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From: BLoWP0Ps@aol.com
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 18:42:19 EDT
To: ghost-discuss@aurora.cdb.com
Subject: Haunted Painting (long)
*******Haunted Painting*******
My aunt used to own a bakery in Argentina. She had two kids and a husband. Since my grandfather was the owner of a very large market when she was growing up she decided to open up a deli/bakery type thing. So she moved into this very large building with her family. The first floor was the bakery and upstairs was where they lived. I forgot how they got the painting, but the painting was of a little black boy crying holding a dog. Personally, I've never seen the painting, mainly because I wasn't even born when all this happened. Well, anyway they had it hung up the children's bedroom. My cousin Rosi always had trouble sleeping in that room but Andy (her brother) had no problem.
***Setup up of the room***
You entered the room and you had the two separate bed on separate sides of the room pushed up against the back wall. Then there was a night table between the beds. And before I forget there was a huge...and I mean very big wooden closet type thing at the foot of my cousin Rosi's bed. The picture was hung on Rosi's side of the room.
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Now the cousins were very little back then so in between my aunts breaks she would come go up and check on the kids. Sometimes even nap with them. This one time she felt something watching her...A very intense stare. So she turns around to see Satan's face appearing on the picture. She freaked out but she said that she told it that if it really was the devil himself that he could go *line of curses goes here* And then after that she began to pray. The picture fell immediately after that. The nail was still in place and in the back there was a piece of wire to hang it from was still in there too. She didn't think of getting rid of it then. She just thought it was weird but the painting was nice. Besides if they got rid of it there would be a big empty space. So she just said it was her imagination and the painting stayed. For about 3 weeks after that she kept dreaming the big closet type thing at the foot of the bed was going to fall on her. She thought it wouldn't be possible because it was a very stable piece of furniture and extremely heavy. Sure enough when the dreams suddenly stopped one night she woke up in a state of panic to see the closet thing falling on her and her cousin. She got on her knees and tried to keep it from falling meanwhile screaming for her husband to help. He helped put it back and that's when she decided to get rid of the painting. They tried burning it in the backyard, but only the wooden frame would burn and the actual painting was fine. They tried throwing it away with the trash only for it to turn up somewhere in the house. They were about to give up till one of her employees suggested they take it out back and pray. See in Argentina (well back then) They would have speakers hooked up to the telephone poles and sometimes the church would broadcast there service. So that day at around 7 p.m. they church began their service and they hurried to take the painting to the back yard. As soon as the priest started praying the painting blew up in flames all on it's own. They said it was one of the freakiest things they have every experienced. It wasn't only them who saw it...It was the cashier too.
They never found out what it was....
~ Maria