User blog:ArcOfRuin/Haunted Painting! (AKA Bored With Nothing to Do)

Hey, it’s me again! Wow, it’s been forever since I made a blog post, or really done much here except popping in for the occasional edit or comment. I swear I’m trying to get back into it, I’ve got a story in the works and everything, I’ve just been too busy to do much here right now.

Anyway, back to the original topic of this blog, the haunted painting. Some of you must already know about it by now. Just Googling “haunted painting” or “haunted painting urban legend” will bring it up. The title of the painting is “Hands Resist Him.” The painting shows a girl with jointed, doll-like arms and a normal-looking boy outside of a house. A little weird for a painting, but... there’s more. *Dramatic pause and/or deep breath*

When the painting was hung in an owners’ house, I don’t know when, their daughter started making references towards the painting, mostly the characters in them, communicating with her in some way. Now, the rumor of the painting spread, and people claim spooky things happen to them when they look at it, or even just a picture of it. So, I was in my house, all alone, super bored. What should I do? Of course, a stupid internet dare!

So, I went on my iPad (in case you don’t know, I use my iPad for pretty much everything) and searched for “Hands Resist Him.” When I saw the painting, I was a little underwhelmed but I had an immediate fight-or-flight response, and flinched away and closed the tab. Now,nothing really happened after that, but I do believe there was a reason for that instinct, which caused me to stop looking at it before things got worse.

So, if any of you got bored reading this, there’s something to cure your boredom! Until next time.