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The Haunted Old Pilgrim Portrait

Posted on March 24, 2010

My friend told me this story about how about 70 years this lady owned a really strange portrait that was supposedly possessed by the lady painted in it. The story sounds like on cartoons when they walk through the creepy haunted house and the portraits look at you as you walk along. Here’s how it goes.

Around 1940 an old lady named Francis owned a 18th century portrait of a wealthy lady in a black dress. She had bought from a man in Kentucky who was strangely eager to sell it for a cheap price.

The first day she had it in her house she heard a woman moaning at night coming from the living room where it was hung. When she went to investigate nothing weird was going on so she went back to sleep.

The second day she was playing the piano in the living room and heard an operatic voice singing along she immediately stopped playing and looked around her house, no one was there. The lady in the portrait had a regular look on her face, when she came back to the room she the lady had a large freaky smile on her face. She didn’t do anything but thought it was always like that.

The third day she had owned the portrait nothing happened, the lady had the regular look back on her face.

The fourth day she had the portrait in her possession she heard singing coming from the living room but did nothing because she expected it to be a neighbor who was singing as she scrubbed her laundry in the back yard. When she went out to the front door the lady’s lips were twisted in a flinching position, her nose was flared, and her hair was growing grayer and grayer. She looked quite revolting. So her eyes got bigger and she walked out the door stupefied. When she returned the portrait was back to normal. She knew then that there was something up with that picture.

The fifth day she was very busy so she was traveling from room to room and every time she came through the living room she had a different expression every time she came around. It went from sad to mad to happy and kept on repeating itself the whole day. Until the last time she screamed in terror. For the lady in the portrait was completely gone. She ran out the house and climbed up a tree. As she was climbing she grabbed onto a decaying root and fell down. She died two days later.

When men came in the house to move out her things the lady in the portrait winked at them and they rushed out too.

Sent in by Brenton, Copyright TrueGhostTales.com 2010




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5 Responses to “The Haunted Old Pilgrim Portrait”
  1. anna says:

    wow ,were is the picture now?what was the whole deal about how she reacted?that would be weird having a painting like that.maybe the lady in the pic does that so the person or ppl owning it she can get them some how hurt to the point where they die maybe.sounds weird but thats ok.

  2. trolldoll1681 says:

    creepy! i think i would have donated it to a museum.

  3. crisi says:

    oh my gosh, that is freaky scary. It reminds me of one of my mom’s great great grandma’s picture that used to hang in our house. It’s a family heirloom that gets passed on from one generation to another. She never made any faces but just had this serious look that would scare the lights out of anyone especially if you are coming from a dark hallway.
    Where is the picture now? This story is very interesting.

  4. Pat says:

    Sad but very scary story! I’d have got that picture out of that house the FIRST time I even thought it changed…. those old pictures have always creeped me out- not if they are family of course but say even a portrait of George washington-why anyone would even buy a painting of someone they don’t know (like the Mona Lisa for example) does not make sense to me… that said… I hope to GOD they burned that nasty creepy possessed thing up! and good riddance! Great fireside tale! Thanks!

  5. Ella says:

    oh my days!!! What a creepy story!!! Is it really real? was she related to ur friend?/did she know who the woman was that had the painting?

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