February 9, 2025 • 32 mins
In this episode of The Paranormal Classroom, Amanda and Lindsay uncover the eerie mystery of the Bélmez Faces-ghostly images that inexplicably appeared on the kitchen floor of a small home in Spain. Were these haunting faces a supernatural phenomenon, a psychological imprint, or an elaborate hoax? Join us as we explore the chilling history, scientific investigations, and lingering questions surrounding one of Spain's most famous paranormal enigmas.
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The Paranormal Classroom.
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Hang on, I'm burping.
Totally going in next time.
Welcome back to the Paranormal.
Take two.
Welcome back to the Paranormal Classroom where we take attendance for the unexplained Amanda.
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And I'm Lindsay and we're two teacher moms talking about stuff that freaks us out.
Alright, we're back.
We're back.
And it's my turn.
But first, I have to say, you're earlier when we recorded, you had to burp a little bit.
I probably edited that out, but it made me think of the Bananas Podcast, which I love.
I found it exactly right.
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Media just makes me laugh.
And one of the stories they shared as I was listening this morning was about this woman who, oh God, I wish I could remember where she was.
I want to say it was whales or something, but I could be totally mixing up stories.
Anyway, she was sending like multiple times.
She sent videos of herself farting to her husband or boyfriend's ex because they were fighting over custody of the kids.
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And I'm like, that doesn't seem like the way to win your case for being a responsible mature adult.
Not at all.
It's really mature.
It's just dumb.
And while the lady sued for like emotional damage.
But she didn't have to smell it, right?
It was just a video.
No, it was just a video.
But the woman, and I learned a great word today too, but I've already forgotten it and I wanted to share it with you, which is a word that means someone who's super gassy and I never heard of it before.
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Awesome.
Wait, wait, I'm going to look it up.
Okay.
I don't even know what to type in though.
Someone who's full of air and gassy.
I think it starts with a V or an F, but word that means gassy or someone who exaggerates maybe?
I could always look on the transcript for the podcast.
Um, verb no.
No, no.
It was one I'd never heard.
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I mean, they're flatulent.
I will look on the...
It's not that one.
No, but I want to find the transcript for the podcast.
Twaddle, windiness.
Twaddle sounds so dirty.
What is another word for full of air?
Garaless.
Wasn't that...
Voluble.
Nope.
I think it starts with a V.
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Futra transcript.
Okay.
Gassy.
I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking.
Eiffusive.
Nope, I've heard that one too.
Okay, here we go.
Ventacity.
Ventacity.
Yep.
Ventacity.
Do they say here what it means?
There's a business called Ventacity Systems and they create healthy indoor environments
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with good air quality.
So I get, so okay.
So they took that word.
So that's something to do with, yeah, ventacity, folk, uh, you're going to walk around now
and you have a beautifully British way to say someone farts a lot.
It's a noun that means windiness, flatulence, or excessive pride.
That's what it was, not exaggeration.
Oh, we're getting so smart.
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What a great word to know.
Ventacity.
You're going to have to turn that off and tell those people.
I will.
Just keep yourselves alive.
Okay, my phone is off.
Oh, I got to do my job.
Don't text me for two hours.
It's beeping and interrupting.
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Sorry.
Poor Favor.
Poor Favor.
That one helps a little bit with the poor Favor.
What is it?
Was that a f***ing text back?
No, she was in the middle of texting a long one.
Oh, yeah, a long one.
Before I launch Head Long into my story for you today, Amanda.
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Is that a clue?
Is it like, is that like headless horseman?
Yes, we're going to talk about that.
What is it?
Sleepy Hollow time.
It's all about sleepy hollow.
Maybe it's about a cryptid with a really long face.
Like the horse that walked into the bar.
And the bartender said, by the long face.
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Okay.
So what's been haunting you this week?
Do you have anything?
Yeah, this is what's haunting me.
Do you know what the scariest tree is?
Is it a joke?
It sounds like a joke a kindergartener would tell me.
Is it a joke, really?
Yeah.
I thought you were like, you did some research and you found out about a really scary tree.
What's the scariest tree?
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Bamboo.
Oh my gosh.
It's not a tree.
It's a grass.
Bamboo is a grass.
That was scientifically inaccurate.
What's the scariest kind of grass?
There you go.
Crap.
Grass.
How many grasses are there?
It's a competition in the grass world for the scariest grass.
I also have, okay, this is also been haunting me.
So my daughter, she's 12.
She, we're in the car driving to dance and she turns to me and she goes, mom, I'm a
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really good liar.
And I said, excuse me.
And she said, no, I'm really, really good at it.
And she said, but don't worry.
I don't, I don't use my superpower with you.
And I'm like, what do you mean you're really good?
Like, what does that mean?
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What is she doing?
She said, no, she's like, mom, I got it all figured out.
She's like, if you're like in trouble and say you're late for class or something, you
just need to say something that shocks somebody.
She's like that.
If you shock them, it's like a deflection.
She's 12.
She's figured this out.
So she's like, if you're late and somebody's like, why are you late?
You can be like, oh my right.
I had a seizure.
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And she's like, her friend like taught her to her too.
Like her friend got, she got in trouble because her shirt was too short.
It was like a crop top.
And the teacher's like, you shouldn't wear that.
And she said, well, I had a sweatshirt, but I had to give it away to a friend who
made a, had an accident on their pants.
That's straight up lying.
It's straight up lying.
How about just take accountability?
Well, again, I have a real thing with accountability.
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I'm not saying that I'm proud of her for this, but it is kind of evil genius.
But yeah, that's just excuse making.
She said, she's like figured out the psychology piece of it though.
She's like, as soon as you shock somebody, they drop it.
She's got all figured out.
So that's a tip for everybody.
No, no, we need less of that.
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Our country is being run by that kind of behavior.
Yeah, that's true.
Oh, maybe she does get it from school and you could edit this whole thing out because
I don't want it to sound like my parenting is horrible and my kids are horrible.
Well, I can vouch for the fact that they're not and it's not.
Wow.
Well, that little girl, huh?
Well, choose your friends wisely.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Moving, move it right along.
So all right, well, yeah, para reality, by the way, is another new term that I learned
this week, paranormal or supernatural.
I think it's a way of saying another way of saying that para reality.
I think it sounds like just another word that means the same thing, but it's like synonym.
Correct.
Yeah, maybe.
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Okay.
Para reality.
It's like, it's like, it's like the telepathy.
I just did it.
You said the telepathy.
Good job.
We have a joke in our family.
You know, try saying rural juror three times fast.
Rural juror, rural juror, rural juror.
It's really hard.
You can't do it.
It sounds like I'm saying like some sort of churro.
Rural juror, rural juror.
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The rural juror in the para reality.
Oh, and it's something that always reminds me of Anchorman, where he's in the back doing
his like vocal warmups, his theatrical vocal warmups, unique New York, unique New York.
