A thirty year old mystery...

October 31, 2003 3:44 AM

SpookyFilter presents: The Faces of Belmez.
posted by WolfDaddy (8 comments total)

That's pretty friggin spooky.....sent a chill all the way to down to my coccyx. Brrrrrrrrrr.......Boo!

Creepier still: "Hitler's Ghost Haunts America"

Grosser, but far less artistic: Severed Foot, anyone?
posted by troutfishing at 4:48 AM on October 31, 2003

That is one of the few things that has ever freaked me out. Scared the crap out of me as a kid. I used to refused to look at the floor in my grandparents kitchen...
posted by twine42 at 5:06 AM on October 31, 2003

As a kid I used to see faces in patterns in floor tiles, on walls, amidst random shapes everywhere. I still do, I suppose. Thank God they don't talk to me.

* fidgets *
posted by troutfishing at 5:15 AM on October 31, 2003

So these dead people have decided to manifest themselves in the form of badly drawn, soot paintings that look about as much like real people as this ('_') does?
posted by jiroczech at 5:19 AM on October 31, 2003

Face recognition is kind of hardwired into our brains.. it'd be weirder if you didn't
see faces amidst random shapes...
posted by jiroczech at 5:22 AM on October 31, 2003

Oh, you reductionist, you.
posted by troutfishing at 5:37 AM on October 31, 2003

...see faces in patterns in floor tiles, on walls, amidst random shapes everywhere.

I do that too! Especially in the front-ends of cars. Thought I was just weird. Well I am, but it's good to know I'm not the only one!
posted by LouReedsSon at 5:39 AM on October 31, 2003

Does anyone else think Spielberg got the "burial ground underneath the planned subdivision causes psychic trauma to residents" idea for "Poltergeist" from this true-life tale??
posted by WolfDaddy at 11:12 AM on October 31, 2003