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Painting The Rain Woman as if Possessed

When the then unknown and young artist, Svetlana Telets one day suddenly had the image of The Rain Woman in her head, she started to paint almost without thinking. She herself claimed that something or someone took over her, like drawing through her.

This almost possession-like feeling made her work fast and the painting was done in 5 hours according to Svetlana Telets. And thus the Rain Woman was made, or perhaps conjured is a more appropriate wording according to the legends that were made about the woman in the painting.

After Svetlana Telets had reworked the painting for about a month, she put it up for sale and some people felt drawn to the strange and mystical painting of the pale woman. The painting was bought, then returned, then sold, then resold again.

The buyers didn’t want it in their homes. They complained that the painting was causing them to experience insomnia and anxiety. Some even claimed that the painting was giving them headaches. A thing the past owners all agreed on though was how they all had a feeling of being watched.

The Rain Woman Haunting the Owners

The first owner that bought the painting was a businesswoman, in some sources named Larisa, that hung the painting in her bedroom. But it wasn’t before she tried to get rid of the painting as she constantly had a feeling of someone watching her and another presence in her house, despite her living alone. She even rang to Svetlana Telets and complained to her about The Rain Woman:

**The Rain Woman:** The painting of the the lady is a strange and eerie looking painting that have made people feel like they are being watched.

“Please pick her up. I can not sleep. It seems that there is someone in the apartment besides me. I even took it off the wall and hid it behind the closet. ”

The painting was returned and put for sale again. It was sold again to a second buyer which was a young man, in some sources named Eugene, that hung it in his living room and wasn’t really a big believer of the strange stories surrounding the painting. But also he didn’t take long before he started to experience strange things about the painting and decided to get rid of it after a month.

“I dream of her. Every night he appears and follows me like a shadow,” he said as he was giving it back.

For a third time the picture was sold to a third buyer that claimed that he had seen the woman depicted in The Rain Woman somewhere and thought that they would get along without any problems. But that turned out to be a mistake as he also felt uneasy around her. He claimed that her white eyes started to appear everywhere and he got the scary feeling that he would end up drowning in them.

So he also returned it back to the shop and the painting hung in the salon for many years without anyone willing to buy her to have in their home. And so the years went on by and the painting was patiently waiting for the owner.

The Rain Woman Found its Owner

The Rain Woman used to hang in a furniture salon in Vinnitsa trying to sell it without much luck. Customers of the shop claim to be dreaming about the woman in the picture after visiting the shop and claim to sort of know her, but are unable to place her.

Svetlana Telets herself has claimed that she is in no hurry to get rid of the picture and that she believes that there is an owner for the painting that is meant to have her. Perhaps today the painting has found its owner?

After 11 years of a search for an owner, it was bought in 2007 by the musician Sergei Skachko who felt strongly that the picture belonged with him. He tracked the painting down after reading an article about it and accepted the rumors the painting had. And according to this article, the painting traveled to Russia where it was hung in his office and to this day most likely remains to this day. And according to Sergei Skachko, he is not afraid of the painting or the hauntings it is said to give off and has no plan of returning it.

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What is art is perhaps just as difficult as explaining what is a haunting. And haunted art? How can that be? Several paintings have strange occurrences, history and tragedy attached to them and many people that some of them is haunted paintings. From people dying to people feeling a certain way when looking at the paintings, these are some work of art that are claimed to be haunted paintings.

The Crying Boy by Giovanni Bragolin

In 1985, there were reports in the papers in England that the firefighter claimed they kept finding undamaged paintings in burnt down ruins. The paintings were all of the crying boy series, a mass produced scenario from the 1950s and onwards.

The original idea of the paintings was from the Italian painter Giovanni Bragolin that sold over 60 of them to tourists. So many rumours surrounded the painter. Like that he painted the crying boys at an orphanage after fleeing to Spain after the war. The orphanage burnt down.

After the reports from the firefighters printed in the news by tabloid newspaper, the Sun, they organized bonfires to burn the haunted paintings.