All right.
Okay.
Okay.
I'll get into it.
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Today we are talking about a mystery.
So bizarre, so spooky, and so utterly face palm worthy.
So there's your second clue.
That's the second clue.
You're talking about faces, heads that you'll wonder if ghosts actually have a thing for
modern art.
There's a ghost that like puts himself into paintings like Mona Lisa and the screen, but
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the ghost like leans out.
And that would be nuts.
That sounds like the haunted mansion.
Yeah.
Something that happened there.
That's not the story though.
Which I guess they've totally revamped by the way.
I learned a lot today about things that I've no bearing on my regular life.
Ventacity, para reality.
And now you know how to lie.
The haunted mansion.
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And the haunted mansion.
Yeah.
Okay.
Next question.
What is peri...
Come on.
I know you know how to say this.
Paridolia is when you see a face in something that does not have a face.
So for example, you could take a picture of a bunch of trees or your linoleum tile.
Popcorn ceilings.
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Popcorn ceilings and toast.
Like people would be like, look, I see Jesus in my toast.
That's peridolia when it's just a miracle or a miracle judgment.
But no, I think a lot of people mistake what they think are ghosts and faces and things
like that.
And it's just peridolia.
It's just something that by chance happens to look very similar to a face.
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So official definition.
A psychological phenomenon that causes people to see patterns or meaning in ambiguous stimuli.
Like clouds, rock formations or everyday object.
So I have a couple of pictures here to show you some of my favorites from online that
maybe we post on our pages.
Oh my gosh.
Adorable.
Social media.
Look at that little church.
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There's pictures of buildings and teapots and things like that.
Purses, potatoes, tree trunks.
Adorable.
Cheese.
I've said this before.
That is not cheese.
That's like some sort of outlet.
It's like it's got wires attached to it or something.
An apple.
That's terrifying.
The potato one really does look like a human face in a yucky way.
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That's funny.
I always see faces on cars.
Yes, you've said that before.
Driving down the freeway, I just like giggling.
Hi, wave faces.
Just cracks.
That one's funny.
There's a picture of a dryer with a towel hanging out of it.
Looks like a tongue hanging out.
It's really cute.
People leaned into it on that one.
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Yeah.
So, well, today's lesson is on the Belmez faces.
Belmez.
Okay.
Neat.
So, and let me tell you, we're talking about actual human faces appearing on the kitchen
floor of one very confused Spanish woman's home.
Oh my goodness.
I actually think I have heard this story.
No.
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But you're going to tell me more detail because all I've heard, the faces come and disappear
and come back and disappear.
Yeah.
Okay.
I have heard of this story, but I don't know the whole story.
I'm super excited.
All right.
Well, let's set the scene.
It's 1971 in the small town of Belmez de la Moraleda in Spain.
Nice.
It's a town in southern Spain with about 2000 people.
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It's just a itty-bitty town, but this is what it looks like from up on the hill down into,
it's like in a little valley.
It's beautiful.
Really beautiful, cute little town.
Southern Spain is incredible.
This is the exterior of the little, they call it a cottage.
It looks to me like an apartment kind of situation because this is it from a wider view.
The woman who lives here with her family is Maria Gomez Camaran, who is just minding her
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business when she discovers a bizarre stain on her concrete kitchen floor.
One article I read said that Maria quote, figured this was a mess left by her husband.
Like salsa in somebody's house.
I know.
So I, here's that story.
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I woke up one morning and came downstairs and there was salsa all over the floor, all
over the refrigerator.
It looked like a can of salsa had exploded or someone had a fight with salsa and lost.
And I'm like, what the heck?
Like who would leave this?
Who would leave this?
Great question.
So I texted my husband and I'm like, did you know there's salsa all over our kitchen?
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And he said, yeah, I spilled the salsa, but I just left it.
I figured I'd get to it later.
No, you know who got to it?
Me.
Of course.
I cleaned it up.
It was gross.
I can't.
It was gross.
I don't know what'll I understand that because we've talked about it, but that is mind boggling
to me.
But Maria just decided to scrub the mess clean.
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Well, there you go.
She's had some more experiences with you.
She's like, huh, I just got to clean it.
Just faster to clean it.
Just hold the grudge forever.
Wait two weeks.
Yeah.
So as, but as she attempted to clean the stain, nothing she could do would remove it.
Hours of attempts and still that very stain persisted to stay where it presented itself.
She noticed the next day that the stain seemed to have changed in appearance.
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So it went from being like a young girl or young woman to being now it appeared to be
a man's face and it, it appeared like bit by bit at a time.
First the eyes, then the nose, then the chin.
That's weird.
It makes me think of them.
Like the only way to, I'm rationally rationalizing it right now is you know how if you get oil
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in your like oil and concrete or oil and tile, how it can change as that kind of like, first
it's hard to clean out, really hard to clean out.
And then it can change a little bit, but I don't know that it would change that much.
That's super weird.
Look at your driveway.
If you get stuff on your cement of your driveway to oil from your car or somebody else's car,
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whatever.
Yep.
So this is a picture of her kitchen with a concrete floor and this is where the first,
there's an arrow pointing to where the first image showed up.
This is, I believe this is her husband and that's her or that's maybe, looks more like
a journalist maybe and that's her.
Maria.
This, this is hard because people can't see what we're looking at, but there's a lot that
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I'm noticing in this picture.
It's like the wall has built-in shelves and things like it was made out of Adobe.
And then on the right, that's creepy.
What's, there's like another thing on the right.
I'll put a pin in that because we'll come back to that.
So what she's commenting on is there's something that looks like a square hole or something
framed to the right of the fireplace, the cooking fireplace.
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And it looks like there's a face in that, whatever that is.
So we'll come back to that.
Okay.
And then on the floor, it's, there's a discoloration on this, is it like stone?
You can see the eyes and the mouth.
Yeah.
The stone floor has this like bleached out spot with what clearly looks like a face.
A woman's face and hair.
A face and hair in the bleached out area that doesn't match the color of the, maybe that's
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because she was trying to clean it so much.
Maybe that bleached it all out.
So this becomes like word spreads quickly in this town, which is sort of, I mean, yes,
it's a small town.
That's gotta be it.
It's just a small town, but there's another piece of it that makes me a little skeptical
because it's a small town.
But I want you to hold onto this thought.
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Maria is a claims to be a psychic medium.
Okay.
Just keep that in mind as we read these.
So this is a close up photo of the first one that we could see a long shot of from the
side.
This is the first face.
Yeah.
I mean, it definitely looks like a woman.
But again, we know that Paradoli is us making sense of stains and shadows and lights and
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so it could, it could just be.
Even looks like she's got like a lace collar on, which like a dress, right?
Like a high collar with lace design on it and puffy sleeves.
It's weird.
It's definitely pretty detailed.
It's pretty little spooky.
So naturally Maria sees this mess and she's like, I'm my husband and she grabs it clean.
