The Crying Boy Painting is one of the most infamous “cursed objects” of the 20th century — a series of portraits said to survive house fires untouched while everything around them burns to ash. For decades, people have blamed these paintings for unexplained tragedies, bad luck, and catastrophic fires with one chilling pattern: the Crying Boy always survives.

Tonight on Is This Real?, JC3 and the crew investigate the origins of this bizarre curse, the truth behind the mysterious fires, the mass hysteria that followed, and the artist whose identity became another piece of the puzzle.

Is the Crying Boy Painting a genuine cursed object?
Is it just media-fueled fear?
Or is there something darker tied to these sorrowful portraits?

We dig into witness reports, firefighter testimonies, skeptical explanations, and the strange coincidences that refuse to go away.

👉 Do YOU believe a painting can carry a curse?
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