I am your host KTown and you're listening to seven disturbing chronicle stories of scary, paranormal, and horror tales.

Some people that love works of art believe that they truly have influence over us.

Usually it causes a surge of thoughts and emotions running through our brains, bringing us to tears or laughter.

But according to some people, there are artwork which can cause some truly undesirable effects.

That's because some paintings are believed to be the cause of paranormal activity,

unfortunate luck, and even death.

So if you ever wanted to collect art, these paintings you will certainly want to stay the

hell away from. Here are a few of them. The first one up is the crying boy. In the 1950s, Italian

artist Giovanni Bragalin painted over 65 portraits of Italian orphans crying,

which he sold as souvenirs to tourists in the wake of the Second World War.

During the 1950s, the painting went on to become one of the most popular mass-produced series of prints in England.

But it was not until the 1980s that any particular strangeness was associated with them.

Starting from 1985, it was claimed that firefighters were finding completely undamaged copies of the crying boy amongst the ashes and rubbles

of burned down houses, and it was always laying face down on the floor. In over 50 housefires,

the crying boy paintings were claimed to have completely avoided fiery destruction. And always,

they ended up the same position face down. It was also reported that homes which had copies of the

painting were prone to a higher rate of house fires than usual. Theories range from the little

boy being a gypsy child whose family had placed a curse

on the artist.

Some claimed that the child had died in a fire and his spirit was trapped in the painting.

The most enduring story claimed that the crying boy accidentally set fire to the studio of the artist who had

painted him, for which the child's parents had also been killed in the blaze. Wherever the little

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