It only takes two dots and a curve for our brains to shout “face!” From startled-looking houses to smiling appliances, we’re wired to spot familiar patterns everywhere. The Things With Faces community ...

A mountain rock in the shape of a human face. Atlas Mountains, Morocco. Similar to Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, "The Great Stone Face." Source: Gusman/Bridgeman Images, used with permission "One ...

Consuming volumes of horror movies and candy corn may cause the mind to go wild, but stop yourself from spiraling when you see — oh, I don’t know — Albert Einstein’s face in your office’s ceiling tile ...

, that appeared. Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include seeing images of ...

Three thousand years ago, in ancient China, sages stuck red hot pokers into empty turtle shells to study the way cracks developed on the flat side of the shell. Depending on the pattern made by the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The “Man in the Moon” illusion on the face ...

Seeing faces in everyday objects is a common experience, but research from The University of Queensland has found people are more likely to see male faces when they see an image on the trunk of a tree ...

“Pareidolia: This body of work is called ‘Pareidolia’ because every image suggests more than is present. While common examples of this phenomenon suggest that we see the common simple things in the ...

The person was unharmed, but the New Zealand Medical Journal has highlighted the case an an example of pareidolia.