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Art is defined by the expression or application of human creative
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skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as a
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painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated
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primarily for their beauty or emotional power.
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Art takes time and effort, sometimes sweat tears and blood
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literally. But his art reflects emotional
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power in whatever branch it decides to express itself.
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Could it capture with it a piece of the human soul?
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When a man inherits a strange painting from his grandmother,
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bizarre happenings begin to manifest within his home.
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Can he decipher the paranormal mystery surrounding it before
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it's too late? This is the untold story of the
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anguished man painting of Cumbria, England.
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And this particular story, like the painting itself, is an
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unsettling 1. Cumbria, England, a beautiful
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place known for breathtaking scenery, has over the years
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become known as a creative hub for the arts, culture and
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literature, also being home to many of the artists themselves.
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But underneath this natural beauty lies something dark and
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foreboding. As art reflects beauty, it must
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also reflect the abhorrent. The information of some of the
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experiences are vague, however. I will try to tell the story as
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complete as I can, given what I could find.
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Our story begins in Cumbria, approximately around 2010.
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A man named Sean Robinson has just inherited a painting from
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his grandmother, but unlike lots of other works of art, this one
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is grotesque, almost terrifying, and certainly makes one ponder
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the sanity of the person who made it, although no one knows
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for certain how it came into Robinson's grandmother's
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possession originally. The painting had apparently been
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within the family for 30 years by this point, but had been in
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the attic of his grandmother's house for 25 of those years.
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She had said she had put it there because there was
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something evil about it. Within the five years the
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painting was visibly present within her home, numerous
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bizarre things began to occur. The legend, as it goes, is that
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the man who painted it had used his own blood within the
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painting itself, mixing it with the oils drip by drip, allowing
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his essence to become infused with the canvas.
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Although the time frame of its production is unknown, the
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artist behind it apparently would end by his own hand after
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finishing his masterpiece. Upon possessing this painting,
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known as the Anguished Man, Robinson's grandmother would
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soon begin to have experiences that she couldn't explain.
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She began to see the dark, an ominous figure of a man
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throughout her house, sometimes out of the corner of her eye and
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other times directly in front of her.
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This had to have been absolutely terrifying.
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I'm not entirely sure of her living arrangement, if her
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husband was still alive or not, but for speculation's sake,
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imagine being older and living alone, and then starting to see
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the spectral man wandering throughout your home, seemingly
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stalking you from the shadows. It's certainly more than enough
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to fuel your nightmares. This would prompt her to
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eventually move the painting into the attic, possibly out of
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fears to what would happen if she got rid of it.
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As far as we know, given the information that is available,
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these apparitions cease to be once the painting was stowed
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away from the rest of the house, isolated to its own devices
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within the confines of the attic above.
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Years later, although he had been forewarned by his
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grandmother, Robinson wasn't convinced of the supposed evil
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that inhabited this strange work of art.
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He himself, being a lifelong horror fan upon receiving it,
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was intrigued and decided to take it home.
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After placing it within the walls of his house, he too would
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soon begin to experience terrifying events that he
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couldn't explain. The painting would be sat on
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display in an upstairs bedroom, and upon finding its new home,
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the painting, known as the Anguished Man, began to invoke
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something evil. As it often does, the activity
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started small. The day the painting was placed
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in the house, creaking in footsteps began to be heard and
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would only continue from there on out.
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These creaks and footsteps grew ever louder and more aggressive
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and were soon coupled with tormented, almost muffled
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screams that would echo all throughout the house.
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The Robinson family soon began to see a pitch black figure
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wandering throughout their home, a murky, dark presence, an ever
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present set of eyes burning a hole to their very souls.
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These episodes disturbed Robinson, who had recalled that
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his grandmother had said that she experienced the very same
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phenomenon. In the coming months, the family
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would also begin to experience other hair raising activity as
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well. Soon banging could be heard all
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throughout the house at odd hours of the day and night, with
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the activity seeming to peak between 3:00 and 4:00 AM, with
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the previously mentioned phenomena.
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A new and mysterious deep crying noise could also be heard ever
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more frequently and with no rational origin.
