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This article in FT157 is about the enigmatic faces of Belmez, in Spain.
For those who haven't read Jack Romano's article, it's about faces that appear in the concrete floors and walls of a house. The faces can't be erased, they seem to change expression, or even grow older, over time. Rigorous scientific analysis has failed to explain how they are created, or how they reappear when the floor is dug up and relaid.
As if this wasn't enough, there are also reports of EVP phenomena and poltergeist effects in the house. And all this has been going on for THIRTY years! This must be the best researched paranormal happening anywhere, yet there is still no scientific explanation.
Popular opinion has it that the events are due to disturbance of old burials in an adjacent church during renovations...
Perhaps for once we should apply Occam's Razor in defence of the spiritualist view! It's a simple answer that has been found satisfactory for millenia, and intensive scientific research has come up with no alternative, just a whole raft of could be's and maybe's. Perhaps science would make more progress by seeking to understand the nature of 'spirits' rather than just dismissing them a priori...?
Anyway, a good article. I'd heard of these images before, but not in such depth. More please!
This article in FT157 is about the enigmatic faces of Belmez, in Spain.
For those who haven't read Jack Romano's article, it's about faces that appear in the concrete floors and walls of a house. The faces can't be erased, they seem to change expression, or even grow older, over time. Rigorous scientific analysis has failed to explain how they are created, or how they reappear when the floor is dug up and relaid.
As if this wasn't enough, there are also reports of EVP phenomena and poltergeist effects in the house. And all this has been going on for THIRTY years! This must be the best researched paranormal happening anywhere, yet there is still no scientific explanation.
Popular opinion has it that the events are due to disturbance of old burials in an adjacent church during renovations...
Perhaps for once we should apply Occam's Razor in defence of the spiritualist view! It's a simple answer that has been found satisfactory for millenia, and intensive scientific research has come up with no alternative, just a whole raft of could be's and maybe's. Perhaps science would make more progress by seeking to understand the nature of 'spirits' rather than just dismissing them a priori...?
Anyway, a good article. I'd heard of these images before, but not in such depth. More please!
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