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The Hands Resist Him by Bill Stoneham

In February in 2000, a new listing on ebay appeared of a strange haunted painting. An elderly couple in California tried to get rid of a painting from their brewery. But the painting had a disclaimer on it. It was said it carried some sort of curse or was haunted.

The characters in the paintings apparently had a habit of moving during the night. And occasionally, they completely left the picture as well, crossing the frame. It sold for so much more than what it was listed for.

The haunted picture was purchased by the Perception gallery that tracked down the artist, Bill Stoneham that painted the picture in 1972. It was originally purchased by John Marley, most known for his role in The Godfather. And the strange travels of the painting and the mystery surrounding it, still lingers, even so many decades after the paint dried.

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Man Proposes, God Disposes by Edwin Landseer

At Royal Holloway University, there hangs a haunted painting. The picture must be covered every year. Or else…

It is an 1864 oil-on-canvas painting by Edwin Landseer. The haunted painting was inspired by the search for Franklin’s lost expedition which disappeared in the Arctic after 1845.

According to an urban myth a student in the 1920 or 30s. He was taking his exam when he suddendly stabbed a pencil into his eye, writing “The polar bears made me do it” on to their exam paper. He then killed himself. From this alleged incident, another legend sprung out in the 60s, claiming that anyone sitting in front of the painting during an exam would fail.

That is why everytime an exam is on, there is a college tradition of covering the haunted painting with a Union Jack flag after a student refused to take the exam until the painting was covered.

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The Rain Woman by Svetlana Telets

Ukrainian artist, Svetlana Telets painted this haunted picture in 1996, the same year she graduated from Odessa Art University. For six months after graduating art school, she always had this feeling of someone watching her.

When Svetlana Telets one day suddenly had the image of The Rain Woman in her head, she started to paint almost without thinking. She herself claimed that something or someone took over her, like drawing through her. The haunted painting was done in five hours, and the result, well… It was this strange and surreal looking woman.

The painting was bought, then returned, then sold, then resold again. The buyers didn’t want it in their homes. They complained that the painting was causing them to experience insomnia and anxiety. And there was always a feeling of being watched. One even rang to Svetlana Telets and complained to her about The Rain Woman:

“Please pick her up. I can not sleep. It seems that there is someone in the apartment besides me. I even took it off the wall and hid it behind the closet. ”

The Rain Woman used to hang in a furniture salon in Vinnitsa trying to sell it. Customers of the shop claim to be dreaming about the woman in the picture and claim to sort of know her, but are unable to place her.

Read More: Read the full story about the The Rain Woman in MoonMausoleum.

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The Dead Mother by Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch was an artist known for his inner demons, something we can see in a lot of his paintings like Scream, The Vampire and all off his paintings depicting sickness. This is the case of The Dead Mother, depicting a little child in front of her dead mother, hands up in anguish much like in Scream.

The haunted painting that he painted is probably based on his own mother’s death. Edvard Munch’s mother died of tuberculosis when he was only 5 years old and this trauma lingered with him for all off his life together with the death of his sister as well.

The haunted painting is said to be cursed, or even haunted by some that have seen it. There are several version of the painting though, but the legend never specifies which version of the motief is the cursed one. Perhaps all of them.

The eyes of the little girl is said to follow you wherever you go, and some even go as far as to claim that she sometimes disappear from the frame altogether. There are also those that claim you can hear the sheet in the mother’s bed rustling, as if someone is moving it.

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Untitled by Laura P.

This haunted painting was based on a photograph by James Kidd from 1994. A picture believed to have a headless figure some claiming to be a ghost. According to Laura P, she started painting the painting, not knowing why she did so, as if being under some possession.

After the painting was done, she herself told of things surrounding the painting that were, strange. Incidents happening to the artist, possessions missing, and objects falling and breaking are just some of them. This has led to some people claiming the painting is haunted by the spirit from the original photo.

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