Green is the color of nature, luck, life, and fresh starts.

But it's also the color of poison, decay, jealousy, sickness, toxic sludge, unlucky race cars, suspicious theater costumes, and one beautifully-deadly pigment some people decided to put absolutely everywhere.

In this episode of Cursed...ish, Daniel and Angela embark on a new technicolor cursed journey with Cursed Colors: Green, exploring why green has been treated as eerie, unlucky, dangerous, and maybe just a little bit cursed throughout history.

From Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Shakespeare’s green-eyed monster, fae folklore, and theater superstitions to Carl Wilhelm Scheele’s vivid arsenic-based pigment, we follow green from myth and symbolism into the very real poison hiding in Victorian wallpaper, artificial flowers, clothing, books, cosmetics, toys, and more.

Along the way, we talk Scheele’s Green, poisoned wallpaper, Matilda Scheuer, William Morris, Queen Victoria, the Poison Book Project, Oscar Wilde’s green carnation, and why humans keep looking at beautiful dangerous things and asking, “Can we put this everywhere?”

Maybe green is life. Maybe green is death. Maybe green is mold, magic, jealousy, and wallpaper that can quietly gas you in your own home. Maybe cursed. Maybe not.

https://hyperallergic.com/death-by-wallpaper-alluring-arsenic-colors-poisoned-the-victorian-age/

https://www.slam.org/blog/arsenic-in-victorian-wallpaper/

https://www.jalopnik.com/how-the-color-green-became-a-deadly-bad-luck-superstiti-1763008917/

https://vaulteditions.com/blogs/news/poisoned-pages-the-lethal-legacy-of-19th-century-book-design

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3179678/

https://britishfairies.wordpress.com/2021/05/30/poor-little-greenie-faeries-and-little-green-men/

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Is it the Berenstein Bears or the Berenstain Bears? Did the Monopoly Man have a monocle? Was there ever a cornucopia in the Fruit of the Loom logo?

And, most importantly, has reality always been this wrong?

In this episode of Cursed...ish, Angela and Daniel take a hard left into the strange, brain-breaking world of the Mandela Effect, the phenomenon where large groups of people collectively remember something that apparently never happened. From Jif versus Jiffy, Looney Tunes, Curious George’s missing tail, Febreze, Skechers, Pikachu, and the infamous Fruit of the Loom cornucopia, we dig into the pop culture memories that make people wonder whether they misremembered, swapped timelines, or accidentally got patched into the wrong universe.

Along the way, we talk about paranormal researcher Fiona Broome, the origin of the term Mandela Effect, false memories, confabulation, shared childhood culture, Reddit rabbit holes, the Large Hadron Collider, CERN conspiracy theories, and why the human brain is so confident even when it is absolutely making things up.

Is the Mandela Effect proof of alternate realities, time travel, parallel timelines, or experiments with the fabric of reality? Or are we all just walking around with deeply unreliable brains and a shocking amount of confidence?

Maybe it is science. Maybe it is memory. Maybe it is CERN. Maybe we were all just cursed into oblivion by a missing underwear cornucopia.

Questions, comments, or your own accursed tales to share? Send us a hex at uhoh@cursedish.com.

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Link to Cursed Painting - Open with Caution - https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSAq5NbAyoMu1Rb8ohN-tb2d5WriWF_EOruRTMKj9QxxQ&s=10

In this episode of Cursed...ish, Daniel and Angela investigate The Hands Resist Him, the allegedly cursed painting by artist Bill Stoneham that became one of the internet’s earliest viral cursed-object legends. The painting itself is unsettling enough: a young boy, a life-size doll girl with black eyes, disembodied hands pressed against a glass door, and the general feeling that maybe you should not be looking at it too long after dark.

But the real legend begins when the painting appeared in an early eBay listing with claims that the figures moved at night, the boy left the frame, and the artwork had to be removed from the seller’s home. From there, the story spiraled into reports of dizziness, fainting, printer malfunctions, supernatural panic, and the kind of internet folklore that feels very familiar to anyone who remembers the wild, lawless energy of the early 2000s internet.

Along the way, we talk cursed paintings, creepy art, the Dybbuk Box, haunted eBay listings, Bill Stoneham’s sequels to The Hands Resist Him, whether art can become cursed through collective belief, and why a painting does not need to be supernatural to make people feel deeply, deeply weird.

Is The Hands Resist Him actually cursed, or did the internet just take a compelling, unsettling piece of art and build a legend around it?

Maybe there is no ghost crawling out of the frame. Maybe the real curse is what happens when the internet decides your artwork belongs to the haunted corners of history forever.

https://stonehamstudios.com/haunted

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hands_Resist_Him

https://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/unexplained/2002/haunted_painting/ebay_haunted_painting_01.shtml

Questions, comments, or your own accursed tales to share? Send us a hex at uhoh@cursedish.com.

The hosts of Cursed...ish are not responsible for any misfortunes that may befall you while listening to this podcast. By listening to Cursed...ish, you assume all risk of bad luck, ill omens, and unexplained catastrophes.

*Terms and conditions may be upheld by unknown forces.