This Paranormal Life - #063 The Crying Boy: The Cursed Painting That Destroyed Hundreds Of Lives

Episode Date: May 29, 2018

When a number of houses burned down around the same time in Rotherham, England in 1985, one fire fighter pieced it together: one painting of a crying child was at the centre of each fire. What followed was a media firestorm, and the uncovering of a mysterious paranormal tale of an orphan in Madrid.Support us on Patreon.com/ThisParanormalLife to get access to weekly bonus episodes!Buy Official TPL Merch! - thisparanormallife.com/storeFollow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTubeJoin our Secret Society Facebook CommunityIntro music by www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is the final frontier for finding Bigfoot space? If humans and animals all came from the sea, why can't I swim? Answers to these questions and more on this episode of This Paranormal Life. Heyo! Welcome back to the podcast. You are listening to This Paranormal Life, the podcast where every week we dissect a different paranormal tale claim or beast and we get to the bottom of whether it is true or whether it is

false exactly today you are being joined by your two favorite paranormal investigators in the whole wide world my name is kit greer this guy's name is rory powers that's great yeah i was trying to do like a double team thing there and i think it worked out i mean this was the seventh take and i still kind of got it off but i feel like that's the best we're going to get tonight so maybe i feel like after six i said for the last time don't talk over me um yeah the best we're going to get tonight. So maybe just power through. And I feel like after six, I said for the last time, don't talk over me. Yeah, as usual, we're back with the doozy. And as usual, we're just going to dive right into it. Kaplush!

Well, you know, guys, last week, Rory just blew the lid on the Roswell case. And needless to say, ruffled more than a few feathers up on Capitol Hill. That's right. And shook down more than a few MIBs in the Pentagon. As soon as Rory hit upload on that last episode, we both threw our phones into the Thames because it was only a matter of time until we got droned. Exactly.

I went into hiding under my bed. Not anywhere particularly, you know. I'm a poor man. I'm a poor, scared man who rarely leaves the flat. So when I go into hiding, it's under the bed. And the MIBs did raid your house multiple times no one checked the bed movie style you're watching their their shiny leather shoes just like pacing around the room talking about where you could be but they just never thought they never

thought and i was playing game boy sp loudly and they didn't even think to check you had magnifier on you had all those like weird 90s accessories. You had like it hooked up to those giant speakers on the side. I was Game Boy printing pictures of their faces. It was insane. And still they didn't find me. But this week we're talking about something less classified, but more mysterious. So thanks to Harry King for this particular suggestion

And as usual, like I said, we're gonna dive right in you're a king among men Harry. Thank you the year Irrelevant, but it's 1985 the place rather in England I'm on board and Ron and May Hall watch in horror as their home of 27 years goes up in flames and Firefighters run to save it. Okay. Wait, what? The cause... There's the sirens. Okay, let me try that again. Under the bed. Everyone under the bed.

They're back for round two. You pull out your SP, 3DS, and Nintendo Switch. It's gonna be a long night. The cause? Chip pan in the kitchen. Well, by the time the fire was extinguished and cool enough to walk around,

the place was torched. Whatever wasn't burned to a cinder was smoke damage beyond recognition. They walked through the house, seeing if anything survived. This is why I don't cook my own meals. I don't cook anything. I'm afraid of fire. So you just eat raw food? I nuke it in the microwave.

That is cooked. What? I thought I was eating sushi. Fire is dangerous. Fire is man's oldest foe. And I'm not a strong enough man to tame the beast. I don't cook with it. The only thing that can conquer man's oldest foe is man's greatest friend.

A dog. Rory unloaded a truck of huskies into the burning building. Did not end well. And to their bewilderment, all that remained was a single painting. A simple portrait of a young boy crying and staring right out of the picture.

Hung on the wall, the fire didn't even touch it. It was completely unscathed. Here's what the portrait looked like for your own information. Okay. Okay. Wow. Okay. So I'm seeing a little boy here.

Small, small head. Like a boy. Two eyes. Hair like a boy. Yeah. He is crying. He does look visibly upset. Not overly dramatic.

Kind of like dead-eyed crying yeah there's something mysterious about his sadness this it faintly looks like he has a halo by the way i don't know if you notice that or if that's supposed to be part of it he's definitely supposed to be a very adorable child he's like you really skipped over the halo thing there yes he is crying yes but the halo very adorable right wings on his back harp crucified you're not mentioning a lot of the key aspects of this picture to be fair there is a halo i actually didn't notice that to begin with but it doesn't come up just to give you a taste of what this painting looked like i mean weird painting to hang in your house, by the way. Yes.