Instead of just saying, you know, husband, what is this?
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Explain yourself.
She freaks out.
She definitely freaks out, which I also think is interesting knowing that she's a psychic
medium because I feel like if you're a psychic medium, if it were me, I'd be like, oh, the
spirits are talking to me.
I don't think I'd freak out.
I'm not like the first time.
If the first time I'd be like, oh, look at this stain.
It looks like a face.
And then the second face is when she freaks out.
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The second face is when I'm like, yeah, okay.
Yeah.
I miss her.
She has her, her husband and son, Juan and Miguel, and they, they take pick, pick access
to the kitchen floor.
It's whoa.
They went like, they went to zero to 10.
They took out an entire section of concrete.
Oh my word.
But before they refilled it and redid it, they had some excavation done.
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And found several sets of bones, nine feet below the floor.
Oh my gosh.
But nobody was super surprised.
Why?
Cause the entire town was built over a graveyard.
The whole town.
That's a big graveyard.
Nobody thought to move those things before, but also the bodies didn't have heads.
There were no skulls.
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Okay.
So then wait, wait, wait, I got a process.
Okay.
I got a process.
I can't allow it.
So sometimes in Europe, don't they have catacombs and things where they decorate with skulls?
So is one probably the most famous.
Yeah.
I'm wondering if, um, whenever these bodies were buried, the skulls were taken for something
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like that.
Some kind of like, maybe if we're going to go spooky, yucky, the spirits are not super
happy about being separated from their heads.
And maybe that's why the faces are appearing in her full.
The whole town is built over former graveyards and this is the only house where this is happening,
apparently.
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Right.
It seems a little weird.
Cause that would be the question.
Is it happening at their places?
Yeah.
Nope.
And so they tear out the concrete, they report it and days later, the same very face appears
in the same spot where the new concrete is located.
No way.
Yeah.
And then another face appears and then another and then cute dramatic music.
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One more.
Wow.
There's anywhere between nine and 18 faces that kind of come in and out.
This is like a hopscotch of faces on their floor.
Like where's Waldo on the kitchen floor?
You know that means that when we had our, we, Lindsay and I both worked for a school
that was built and we got to be a part of the building process.
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And when they painted the hopscotch and the back for the kids, they were a little bit
rushed and they painted the numbers out of order.
Yep.
Which is super great for teaching elementary school.
It goes like one, two, three, four, five, six, nine, seven, eight or something crazy.
I think it goes seven, eight, seven is what it is.
It's really funny.
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But you know what?
Not a single kid has ever pointed it out to me.
You've been open for four years and it's still the same.
So funny.
Yeah.
So funny.
So here is somebody coming to check it out.
So what they ended up doing is they cut out the chunks and they even frame one of them,
which is what, and they put it in the fire.
That's what I saw.
They definitely look like a face on the wall.
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Yeah.
So with the man's face, they cut it out, they frame it and they leave it there, which I
also think if she's freaked out, I don't know, but they thought maybe honoring it in
some way would make it stop.
Okay.
It didn't.
Well, I mean, it's okay.
I mean, I think you try everything.
Yeah.
You got to just, yeah.
So word spreads.
People start flocking to the house and suddenly Maria's kitchen is more popular than a cat
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cafe in downtown Puyallic, Washington.
Oh, I love her cat cafe.
People everywhere just staring in the windows looking at the kiddies, except instead of kiddies,
it's creepy faces.
But there were a lot of skeptics too.
Like is Maria just trying to drum up business?
Of course.
This is an elaborate artistic hoax.
Of course.
There was a family playing a joke on her.
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So there was a lot of skepticism around it as well.
But investigators like scientists and there was somebody from like a museum and a parapsychologist.
And some people said, well, you can see there, clearly there's brushstrokes.
Other people said they analyzed it.
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They sent it away and had a chemical analysis of the floor.
And there were similar ingredients in the floor as there are in certain paint pigments.
Okay.
So my sink and I...
Well, that's kind of telling.
But the same things are also in cement.
Okay.
So it's like, well, is it just the cement or is there some sort of pigment added to the
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floor afterward?
Wow.
Yeah.
So the question became, are these faces real ghostly imprints or is someone getting really
creative with four arts?
Did anybody capture one appearing from start to finish?
Like from blank slate to full face?
Did anybody...
Supposedly there were witnesses who watched them appear live.
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Right.
And I mean, not the family members who could be profiting off this, but like...
Right.
Yes.
But I don't know that I would trust any of that.
Because like, you know, people will exaggerate because they want to be a part of something.
Right.
Oh, I watched it with my own eyes.
Sure you did.
Like maybe, maybe.
But did you get it on video?
No?
Then I don't buy it.
Did they have video in 71?
We were just talking about this on our last episode.
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No camcorders or cell phones yet.
Bummer.
I know.
So there's also a theory that these were thought forms, which here's another word I
learned today.
Thought-tography.
Thought-tography.
I don't think it's a real word.
I think it's something that's used in like, here's like...
So you can think of something onto like a film and then you develop it and there's something
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there.
Well, that's...
The images were somehow manifested from Maria's mind because of strong emotions or trauma
or maybe her psychic mediumship, if that's legit.
And she may not have even realized it.
It might have been subconscious that she was projecting somehow, supernaturally, these
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images onto the floor.
You know, like all of us women can do when we get hysterical around that time of the
month.
My gosh.
I'm gonna do a little thought-tography with all of our drama.
If I could do that, I would have words appear and I'd be like, pick up your salsa, pick
up after your salsa.
I just make some really cool shirts.
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You win.
Oh yeah.
It's awesome.
You know how like my daughter, it was really in two for a little bit.
I don't know what it's called.
It looks like painting with bleach to me on black t-shirts.
Okay.
Kind of like tie-dye but bleach.
Yes.
And so she has some incredible designs.
She has one where it's the entire like skeletal structure from like neck to hip.
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And she did it all and it looks like an X-ray sort of.
But in sepia tone, like even cooler, like it looks like bones.
It's really neat.
My question was that I have it here prepared was if you could stay really hard at your
kitchen floor, I mean if you could, what image would you want popping up?
Image when I'm not after yourself.
Yeah.
Just big words.
Like your mom is not a maid.
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That we fired our house elf.
Free the house elf.
So pick up after yourself.
I was going to guess David Bowie, but I could also like if I could like set it and schedule
it for reminders.
Like schedule.
Like your calendar app can do.
That'd be great.
Just like you know, like around the time when kids get home, like the words appear like
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don't forget to walk the dog.
That's so Harry Potter.
That's like that's awesome.
That would save me so much time.
So much time.
It's like it reminds me of the Marauders map.
Yeah.
They went things would appear and disappear off the map, but it's just faces.
Yep.
Yep.
It's just faces.
There's never any words.
There's never any other parts of the body.
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It's literally just heads, maybe upper chest or whatever attached like portraits.
