These Frightening Paintings Hide Horrible Incidents That They Caused

Perhaps one of the most haunted paintings in the world, The Anguished Man has accumulated many scary stories. No one knows who exactly painted the piece, but it's known that the artist mixed his blood into the paint and soon after the painting was finished, committed suicide. The current owner of the painting, Sean Robinson, said that he inherited it from his grandmother, who believed it to be cursed. When the man hung up the piece in his bedroom, the family started hearing whispering and crying at night, as well as seeing a shadowy figure.

Zdzisław Beksiński's nightmarishly unique art seem like scenes from hell themselves, but it's the legends surrounding them that makes people think the pieces are cursed. The Polish painter did not title any of his paintings and reportedly burned a selection of them in his backyard without showing anyone. Beksiński's life was shrouded in tragedy too as his wife died in 1998 and his son committed suicide a year later. Six years later the artist was found murdered in his apartment. There are people who believe that anyone who looks at the paintings for a longer time will soon die.

The painter, Svetlana Telets, revealed that she finished the picture in just about 5 hours, all the while feeling like hand was guided by someone else. Everyone who owned the painting reportedly would return it, complaining of insomnia, feelings of sadness and being watched.

The painting itself depicts a gruesome scene; an imagined ending to the Sir John Franklin's expedition in 1845 that disappeared without a trace. However, that isn't the only mystery related to this piece of art. The picture is housed at Royal Holloway, University of London, where it is covered with a Union flag every exam season. The reason behind it? Rumors say that in 1970s one student committed suicide after staring at the painting. He allegedly left a note behind saying "the polar bears made me do it". Other students reported feeling uneasy and upset while sitting next to it.

Bill Stoneham painted "The Hands Resist Him" in 1972, but in February 2000 it became known as "eBay Haunted Painting". The painting was described as haunted because previous owners reported that characters in the picture would move at night, to the point of completely leaving the frame. The painter of the piece also claims that both, the owner of the gallery in which the painting was first displayed , and the art critic who reviewed the painting, died within a year after looking at the picture.

The painting is displayed at Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas, a site where US senator' 4-year-old daughter, Samantha Houston, fell down a flight of stairs to her death in 1887. Although the painting doesn't depict Samantha, many believe that her spirit haunts the picture and some even say that both girls looked alike. People who stay at the hotel report that the painting's expressions change, people feel uneasy and even sick after looking at it for too long. Some even reported seeing a phantom of a little girl playing with a ball.