Hands Resist Him
November 3rd, 2009
Six long years ago I wrote a Halloween feature for the Sunday Herald Magazine that took a tongue-in-cheek look at the “eBay Haunted Painting”, an creepy oil painting by artist Bill Stoneham called Hands Resist Him that apparently caused strange reactions in those who viewed it.
“When this painting appeared for sale on the internet, some who saw it wept in terror. Then it was linked to poltergeists and two mysterious deaths. Now its seller has disappeared…”
It’s a fun feature, and would have made a timely post if I’d put it up last week in the run-up to Halloween…
Anyhow, you can read it as a PDF, which includes a full-page image of the painting, here: Haunted Painting (PDF)
