Skeptoid #193: The Faces of Belmez
Skeptoid
Brian Dunning
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2010
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Faces appearing on the floor of a house in Spain were easily faked, yet many still consider them supernatural.
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| 0:00.0 | Today, we're going visiting to a sun-drenched Spanish village called Belmiss. |
| 0:09.2 | It has a most unusual claim to fame that for a few years, one small house had stone floors |
| 0:15.9 | that would spontaneously display the faces of people. |
| 0:20.2 | Spirits or even demons said some, the religious and the curious came from all over to observe |
| 0:26.4 | the spectacle. |
| 0:27.7 | But today, we're going to talk about what they found. |
| 0:31.6 | The faces of Belmiss is coming right up, unskeptoid. |
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| 1:29.3 | The faces of Belmiss. |
| 1:32.3 | You can hardly find the village of Belmiss, De La Moraleza for all the olive groves it's |
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