House Face

Entering into his modest kitchen on a steamy August afternoon in 1971, Maria Gomez Pereira, a Spanish housewife, was shocked with what seemed like a face painted on the cement floor. Was she dreaming or hallucinating? No, the strange picture that stained the ground seemed actually the outline of a painting, a portrait.

Over the days the image was earning details and news of the mysterious face spread quickly through the small village of Belmez, near Cordoba in southern Spain. Alarmed by the image and inexplicably uncomfortable with the growing number of onlookers, the Pereira decided to destroy the face, six days after it appeared, the son of Mary, Michael, broke down the hammer blows. They made new cement and Life of Pereira returned to normal.

But not for long. Within a week, a new face began to form in the same place the first. That face, apparently from a middle-aged man, was even more detailed. First came his eyes, then nose, lips and chin.

There was no longer how to keep the curious away. Hundreds of people lined up outside the house every day, claiming to see "House of Faces". They called the police to control the crowds. When word spread, we decided to preserve the image. Pereira carefully cut out the picture and put in a frame, protected with glass, then hanging him by the fire.

Before fixing the researchers dug into the ground the site and found numerous human bones, almost three meters deep. It was believed that the faces of the dead on the floor would be buried there. But many people did not accept this explanation, since most of the houses on the street was built over an ancient cemetery, but only the House of Payne was being affected by the mysterious faces.

Two weeks after the kitchen floor was cemented a second time, another image appeared. A fourth face of a woman, came two weeks later.

Around the latter appeared several smaller faces, observers counted nine to eighteen images.
Over the years the faces have changed format, some were going out. And then in the early eighties, began to show others.

What or who created the ghostly faces on the ground that humble home? At least one of the researchers suggested that the images would be the work of some member of the Pereira family. But some chemicals that have examined the cement said they were perplexed by the phenomenon. Scientists, academics, parapsychologists, the police, priests and others thoroughly analyzed the image on the kitchen floor of Maria Pereira Gomes, but nothing found that would explain the origin of the pictures.