Fenomena The Curse of Crying Boy Painting

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Kebakaran misterius pada sebuah rumah di Inggris pada tahun 1985 yang menyebabkan seluruh rumah terbakar. Kecuali sebuah lukisan, Crying Boy. Ada banyak kejadian yang tidak masuk akal terjadi di sana. Menurut cerita di balik lukisan ini, objek lukisan ini adalah seorang anak yang orang tuanya telah meninggal karena kebakaran juga. Dan studio yang memproduksi lukisan juga terbakar. Dan anak itu mati karena ledakan. Dan "roh" dari anak itu menghantui lukisan ini. Apa yang Anda pikirkan jika Anda memiliki lukisan ini di rumah Anda? atau Anda diberi lukisan ini secara gratis, apa yang Anda lakukan?

Spoiler: story

The year is 1985. the place is the Mining town of Rotherham in the UK. Ron and May Hall had been the victims of a devastating house fire, the result of an unattended chip-pan, which reduced the lower story of their terraced house to ashes.

Although the ground floor was ravaged and reduced to little more than charcoal and cinders, there in the middle of all the devastation remained one solitary item, completely untouched by the inferno that had raged about it - A cheap framed print of a crying child.

Ron Hall's brother was a Rotherham-based firefighter. and he told Ron that his station manager had told him that he knew of a number of other incidents where the same print - The Crying Boy" had remained unscathed after infernos had reduced the rest of the building to ashes.

The story was picked up on the 4th of September by "The Sun", a UK Newspaper which at the time, was the most-read tabloid news paper in the English-speaking world. The headline screamed "Blazing Curse of the Crying Boy". It also suggested (using some creative journalism), that firemen had said that the picture was cursed The Sun also informed it's readers that some fifty-thousand prints of "The Crying Boy" by G.Bragdolin had been sold to the British Public by department stores throughout the country.

Within a matter of days, the "Curse of the Crying Boy" had become accepted as a virtual fact amongst a large proportion of the British public.

The switchboard of The Sun was innundated with readers phoning in to say that they too had been victims of the curse. Dora Mann from Mitcham in Surrey told readers that just six months after she had purchased a copy of "The Crying Boy", her house had been gutted by an horrendous fire. She said "All my paintings were destroyed – except the one of the Crying Boy" adding that her sister-in-law, and a friend had both been the victims of devastating fires after they had purchased copies of the cursed picture.

Another reader, Brian Parkes explained how he had been left homeless after a terrible blaze at his home. He, his wife and three children were treated for smoke inhalation, and on his return from hospital, he was horrified to find his print of "The Crying Boy" still hanging amidst the ruins - completely undamaged.

One reader wrote to The Sun to tell them that after reading about the curse, she had been so frightened that she had tried to destroy her copy of the print in a garden bonfire, but was horrified to discover that it would not burn!

A Security Guard by the name of Paul Collier, who was the owner of two "Crying Boy" prints, read the story and tried burning one of his in a bonfire. He reported that although the print had been in the fire for a whole hour, it was not so much as scorched! He told The Sun that he now believed that the pictures were indeed jinxed. He said that he was determined to get rid of them, because he felt that owning two copies put him doubly at risk.

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Spoiler: faktanya

Lukisan Crying Boy adalah lukisan yang diproduksi massal yang dibuat oleh pelukis Italia bernama Bruno Amadio, yang juga dikenal sebagai Giovanni Bragolin. Lukisan ini disebarluaskan mulai tahun 1950 keatas. Banyak versi alternatif lukisan ini, dimana kesemuanya menampilkan anak-anak laki-laki atau perempuan yang sedang menangis.

Spoiler: Mystery Solved

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Misteri mengapa lukisan ini tidak pernah terbakar dalam serangkaian peristiwa kebakaran yang terjadi, mudahnya hanya disebabkan karena lukisan ini memiliki lapisan "pernis anti api". Sehingga apabila terjadi kebakaran, bingkai diluar lukisan ini akan terbakar lebih dahulu dan menyebabkan lukisan ini akan jatuh menghadap ke bawah. Sehingga makin memberikan perlindungan terhadap api.
Namun yang masih misterius adalah, benarkah lukisan ini yang menyebabkan semua kebakaran tersebut terjadi? Atau murni hanya kesalahan manusia?

Spoiler: sumber

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