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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Paleolithic painting of an aurochs from the cave of La Pasiega. The Paleolithic artist traced the natural cracks in the cave wall when painting the head, horns, and back leg of the animal. Credit: ...

, 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 ...

If you’ve been following the saga of Adam Ellis’ allegedly haunted apartment, then you’re probably already familiar with one of the bigger details of the tale: The faces that keep appearing in the ...

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

“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 ...

Positron emission tomography (PET) scans in this patient population also found that the number of pareidolic illusions correlated with hypometabolism in the bilateral temporal, parietal, and occipital ...