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As time would pass, the haunting force would continue to only
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grow stronger. The manifestation of the Shadow
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Man would continue to be seen and along with being seen, but
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also be observed crying and whispering, although despite
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hearing the whispers, the family could never decipher what he or
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it was trying to say. Alongside these bizarre and
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creepy happenings, A horrific visual would soon be seen by
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Sean Robinson's very own eyes. He would find himself suddenly
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awake between the hours of three and 4:00 AM, when activity would
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typically reach a fever pitch. Only this night was different as
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his eyes adjusted. He sees, standing at the foot of
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his bed, a dark figure whose face appears to be red, and upon
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a closer look Shawn is frozen with fear.
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What he was seeing before his very eyes, totally lucid, was
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the very same figure from the painting.
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But before Shawn could allow himself to scream, the figure
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simply vanished. Not only would this have been
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absolutely bone chilling to experience, but with the
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activity continuing to escalate, Sean wondered what could be
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next. Was the apparition perhaps an
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omen of things to come, whether it was the paranormal force or
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entity that inhabited the painting or something else
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within the Robinson home? Although the home was not
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reported to have been haunted whatsoever prior to Sean
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receiving the anguished man, the entity persisted.
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One night as the moon hung overhead.
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Sean Robinson found himself awake early in the morning as he
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went down the stairs and into the kitchen, presumably to get
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himself a drink or a snack to wake up, as most people often
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do, he would be suddenly startled by a bloodcurdling
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scream coming from his upstairs master bedroom.
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He recognized the scream. It was his wife.
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Robinson's wife would be woken up out of the sound sleep by
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having her hair played with and tugged on upon feeling for the
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origin in the darkness and rolling over.
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She was met face to face with a man that she described as being
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massive, having a sunken in mouth and eyes, and his
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breathing was absolutely horrific.
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This experience must have shocked and terrified the poor
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woman. Perhaps she was thinking it was
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her husband laying next to her, except instead of experiencing A
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reassuring face staring back at hers when looking over after
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regaining consciousness, she sees something straight out of a
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horror movie looking at her instead.
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This morning certainly must have been a hectic 1, because how
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does 1 console their wife after an experience like that?
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How does one fight something that shouldn't exist, coexisting
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with the paranormal force that now inhabited their home?
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The Robinson family did their best to try and live normal
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lives, but the activity only ever seemed to get worse.
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However, one day when Robinson's son Keenan was pushed down the
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stairs by something that he couldn't see, Sean had had
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enough, unsure of what would happen if he did away with the
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painting by discarding it. Who remembered how his
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grandmother had dealt with it with her own unique situation
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surrounding the painting, and decided to, at least for the
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time being, place it in the cellar of his home, away from
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his family. The activity itself, although
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still somewhat present, certainly seemed to calm down
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quite a bit. Following this move in the years
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to come, Sean Robinson would begin to document the haunting
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surrounding the anguished man. This documentation began within
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several months of receiving the painting, after he and his
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family went from skeptics to believers after experiencing A
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plethora of strangeness ever since the anguished man arrived
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in their lives. As of right now, there are about
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16 videos documenting various supernatural occurrences within
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the Robinson home surrounding the object.
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These manifestations include apparitions, flashing lights and
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eerie fogs enveloping the room the painting sits in, doors
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opening and closing by themselves and various objects
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including the painting itself moving on their own.
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More recently, it seems like a UK based paranormal group has
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assisted Robinson with investigating what could be
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taking place at his home. Seems like they have also
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captured several Evp's or Electronic Voice Phenomena as
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part of those investigation sessions.
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I will be linking Sean Robinson's YouTube channel below
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so you can go see for yourself if you wish to do so.
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And before we conclude this odd story, first let us speculate as
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to what could be happening starting from the beginning.
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Sean's grandmother came into possession of the painting, but
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how did she receive it? Did she purchase it or was it a
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gift? And if so, from who?
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With these questions, we are only left with more.
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Just how could she or anyone have become aware of the
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supposed back story of how the painting came to be?
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If the artist is unknown? Perhaps the person who sold it
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or gifted it to her knew them but kept them unnamed.
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Perhaps they painted under a pen name and upon their death their
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true identity was lost. It's hard to say upon her
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initial experiences of seeing the apparition of a large man
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wandering throughout her home and crying out.
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I'm curious if she saw any sort of religious or paranormal help.
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I'm also curious if she lived alone at the time, her with her
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husband, but regardless of her living situation.