It's just portraits, but back to the faces.
So in order to get to the bottom of this mystery, like I said, they did a long dig.
They discovered all these decapitated skeletons and here's some more photos of some of the
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faces.
We will put all these photos up on our social media.
They are wild.
That one looks a little like Diego or you read that to me.
I mean, I don't know.
They're so detailed that I really don't know how this could be like a stain.
This is no way this would be a stain.
Look at the symmetry of eyebrows and eyes and nose and the creases on the side of the
mouth.
Like I'm leaning toward painting.
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We painted these and it was a ruse, but it's definitely not like a mistaken paradox.
Somebody's talented and it's misplaced.
They could be making some real money, but maybe that was the whole point.
Maybe this was a ruse to make some sort of money.
Maybe a movie deal, a book deal.
You know, like people have done time and time again when they say they live in a haunted
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house or a possession or something like that and they just want fame and fortune.
It sucks.
The bones were dated back to the 13th century, but mysterious in that they were as to who
they belong to.
There was no local history matching these bodies being located there.
I did hear about one rumor where some guy of importance whose name I can't remember
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right now killed the family of five in the area, but there's no actual documentation
of that happening.
Just rumors passed over the century.
Plus, this is way more.
Didn't you say it was like the whole town?
Yeah, the whole town.
But at that specific site, supposedly, I don't know.
So they took the remains and they laid them to rest in a local cemetery and the floor
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was put back with new concrete.
This is their second time blowing up the floor.
In the hopes that it would return the home to normalcy, but they were wrong.
More faces began appearing all the way through the life of Maria who passed away.
And I did not know this until today.
February 3rd.
This year?
No, 2004.
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Today is February 4th.
That's today.
That's why I was compiling this, finishing compiling this yesterday on the anniversary
of her death.
Wow.
Yeah.
So RIP, Maria.
That is wild.
She was 85.
So the ripe old age of 85.
And so these, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
These were appearing on the floor throughout her life into the time period where we did
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have camcorders and things.
Yes.
That's a great question.
And she didn't record it.
Not the memory.
Now I'm really suss.
Yeah.
I didn't even think of that.
I should have.
But to this day, even after her death, more faces appear.
Right?
We need to put a GoPro camera in.
Some scientists have actually deemed this one of the most important paranormal cases
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of the 20th century, while others still remain skeptical of it being a hoax like us.
Though the evidence is clear, all parties involved in this are no longer with us.
So as to who would be continuing a hoax would leave more mysteries if that is the case.
So if it is a hoax, who is carrying it on after everybody who lived there was involved
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is dead?
Right.
Who lives there now?
It's become a local tourist spot.
Somebody bought it and uses it as a tourist destination, which would then be...
Money making.
It'd be money making.
You can still view the faces to this very day.
So yeah.
I would like to go see them.
Million dollar question.
I know hoax are haunting I guess, but is there video proof or evidence of the Belmets house?
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I'd also be curious to know if the similar thing has happened in other places.
I'm leaning toward hoax.
Same.
Because also if it were real, I'm moving.
Right?
Well, it's just faces on the floor.
But why?
Every night, every night I'd be like, who am I going to wake up to tomorrow?
Yeah, well I'd be like, I don't want to be polite.
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I'm going to step around these faces.
You'd have to like...
Right.
And you're walking around.
That seems disrespectful.
Yeah, but it's my catch of the hour.
Wait a minute.
I always see these things after the fact.
Because I make you keep researching things with all my questions.
I'm on Reddit again.
That's going to need to go to Reddit.
I try to stay away from it while I'm researching, but maybe I need to go there sooner.
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The first comment I see on this topic is, I teach drawing.
I see very common mistakes.
That ghost needs to practice more.
Even being able to manifest in your drawing skill is cringe.
So mean.
Oh, that is mean.
Oh, gosh.
So somebody says, I believe the owner of the house confessed he drew them up.
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Oh.
No, Maria, the owner of the house never confessed.
It's funny how many of the faces are so badly drawn like if a little child did them.
And still that stuff was quite popular for some reason.
Why wouldn't you have a video camera in there?
That's a really good point.
Yeah.
It started in 71, but if it's continuing on through the aughts and the tens, record that.
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Belmez Faces is a Seattle-based Neocoth Electropop musical project.
It is a great band name.
It really is.
The Belmez Faces.
They're from Seattle?
Yeah, that's hilarious.
We are so cool in this state.
We really are.
Oh my goodness.
Shout out Belmez Faces.
Hopefully you're good peeps.
That was a great storyline.
Thanks.
Well, I think it's a tourist trap.
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Unless I see video evidence of it happening like scientifically captured.
I also want to know.
If you can get rich, why not?
Well, did they get rich?
I wonder how much they made.
Like is there a lot of money in hoaxing?
They didn't get like, I don't know that they got paid for it.
They didn't get paid for that, but her business may have prospered.
Right.
So because she could have gotten a ton of jobs as a medium because her house had weird stuff
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going on.
Yeah.
I wonder, I just wonder how much money they made.
But also that picture you showed me, they were like sitting on the floor in the kitchen.
It didn't look like they had furniture.
It didn't look.
They weren't super prosperous.
I don't know.
Right.
But also maybe they just cleared out for photos.
Yeah.
And they were tearing up the floor.
They weren't.
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Yeah, they were going to.
But if I ever get tired of cleaning my kitchen floor, like I swept it tonight, I'm just going
to be like, I don't know what that mess is.
Ghost did it.
I should try that.
But I don't like a mess.
I don't like living in a messy, messy spot.
So I can't pull that off.
My only thing that will happen sometimes that will stay for a little bit is like dog paws.
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Like if they like the snow, it's snowed here this week.
If the dogs go out and play in the snow and then come in, then we'll have some muddy dog
paws for maybe a couple of days.
Yeah.
I get to it because they're just going to keep coming in.
You just see if you see faces in the dog paw prints.
But I know the dog paw prints.
I got better things to do.
Because you could see faces in anything.
Right now there's a big bush in front of us.
I can see tons of faces.
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Like giant faces.
People look at mountains.
You're driving to the past mountains.
Sure, yeah, yeah.
And you'll see giant sleeping.
And you'll see their faces.
You can see faces everywhere.
There's a really great rock formation in Sedona that is actually called something like something
that's face.
And it literally looks like a giant head tilted back, nose pointed toward the sky.
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It's really cool.
That's really neat.
Okay, your homework everybody is to stop right now, look around, find a face in something,
and have a picture and send it to us.
Let's see if we can see it.
It's not graded.
No, no, no, no.
But on that note, thank you for listening to the paranormal classroom.
But please, if you feel up to it, it helps a lot.
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If you like, subscribe and let us know if you'd be down to live in a haunted house with
questionable interior design.
But more importantly, send us a picture of Peridolia.
Peridolia.
Thank you, Amanda.
