| Sometime back, around 1971, something strange began | | | | burial, that the faces would stop appearing. This turned |
| to happen in the small town of Belmez de la Moraleda, | | | | out to be a false assumption. |
| Spain. | | | | The faces continued to appear, including faces of a |
| Inside the modest home of Maria Gomez Pereira, | | | | smaller size that resembled children. Nobody could |
| what appeared to be a face began to materialize on | | | | explain exactly what was happening inside of this |
| the hearth in her kitchen. Maria being superstitious, had | | | | home. Teams of scientists and paranormal |
| her husband destroy it with a pick ax and lay new | | | | investigators swarmed the house and many non |
| cement in it's place. Approximately one week later, the | | | | believers were sure that these "ghost faces" would be |
| face mysteriously reappeared. An interesting fact | | | | debunked quickly. They were wrong. |
| about the home where the faces started to appear is | | | | Tests were done on the Belmez Faces and samples |
| that it is built on what was once the site of multiple | | | | of the cement taken. These tests were able to do |
| graveyards. The most recent being that of a Christian | | | | away with the theories that someone was simply |
| graveyard and it is reported that even ancient | | | | sneaking in and painting the cement. Besides that, the |
| Romans had at one point laid their dead on this site. | | | | faces were appearing inside the cement, rather than |
| As the faces continued to appear, word quickly | | | | on it. One of the scientists involved was quoted as |
| spread and people began to line up outside Maria's | | | | saying that the Belmez Faces were "the most |
| house. Sometimes up to five thousand people would | | | | important paranormal happening in history". Maria |
| line up to catch of glimpse of the Belmez ghost faces. | | | | eventually stopped trying to remove the faces and for |
| The city council became involved and decided to | | | | three decades now, they have continued to appear. |
| excavate the spot where the faces were appearing. | | | | People continue to travel to the small village of Belmez |
| Upon doing so, human remains were found about nine | | | | to see them and the Belmez Faces continue to be |
| feet from the surface. It was believed by many that | | | | one of the biggest mysteries of our century. |
| after these remains were moved and given a proper | | | | |