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Those would be terrifying things to see and deal with, but in my
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opinion they would be made so much worse if you were alone,
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let alone by yourself and elderly.
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And it seems like paranormal forces such as these, the ones
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that are perceived to be evil, tend to feed off of human fear
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like an energy source. These manifestations would lead
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her to Vanquish the painting into her attic after having it
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on display for five years for the next 25 years.
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I wonder why she didn't get rid of it though.
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Did she fear it would come back, or that the activity would
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somehow be worse? And with the painting being in
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the attic, I wonder if anyone went up there and experienced
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anything, or if she ever heard any noises coming from the attic
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itself. Because as far as we know, the
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activity ceased once it was placed there.
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But that's only a conclusion drawn with very limited
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information. Once Sean had received the
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anguished man and placed it on display within his home, he too
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began to experience the same exact things that his
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grandmother had, and more. But from the sounds of it, at a
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minimum he and his wife and children experienced the bizarre
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phenomena. But I'm also curious if any
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guests who visited, if they experienced anything that
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perhaps we just haven't had the chance to hear about.
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And yet another question just why would someone want to
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display something so hideous in their house?
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I mean, the mere side of this painting gives me an eerie vibe.
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It's dark, soulless eyes and muted screams of terror upon its
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red face are more than enough for me.
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I can almost imagine this thing stalking me from the shadows and
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sneaking up on me with a horrific sound emanating from
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its face as it smothers me or something.
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But besides provoking the imagination in a positive or
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negative manner, if I woke up and saw the anguished man in the
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flesh from the painting, that would be it for me.
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I would absolutely seek some kind of assistance and or burned
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the thing. It's hard to say exactly what
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one should or would do given the situation until they find
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themselves experiencing it. But I have to say the Robinson
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family's experiences sound absolutely terror inducing.
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There are many theories as to what the entity could be or what
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the activity could be caused by. It seems like the majority of
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researchers of this case, myself now included, believe the
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haunting to be an intelligent one, meaning that an entity can
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communicate with the living and even physically attack.
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But others seem to think that the entity isn't stowed away
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within the painting, but rather that the painting is a conduit
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itself, Something that opens a portal between our realm or
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dimension to another. One that allows in this strange
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and menacing presence. Could perhaps the insanity,
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blood infusion and ultimate sacrifice of the artist that
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allegedly painted it upon achieving its final form have
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something to do with this? Was it an intentional decision
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or goal on behalf of the artist? It's hard to say, and as many
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people have, I do also have to ask, is the case genuine?
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Although Sean Robinson seems like he enjoys a good horror
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movie, as most of us do, I would say he doesn't give me vibes of
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a charlatan or anything of the sort.
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Personally. Some people have accused him of
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making the entire thing up, but I'd have to follow up with the
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question of why. I highly doubt he's profited
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very much from the story anyways, especially judging from
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his YouTube numbers, and that is in no way, shape or form a dig
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of any kind. If anything, to me it just backs
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up the validity of his intentions.
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He seems more pressed on sharing he and his family's experiences
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in order to seek other people's opinions as to what could be
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taking place surrounding the painting.
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More recently, as previously mentioned, it seems like he's
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perhaps now had some paranormal assistance from a professional
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group who can maybe give him some more insight as to what
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could be happening. But what do you think?
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Answer one of my many post questions below in the comments
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or feel free to share your own thoughts.
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I'd love to read them. As for the Robinson family as a
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whole, I hope that they eventually find answers
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surrounding the mysterious oddity known as the Anguished
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Man. And the rest of us better pray
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that we don't come into possession of such an item.
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Because if we did, perhaps the sunken and face of the creature
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on the canvas will be stalking you and flesh and bone a
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manifestation of your fear, watching and waiting to take you
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back home with it wherever that home may be in the darkness.
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in the comments below. You can also find it by
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searching the Anguished Man official as well as his Facebook
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page where he tends to give most updates.
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As for the Robinson family and yourselves, I wish you all
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nothing but the best. I hope that we can continue to
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pull through the final horrific days of summer as we coast
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towards fall, and I hope you and your families are doing
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fantastic. As always, thank you guys so
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This has been Cody here in Mystery Archives.
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Remember to please stay safe out there and take care.