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• Xmas is nigh – and God fiddles with an egg to remind us of the ‘reason for the season’

  
  The Freethinker — Authority: 535
  A MISSHAPEN egg produced by a Texas hen is being hailed as a “miracle” by its bird-brained owners, Pam and Tracy Norrell. The hen’s lumpy offering features what looks to this sceptic like a chicken’s foot – but Pam Norrell insists in this YouTube video that it’s a cross, and that she thinks: God did ...
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• Pareggdolia

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 691
  A couple living a bit south of Fort Worth, Texas, are claiming that a cross found on an egg laid by a chicken on their farm is a sign from God . OK. You can see the egg there on the right. I have some comments… like, if this is a sign from God, wouldn’t the cross have looked better? The proportions are off from ...
  2 days ago

• Knock visions lead to eye damage

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 691
  Last month, I wrote about thousands of people at the Knock shrine in Ireland who stared at the Sun because they thought they were seeing visions of the Virgin Mary. I specifically said, "That’s a bad idea: it can cause temporary blindness, and permanent damage to the retina…" Guess what? Yup. A doctor in ...
  4 days ago

• Woman sees iron Jesus

  
  SocraticGadfly — Authority: 146
  A Massachusetts woman who recently separated from her husband and had her hours cut at work says an image of Jesus Christ she sees on her iron has reassured her that “life is going to be good.” There is no god and I am his prophet.
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• [liff] Pareidolia: New Jersey In The Sky

  
  The ZehnKatzen Times — Authority: 122
  2264. We see what we want to see – or, more appropriately, we recognize what we recognize. And when confronted with a field of random, visual information, we impress meaning upon it, especially if that random information happens to form patterns we are familiar with. This is what we call pareidolia. Its what we ...
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• Faces on places are aces.

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 737
  FACE AHOY
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• Star Wars Pareidolia

  
  Angry Astronomer — Authority: 128
  This one just puts the Jesus muffins to shame.
  2 weeks ago

• Careidolia

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 691
  OK, I know that some people see the face of their religious icons in random things. I’ve written about this a zillion times. And I know that sometimes it’s just pareidolia, our tendency to see faces in random objects. And I know that people will think it’s a miracle, when really it’s the end-product of ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Truth

  
  Rochester Paranormal — Authority: 127
  Several years ago on location within the scenic beauty of Webster Park located in Webster New York which is near the shore of Lake Ontario, we had embarked onto a forest trail in seeking clues and evidence regarding an earlier encounter between two young women on horseback who had described a rather large howling ...
  4 weeks ago

• Predatoreidolia

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 691
  Hey, it’s been a while since we’ve had some good ol’ pareidolia — seeing faces in random patterns — here on BA, and since Halloween just passed, here’s a goodie: a demon in a door’s wood grain : Hmmm, not bad. For what it’s worth, the father doesn’t claim it’s actually a demon, though he ...
  4 weeks ago

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