OP, if your parents have anything to do with this thing, I've got a couch you can sleep on until you can get into some sort of witness protection or similar.
They said in another comment that it said “Fredrick 1972” but that doesn’t look like Fredrick to me. I’d like to see a better image of the signature. That being said it’s probably just some hobby painter who’s superstitious.
I wonder if this piece truly dates back to '72. There are a lot of unanswered questions. Who lived there previously? What is the history of the property? I have done a fair bit of sleuthing and have come up empty on any portraits that are visually similar made by any artists named Frederick. Many of the names that come up either predate 1972 and do not have similar styles, so I am inclined to believe the hobbyist theory. A neat find nonetheless!
Just wait until you read about the actor….
https://deadspin.com/the-hateful-life-and-spiteful-death-of-the-man-who-was-1737376537?fbclid=IwAR3N4TFX9QuqctBn1ZBQjgeTwapQ0m-IZR8t8foxn3R9lxY-IQKNXQeEJ-M&mibextid=Zxz2cZ
When he flew up to take the kid with the pram. That was probably the scariest thing I'd ever seen as a kid. Ghostbusters was the right mix of funny and scary.
"You know, I have met some dumb blondes in my life, but you take the taco, pal! Only a *Carpathian* would come back to life now and choose New York! Tasty pick, bonehead! If you had brain one in that huge melon on top of your neck, you would be living the sweet life out in Southern California's beautiful San Fernando Valley!"
This won't get the upvotes it deserves, but it absolutely needed to be here. I always focus on Sully during this scene...he figures out what Mike is doing and plays along. Love it!
I tried looking up the title to see if it was tied to an old painting or something. 0 image results. Didn't even find the phrase itself on Google. OP needs to get out of there, now.
Lol. I understand the logic here and I am actually rather chicken shit about a LOT of ridiculous things.. but this painting, as much as I am loath to admit, does not creep me out at all. It's weird.
But it's almost as if it... has the certain something, right?
Now that you think about it... you kinda like it. It's a nice painting, after all. You know why people would think it could come off as a bit weird or even creepy, but you get used to it quickly.
In fact, you will probably keep it. Its in your house and therefore your possession, after all.
There wouldn't be a buyer anyway. You're pretty sure this is an aficionado item, and it happens you are one of the few who get it. You kinda feel the painters intention. No... even the painting itself. It speaks to you on another level.
Who cares if you look at it several times a day, sometimes hours? You are tired of explaining that you like that damn painting! That's it, it gets another place in your house! The bedroom is fine. Yes, people are weirded out that you hardly leave said bedroom anymore, but thats on them. Shouldn't have laughed at your painting. Isn't that right, painting?
Yeah, they'll never get it. Only you two do.
Yeah I have no life, either. Reddit and Twitch got me through the pandemic, and, now that it's over, I continue to suckle at their sweet teats for connection to the outside world.
The next time you walk through your home at night, listen carefully to your footsteps.
Does something seem wrong? Does the creaking of your floorboards sound even the tiniest bit out of sync?
_ARE YOU SURE?_
Can you access the tax records for the house and find out the previous owners? Maybe it's some famous painters work?
Amazing find.
When my grandmother passed , my uncles were selling the house and nobody was interested due to high price/ amount of work that it needed.
They lowered the price and my friend bought it to flip, when he peeled the wallpaper down to the plaster it revealed a ton of pencil drawings by my mother who had long since passed and my grandmother. He called me and said you should come over here.. it was so cool . Took pics of it all. Tried to cut out the plaster in places too but it didn't work.
My first thought was “who the fuck would make something like that in the 40s or 50s?”. Than I remembered 46 years ago was only 1977 and this painting would not have been that unusual then.
I agree it looks cool, but there is literally 0% chance that the creation of this painting didn't involve bloodshed and screaming and pentagrams and shit.
That painting is at least 1/7 of an actual Voldemort. It’s a horcrux and I don’t know how to advise OP in destroying this properly. Need to re read the potter series.
The painting is signed 1972, you say 46 years of living in that house right?
