Crying Boy Paintings

The Crying Boy is a mass-produced print of a painting by Italian painter Giovanni Bragolin. It was widely distributed from the 1950s onwards. There are numerous alternative versions, all portraits of tearful young boys or girls.
There have been many owners with similar paintings who all experienced the same thing.
In one story, during the middle of the night in Thatcher-era England, a home in South Yorkshire succumbed to a fire. The lounge room was charred black, drapes and furniture reduced to ash. The owners of the home, Ron and May Hall, lost nearly everything to the blaze, except one item: a painting of a crying boy, his wide eyes looking out from the wreckage, not even blackened by smoke.
This wasn’t the first time a crying painting led to a fire.
There have been many people with paintings and those same paintings turned up mysteriously unscathed in fires across the U.K., all of which started spontaneously. It was well-known; he would never think of owning this cursed painting himself.
If the fact that paintings of crying kids were hung in the living rooms of multiple households is already strange enough, but it's interesting how a painting of a child, something is seen as innocent, can have bad intentions.
From then on, wherever the boy went, a fire always followed.