It is said that one can see Evil in the painting – be forewarned!

The painting on the right known as the “Hands Resist Him” 1st appeared in a Ebay listing in February 2000.

Even till now it is still hotly debated whether the painting is genuinely haunted or not.

Even stranger were the reactions that the general public had when viewing the photos of the painting.

For myself, when I 1 st saw it, it was as if Evil streamed through the Boy’s face and I had to shut off my computer monitor. I remember distinctly my hair stand on ends and fear rode up and down my spine.

Join me as I unravel this mystery. Or did I?

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Haunted Painting —– Warning and Disclaimer

Description:(The original text were all capital letters and wasn’t a good read. So I changed it to normal)
When we received this painting, we thought it was really good art. A ” picker ” had found it abandoned behind an old brewery. At the time we wondered a little why a seemingly perfectly fine painting would be discarded like that. (today we don’t !!! ) One morning our 4 and 1/2 year old daughter claimed that the children in the picture were fighting, and coming into the room during the night. Now, i don’t believe in ufos or Elvis being alive, but my husband was alarmed. To my amusement he set up a motion triggered camera for the nights. After three nights there were pictures. The last two pictures shown are from that ‘stakeout’. After seeing the boy seemingly exiting the painting under threat, we decided, the painting has to go. Please judge for yourself. — Before you do, please read the following warning and disclaimer. —-warning: do not bid on this painting if you are susceptible to stress related disease, faint of heart or are unfamiliar with supernatural events. By bidding on this painting, you agree to release the owners of all liability in relation to the sale or any events happening after the sale that might be contributed to this painting. This painting may or may not possess supernatural powers that could impact or change your life. However, by bidding you agree to exclusively bid on the value of the artwork, with disregard to the last two photos featured in this auction, and hold the owners harmless in regard to them and their impact, expressed or implied. ———— now that we got this out of the way, one question to you ebayers. We want our house to be blessed after the painting is gone, does anybody know, who is qualified to do that?

The size of the painting is 24 by 36 inches, so it is rather large. As i have had several questions, here the following answers. There was no odor left behind in the room. There were no voices, or the smell of gunpowder, no footprints or strange fluids on the wall. To deter questions in this direction, there are no ghosts in this world, no supernatural powers, this is just a painting, and most these things have an explanation, in this case probably a fluke light effect. I encourage you to bid on the artwork, and consider the last two photographs as pure entertainment, and please do not take them into consideration, when bidding. As we think it is a good idea to bless any house, we still welcome input into that procedure.

This auction is nearing the end. I want to thank the more than 13000 people that took the time to look at this image on ebay. I appreciate the more than 30 suggestions that I received regarding blessing the house, exorcising and cleansing. 7 emails reported strange or irregular events taking place, when viewing this image. And I will relay two suggestions made by the senders. First not to use this image as the background on the screen, and second not to display this image around juveniles or children. Last not least, thanks for appreciating the art as well.
 
            
   Below are the photos as they appeared in ebay. Please click on them to get the full picture.

In case you can’t see what the fuss was about.
It seemed that the boy’s face turned to the girl at the moment the motion detector went off! Here is a brightened version of this event:

Does the face look as if he has turned towards the young girl? You Decide!   

The artist is Bill Stoneham, the painting title is “Hands Resist Him”.
You can visit his website at Stoneham Studios.

This is what Bill had to say about the painting:
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.

Both the owner of the Gallery where ‘Hands’ was displayed and the Los Angeles Times art critic who reviewed my show were dead within a year of the show.

I’m sure it was coincidence, but some of what I paint resonates in other people, opening the inner door, or basement. By the way, I still have no idea what happened to the character actor who bought the painting at the show ( editor note: it was John Marley who died in 1984 ), or how it ended up abandoned in a building, though I could speculate.    – Bill
 
            
   

As for the Painting, where it is now?

UPDATE: July 2001 – HAUNTED PAINTING PRINTS NOW AVAILABLE

High quality prints of the ‘Haunted Ebay Painting’ aka ‘The Hands Resist Him’ are now available for purchase.

Print description:
Giclée on canvas. Image size is 36″ x 24″ (same as the original), with a  2″  border on all four sides allowing the canvas to be stretched for framing as is the original painting.

A Giclée (pronounced “zhee-clay”) is a print that is digitally created using a specially engineered Iris or Epson ink jet printer. Special Giclée inks have been developed for the process of reproducing oil paintings with the greatest detail including textured brushstrokes. Engineered to create museum quality artwork, this type of art reproduction has become the new standard in the art industry. The Giclée print process is used by artists, galleries, publishers and museums creating the closest replica of original artwork that is mechanically or technically possible. A Giclée print looks and feels like original art.

Each print sells for $350.00.

For further information, please email the owner at: hauntedpainting@aol.com

So now you know…. Or do you?
 
            
   

Complied by abductboy,
from various Internet Sources.