the doll-girl's face right next to it on the wall.
Behold the Haunted Painting! Special rates available for those who wish to
spend the night alone with it in the museum. :)
--Arinn Dembo
a.k.a. "Madame Curator"
Member of the Sinful Six
Dizzeey
reflection of a mustachio'd man, as if in a mirror in the darkened beyond?
Dizz
::just me::
Jacob Skaaning
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> It is definitely a creepy painting - I thought of another story it reminds
me
> of, Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw", with the two children being
beckoned
pictures
> except a lighting change, but the whole thing gives me the creeps.
I think it looks like the girls mouth is opening wider... ugh...
Jacob
jim boyle
forth in a stream of ichor...
> I think it looks like the girls mouth is opening wider... ugh...
>
> Jacob
>
Another thing I noticed is the lack of balance to the painting... Now, I am by
no means an artist or art critic, but I noticed that it appears that there
should be a figure on the right, the space is too open... This gives the
impression of unseen forces, IMO. Still, completely disregarding the "motion-
photos", it is a very creepy, sinister painting....
jim
Wanda Sherratt
girl is crowded off to the left side. I interpreted that as indicating that she
is somehow not as "present" as he is; he seems unaware of her. Maybe she's dead.
Wanda