The Crying Boy Painting: The Curse That Survived the Flames

In 1985, a house fire in England sparked one of Britain's strangest modern curses. A painting of a crying boy had reportedly survived the flames, and firefighters claimed they had seen the same thing in dozens of other homes. Soon, frightened owners were burning their paintings, newspapers were reporting a supernatural curse, and thousands of prints were destroyed in a Halloween bonfire. But what really happened, and where did the legend begin?