Cursed Objects: The Crying Boy Painting
May 2, 2025
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as posted by the channelIn 1985, a chilling headline in The Sun captured Britain’s imagination: “Blazing Curse of the Crying Boy.” What followed was a mass panic over a mysterious painting said to survive fires while everything around it burned. But was the portrait really cursed? Or just the perfect scapegoat for a nation caught in the grip of tabloid hysteria?
In this episode, we explore::
📌The real history behind "The Crying Boy" paintings and the mysterious artist who created them
📌How The Sun fueled the hysteria, collecting and burning thousands of the portraits in a dramatic public “exorcism”
📌Strange survival stories: why the paintings often remained intact when homes were reduced to ash.
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