And what do you want to tell the people?
You do don't open the door.
Sometimes you change it depending on the story.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know what it would be.
Don't step on the face.
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Watch out for faces.
All right, glass dismissed.
And don't open the door.
Thanks so much.
The Paranormal Classroom.
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Hang on, I'm burping.
Totally going in next time.
Welcome back to the Paranormal.
Take two.
Welcome back to the Paranormal Classroom where we take attendance for the unexplained Amanda.
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And I'm Lindsay and we're two teacher moms talking about stuff that freaks us out.
Alright, we're back.
We're back.
And it's my turn.
But first, I have to say, you're earlier when we recorded, you had to burp a little bit.
I probably edited that out, but it made me think of the Bananas Podcast, which I love.
I found it exactly right.
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Media just makes me laugh.
And one of the stories they shared as I was listening this morning was about this woman who, oh God, I wish I could remember where she was.
I want to say it was whales or something, but I could be totally mixing up stories.
Anyway, she was sending like multiple times.
She sent videos of herself farting to her husband or boyfriend's ex because they were fighting over custody of the kids.
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And I'm like, that doesn't seem like the way to win your case for being a responsible mature adult.
Not at all.
It's really mature.
It's just dumb.
And while the lady sued for like emotional damage.
But she didn't have to smell it, right?
It was just a video.
No, it was just a video.
But the woman, and I learned a great word today too, but I've already forgotten it and I wanted to share it with you, which is a word that means someone who's super gassy and I never heard of it before.
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Awesome.
Wait, wait, I'm going to look it up.
Okay.
I don't even know what to type in though.
Someone who's full of air and gassy.
I think it starts with a V or an F, but word that means gassy or someone who exaggerates maybe?
I could always look on the transcript for the podcast.
Um, verb no.
No, no.
It was one I'd never heard.
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I mean, they're flatulent.
I will look on the...
It's not that one.
No, but I want to find the transcript for the podcast.
Twaddle, windiness.
Twaddle sounds so dirty.
What is another word for full of air?
Garaless.
Wasn't that...
Voluble.
Nope.
I think it starts with a V.
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Futra transcript.
Okay.
Gassy.
I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking.
Eiffusive.
Nope, I've heard that one too.
Okay, here we go.
Ventacity.
Ventacity.
Yep.
Ventacity.
Do they say here what it means?
There's a business called Ventacity Systems and they create healthy indoor environments
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with good air quality.
So I get, so okay.
So they took that word.
So that's something to do with, yeah, ventacity, folk, uh, you're going to walk around now
and you have a beautifully British way to say someone farts a lot.
It's a noun that means windiness, flatulence, or excessive pride.
That's what it was, not exaggeration.
Oh, we're getting so smart.
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What a great word to know.
Ventacity.
You're going to have to turn that off and tell those people.
I will.
Just keep yourselves alive.
Okay, my phone is off.
Oh, I got to do my job.
Don't text me for two hours.
It's beeping and interrupting.
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Sorry.
Poor Favor.
Poor Favor.
That one helps a little bit with the poor Favor.
What is it?
Was that a f***ing text back?
No, she was in the middle of texting a long one.
Oh, yeah, a long one.
Before I launch Head Long into my story for you today, Amanda.
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Is that a clue?
Is it like, is that like headless horseman?
Yes, we're going to talk about that.
What is it?
Sleepy Hollow time.
It's all about sleepy hollow.
Maybe it's about a cryptid with a really long face.
Like the horse that walked into the bar.
And the bartender said, by the long face.
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Okay.
So what's been haunting you this week?
Do you have anything?
Yeah, this is what's haunting me.
Do you know what the scariest tree is?
Is it a joke?
It sounds like a joke a kindergartener would tell me.
Is it a joke, really?
Yeah.
I thought you were like, you did some research and you found out about a really scary tree.
What's the scariest tree?
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Bamboo.
Oh my gosh.
It's not a tree.
It's a grass.
Bamboo is a grass.
That was scientifically inaccurate.
What's the scariest kind of grass?
There you go.
Crap.
Grass.
How many grasses are there?
It's a competition in the grass world for the scariest grass.
I also have, okay, this is also been haunting me.
So my daughter, she's 12.
She, we're in the car driving to dance and she turns to me and she goes, mom, I'm a
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really good liar.
And I said, excuse me.
And she said, no, I'm really, really good at it.
And she said, but don't worry.
I don't, I don't use my superpower with you.
And I'm like, what do you mean you're really good?
Like, what does that mean?
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What is she doing?
She said, no, she's like, mom, I got it all figured out.
She's like, if you're like in trouble and say you're late for class or something, you
just need to say something that shocks somebody.
She's like that.
If you shock them, it's like a deflection.
She's 12.
She's figured this out.
So she's like, if you're late and somebody's like, why are you late?
You can be like, oh my right.
I had a seizure.
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And she's like, her friend like taught her to her too.
Like her friend got, she got in trouble because her shirt was too short.
It was like a crop top.
And the teacher's like, you shouldn't wear that.
And she said, well, I had a sweatshirt, but I had to give it away to a friend who
made a, had an accident on their pants.
That's straight up lying.
It's straight up lying.
How about just take accountability?
Well, again, I have a real thing with accountability.
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I'm not saying that I'm proud of her for this, but it is kind of evil genius.
But yeah, that's just excuse making.
She said, she's like figured out the psychology piece of it though.
She's like, as soon as you shock somebody, they drop it.
She's got all figured out.
So that's a tip for everybody.
No, no, we need less of that.
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Our country is being run by that kind of behavior.
Yeah, that's true.
Oh, maybe she does get it from school and you could edit this whole thing out because
I don't want it to sound like my parenting is horrible and my kids are horrible.
Well, I can vouch for the fact that they're not and it's not.
Wow.
Well, that little girl, huh?
Well, choose your friends wisely.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Moving, move it right along.
So all right, well, yeah, para reality, by the way, is another new term that I learned
this week, paranormal or supernatural.
I think it's a way of saying another way of saying that para reality.
I think it sounds like just another word that means the same thing, but it's like synonym.
Correct.
Yeah, maybe.
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Okay.
Para reality.
It's like, it's like, it's like the telepathy.
I just did it.
You said the telepathy.
Good job.
We have a joke in our family.
You know, try saying rural juror three times fast.
Rural juror, rural juror, rural juror.
It's really hard.
You can't do it.
It sounds like I'm saying like some sort of churro.
Rural juror, rural juror.
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The rural juror in the para reality.
Oh, and it's something that always reminds me of Anchorman, where he's in the back doing
his like vocal warmups, his theatrical vocal warmups, unique New York, unique New York.
All right.
Okay.
Okay.
I'll get into it.
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Today we are talking about a mystery.
So bizarre, so spooky, and so utterly face palm worthy.
So there's your second clue.
That's the second clue.
