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Oct 30, 2020 · The Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo played into ghostly rumors when it opened a “Haunted House” gallery for kids filled with eerie paintings. (The eyes move in one picture; in another, a ...
- The Portrait of Bernardo de Galvez (C. 18th Century) by Unknown
- Man Proposes, God Disposes (1864) by Edwin Landseer
- The Love Letters’ Replica (1887) by Richard King
- Death and The Child (1889) by Edvard Munch
- The Crying Boy (C. 1950s) by Giovanni Bragolin
- The Hands Resist Him (1972) by Bill Stoneham
- Pogo The Clown (1986) by John Wayne Gacy
- The Rain Woman (1996) by Svetlana Telets
- The Anguished Man (N.D.) by Unknown
The painting of Bernardo De Galvez, a Spanish military leader who assisted American soldiers during the Revolutionary War and after whom Galveston is named, hangs at the end of a basement corridor in the Hotel Gálvez, Texas. He coordinated and won many raids against the British. His successes prevented the British from approaching from the west and...
The search for Captain Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition, which vanished in 1845 in the Arctic, inspired this apparently cursed artwork. It is well known that Royal Holloway pupils swear the artwork is haunted. It is based on the popular legend that a pupil in the 1920s or 1930s stabbed their eye during an exam, and wrote “The polar bears forced ...
Samantha Houston, a four-year-old girl, is said to have chased her ball down the main steps before tripping and falling to her death. Some believe this artwork was then placed on the fifth level of the hotel as a memorial to her. It’s plausible that the artwork was brought because the small child in the painting slightly resembled Samantha, but it’...
Almost all of Munch’s family, including his sister, brother, and mother, died of a disease when he was a child. His devout father had taught him that their deaths were divine retribution for their misdeeds, leaving a dreadful impact on Munch’s youth that he carried with him into his adult life. Some people argue that, in contrast to the girl’s dist...
This was a mass-produced print of an artwork by Giovanni Bragolin, an Italian painter, and it was widely distributed beginning in the 1950s. The Sun, the British tabloid, stated on the 5th of September, 1985, that an Essex firefighter said that intact reproductions of the artwork were regularly discovered within the ashes of buildings destroyed by ...
This cursed artwork by Bill Stoneham was completed in 1972. It portrays a small boy and a doll of a girl standing in front of a glass-paneled door with several hands pressing on it. The artist says the child is based on a portrait of himself when he was around five years old. The door represents the boundary between the waking state and the domain ...
John Wayne Gacy was considered a valuable member of his community in the early 1970s. He was a wonderful partner, a respected restaurant owner, and an exemplary gentleman who wore a clown costume at charity events. “Pogo the Clown” was his alter ego. “Pogo” paid visits to several ill children at nearby children’s hospitals. But, beneath his house’s...
According to the artist, she produced this cursed artwork in around five hours, and during the entire process, she felt as if her hand was being guided by some force outside of herself. She soon sold the work, but it was returned several times by different customers. Its current location is Merckx Furniture store in Kyiv, where people who visit the...
No one seems to know who painted one of the world’s most haunted paintings. Sean Robinson of Cumbria, United Kingdom, claimed to have acquired the cursed artwork from his grandmother, who claimed that the painter who produced it had added his own blood into the pigment and committed suicide shortly after finishing the piece. Robinson posted footage...
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A haunted review from a former AIC employee. F rom 2014 to 2018, I worked at the Art Institute of Chicago, producing interpretive digital content for exhibitions and the permanent collection. During this time, I got intimately acquainted with the ins and outs of the museum, the buildings, the people who work there, and the collection.
Whether through their association with a dark and mysterious artist, or because of their depiction in a particularly atmospheric image, some landscapes are, for one reason or another, haunted...
Oct 30, 2019 · Japanese art is rife with supernatural creatures, ghosts included. Yurei, which roughly translates to "faint spirit," is a unique class of supernatural beings specific to Japanese folklore. Yokai, a more general classification that encompasses a plethora of frightful creatures, are represented in Watson titles such as Japanese Grotesqueries ...
Oct 28, 2022 · Saturn Devouring One of His Sons by Francisco Goya. Between 1819 and 1823, the Spanish artist Francisco Goya created his Black Paintings, a series of 14 particularly haunting pieces. The most famous of these works is Saturn Devouring His Son, a gruesome painting of a father feasting on his own child. According to Roman mythology, was the leader ...
Oct 31, 2022 · What do we mean by 'ghost'? The word was once commonly used to refer to the third part of the Christian Trinity – the Holy Ghost. This was often depicted in art as a dove, or tongues of fire, or rays.
