Horror stories that hide the creepiest pictures

The artists' creations do not leave people indifferent and evoke a storm of emotions - from joy to tears. But there are also such paintings, the mere sight of which makes you shiver. They say about some paintings that spirits live in them: these paintings give off a cold air; when you pass by, it seems that the characters in the paintings are watching you. They can drive their owners crazy and even kill them. Looking at these paintings through a monitor is not dangerous (but this is not certain), but we do not advise you to look for them, much less buy them and hang them in your bedroom.

There is a truly terrifying story behind The Suffering Man. No one knows who painted the picture, but it is known that the artist mixed his own blood with the paint, and after finishing the masterpiece, he committed suicide. The painting's current owner, Sean Robinson, says he inherited the painting from his grandmother, who in turn claimed that the painting was cursed. When Sean hung the painting in the bedroom, the household heard whispering and crying from it at night and saw a strange shadow.

Not only do Beksiński’s paintings already look like illustrations of hell, but there are also such legends about them that people believe that the paintings are cursed.

Beksinski's life was tragic: his wife died, his son committed suicide. Six years later, the artist was found murdered in his own apartment. Some people believe that if you look at Beksinski's paintings for too long, you will soon die.

There are legends around the painting, painted in 1972, that supposedly spirits live in it. Previous owners said that at night the characters in the painting move and even come out of the frame. And the owner of the gallery where the painting was first exhibited, and the art critic who worked with it for a long time, died a year after coming into contact with the canvas.

The painting depicts a horrific scene: the supposed demise of John Franklin's expedition in 1845, which disappeared without a trace. The painting is in King's Holloway College, University of London. During exams, the room where the painting hangs is hung with a British flag. The tradition began when one of the students could not sit near the painting and began frantically looking for something to cover it with. A British flag came to hand. There is a superstition that a person looking at a painting goes crazy.

The painting hangs in the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas, where U.S. Senator Samantha Houston's four-year-old daughter fell down the stairs and died in 1887. And although it is not Samantha that is depicted on the canvas, many believe that the spirit of the girl has entered the picture, and some argue that the girls are like two peas in a pod. People feel uncomfortable and even weak when they look at a painting for a long time. Some hotel guests say they saw the ghost of a little girl playing with a ball.

The artist Svetlana Taurus said that she painted the picture in about five hours and felt as if someone was guiding her hand. They say that everyone who bought the painting returned it, complaining of insomnia, sadness and the feeling that the portrait was watching them.

The artist painted a series of paintings of crying children, which he sold to tourists. The most famous painting, The Crying Boy, is said to be cursed. The British newspaper The Sun reported that firefighters often find reproductions of “The Crying Boy” at house fires, completely unharmed. Many believe that the image attracts fire and misfortune.

The painting is located at the Hotel Galvez, in Galveston, Texas. Hotel guests talk about strange incidents associated with the canvas. Some claim that Bernardo de Galvez is watching them, and besides, it is very cold and uncomfortable next to the painting. But perhaps the strangest thing is that every time the painting is photographed, the picture turns out blurry. But some people still manage to take a clear photo - you just need to ask the portrait for permission to take a photo.

Laura P. painted from a photograph of James Kidd. Kidd claimed that he did not photograph the headless man (to the left of the van), the figure appeared during the development of the photograph. The artist complained that when she completed the work, strange things began to happen - objects fell around, broke, and something kept disappearing. Some believe that the spirit that appeared in the original photograph haunts the painting.