Aug 18, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min · 12 segments
In England in the 1980s, a new haunted object exploded onto the occult scene. This was a painting of a crying boy, a painting allegedly possessing such a dark and powerful energy that it was…
We are slaying monsters.
I didn't read it, but I saw it at the checkout line.
OK.
Exactly.
Yeah, that's what I was going to say.
Do I remember it? Absolutely.
Did I read it? No.
I mean, I read it while I was standing in line with my mom in the grocery store.
I definitely remember begging my parents to buy me copies of it occasionally because it had, I don't know, Loch Ness Monster captured.
They did that a lot.
which really put them on the map, but...
Weekly
World News was your teen beat.
It kind of was, actually.
I loved it because I was so into all of the cryptids and paranormal stuff.
When you had aliens abducted my grandmother and she taught them how to make cookies or whatever, I was like, oh my God, this is really cool.
I thought it was real and my parents actually had to sit me down and be like, this is not news.
I love that.
An early know how to investigate your sources lesson from Matt's mom and dad.
Yeah, because I'm over here like, no, there's clearly a plesiosaur on the cover.
It's right there.
Look at the picture.
It's so crystal clear.
I
wonder if they hadn't sat you down, how long it would have taken you to realize that it wasn't real.
Maybe I never would have.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
I mean, my dad told my sister that chocolate milk came from brown cows as a joke when she was like three.
And then when she was like six, my dad realized that she still thought that because she believed him and did not realize that he was making a joke.
And he had to be like, no, no, that's not.
Sorry, I said that.
That's not a thing.
You don't know what kids are going to like process and because they take everything as truth like you don't know anything about the world when you're young and so if somebody tells you this is the way it is and you trust that person then you believe that person.
Yep.
And that's kind of why we need things like journalistic integrity and we need sources that you can rely on and be like, okay, we trust this, but we don't trust the weekly world news to tell us what's going on in the White House, right?
Right.
And to quote Zach Bagans, that is why we are here.
we are slaying monsters
i was gonna say you shouldn't trust ghost adventures either yeah yeah but you
know broken clock is right twice a day so yes sometimes uh yes so we are slaying monsters we got maddie jay hey
we
got katie hi and i'm ej and we're gonna talk about haunted paintings
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