Which we will get to. The couple didn't read much into this until Ron's brother, Peter, who's a firefighter, made a connection. A connection that would ironically create a media firestorm. So great, no one could put it on. Upon seeing the portrait, he said, and by the way, I'm just gonna, you know, I've never been to Rotherham, but I did do some research, so I'm gonna try and do

a period correct, you know, Thatcher era Rotherham accent. I appreciate that. You know, the other guys in the team have said the same thing. They get called out to fight fires, and by the time they can put it out, the only thing left is the crying boy. What? It was this

connection that meant the whole family's story quickly shot past local news and into a highly reputable national paper called the sun the government yeah it bypassed news went straight to the president which so is the idea that multiple houses have burned down and this picture has jumped from house to house so they didn't even know this was in their house no no not the same just they happened to own the same portrait so there's there's more than one yes that's right the sun just about the only bastards left with the balls to print headlines about the paranormal in this day and age. So their headline read, Tears for Fears, the portrait that firemen claim is cursed.

Through their research, they discovered the country was on the precipice of a curse epidemic. Because if this story was true, there was somewhere between 50,000 to 250,000. That's right, a quarter of a million of these paintings in homes around Britain at the time. Why are there so many of them? They're awful. Department stores all over the north of England million of these paintings in homes around Britain at the time. Why are there so many of them?

They're awful. Department stores all over the north of England were smashing these out. People were snapping them up faster than firefighters could stop these blazes. I don't want a picture in my house of a crying anything. Except maybe devil. What? Because he's the bad guy. Crying Hitler, crying Stalin, crying devil, all fine.

All fine. Crying boy? No. He's probably a good boy. I would assume so. By birth they are. Demon boy? Fine.

If he has a halo, he's probably fine. You'd hope so, yeah. I'll be honest, I don't really touch too much upon this in this entire story. Why people want a painting of a crying child i have no idea yeah and since they opened pandora's box on this one they received a ton of letters and calls from people with matching stories peoples whose houses had burned down six months after buying the painting friends and relatives who had suffered fires after picking these portraits up one brian parks whose wife and children were in hospital for smoke inhalation,

returned home to find the crying boy the only thing left standing in his house before he smashed it into pieces. But it wasn't. You did this, boy! After it was like, the firefighter's like, we can actually trace it back to

a lit cigarette that you left on the mantelpiece sir boy don't say another word i know it was the pain your wife and child testified from their hospital beds that that you left a chip pan oven open microwave going cigarette cigarettes in the ashtray sat on the sofa and they said please father do not leave us in this death trap and i said i'm going gambling i said want to see me blow a fireball he starts blowing cigarette rings you know like blowing smoke rings but somehow they're flames they're screaming but like gandalf style it's an entire ship that goes out. That's insane.

This is so, so mad. His wife is like, I never should have married someone from a circus. But it wasn't just fires. People claimed other misfortunes befell them. The son printed a letter by Mrs. Rose Farrington from Preston. She claims since she bought the picture decades previous, her entire family died one by one. She'd always wondered if she was cursed. One woman said her 11-year-old son had caught his private parts on a hook shortly after buying the painting.

I don't know how she thought that was related. I'm okay if you don't want to elaborate on that one. Yeah. I'm alright if you don't want to elaborate on that one. Yeah. I'm all right. I don't. People claim that even upon trying to destroy the paintings themselves, the paintings simply wouldn't burn. But whilst professionals were not convinced of anything paranormal,

they also couldn't explain what was happening. The man who originally made the connection between the fire in Rotherham and the other fires in the area involving the crying boy said he had personally counted around 50 similar incidents since 1973 and just believed it was chance. But he was not able to explain why the paintings were untouched. 50 similar incidents. A boy got his nuts caught in the door.

Oh, another boy in a keyhole. Press conference. Excuse me, sir. Was it the same boy? We have not checked this yet. But every year the boy does get older. Is that a nobody will be preserved? This press statement is over.

I've actually got a video here made by the BBC, but they actually tried to burn one of the crying boy images that's actually a good test because if it burns so you'll what you will notice from this video is there are more than there's more than one type of crying boy because that's a different boy than i've seen crying yeah just really worrying so it was it was a a series of paintings created in the 70s and 80s. And guys... What was the news? What was the news at this point in time that slowly burning a painting of a crying child was worth broadcasting?