You're talking about faces, heads that you'll wonder if ghosts actually have a thing for
modern art.
There's a ghost that like puts himself into paintings like Mona Lisa and the screen, but
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the ghost like leans out.
And that would be nuts.
That sounds like the haunted mansion.
Yeah.
Something that happened there.
That's not the story though.
Which I guess they've totally revamped by the way.
I learned a lot today about things that I've no bearing on my regular life.
Ventacity, para reality.
And now you know how to lie.
The haunted mansion.
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And the haunted mansion.
Yeah.
Okay.
Next question.
What is peri...
Come on.
I know you know how to say this.
Paridolia is when you see a face in something that does not have a face.
So for example, you could take a picture of a bunch of trees or your linoleum tile.
Popcorn ceilings.
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Popcorn ceilings and toast.
Like people would be like, look, I see Jesus in my toast.
That's peridolia when it's just a miracle or a miracle judgment.
But no, I think a lot of people mistake what they think are ghosts and faces and things
like that.
And it's just peridolia.
It's just something that by chance happens to look very similar to a face.
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So official definition.
A psychological phenomenon that causes people to see patterns or meaning in ambiguous stimuli.
Like clouds, rock formations or everyday object.
So I have a couple of pictures here to show you some of my favorites from online that
maybe we post on our pages.
Oh my gosh.
Adorable.
Social media.
Look at that little church.
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There's pictures of buildings and teapots and things like that.
Purses, potatoes, tree trunks.
Adorable.
Cheese.
I've said this before.
That is not cheese.
That's like some sort of outlet.
It's like it's got wires attached to it or something.
An apple.
That's terrifying.
The potato one really does look like a human face in a yucky way.
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That's funny.
I always see faces on cars.
Yes, you've said that before.
Driving down the freeway, I just like giggling.
Hi, wave faces.
Just cracks.
That one's funny.
There's a picture of a dryer with a towel hanging out of it.
Looks like a tongue hanging out.
It's really cute.
People leaned into it on that one.
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Yeah.
So, well, today's lesson is on the Belmez faces.
Belmez.
Okay.
Neat.
So, and let me tell you, we're talking about actual human faces appearing on the kitchen
floor of one very confused Spanish woman's home.
Oh my goodness.
I actually think I have heard this story.
No.
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But you're going to tell me more detail because all I've heard, the faces come and disappear
and come back and disappear.
Yeah.
Okay.
I have heard of this story, but I don't know the whole story.
I'm super excited.
All right.
Well, let's set the scene.
It's 1971 in the small town of Belmez de la Moraleda in Spain.
Nice.
It's a town in southern Spain with about 2000 people.
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It's just a itty-bitty town, but this is what it looks like from up on the hill down into,
it's like in a little valley.
It's beautiful.
Really beautiful, cute little town.
Southern Spain is incredible.
This is the exterior of the little, they call it a cottage.
It looks to me like an apartment kind of situation because this is it from a wider view.
The woman who lives here with her family is Maria Gomez Camaran, who is just minding her
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business when she discovers a bizarre stain on her concrete kitchen floor.
One article I read said that Maria quote, figured this was a mess left by her husband.
Like salsa in somebody's house.
I know.
So I, here's that story.
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I woke up one morning and came downstairs and there was salsa all over the floor, all
over the refrigerator.
It looked like a can of salsa had exploded or someone had a fight with salsa and lost.
And I'm like, what the heck?
Like who would leave this?
Who would leave this?
Great question.
So I texted my husband and I'm like, did you know there's salsa all over our kitchen?
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And he said, yeah, I spilled the salsa, but I just left it.
I figured I'd get to it later.
No, you know who got to it?
Me.
Of course.
I cleaned it up.
It was gross.
I can't.
It was gross.
I don't know what'll I understand that because we've talked about it, but that is mind boggling
to me.
But Maria just decided to scrub the mess clean.
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Well, there you go.
She's had some more experiences with you.
She's like, huh, I just got to clean it.
Just faster to clean it.
Just hold the grudge forever.
Wait two weeks.
Yeah.
So as, but as she attempted to clean the stain, nothing she could do would remove it.
Hours of attempts and still that very stain persisted to stay where it presented itself.
She noticed the next day that the stain seemed to have changed in appearance.
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So it went from being like a young girl or young woman to being now it appeared to be
a man's face and it, it appeared like bit by bit at a time.
First the eyes, then the nose, then the chin.
That's weird.
It makes me think of them.
Like the only way to, I'm rationally rationalizing it right now is you know how if you get oil
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in your like oil and concrete or oil and tile, how it can change as that kind of like, first
it's hard to clean out, really hard to clean out.
And then it can change a little bit, but I don't know that it would change that much.
That's super weird.
Look at your driveway.
If you get stuff on your cement of your driveway to oil from your car or somebody else's car,
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whatever.
Yep.
So this is a picture of her kitchen with a concrete floor and this is where the first,
there's an arrow pointing to where the first image showed up.
This is, I believe this is her husband and that's her or that's maybe, looks more like
a journalist maybe and that's her.
Maria.
This, this is hard because people can't see what we're looking at, but there's a lot that
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I'm noticing in this picture.
It's like the wall has built-in shelves and things like it was made out of Adobe.
And then on the right, that's creepy.
What's, there's like another thing on the right.
I'll put a pin in that because we'll come back to that.
So what she's commenting on is there's something that looks like a square hole or something
framed to the right of the fireplace, the cooking fireplace.
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And it looks like there's a face in that, whatever that is.
So we'll come back to that.
Okay.
And then on the floor, it's, there's a discoloration on this, is it like stone?
You can see the eyes and the mouth.
Yeah.
The stone floor has this like bleached out spot with what clearly looks like a face.
A woman's face and hair.
A face and hair in the bleached out area that doesn't match the color of the, maybe that's
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because she was trying to clean it so much.
Maybe that bleached it all out.
So this becomes like word spreads quickly in this town, which is sort of, I mean, yes,
it's a small town.
That's gotta be it.
It's just a small town, but there's another piece of it that makes me a little skeptical
because it's a small town.
But I want you to hold onto this thought.
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Maria is a claims to be a psychic medium.
Okay.
Just keep that in mind as we read these.
So this is a close up photo of the first one that we could see a long shot of from the
side.
This is the first face.
Yeah.
I mean, it definitely looks like a woman.
But again, we know that Paradoli is us making sense of stains and shadows and lights and
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so it could, it could just be.
Even looks like she's got like a lace collar on, which like a dress, right?
Like a high collar with lace design on it and puffy sleeves.
It's weird.
It's definitely pretty detailed.
It's pretty little spooky.
So naturally Maria sees this mess and she's like, I'm my husband and she grabs it clean.
Instead of just saying, you know, husband, what is this?
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Explain yourself.
She freaks out.
She definitely freaks out, which I also think is interesting knowing that she's a psychic
medium because I feel like if you're a psychic medium, if it were me, I'd be like, oh, the
spirits are talking to me.
