Did You Know That This Is The Most Haunted Painting In The World?Here’s The Real Story Behind It.

This most haunted painting has been terrifying people for decades and even bidders on eBay.

In February 2001, an anonymous eBay seller started an auction by artist Bill Stoneham called “The Hands Resist Him,” considered as one of the world’s most haunted works of art.

The painting was created in 1972. It shows a boy and a creepy doll standing in front of a glass door. It was purchased by John Marley, a Hollywood actor.

It was then bought by a couple from California before going up for sale on eBay along with a terrible caution about the problems involved with owning the painting. The seller claimed that the painting was haunted and had been found abandoned behind an old brewery by an art picker, where they bought it from.

According to the seller, the figures in the painting moved at night, sometimes vanishing from the canvas entirely. The boy in the painting was said to actually enter the room where the painting hung.

Small children would take one look at the painting and run from the room screaming. Adults sometimes felt like invisible hands were grabbing them, and others said that they felt a blast of hot air, as if they had opened an oven. Even their four-year-old daughter believed that the boy and the doll were fighting and coming into her room at night.

The seller pleaded for buyers and viewers to be wary of the painting and keep it away from showing to children due to reports of extreme reactions such as violent illness or fainting, screaming, and terror when looking at the painting. One person even claimed that their brand new printer refused to print the photo of the painting though it worked fine on every other print job.

Within hours of the painting appearing on eBay, the story and link were being passed around the world through the Internet. Some people claimed that by simply viewing the photos of the painting made them feel ill or have unpleasant experiences. The auction page was viewed over 30,000 times. From a first bid of $199, the painting received 30 bids and was sold to a final price of $1,025.

The painting was bought by an art gallery in Grand Rapids, MI. When the gallery spoke to Bill Stoneham, he was stunned that his work was at the center of a paranormal investigation.

“Where to begin? Well I've always had a connection to what Carl Jung called the collective unconscious. I think we all do. Artists, especially visual artists, are barometers for the currents which run through this collective. Dreams are a common experience people may have with this. Anyway, my own experience is a sensitivity to place – physical, geographical place. There are memories, echoes of all the life within a place. Maybe it’s what’s called channeling. When I painted the Hands Resist Him in 1972, I used an old photo of myself at age five in a Chicago apartment. The hands are the “other lives.” The glass door, that thin veil between waking and dreaming. The girl/doll is the imagined companion, or guide through this realm,” he stated.

However, he also mention the two people who originally displayed and reviewed the painting had died within a year of viewing, “The Hands Resist Him.”