Tax money. Yeah. The fire touched it. The flames had spread. You have to say that far is pretty much going out. So, for everyone listening at home, what we just witnessed was one of these crying boy paintings. They lit fire to a corner pretty substantially. And it got a good amount of flame going.

And it looked like it was going to burn up the corner of the image. And then it kind of just petered out about 30 seconds later. Yeah. And the actual boy is untouched. He's intact. He's intact. The boy's intact. He's intact. The boy's intact. He's also got a much more smug look.

Yeah, he's actually stopped crying and raised a middle finger halfway through the burning process. I think his tongue is out. You know, I think they half-assed that bad boy. If you want to see whether this little demon boy burns, I'm going at that thing with an Elon Musk level flamethrower. Yeah, I'm going to petrol bomb that an elon musk level flame wow yeah i'm gonna petrol bomb that child do not quote me on that i thought you're gonna say at elon musk spacex level rocket launch we're gonna put that thing under the base of one of the falcon heavies he won't burn i will freeze him i will launch this boy into the outer reaches of the atmosphere. And if that doesn't work, we will, um, Megatron him and put him to the bottom of the ocean.

Mariana Trench. So there were people of science, but for those who thought something else was happening, they delved deeper and tried to find out just where these paintings came from. And this is where the plot thickens. The original painting in Rotherham was signed G. Bregolin but further digging revealed that this in fact was a pseudonym of a Spanish painter Bruno Amadio which was also a pseudonym of a Franchot Seville. This made the work almost impossible to trace

and art historians kept hitting dead end after dead end. All the while, the South Yorkshire Fire Service were issuing statements to try and calm the hysteria surrounding the paintings. They said, quote, and like before, I'm going to do, I did a little research on the pronunciation here. So I'm going to do a period correct local Yorkshireorkshire south yorkshire you can do a yorkshire accent yeah it actually took a little bit of practice but oh my god i'm really impressed but actually i i did a lot of speech and drama growing up yeah um i'm actually um trained as shit i know you did you paid to go to rata no one i mean people usually pay but you paid a lot of money they they said if you get a million retweets and you pay us a million pounds fine you can come you added rata on twitter saying

what's a boy gotta do to learn to act and they said a million retweets they didn't know i was friends with the best in the business uh who hooked up. All right, let's hear it. Look, it's just becoming more frequent, but it is entirely coincidental that the same painting is at each fire. For example, the most recent one, it was an electric heater set a bed on fire. It just so happens that the painting was there. That was piss poor.

My teachers would be ashamed. All those years at RADA for nothing. My co-students would be pissed off to hear this Cumberbatch Fassbender the lot. It just so happens the painting was there. They're printed on high-density hardboard. That's why it's not igniting.

But this did shit all to assuage people's fears. The sun told people that if you send us your crying boy, we'll dispose of it. Well, six weeks later, they had over 2,500 paintings stacked in their office. Oh my God. It was officially registered as the most flammable office building in all of London. It basically erupted into flames immediately. All boys intact they they had the the smarts to at least contact

the kind of london fire service local fire service and say just so you know we're gonna light 2500 uh pictures on fire in our office or on the roof of our office and they said off basically you're not doing that anywhere in london um so they brought them to reading okay reading we're fine with that and they lit the pile on fire running the headline sun nails curse of the weeping boy for good what a mental headline this was before they discovered racism right so they like you know before i didn't know what they were doing yeah before like you know all the all the racist headlines, they were just running paranormal headlines. It was a golden age.

But was it for good? The mystery still remains about the origins of this painting. You know what I'm worried about? We got a painting here that's causing a lot of houses to burn down. We got a paranormal curse. And what happens when people start talking about the paranormal? The government get involved how long is it before some american general wants to weaponize the boy we're talking

about night aircraft carriers dropping thousands of boys on the enemy lines and watching it go up in flames like napalm i might yeah i'm just imagining an underground uh testing facility where they they're trying to make the saddest boy they're trying to paint the saddest boy they bring in the world's greatest painters lined up like thousands of monkeys on typewriters just painting sad boy after sad boy millions of canvases can you imagine like finally getting to the opportunity to go to like area 51 and find out all the government secrets and you're like oh my god i'm gonna see like the the aircraft that crashed crashed at roswell i'm gonna find like an alien spaceship or something and as you're walking down the hallway with you know the general

