Paranormal Field Investigators

Having already written an article outlining pareidolia, what it is and why we can be tricked by it, I won't go in to too much detail here. For further reading, the article can be found at... Pareidolia

The purpose of this page is just to give visual examples of how our minds can trick ourselves into believing we are seeing faces and figures in some photographs, where none exist. Again, it is important to keep this in mind when reviewing evidence.

Face staring in through the window of one of the offices at the Old Adelaide Gaol. How do we know this isn't a real face?...

Because it doesn't matter how often we take the photos, we will get an image in the window each time, although it will change with each different angle. The reason for this is because of old uneven glass that hasn't been cleaned for many years. Add flash photography into the mix and you are going to find patterns appearing... our minds will complete the illusion.

One more glass image for the gallery. Enlarged on right.

But these images will also appear on many different surfaces, in this case on the dirty floor of the Old Adelaide Gaol.

The figure of what looks like a chinese man standing by the wall....

actually just turned out to be the patterns in the stonework. It was completed at night, when the lights came on and the security camera then cast a shadow, thus giving the illusion of darker hair on the head.

Again what we thought was another great photo of an unseen figure slumped in the tunnel at the Gaol....

however on further investigation we found that it was the trick of light and shadow. It in fact turned out to be caused by pipe work running down the wall. Pareidolia did the rest.

This wondrous face of what looks like to be an earless rabbit actually turned out to be the disappearing sun casting light onto a marble headstone.

As you can see it is easy to be fooled into believing we have figures and faces in our photos.