I don't think I'd freak out.
I'm not like the first time.
If the first time I'd be like, oh, look at this stain.
It looks like a face.
And then the second face is when she freaks out.
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The second face is when I'm like, yeah, okay.
Yeah.
I miss her.
She has her, her husband and son, Juan and Miguel, and they, they take pick, pick access
to the kitchen floor.
It's whoa.
They went like, they went to zero to 10.
They took out an entire section of concrete.
Oh my word.
But before they refilled it and redid it, they had some excavation done.
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And found several sets of bones, nine feet below the floor.
Oh my gosh.
But nobody was super surprised.
Why?
Cause the entire town was built over a graveyard.
The whole town.
That's a big graveyard.
Nobody thought to move those things before, but also the bodies didn't have heads.
There were no skulls.
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Okay.
So then wait, wait, wait, I got a process.
Okay.
I got a process.
I can't allow it.
So sometimes in Europe, don't they have catacombs and things where they decorate with skulls?
So is one probably the most famous.
Yeah.
I'm wondering if, um, whenever these bodies were buried, the skulls were taken for something
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like that.
Some kind of like, maybe if we're going to go spooky, yucky, the spirits are not super
happy about being separated from their heads.
And maybe that's why the faces are appearing in her full.
The whole town is built over former graveyards and this is the only house where this is happening,
apparently.
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Right.
It seems a little weird.
Cause that would be the question.
Is it happening at their places?
Yeah.
Nope.
And so they tear out the concrete, they report it and days later, the same very face appears
in the same spot where the new concrete is located.
No way.
Yeah.
And then another face appears and then another and then cute dramatic music.
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One more.
Wow.
There's anywhere between nine and 18 faces that kind of come in and out.
This is like a hopscotch of faces on their floor.
Like where's Waldo on the kitchen floor?
You know that means that when we had our, we, Lindsay and I both worked for a school
that was built and we got to be a part of the building process.
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And when they painted the hopscotch and the back for the kids, they were a little bit
rushed and they painted the numbers out of order.
Yep.
Which is super great for teaching elementary school.
It goes like one, two, three, four, five, six, nine, seven, eight or something crazy.
I think it goes seven, eight, seven is what it is.
It's really funny.
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But you know what?
Not a single kid has ever pointed it out to me.
You've been open for four years and it's still the same.
So funny.
Yeah.
So funny.
So here is somebody coming to check it out.
So what they ended up doing is they cut out the chunks and they even frame one of them,
which is what, and they put it in the fire.
That's what I saw.
They definitely look like a face on the wall.
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Yeah.
So with the man's face, they cut it out, they frame it and they leave it there, which I
also think if she's freaked out, I don't know, but they thought maybe honoring it in
some way would make it stop.
Okay.
It didn't.
Well, I mean, it's okay.
I mean, I think you try everything.
Yeah.
You got to just, yeah.
So word spreads.
People start flocking to the house and suddenly Maria's kitchen is more popular than a cat
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cafe in downtown Puyallic, Washington.
Oh, I love her cat cafe.
People everywhere just staring in the windows looking at the kiddies, except instead of kiddies,
it's creepy faces.
But there were a lot of skeptics too.
Like is Maria just trying to drum up business?
Of course.
This is an elaborate artistic hoax.
Of course.
There was a family playing a joke on her.
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So there was a lot of skepticism around it as well.
But investigators like scientists and there was somebody from like a museum and a parapsychologist.
And some people said, well, you can see there, clearly there's brushstrokes.
Other people said they analyzed it.
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They sent it away and had a chemical analysis of the floor.
And there were similar ingredients in the floor as there are in certain paint pigments.
Okay.
So my sink and I...
Well, that's kind of telling.
But the same things are also in cement.
Okay.
So it's like, well, is it just the cement or is there some sort of pigment added to the
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floor afterward?
Wow.
Yeah.
So the question became, are these faces real ghostly imprints or is someone getting really
creative with four arts?
Did anybody capture one appearing from start to finish?
Like from blank slate to full face?
Did anybody...
Supposedly there were witnesses who watched them appear live.
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Right.
And I mean, not the family members who could be profiting off this, but like...
Right.
Yes.
But I don't know that I would trust any of that.
Because like, you know, people will exaggerate because they want to be a part of something.
Right.
Oh, I watched it with my own eyes.
Sure you did.
Like maybe, maybe.
But did you get it on video?
No?
Then I don't buy it.
Did they have video in 71?
We were just talking about this on our last episode.
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No camcorders or cell phones yet.
Bummer.
I know.
So there's also a theory that these were thought forms, which here's another word I
learned today.
Thought-tography.
Thought-tography.
I don't think it's a real word.
I think it's something that's used in like, here's like...
So you can think of something onto like a film and then you develop it and there's something
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there.
Well, that's...
The images were somehow manifested from Maria's mind because of strong emotions or trauma
or maybe her psychic mediumship, if that's legit.
And she may not have even realized it.
It might have been subconscious that she was projecting somehow, supernaturally, these
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images onto the floor.
You know, like all of us women can do when we get hysterical around that time of the
month.
My gosh.
I'm gonna do a little thought-tography with all of our drama.
If I could do that, I would have words appear and I'd be like, pick up your salsa, pick
up after your salsa.
I just make some really cool shirts.
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You win.
Oh yeah.
It's awesome.
You know how like my daughter, it was really in two for a little bit.
I don't know what it's called.
It looks like painting with bleach to me on black t-shirts.
Okay.
Kind of like tie-dye but bleach.
Yes.
And so she has some incredible designs.
She has one where it's the entire like skeletal structure from like neck to hip.
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And she did it all and it looks like an X-ray sort of.
But in sepia tone, like even cooler, like it looks like bones.
It's really neat.
My question was that I have it here prepared was if you could stay really hard at your
kitchen floor, I mean if you could, what image would you want popping up?
Image when I'm not after yourself.
Yeah.
Just big words.
Like your mom is not a maid.
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That we fired our house elf.
Free the house elf.
So pick up after yourself.
I was going to guess David Bowie, but I could also like if I could like set it and schedule
it for reminders.
Like schedule.
Like your calendar app can do.
That'd be great.
Just like you know, like around the time when kids get home, like the words appear like
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don't forget to walk the dog.
That's so Harry Potter.
That's like that's awesome.
That would save me so much time.
So much time.
It's like it reminds me of the Marauders map.
Yeah.
They went things would appear and disappear off the map, but it's just faces.
Yep.
Yep.
It's just faces.
There's never any words.
There's never any other parts of the body.
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It's literally just heads, maybe upper chest or whatever attached like portraits.
It's just portraits, but back to the faces.
So in order to get to the bottom of this mystery, like I said, they did a long dig.
They discovered all these decapitated skeletons and here's some more photos of some of the
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faces.