that's brought you there he's kind of giving you the intro speech and he's like legend has it that years ago picasso painted the saddest boy you're like what a boy so dangerous he would bring death to nations you're like can i actually just go this wasn't what i what i thought it was gonna be this is the shittiest season of stranger things ever this sucks van gogh painted a boy so sad he went insane and cut off his own ear i like the idea that as you're painting it like as you just add tear after tear just like embers start bursting out in different pockets of your apartment until it's done and then the whole thing burns down and only the boy remains yeah you're consumed by the flames the mystery still remained about the origins of this painting but unfortunately it was the 80s people were more interested in hairstyles and banking than in paranormal investigation right plus everyone had to communicate via pigeon but

thankfully the internet was invented in the 90s, and interest in the legend of the crying boy was revived. You can't burn that shit, people. You can't burn the internet. It's the boy's Achilles heel. He thought he had everything all wrapped up. People were able to research even further into this and started working on Yu-Gi-Oh-S combinations. Like, I shit you not.

Like, if you put a crying boy painting next to a crying girl painting does it bring you good luck is it a bad luck right why are there crying girl paintings people need to paint nicer things yes they do that's insane one researcher an author spoke to in a cup yes sorry i thought you were gonna be part of me was hoping you're gonna be like they're trying out different combinations if you put a crying boy painting next to a dark magician you were able to deal 50 attack points if you send a crying boy to the shadow realm you actually burned it down and restored your mana. I was mixing Magic the Gathering there with a little bit of Yu-Gi-Oh. There's too many Yu-Gi-Oh references in this damn podcast.

I know. Well, one researcher and author spoke to an occult expert and retired teacher, George Mallory in Devon. He successfully traced the painting back to Franchot Seville, a.k.a. Bruno Amadio, a.k.a. G. Bregolin in Madrid. Wait, so they found the actual dude who painted the painting? George Mallory, this researcher, says that the painter told him his inspiration was a street urchin running around Madrid

in the 60s. It was then the local priest told the painter the boy was Don Bonillo, and that the boy had run away from home after watching his parents die in a blaze. The priest said, under no circumstances help the little boy, for wherever he goes, mysterious fires burn. The other villagers called him Diablo.

And Mucho Caliente. This is all falling into place very conveniently. But of course, Seville could not resist helping the young boy in need. So he took him in. But one day, Seville returned to his studio to work on a portrait. He found the building in flames. And of course, Don Bonillo was nowhere to be seen. Of course, Don Bonillo was slightly to the left with a book of matches.

Yeah. The story goes that Seville was also deemed cursed by association with Don Bonillo. Right. And this would explain, if true, the fact that he had to change his name two more times. Trying to escape the curse to confuse it. Well, just to sell paintings. Oh, right. Yeah, of course. I didn't think about that. When I get cursed, you know, I get like, I get fake passports made.

I have to leave my family, my wife and kids. I go into hiding the bed under it specifically. And the curse, well, it's always two steps ahead, basically. Yeah, it finds me she finds me she mom what a mean thing to call your mom the curse i try and hide from her but the curse finds me tells me to go to bed and eat my goddamn vegetables the curse kind of is stuck with me because she birthed me so until i I'm 18, I've got to live with the curse. And the story that Mr. Mallory told this researcher ends in Barcelona in 1976

when police arrive at the scene of a brutal car crash. The car bursts into flames on impact, killing the driver. Inside the glove compartment, they find a driver's license for a 19 year old oh my god this is a weird one i don't even know what the point is you're trying to prove anymore it's like i've just instead of providing evidence i've just given you a badass story. That's all it is.

And this takes us up to the present day of Crying Boy legend. Yet we're still left with so many questions like, why did anyone want the painting to begin with? That's a really good question. Tellingly, the editor at the time of the sun and the fire chief in rotherham were both jokingly given crying boy paintings i think one on retirement and then one just when he worked at the sun right and both said like get it out of my sight get it out of the office um so whatever they said about what they believed or how rational they thought they were

genuinely spooked by these paintings yeah you know what i don't think there's any shame in that i think you can firmly not believe in curses and still not want to walk underneath a ladder or smash a mirror i think that's fine yeah i mean it's i think it's called playing it's safe uh we've talked about it before i think it's called pascal's wager it's like you know i call it playing it safe yeah that that's if you have the choice between you know if you let's say if you if you don't believe in god and so you're not really scared of going to heaven or hell right but pascal's wager was basically you might as well pretend to believe in god because if it's true you're screwed otherwise you got yeah exactly nothing so in this case you may not believe in the curse of the crying boy

