The Faces of Bélmez
We have considered opportune to relate in this space, one of the calls hidden phenomena more known Spain and of the World that has given rise to an extensive bibliography. From followers to the parapsicología east event has been considered like without a doubt, the more important paranormal phenomenon of this century century XX .
Everything began in the summer of 1971, in the small town of Bélmez of the Moraleda, in Jaén. The house belongs to the Pereira family whom it observes overwhelmed as a spot in the ground of its house is formed little by little until it appears a human face. From we could here conclude whereupon it is all fruit of the chance or of the humidity but the things they change when in house of the Pereira they begin to form expensive new.
From the family it notifies to the City council the event here and try to give an explanation him. For it they excavate the subsoil of its house but they do not find anything; solely bones. The house of the Pereira, apparently, is located in the location of an old cemetery that dates from century XVIII. This fact came to add more mystery to the appearances of Bélmez.
Just a short time later a group of famous parapsicólogos with Germa'n de Argumosa at the top, decides to settle in the jienense town and to investigate the phenomenon of the faces. The equipment records several psicofonías within the house and obtains chilling but nondetermining results. Shouts, complaints, weeping are heard and some of the voices that are listened to shout things like: Germa'n, itches, patio, raises cement . The presence of the parapsicólogos and psicofonías increase the sense of expectancy and the case of Bélmez appears in daily magazines and at national level.
With the passage of the years many tried to demonstrate the falsification of the faces, the calls teleplastias and the assumption deceit which they had put under people during as much time. For it detailed scientific researches were carried out but it was not possible to be demonstrated that there was some human hand behind all that one. Some of the theories that threw by earth the paranormal thing of the events aimed that the faces could be done from silver salts, that when reacting with the light, formed like a drawing. One demonstrated that this was impossible. Also one demonstrated that there was no sodium chloride neither soot nor any other substance in the components of the pieces of ground in which they appeared the faces.
Another one of the phenomena that have surprised more on the matter is that during a period of three months, in which a notary sealed the house to verify the veracity of the facts, the house remained closed under monitoring and the ground by parcels was photographed. Spent the time of seal the house of the Pereira was abrió again and the surprise of the notary was to verify that not only they had appeared new faces, but those that or were they had outlined or moved of site.
The proprietor of the house Maria Go'mez passed away in February of 2004. After its death, Pedro Amorós, president of the Spanish Society of Investigaciones Parapsicológicas (SEIP) tried to discover if teleplastias in the house would be more in which she was born. Thus the new faces arose from Bélmez. The form of these new faces is vaguer, and its identification as human faces it is submitted more to the interpretation that in the previous cases. In fact, one of the spots obtained by the SEIP, and that supposedly represents a profile man, has a shattering similarity with a cartoon cat.
Several newspapers blamed the city council of the locality of to have made the faces in this new house when not being able to acquire, to tourist operate it, the original house of the faces.
The family of Maria Go'mez also has maintained who the faces are not business, which is opposite to the fact that from the 1 of July of 2005 the ownership of the denomination was granted to him the faces of Bélmez to Do6na Carmen Go'mez Hervás, according to it consists in the Web of the Spanish Office of Patents and Marcas (OEPM). Peculiarly, one is the unique registered tradename in this office that includes the place-name Bélmez .
The skeptics maintain that the new faces were made in a while very advisable, and that in fact were open pies after Francisco Máñez taught to Pedro Amorós how to heighten spots in the cement that seemed human faces. Mañez, parapsicólogo also, tried to teach to Amorós its theory to him that the faces were only humidity spots that pareidolia made recognize as expensive or faces (pareidolia is the human capacity to recognize forms in any thing). To the few days, Amorós sent to the news of the discovery of the new faces in the native house of Maria the Go'mez, obtained after putting under the ground to a treatment that, in their naivete, the SEIP describes as Máñez describes his.
The city council of Bélmez always has rejected the explanations that deny the origin paranormal of the faces. Nevertheless, in May of 2007 the investigator Francisco Máñez and the editor of the newspaper the World Javier Cavanilles (who had left windy a demand interposed by Amorós to accuse to him to have falsified the new faces) published the controversial book the faces of Bélmez . In him they demonstrated that the case was a fraud from the first day, that the all the faces had been painted by (or with the complicity of) the family of Maria and who the main investigators of the case had manipulated the data to maintain the mystery. In addition the main documents made public of the case (like the CSIC information) to prove their affirmations.
In this case there are two very clear opposite positionings. On the one hand there are investigators who assure that the appearance is a process paranormal and on the other hand we found other investigators who do not doubt in classifying to the faces of Bélmez like a total fraud.
Hypothesis of the origin paranormal
Some investigators maintain that the origin of the faces is bound to an old Arab medieval cemetery of century XIII (test of the C14) shortage in the subsoil of the kitchen of the house. In excavations realised until a depth of 2.8 ms just a short time after the first appearance, the appearance of rest of human bones could be stated. Investigators of the paranormal thing have related teleplastias to other parapsicológicos phenomena, including psicofonías. In personal declarations of Miguel, the son of the owner, and inhabitant of the same from the discovery, this one affirmed that he himself participated in the excavations conducted under the home of the kitchen, finding, to almost 3 meters of depth, some rest of human bones, but it is not the amount that some have affirmed. Others adduce that the formation of the faces is a phenomenon related to an underground water obstacle that runs under the ground of the house, which causes that the humidity allows to fix teleplastias of one more a clearer form and needs. The same son of the owner has declared in reiterated occasions that within the house have never taken place phenomena of type poltergeist .
Jose Martinez Rosemary published a book guaranteeing the hypothesis paranormal, where he maintains that there is a phenomenon of teleplastia behind the creation of the faces. In England, Andrew MacKenzie, a writer of the paranormal thing, dedicated the first chapter of the book The seen and the unseen to the Bélmez case. Nevertheless, MacKenzie did not speak Spanish and during his stay in Bélmez it lacked translator; only a taxi driver and the son of Martinez Rosemary helped him with their little knowledge of English.
Hypothesis of the fraud
Manuel Mountain Martin distributed chair of sociology in the University of Alcala of Madrid. Although its laborious study Sociology of milagro12 was the first book that a skeptic has written exclusively on the case, did not seem to happen him to Serrano that would be to make an examination chemical of the images. Since the faces of Bélmez exist on milking of cement, it is evident that the enabled authority to offer an opinion on the molecular changes that can take place in a mass of concrete he is a technician in that matter; or an ilusionist of having fraud suspicions. Mountain interview to tens of belmoralences, that never mentions by name. However, the study of Serrano contributes to explain social dynamics than he creates was a perpetrated thymus to make money.
Next we left an illustrative video them of the phenomenon:
You imagine to live thus in a house? xddd
it would give jamacuco me .Esque is very strong, the house this constructed on an Arab cemetery that as well served as Roman cemetery centuries before truth I believe it to I that are real costs to think that has drawn somebody them with silver salt or some chemical technique furthermore also I read a long time ago that from the death of the owner of the house, the faces have been become blurred and some have disappeared
sure that the faces have been disappearing after their death because she did and now ai nobody not to maintain them and to maintain the thymus