Bélmez faces

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1. BÉLMEZ FACES

2. The Bélmez Faces or the Faces of Bélmez is a paranormal phenomenon in a private house in Spain which started in 1971 when residents claimed images of faces appeared in the concrete floor of the house. These images have continuously formed and disappeared on the floor of the home.

3. The appearances in Bélmez began on 23 August 1971, when María Gómez Cámara claimed that a human face formed spontaneously on her concrete kitchen floor. María's husband, Juan Pereira and their son, Miguel, destroyed the image with a pickaxe and new concrete was laid down. However, the Pereira story goes, a new face formed on the floor. The mayor of Bélmez was informed and forbade the destruction of the new face. Instead, the floor concrete was cut out and taken for study.

4. María's home was advertised to the tourists as La Casa de las Caras (The House of the Faces). By Easter of 1972 hundreds of people were flocking to the house to see the faces. For the next 30 years the Pereira family claimed that faces continued to appear, both male and female and of different shapes, sizes and expressions.

5. How were the faces getting there? Thats the biggest question when looking at the Belmez faces, how were they getting there? Some thought that it was a paraonormal acurance when some though it was just a joke pulled by residental kids.

6. Are they a prank, or are they ghosts? GHOSTS 1. The house was built on a grave yard of spanish conquistadors 2. After DNA analisys of the bodies under the house, investigators found that the faces matched up with old family photos of the conquistadors. 3. The faces didnt only grow in numbers, but there facial expressions started to change. PRANKS 1. The faces could be washed off like a led mark, but they faces soon came back, with widening eyes. 2. Gomez frequently left her house doors open. 3. The faces only apeared on smooth clean spaces, like the space you need to draw.