but probably don't buy one i wouldn't i wouldn't i'd avoid even on the basis of what we've just discussed today i wouldn't have one in the house no and i mean why would you want one it's crazy this is one of the weird things about this story was how i kind of emotionally attached these paintings people were right people kind of like even in the like things would happen regarding it and they would kind of admit this and be like but i really like it and i don't want to get rid of it i've had it in my house for 20 years yeah yeah so i don't know if this little halo boy has some weird effect on people but my desktop wallpaper is the crying boy anyway i don't know he actually has kind of beautiful little eyes or something. I don't know. I don't know what people see in him.

My bicep. You see a little boy. Just blinks when you flex. Tears running down your biceps. He's winking and crying. It's confusing. Immediate thoughts. This is strange.

This is very strange. One thing to consider.-huh now obviously this painting does not burn we established that i'm assuming it's most likely because of the material that the painting is made out of and then that would mean that the reason it's the link uh between all of these different uh incidents with fire is because know, if there was another house that burned down, there's going to be no other paintings that survive it. Yes. So what we're seeing is a link because obviously this painting doesn't burn. It's like when you when you phone the wrong telephone number, they always pick up the phone. Right. But that's because if they didn't pick up the phone,

you wouldn't know you dialed the wrong telephone number. That's true. So it's the same with this painting. The only reason it stands out is because the painting doesn't burn. Right. There could have been loads of other house fires that aren't seen as suspicious because all the paintings burn. Why specifically? Why these paintings didn't burn? I mean, the Yorkshire police did give the statement they are made from a particular type of hardboard that does not burn. Yeah, it's pretty scientific it seems to be basically the shittiest cheapest painting that the the department

store was selling which is why they were so popular right they're probably super cheap i have no idea definitely it definitely still seems statistically odd that it's in you know it sounds like dozens potentially hundreds of fires because in the comments of some of these articles people were like i mean how many houses burned down in a given year in the uk that's a good point yeah i'd like to know that yeah it kind of seems that definitely seems weird yeah was there like a spike in annual house fires when the boys were released into the world that would be good to know or did the amount kind of stay the same but there was just a lot of boys in the world now every other house

had a boy i think in terms of like global affairs things have kind of gone downhill over the last couple decades i'd say so um so is this something to do with the boys i'm not saying no the story of dom bonillo i'm sorry where did this story come from again i feel like that's a question you don't want me to ask but i i really need to know that was passed on bad start that was passed on supposedly from the painter to george mallory in devon this um paranormal researcher basically this researcher claims that he was told that from the painter seville that he you know this guy had to change his name a couple times right right to get rid of the curse and the domino yeah died in a car crash car crash yeah yeah in a flame flaming car crash i mean that's a pretty badass way to go driving

down the street hundo miles per hour and your car explodes that's how i want to go crying boy in the trunk a picture obviously crying boy behind the wheel me obviously needless to say there's not a lot of evidence for this case okay um i I think we can probably start making some conclusions. I think that's safe. If you had to come down on a yay or a nay as to whether the particular case of the Curse of the Crying Boy was paranormal or not, what do you think? I mean, we only saw one video of the BBC trying to burn one. And it wasn't burning again as we said probably largely due to the material it was made out of

until I see a graph that shows that the release and the sale of these boys caused some sort of particular spike in house fires across the UK then I will reconsider this case and have the discussion as to whether or not it is paranormal. I think in this situation

I'm going to say that it is a no from me. Unfortunately, the boy survives fires. I don't think he causes them. I know I bigged up the sun earlier. The sun is garbage. Right. It definitely does not bode well for this story that the sun basically created this story. Oh, really?

Popularized it. Well, they popularized it well they popularized it they were people who got the word out there and got everyone talking about it and connecting the dots and then collected all the boys yeah and burnt them which created huge publicity for their play to them fair play to you i think it's going to be a no from me all right i think it's fair to us to to say that these boys were not causing fires. They simply survived them. Exactly. Yeah.

Look, they're not always going to be yeses, guys. All right. We had Roswell. Roswell. Is it getting hot in here? Oh, boy. We have Roswell. That's a yes.

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