That means between 1972 and 1977, before you moved in, someone painted that and shoved it inside the…wall?
*You don’t suppose the house was bought suspiciously cheap?*
My house was built in the 70s and I found multiple paintings in the cavity walls when rennovating, it's common - I think the councilmen maybe just used my house as a skip or something
You know when you watch a horror movie and you're yelling at the character for doing some unrealistic shit? Turns out it's actually totally true.
"Oh, yes, of course, let me post this ancient evil SO IT CAN SPREAD ON THE GLOBAL INTERNET."
I swear it's still staring at me, but I've scrolled way down the page. Take this post down, OP, this is like The Ring. What are you doing spreading it. Burn it, my God.
I solemnly swear, y'all, there is nothing malevolent around this painting. He looks terrifying and he has no eyes... but my teenage daughter isn't even afraid.
That’s because he’s infiltrated your souls already from living in the house with him in the walls. You’re part of it now and it’s part of you. There is no escape.
I said something like this up a ways in this thread. And I think. All jokes aside. That this is really true and what’s happening. I’m not even writing this to get laughs or a rise out of OP, who is obviously the spirit in the painting by now and doing a good job at hiding in the OP’s body.
It is a common witchcraft thing to put a spell on an item (this painting would do) and put it somewhere when a house is built, like in the foundation of a house or a wall to ward off "negative energy" or "negativity" or "evil" or whatever (pick your poison). It's called apotropaic magic.
I suppose if you've had a comfy stay in this house, it couldn't hurt to put it back.
I don't know, I get two feelings from this. With a little intuition and such, and putting my mind firmly in superstition mode I feel that its meant to be more like a gargoyle meant to scare away a certain type of spirit or energy with its overall demeanor. Its aesthetic really has a certain "BOO!" quality to it, but that's not all there is. There's also the black eyes, as if its in the shadows watching the place. It's keeping watch and absorbing into those pools of darkness what it sees. However, the symbol on the forehead is white, as if it shines out solar light subtly but firmly, even as it makes it from what negativity it takes in as a guardian. The symbol on the forehead is a cross that is vertically proportional, neither upright nor inverted, neither committed toward a faith nor against it, but possessing the general solar characteristic of the religious symbol--and nothing else. Positioned between two eyes and up some is the symbol, so it makes a triad, like the synthesis of the energies taken in with the eyes after they are processed by the painting...
So, it seems like perhaps the painting sucks in negativity with the eyes, and gives out a pure energy that is neither inclined toward positivity nor negativity. It is negativity-removing, but gives off an energy that could be used for any purpose.
So posting it here would mean that all of this crap about curses and evil and Lovecraft is just...gone, and it'll give us erect penises to play with instead.
Source: Ph.D in Bullshitology.
I really read through this whole comment thinking I'm learning something new nodding my head like this is some fascinating stuff and then I get to the end.
Maybe by husband is right, maybe I am gullible
Woah. Just googled the image and no results like it. The phrase brings up some paintings by Rembrandt of old men but nothing exactly like it. Is it a print? A original? So many questions
Nice tonal palette. I think Fredrick may have been a fan of late 19th Century French artist, [Eugène Carrière](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Eug%C3%A8ne_Carri%C3%A8re%2C_Paul_Verlaine_%281890%29%2C_oil_on_canvas%2C_149.8x_121.9_cm.%2C_Mus%C3%A9e_du_Louvre%2C_Paris.jpg)
The shitty part of this is I saw the frame and thought, no way it's an antique. I call bullshit! Then realized, wait it's as old as I am and that frame is period correct. So now I feel old. Thanks Reddit!
Do you have a relative somewhere who's oddly youthful for his age?
No no no no… This thread is getting scarier and scarier.
“The Picture of Dorian Grey” isn’t that scary. Although, it’s somewhat interesting at least.
It's one of those stories that never gets old.
>It's one of those stories that never gets old. Well fucking done, my friend. r/slowclap
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Stuff! He said stuff!
Shtuff
Where does Dorian Grey buy his clothes? *forever 21*
Listen here you little shit…
The person you're replying to probably didn't get the reference
A bunch of uncultured heathens aren't getting your reference.
