Photos You Need To Really Look At To Understand
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CharmerKamelion
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This thread is excellent. An object lesson in how our brains are programmed to 'make things fit with what we expect to see' (clumsily expressed) - and to be honest that could explain a lot of things that people claim to have seen - but probably not all things that people have claimed to see, I'm happy to say.
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I'm not seeing that, but I do see a very crooked nose and an exagerrated 'Kirk Douglas' chin though.
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The face on the garage door reminds me of that classic chiaroscuro "face of Jesus" photo, which, depending on which story you hear or read, was miraculously seen in a lightning flash, or a snow bank, or just some clouds, or...
Anybody have an image of that one, or know the truth about it?
Anybody have an image of that one, or know the truth about it?
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I found this one on the internet, seen it several times, it's just one of those random samples of leaves, shadows and pareidolia, I think.
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Could be genuine, but my instincts tell me it's just too 'neat'.
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It appears that the beveling in the garage door might be affecting the shadows?
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I have the same thought. The excessive detailing, to me, makes me question it. The lips, nose, philtrum
curt:just had to use that word. First time ever) details are too perfect. If there were more blurred shadows making up the face, I might believe that it is an undoctored photo.
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Looks a lot like Salmonellus' avatar to me.
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I get around a bit, Michael.
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I suspect that everyone is now making these silly pics.
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Blimey!
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She's been no stranger to the sweet trolley...
As long as he's not the Centaur of attraction.
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Oh wow Mytho! Amazing pic! I really really did have to look at that photo a long time before I got it. Damn freaky!!
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I'm the proud owner of this pebble that the Mrs found on our local beach around 2016. I was with her when she found it. After getting into a couple of local newspapers (with a billboard poster which we've got somewhere), it got itself into Fortean Times magazine. I think it looks more like Jim Morrison in his heroin abuse years. I've still got it in a little box on top of our fireplace. If you rub your thumb over the surface, the 'face' part bulges out.
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I remember that one being in FT a few years ago, it's a favourite of mine, it's so good
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I can't get past the huge face to make out what it actually is. A double exposure for sure, but what? A bill (money)? I can see the letters and watermark?
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I don't think so. The man seems to be holding a small child dressed in white with a bucket hat. The child forms the "face". I am not sure about the "hair" though.
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The "hair" is just some bushes, the same as on the right-hand side of the woman. It took me ages to figure it out. What a strange picture. Love it!
Appears to seem as though the man and the woman in the background have masks on their faces - if it was just one that looked like that, I would dismiss it as a photo blip, but both?
To me, it looks as though it might be a picture from 1861 Civil War (America), the two people seem to be in a trench maybe looking after dead or injured soldiers? "Just a guess though." The double-take might be a close-up photo of one of the dead?
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Miles out on that one!
More like a family on a picnic!
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Thanks for that. Now I've seen the child I can't un see it.
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When I first saw your post I saw the child straight away and though 'good old Gordon' because I couldn't see that in the original post by Mytho.
Then I briefly went back to his post, but when I go back to yours, this time, it still takes me a few seconds to see the child for some reason, even though I know it's there.
I still can't see the child in the original photo.