Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

TV Painter and Pop Culture icon Bob Ross used to say,

we don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

The artists do it all the time.

They start making one thing and the next thing they know, it's become something else entirely.

But not every work of art is a happy accident.

Sometimes, the artist's original idea can take a sinister, not so happy turn.

One such artist was Bill Stonem, a painter from Boston who, in 1972, had taken on a contract

to create two paintings per month for $200 a piece.

After he'd completed some paintings for sale and display, he came up with a new one,

he called, the Hands Resist Him.

It was an autobiographical painting of sorts.

In it, a young boy in a blue shirt stands before a window where the disembodied hands of

other children reach toward him out of the darkness.

Beside the boy is a frowning girl doll with empty black eyes.

According to Stonem, the boy in the photo is him, based on a photograph of himself when

he was about five years old.

The glass separating him from the children's hands is meant to be a barrier between two

worlds and his guide, the doll.

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