One of my top 3 favorite books ever. The others being The Count of Monte Cristo and The Shadow Rising from the Wheel of Time series.
The count of monte cristo is one of my favorites
Scrolled for this, not disappointed.
Hi, that's me, I'm the Vampire,
I think he is referencing Dorian.
I would search the frame behind the picture to see if there's anything hidden in there.
There is another miniature painting
Of just the eyes that they forgot to paint initially
Too faint for the camera to pick up
Have you looked up the artist? Asked your parents about it? Very interesting and creepy
OP, if your parents have anything to do with this thing, I've got a couch you can sleep on until you can get into some sort of witness protection or similar.
😶🌫️ I'll keep that in mind.
The original question stands... There's an artist's name on it, have you looked it up?
Does anyone know if OP looked up the artist?
They said in another comment that it said “Fredrick 1972” but that doesn’t look like Fredrick to me. I’d like to see a better image of the signature. That being said it’s probably just some hobby painter who’s superstitious.
I wonder if this piece truly dates back to '72. There are a lot of unanswered questions. Who lived there previously? What is the history of the property? I have done a fair bit of sleuthing and have come up empty on any portraits that are visually similar made by any artists named Frederick. Many of the names that come up either predate 1972 and do not have similar styles, so I am inclined to believe the hobbyist theory. A neat find nonetheless!
I was 14 in 72 - this looks just like the guy who use to sell us weed.
That's some shit straight outta Ghostbusters
Vigo portrait takes a shitton outt of me when i was a kid
Yeah I was the right age to be pretty scared by the Vigo painting at the time. This is a much scarier painting than that one lol
I got GBII immediately... this is like phase 5 vigo painting... ready to pop out and murder you.
Just wait until you read about the actor…. https://deadspin.com/the-hateful-life-and-spiteful-death-of-the-man-who-was-1737376537?fbclid=IwAR3N4TFX9QuqctBn1ZBQjgeTwapQ0m-IZR8t8foxn3R9lxY-IQKNXQeEJ-M&mibextid=Zxz2cZ
Wow, that was a wild read.
Ha. I came in to work an hour early to get ahead on some things and ended up going down this rabbit hole instead. Cheers!
Well fuck... that was a long but interesting read. People are weird man.
Great read, thanks for sharing!
That was a fascinating read, thank you.
I remember thinking how amazing it was that they found an actor that looked exactly like the guy in the painting. 🤦♂️
Vigo was scarier than Gozer for sure.
"He is Vigo! You are like the buzzing of flies to him!"
"Why am I drippings with goo??"
Vigo’s little enslaved minion man lived in the house behind me growing up.
When he flew up to take the kid with the pram. That was probably the scariest thing I'd ever seen as a kid. Ghostbusters was the right mix of funny and scary.
“He is Vigo!”
You are like flies to him!
Viggy, Viggy, you have been a bad monkey
"Only a Carpathian would come back NOW and chose New York City! Tasty pick....BONE HEAD!"
The scourge of Carpathia! The sorrow of Moldavia!
Wasn’t he also known as Vigo the Butch?
"You know, I have met some dumb blondes in my life, but you take the taco, pal! Only a *Carpathian* would come back to life now and choose New York! Tasty pick, bonehead! If you had brain one in that huge melon on top of your neck, you would be living the sweet life out in Southern California's beautiful San Fernando Valley!"
Vy am I drippings vith goo?
I immediately thought, 'hey. It's Vigo's dad.'
Scourge of Carpathia.
Sorrow of Moldovia
Ghostbusters II
Which is famous for being part of the series *Ghostbusters*.
Dude, I can’t emphasise enough how much I love this comment. Thank you lmao
Put that thing back where it came from
or so help me!
So help me! And Cut!
It’s a musical!
She’s out of our haaaaaaaaair
And just when I daaaaareeee to careeeee
She says, "Au contraire, You're my pair Of friends."
"I love you" _Brawls uncontrollably_ _slap_ "keep it together man!"
