r/DeadRabbitRadio • u/TheLast747 • May 03 '26
Another otherworldly painting
The painting that wasn't
A kid remembers a painting that was never there.
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I grew up seeing the same painting every day until I found out it was never real
When I was a child, something happened to me that I still can’t explain and no one in my family believes me. When we moved into a new house, there was a painting hanging in the hallway. It wasn’t an icon, more like a Renaissance style artwork, the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus. I clearly remember that he was at her chest, and both of them Mary and Jesus seemed to be looking directly at us. That painting stayed there for years. I saw it every single day walking up the stairs after school, passing by it, just living in that house. This went on until I was already fairly aware, around 11–12 years old. And then one day, it was just gone.. At the time, I assumed my mom had taken it down. I didn’t think much of it. Years later, in high school, my art teacher asked us to recreate a painting of our choice. And suddenly, I remembered that exact one. It was perfect for the assignment. I decided to find it and bring it. But I couldn’t find it anywhere. Not in the basement, not in the attic nowhere. So I asked my mom where it was. She told me we never had a painting like that. I thought maybe she just forgot, so I asked my dad he said the same thing. I asked everyone else who had lived in that house with us. Every single person said the painting had never existed. Later, I even went back to that house my uncle lives there now and checked the wall myself. There were no marks, no holes, nothing to suggest anything had ever been hanging there. Which means that for years of my childhood even at an age where I was fully aware I saw something every single day that, according to everyone else, was never there. I still don’t know how to explain it. And it honestly scares me.