The Hands Resist Him: Painting Analysis

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Imagine watching the camera footage that you filmed earlier hoping to see nothing, but you see a young boy and girl crawling out of a painting that you bought for your young child. This happened to families who owned “The Hands Resist Him” painting. This painting has caused many families sheer terror. This painting has received the nickname “The Ebay Haunted Painting” after being sold on Ebay in February of 2000. Many unusual reports have been made of the horrifying painting. “The Hands Resist Him” is still intriguing people to this day.
There are many interesting facts about the history of “ The Hands Resist Him” painting. The message that comes with the painting states, “Warning do not bid on this painting if you are susceptible …show more content…

The painting was originally displayed at the Feingarten Gallery in Beverly Hills, California in the early 1970’s (Chua 1). After the death of a famous actor , Marley, who first owned the painting, it was mysteriously found behind an old abandoned brewery
(Peters 2). An elderly Californian couple spotted the painting behind the brewery and decided to sell it on Ebay ( Resist 1). Many people have owned the painting and have had unusual experiences with …show more content…

Many people have stated that sometimes the children in the painting would leave it and enter the room in which it was placed. A family purchased “The Hands Resist Him” painting from Ebay and experienced a strange occurrence. Their four and a half year old daughter made a complaint that the children in the painting were fighting and coming into her room at night. So her father set up a motion sensor camera in the child's room to reassure her that there was nothing to fear. However, they saw the young boy crawling out from the painting. Immediately, they put it back up for sale on Ebay with the caption, “When we received this painting we thought it was really good art. At the time we wondered a little why a seemingly perfectly fine painting would be discarded like that (today we don’t!!!)” (Alfonso 5). Another comment people make after viewing the painting is that they start to feel violently ill or black out (Ebay 1). Children are mostly affected by having very vivid dreams which cause them to wake up screaming in terror. Some small children take one look that the terrifying painting and run away screaming (Bert 1). Even adults feel like the dismembered arms are reaching through the painting and grabbing them. Others say they feel a blast of hot air as if someone has opened an oven (Jenkins 2). Some say they not only feel the hot air but also hear

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