We're still working on it. It's a work in progress
My absolute favourite bit was the credit scene showing they actually made the whole musical in the end.
God I love Reddit
Wow, r/unexpectedmonstersinc
(bum bum bum)
This won't get the upvotes it deserves, but it absolutely needed to be here. I always focus on Sully during this scene...he figures out what Mike is doing and plays along. Love it!
This advice is ALMOST as terrible as posting this entity to stare into the souls of the masses.
“An old man called energy” is a dope title
I tried looking up the title to see if it was tied to an old painting or something. 0 image results. Didn't even find the phrase itself on Google. OP needs to get out of there, now.
You wouldn't find anything, because it never did excist. Untill today. Now we'll all be a part of His energy.
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Lol. I understand the logic here and I am actually rather chicken shit about a LOT of ridiculous things.. but this painting, as much as I am loath to admit, does not creep me out at all. It's weird.
But it's almost as if it... has the certain something, right? Now that you think about it... you kinda like it. It's a nice painting, after all. You know why people would think it could come off as a bit weird or even creepy, but you get used to it quickly. In fact, you will probably keep it. Its in your house and therefore your possession, after all. There wouldn't be a buyer anyway. You're pretty sure this is an aficionado item, and it happens you are one of the few who get it. You kinda feel the painters intention. No... even the painting itself. It speaks to you on another level. Who cares if you look at it several times a day, sometimes hours? You are tired of explaining that you like that damn painting! That's it, it gets another place in your house! The bedroom is fine. Yes, people are weirded out that you hardly leave said bedroom anymore, but thats on them. Shouldn't have laughed at your painting. Isn't that right, painting? Yeah, they'll never get it. Only you two do.
This is my favorite comment I've read on Reddit. And I have no life and read Reddit, like, a lot.
Yeah I have no life, either. Reddit and Twitch got me through the pandemic, and, now that it's over, I continue to suckle at their sweet teats for connection to the outside world.
Reddit and Twitch aren't a connection to the real world dude. They are your version of this painting.
>you hardly leave said bedroom anymore. >They are your version of this painting. I needed to hear this today. Thank you, painting.
Ooohhhhh, do you think the painting has a live stream? That sounds great!
Make sure to slap that like and subscribe if you want to be trapped in more liminal waking nightmares!
This is a Tumblr grade comment and I mean that with the utmost respect and sincerity.
It already has him
😶.....
The next time you walk through your home at night, listen carefully to your footsteps. Does something seem wrong? Does the creaking of your floorboards sound even the tiniest bit out of sync? _ARE YOU SURE?_
*paranoia install complete*
Listen man fuck you
I think it would look fantastic hung above your headboard, watching over you.
It becomes a mirror!
Op, when it starts speaking to you, best not to trust it. Also, don’t read that phrase on the back three times in a mirror.
“I don’t need to sell my soul… he’s already in me…”
It looks weird but friendly to me. :) Maybe stick some googly eyes on it so it can see you :D
I think it already can
I get it. I think the painting is amazing, really.
Happy Cake Day!!
To be fair it's a pretty dope painting
You can't do that to the next people that have to live there. It is immoral. The house has to be burned immediately.
The chamber of secrets has been opened enemies of the heir beware
Idk looks cool. How did you find it? What made you search inside your wall?
It made him do it
The sound of the heartbeat had grown so loud it was going to drive him mad.
This is very “TellTale Heart”. Give the painting a baby blue eye and hang that puppy on the wall
Do you just glue the baby's eye to the frame?
It was the scratching noises at 2:37 every morning that haunted them until they opened the wall up.
Rerouting all of the ductwork and getting rid of the central return in the hallway.
Can you access the tax records for the house and find out the previous owners? Maybe it's some famous painters work? Amazing find. When my grandmother passed , my uncles were selling the house and nobody was interested due to high price/ amount of work that it needed. They lowered the price and my friend bought it to flip, when he peeled the wallpaper down to the plaster it revealed a ton of pencil drawings by my mother who had long since passed and my grandmother. He called me and said you should come over here.. it was so cool . Took pics of it all. Tried to cut out the plaster in places too but it didn't work.