We will put all these photos up on our social media.
They are wild.
That one looks a little like Diego or you read that to me.
I mean, I don't know.
They're so detailed that I really don't know how this could be like a stain.
This is no way this would be a stain.
Look at the symmetry of eyebrows and eyes and nose and the creases on the side of the
mouth.
Like I'm leaning toward painting.
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We painted these and it was a ruse, but it's definitely not like a mistaken paradox.
Somebody's talented and it's misplaced.
They could be making some real money, but maybe that was the whole point.
Maybe this was a ruse to make some sort of money.
Maybe a movie deal, a book deal.
You know, like people have done time and time again when they say they live in a haunted
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house or a possession or something like that and they just want fame and fortune.
It sucks.
The bones were dated back to the 13th century, but mysterious in that they were as to who
they belong to.
There was no local history matching these bodies being located there.
I did hear about one rumor where some guy of importance whose name I can't remember
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right now killed the family of five in the area, but there's no actual documentation
of that happening.
Just rumors passed over the century.
Plus, this is way more.
Didn't you say it was like the whole town?
Yeah, the whole town.
But at that specific site, supposedly, I don't know.
So they took the remains and they laid them to rest in a local cemetery and the floor
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was put back with new concrete.
This is their second time blowing up the floor.
In the hopes that it would return the home to normalcy, but they were wrong.
More faces began appearing all the way through the life of Maria who passed away.
And I did not know this until today.
February 3rd.
This year?
No, 2004.
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Today is February 4th.
That's today.
That's why I was compiling this, finishing compiling this yesterday on the anniversary
of her death.
Wow.
Yeah.
So RIP, Maria.
That is wild.
She was 85.
So the ripe old age of 85.
And so these, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
These were appearing on the floor throughout her life into the time period where we did
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have camcorders and things.
Yes.
That's a great question.
And she didn't record it.
Not the memory.
Now I'm really suss.
Yeah.
I didn't even think of that.
I should have.
But to this day, even after her death, more faces appear.
Right?
We need to put a GoPro camera in.
Some scientists have actually deemed this one of the most important paranormal cases
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of the 20th century, while others still remain skeptical of it being a hoax like us.
Though the evidence is clear, all parties involved in this are no longer with us.
So as to who would be continuing a hoax would leave more mysteries if that is the case.
So if it is a hoax, who is carrying it on after everybody who lived there was involved
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is dead?
Right.
Who lives there now?
It's become a local tourist spot.
Somebody bought it and uses it as a tourist destination, which would then be...
Money making.
It'd be money making.
You can still view the faces to this very day.
So yeah.
I would like to go see them.
Million dollar question.
I know hoax are haunting I guess, but is there video proof or evidence of the Belmets house?
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I'd also be curious to know if the similar thing has happened in other places.
I'm leaning toward hoax.
Same.
Because also if it were real, I'm moving.
Right?
Well, it's just faces on the floor.
But why?
Every night, every night I'd be like, who am I going to wake up to tomorrow?
Yeah, well I'd be like, I don't want to be polite.
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I'm going to step around these faces.
You'd have to like...
Right.
And you're walking around.
That seems disrespectful.
Yeah, but it's my catch of the hour.
Wait a minute.
I always see these things after the fact.
Because I make you keep researching things with all my questions.
I'm on Reddit again.
That's going to need to go to Reddit.
I try to stay away from it while I'm researching, but maybe I need to go there sooner.
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The first comment I see on this topic is, I teach drawing.
I see very common mistakes.
That ghost needs to practice more.
Even being able to manifest in your drawing skill is cringe.
So mean.
Oh, that is mean.
Oh, gosh.
So somebody says, I believe the owner of the house confessed he drew them up.
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Oh.
No, Maria, the owner of the house never confessed.
It's funny how many of the faces are so badly drawn like if a little child did them.
And still that stuff was quite popular for some reason.
Why wouldn't you have a video camera in there?
That's a really good point.
Yeah.
It started in 71, but if it's continuing on through the aughts and the tens, record that.
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Belmez Faces is a Seattle-based Neocoth Electropop musical project.
It is a great band name.
It really is.
The Belmez Faces.
They're from Seattle?
Yeah, that's hilarious.
We are so cool in this state.
We really are.
Oh my goodness.
Shout out Belmez Faces.
Hopefully you're good peeps.
That was a great storyline.
Thanks.
Well, I think it's a tourist trap.
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Unless I see video evidence of it happening like scientifically captured.
I also want to know.
If you can get rich, why not?
Well, did they get rich?
I wonder how much they made.
Like is there a lot of money in hoaxing?
They didn't get like, I don't know that they got paid for it.
They didn't get paid for that, but her business may have prospered.
Right.
So because she could have gotten a ton of jobs as a medium because her house had weird stuff
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going on.
Yeah.
I wonder, I just wonder how much money they made.
But also that picture you showed me, they were like sitting on the floor in the kitchen.
It didn't look like they had furniture.
It didn't look.
They weren't super prosperous.
I don't know.
Right.
But also maybe they just cleared out for photos.
Yeah.
And they were tearing up the floor.
They weren't.
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Yeah, they were going to.
But if I ever get tired of cleaning my kitchen floor, like I swept it tonight, I'm just going
to be like, I don't know what that mess is.
Ghost did it.
I should try that.
But I don't like a mess.
I don't like living in a messy, messy spot.
So I can't pull that off.
My only thing that will happen sometimes that will stay for a little bit is like dog paws.
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Like if they like the snow, it's snowed here this week.
If the dogs go out and play in the snow and then come in, then we'll have some muddy dog
paws for maybe a couple of days.
Yeah.
I get to it because they're just going to keep coming in.
You just see if you see faces in the dog paw prints.
But I know the dog paw prints.
I got better things to do.
Because you could see faces in anything.
Right now there's a big bush in front of us.
I can see tons of faces.
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Like giant faces.
People look at mountains.
You're driving to the past mountains.
Sure, yeah, yeah.
And you'll see giant sleeping.
And you'll see their faces.
You can see faces everywhere.
There's a really great rock formation in Sedona that is actually called something like something
that's face.
And it literally looks like a giant head tilted back, nose pointed toward the sky.
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It's really cool.
That's really neat.
Okay, your homework everybody is to stop right now, look around, find a face in something,
and have a picture and send it to us.
Let's see if we can see it.
It's not graded.
No, no, no, no.
But on that note, thank you for listening to the paranormal classroom.
But please, if you feel up to it, it helps a lot.
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If you like, subscribe and let us know if you'd be down to live in a haunted house with
questionable interior design.
But more importantly, send us a picture of Peridolia.
Peridolia.
Thank you, Amanda.
And what do you want to tell the people?
You do don't open the door.
Sometimes you change it depending on the story.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know what it would be.
Don't step on the face.
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Watch out for faces.
All right, glass dismissed.
And don't open the door.
Thanks so much.
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