María s husband juan pereira and their son miguel destroyed the image with a pickaxe and new concrete was laid down.
Maria s cement floor faces.
Maria was busy in her kitchen when she saw a very weird thing.
When belmez resident maria gomez pereira noticed a stain forming on her kitchen floor one day in august 1971 little did she know that she would become the center of one of the most fascinating and best documented cases of paranormal phenomenon in the whole of the 20th century the belmez faces.
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Frightened maría tried to scrub it away but to no avail.
In august 1971 maría gómez cámara noticed a stain forming on her concrete kitchen floor which later seemed to turn into a disturbing face.
The appearances in bélmezbegan on august 23 1971 when maría gómez cámara claimed that a human face formed spontaneously on her cement kitchen floor.
However the pereira story goes a new face formed on the floor.
María s husband juan pereira and their son miguel destroyed the image with a pickaxe and new concrete was laid down.
On august 23 1971 the lady of the pereira family maría gómez cámara claimed that a face was spontaneously formed on the concrete floor of her kitchen.
María s husband juan pereira and their son miguel destroyed the image with a pick axe and new cement was laid down.
A face of a man as if painted emerged on her concrete kitchen floor.
However the pereira story goes a new face formed on the floor.
It darkened the next day slowly taking shape until the face of a man emerged.
María s husband juan pereira and their son miguel destroyed the image with a pickaxe and new concrete was laid down.
Whether the original bélmez faces were somehow hoaxed or not the faces that would appear in the years after maria s death almost certainly were.
Shortly after her death it was claimed by psychic researcher pedro amorós that new faces had appeared in the home suggesting the phenomenon was still going on.
After the first face emerged maría s husband juan pereira and her son miguel took a pickaxe and destroyed the face.
Not only that but the stain appeared to have moved.
The face appearances in bélmez began on august 23 1971 when maría gómez cámara claimed that a human face formed spontaneously on her concrete kitchen floor.
Frightened she swore that the face wasn t there before.
Reports of appearances in bélmez began on 23 august 1971 when maría gómez cámara claimed that a human face formed spontaneously on her concrete kitchen floor.
The mysterious face would not leave.