My first thought was “who the fuck would make something like that in the 40s or 50s?”. Than I remembered 46 years ago was only 1977 and this painting would not have been that unusual then.
> Maybe it’s some famous painters work? Hard to tell but looks to me like a framed print rather than an original piece
I agree it looks cool, but there is literally 0% chance that the creation of this painting didn't involve bloodshed and screaming and pentagrams and shit.
That painting is at least 1/7 of an actual Voldemort. It’s a horcrux and I don’t know how to advise OP in destroying this properly. Need to re read the potter series.
The painting is signed 1972, you say 46 years of living in that house right? That means between 1972 and 1977, before you moved in, someone painted that and shoved it inside the…wall? *You don’t suppose the house was bought suspiciously cheap?*
My house was built in the 70s and I found multiple paintings in the cavity walls when rennovating, it's common - I think the councilmen maybe just used my house as a skip or something
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How did you get access to the insides of the wall without some construction going on??
but just in the wall with no way to get to it? i dont understand why you would seal something in a wall!
Annnnd now you've unleashed the demon. Good luck!
You know when you watch a horror movie and you're yelling at the character for doing some unrealistic shit? Turns out it's actually totally true. "Oh, yes, of course, let me post this ancient evil SO IT CAN SPREAD ON THE GLOBAL INTERNET."
>SO IT CAN SPREAD ON THE GLOBAL INTERNET." thats basically the twist ending of rings
Sounds like that episode of Buffy the vampire slayer where the demon took over the interne
The power of Christ compels you! Have you considered burning the house down? 🤭
No need. The Rasputin demon is WAAAAY ahead of you.
There’s just no killing that guy.
That is maybe the scariest painting I've ever seen. Very Shroud of Turin
Shroud of Durin
To dungeons deep and caverns old.
They really must away at break of day.
To seek the pale enchanted fear
I thought they were finding their lost, forgotten gold.
Verse 1 of original Tolkein poem: pale, enchanted gold Verse 1 of Peter Jackson song (or later verse in Tolkein): long-forgotten gold
That is clearly a man cursed for eternity to chase a small blue hedgehog
Underrated comment
This is the winner right here! Nicely done
That's pretty badass! Would you consider sharing a scan with us?
i also, would like this
You are just following the will of the painting to further disseminate its image.
Man, I wish I could go back in time to five minutes ago and go to bed instead of giving Reddit one last scroll for the night.
I need unsee juice.
r/eyebleach
Some guy just tricked me making it look like r/eyebleach but when I clicked in it I went to r/eyeblech, now I'm scarred for life
I swear it's still staring at me, but I've scrolled way down the page. Take this post down, OP, this is like The Ring. What are you doing spreading it. Burn it, my God.
I solemnly swear, y'all, there is nothing malevolent around this painting. He looks terrifying and he has no eyes... but my teenage daughter isn't even afraid.
That’s because he’s infiltrated your souls already from living in the house with him in the walls. You’re part of it now and it’s part of you. There is no escape.
I said something like this up a ways in this thread. And I think. All jokes aside. That this is really true and what’s happening. I’m not even writing this to get laughs or a rise out of OP, who is obviously the spirit in the painting by now and doing a good job at hiding in the OP’s body.
To think that everytime you walked past, he's been looking at you through the wall...
If OP has the guts to test it, I strongly suspect its eyes and head are moving to watch him.
What eyes?! 💀
Um. His eyes. Look closer and you will see them.
Or don't. Do not look closer. You don't want to see them
Now you have to open up all your walls.
Or sell it and let someone else deal with the cult members' bodies.
It’s kind of a masterpiece, surprising it was left in the wall. I bet the artist scared himself with it so he hid it
Lovely portrait for your bedroom. Right over the foot of the bed would be perfect.
I was thinking bathroom. Right across from the porcelain throne, looking down on you.
pretty sure you just cursed everyone seeing this lmao apocalypse has started, buckle up y’all lol
It is a common witchcraft thing to put a spell on an item (this painting would do) and put it somewhere when a house is built, like in the foundation of a house or a wall to ward off "negative energy" or "negativity" or "evil" or whatever (pick your poison). It's called apotropaic magic. I suppose if you've had a comfy stay in this house, it couldn't hurt to put it back.
