Zone of the Unknown

The Curse of the Crying Boy Painting


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Greetings fellow weirdos! We are back this week with a new mystery, this time revolving around a series of apocryphal paintings, and a rash of house fires in the UK in the 1980s. When firefighters in Essex began responding to a string of fires, they noticed a consistent detail in the wreckage of each home: an undamaged portrait of a crying boy. UK tabloid The Sun ran with a story of tragic abuse and a history of accidental fires, revolving around an abusive painter and his young subject. But is there any basis to this story? Is the spirit of the painter's victim enacting his revenge through his tormentor's work? Jose and Brad investige.

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