With regards to the haunted painting. Did Abductboy experience anything else with it? What happened after he wrote that scary poem?

http://www.castleofspirits.com/hauntedpainting.html also has information of the painting. Apparently the painting title is "Hands Resist Him" & was painted by "William Stoneham" in 1945 or 19 something.

Now here is the wierd part. At http://www.ghostbusters.net/disscussion/ghn/11/15341/ they talk about a haunted painting. The person who post at that forum claims he has a painting painted by Rembrandt Harmenzsoon Van Rijn who was an artist in the 17th Century. That same painting also has a boy & a girl & the girl holding something in her hand.

Sounds like they're talking about the same painting. But how can that be? How can that be the same painting when the guy claims its done by Rembrant in 17 century when William Stoneham said he painted it in 19xx? Same painting by 2 ppl in different century? Something is not right!


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 Hi Derrick,

This is abductboy. Thanks very much for your input.

I read the message board you linked. I think you are mistaken. They were not talking about the Hands that Resisted Painting, but rather the 16 century painting, this one: (as shown above).

somewhere along the posting, someone by the name of Mat came and posted the two paintings.

It is then here that they started talking about ebay and the rest of the stuff.

So they started talking about the 16th Century paint, then the ebay one. There is no contradiction. :)

About my experience with that ebay, when I first laid eyes on it... It was like a as a a tiny nuclear bomb exploded in my eyes, I had to virtually stagger back, and switch off the screen to shut out the evilness flowing from it.

thereafter, I didn't feel anything, nor did i dream about it later. Do contact me again if you have further questions.

regards
abductboy
for the SPI Team


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Hi, sorry I forgot to ask what you think about what many websites wrote about the Hands Resist Him painting being a hoax? I mean even the owner supposedly admitted it was bullshit just to increase the value. Also, you saw the pic supposedly of the boy walking out of the painting. Many have said that's a fake & explained how using Photoshop can do it. Wat do u think? Do u think its fake or really the boy walked out? Lastly, did u download that pic as wallpaper?


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HI Derrick,

There is no hoax in the sense that the painting do exist. The hoax is that the seller perhaps fabricated the story about the movement of the girl.

It still do not take away the strangeness of the drawing, nor what the mood of the artist was at that time, or what inspired him to paint that picture.

In an interview I read somewhere (and can easily be found), the artist said that the boy was a picture of himself when he was younger, and the girl was just a girl he thought up. Strange that he drew her without eyes. I don't know about the old battery, perhaps he drew it as it comes along...

The glass represented the thin line bewteen reality and the unreal. The hands are the various phases of life that the boy must undergo.. (or something like that)

The stories about the boy walking out, or the girl quarreling with him... that part could never be verified from where we are. For all we know, they are all bullshit.

I did download it down as a picture before. But now only retain a small pic in my computer.

regards
abductboy


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