Curse of the Crying Boy?

‘The Curse of the Crying Boy’ appeared out of the blue one morning in 1985. The Sun, at that time the most popular tabloid newspaper in the English-speaking world, published on page 13 of its 4 September edition a story headlined: “Blazing Curse of the Crying Boy”. It told how Ron and May Hall blamed a cheap painting of a toddler with tears rolling down his face for a fire which gutted their terraced council home in Rotherham, a mining town in South Yorkshire. The blaze broke out in a chip-pan in the kitchen of their home of 27 years and spread rapidly. But although the downstairs rooms of the house were badly damaged, the framed print of the Crying Boy escaped unscathed. It continued to hang there, surrounded by a scene of devastation.

I thought this would be interesting to my fellow ATSers, its about a painting that purportedly can cause fires. even the editor that wrote the original article on it came to believe that it was bad luck.

forteantimes.com...

[edit on 25-7-2008 by the4bb4l4h]

[edit on 25-7-2008 by the4bb4l4h]

that is very interseting an its totally possible. i once burned a picture of my 2nd cousin with my brother and it turned to ashes and blew away. i woke up the next morning and the picture was under my pillow.(no doubles trust me the picture was found in a box of # we unpacked and we hadnt seen it in years)

that is very interseting an its totally possible. i once burned a picture of my 2nd cousin with my brother and it turned to ashes and blew away. i woke up the next morning and the picture was under my pillow.(no doubles trust me the picture was found in a box of # we unpacked and we hadnt seen it in years)

I remember this very well back in the 80's. I will never forget the stories told and so ones that actually made headlines. It has been "debunked" with a perfect explanation that i can agree with, nonetheless i believe that curses do go along with various paintings or any object.

I found a topic where we discussed this last year, Page 5 is the link where the debunk can be found, here you go.

www.abovetopsecret.com...