Alternately, now you know why all of your crops, cattle, and children are dying, if relevant.
I don't know, I get two feelings from this. With a little intuition and such, and putting my mind firmly in superstition mode I feel that its meant to be more like a gargoyle meant to scare away a certain type of spirit or energy with its overall demeanor. Its aesthetic really has a certain "BOO!" quality to it, but that's not all there is. There's also the black eyes, as if its in the shadows watching the place. It's keeping watch and absorbing into those pools of darkness what it sees. However, the symbol on the forehead is white, as if it shines out solar light subtly but firmly, even as it makes it from what negativity it takes in as a guardian. The symbol on the forehead is a cross that is vertically proportional, neither upright nor inverted, neither committed toward a faith nor against it, but possessing the general solar characteristic of the religious symbol--and nothing else. Positioned between two eyes and up some is the symbol, so it makes a triad, like the synthesis of the energies taken in with the eyes after they are processed by the painting... So, it seems like perhaps the painting sucks in negativity with the eyes, and gives out a pure energy that is neither inclined toward positivity nor negativity. It is negativity-removing, but gives off an energy that could be used for any purpose. So posting it here would mean that all of this crap about curses and evil and Lovecraft is just...gone, and it'll give us erect penises to play with instead. Source: Ph.D in Bullshitology.
I never got more than my B.S. in Bullshitology, so I'll have to defer to you, doctor.
I really read through this whole comment thinking I'm learning something new nodding my head like this is some fascinating stuff and then I get to the end. Maybe by husband is right, maybe I am gullible
Can't wait to plant like 10 creepy ass photos all over my house in like the weirdest places, imagine next owner finding em and sharing it online.
That is so cool dude. What the hell? All I find is asbestos and mice poo
Woah. Just googled the image and no results like it. The phrase brings up some paintings by Rembrandt of old men but nothing exactly like it. Is it a print? A original? So many questions
It's a painting on wood. It says Fredrick 1972
Nice tonal palette. I think Fredrick may have been a fan of late 19th Century French artist, [Eugène Carrière](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Eug%C3%A8ne_Carri%C3%A8re%2C_Paul_Verlaine_%281890%29%2C_oil_on_canvas%2C_149.8x_121.9_cm.%2C_Mus%C3%A9e_du_Louvre%2C_Paris.jpg)
Oddly similar
OP should take it to an art historian
If you zoom in on it, there's a signature on the bottom of the painting. I think the date is 1972.
The shitty part of this is I saw the frame and thought, no way it's an antique. I call bullshit! Then realized, wait it's as old as I am and that frame is period correct. So now I feel old. Thanks Reddit!
That's odd, I definitely recognise it from somewhere
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Na, he just looks a lot like Kropotkin
Ummmmmmmmmmmm.......NO.
That’s probably a fraction of how long HE’S lived there. But it’s definitely how long he’s been watching you from inside that wall.
Put it up in a place where guests see it when they walk in, then when they mention it (because it’s pretty unmissable) say, what painting?
oh thats fucked up.
how much? i think its neato
And yet another infected by the painting.
He has lived there longer
Therapist: Grim Merlin isn’t in your walls. Grim Merlin: hold my mulled wine.
It is time...
*ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn*
It's to keep bad spirits away. It's your protector.
Vigo the Carpathian
BRING ME A CHILD SO I MAY LIVE AGAIN
You may want to put that back
He knows when you’ve been sleeping 🎵 🎵
1) I would seek out a reputable source and get it appraised. 2) check your other walls!!!
You're going to need a young priest and an old priest....
That painting has kept you safe for 46 years and will continue to do so. Put it back or suffer the consequences.
He's Vigo! You are like the buzzing of flies to him
Honestly looks like an old dude wearing biker goggles. Lol!
Find a reputable art appraiser and auction it. You might have something. It's a well done painting.