A Haunted Picture, 5 minute staring challenge :p Options

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Take a look at the picture above, I recently discovered this image and its tale in a korean publicaion.

The story is this, in Japan shortly before a teenage girl comitted suicide, she drew this picture, scanned it and posted it online. In korea this story broke out and it spread like wildfire. There are various posts around in korean forums that say that the viewer gets drawn to the girls blue eyes, they say they can detect a hint of wraith and sadness within the eyes. Maybe the girl had died with so much sadness and anger that her spirit haunts the image, or maybe the image provoke sadness, similar to the song 'Gloomy Sunday'.

The freaky bit is this, they say it is hard for a person to stare into the girls eyes for longer than 5 minutes, there are reports that some people have taken their own lives after doing so. People say the picture changes, as you view it there is a hint of a growing taunting smirk appearing on the girls lips or a dark ring grows around the girl or her eyes.

One thing is for sure, the picture has sparked a curiosity in me that I must find out, i do feel a presence when I look at the image, whether it is evil or not I can not judge. I would like to know what the global online community feels and maybe even experts in art would be able to resolve why the eyes of this image can draw the viewer in so deeply?

This has reminded me of a haunted picture story that I heard some years ago.

There was a couple that used to come to our Bible group and they were discussing a fine picture of some kind on someones wall and it got round to them talking about a picture they bought that seemed very attractive to them at first. Later, they started to find things going wrong, a lot. I think they either felt that the picture had turned sinister or someone came in and felt that the picture was a bad influence, either way, it was bad in some way and they disposed of it. End result was a calmer life again.

*shivers*