Pareidolia in Google Earth and on Toasts

[TomKjeldsen]

This thread was originally posted as a single 'observation' - now in this our new and current GEC I have been encouraged to rename this thread to a more general one on Pareidolia observations you find out there (edit feb2017) - so be it:

"Pareidolia in Google Earth and on Toasts"

Done! Put on your glasses, dim or clear... and post your replies on what you find and let's see if we see the same...

===============

Original thread below. Update feb12 2017: changed thread name from formerly known as 'Big Horn face (Pareidolia in Google Earth and on Toasts)' to current

Wyoming landscape in Big Horn area resembles a face of a person with closed eye facing to the west. Eye to the left of placemark. Maybe Sitting Bull or George Armstrong Custer reflecting on the battle of the Little Bighorn that took place a few miles up north, back in 1876...

   


===============

Updates 25 Aug 2015 when posted on nGEC:

When I 'found' this or at least 'see' this back in 2009, I never before had heard of pareidolia. Having found and posted this do not make me feel that I'm suffering from pareidolia ;-) But this is surely a fascinating phenomenon which most likely, sort of explain or support the origin of a lot of human made 'observations'.

links:

Pareidolia (wikipedia)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia


Finding Hidden Faces In Google Earth's Landscapes
www.fastcodesign.com/1672781/finding-hidden-faces-in-google-earths-landscapes


Pareidolia: Why we see faces in hills, the Moon and toasties
www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22686500


Face of Indian Head in the Hills
oGEC Face of Indian Head in the Hills


===============


Download a identical copy of the attached file below from here (suitable for non Google Earth Community members)


This post is a re-post of a original 2009-02-13 Google Earth Community post

Attachments:

Big-Horn-face.kmz (3.25 KB)

[ET_Explorer]

Zeta Reticuli Alien Face





Zeta Reticuli Alien Face.kmz (854 B)

[ET_Explorer]

Fuji God Poking its head at bottom crater of Mount Fuji






Fuji God Poking its head at bottom crater o....kmz (860 B)

[syzygy]

with such an avatar I have felt strictly recommended to join this thread.
the naked rock without snow still looks like a face on 2011 imagery:

avatar face.kmz (937 B)

older chap has a cute rasta-pony-tailed hair and (zoom out) rather a big stomach..(:
also a sweet contribution next to it. check GEC layer NE to this sticker
face SWAustral.kmz (710 B)

[syzygy]

time slider date: 3/4/2011
figura pareidolia - Candlemas Island.kmz (1.05 KB)

[syzygy]

hey friend! time has come to think over thread title again, e.g. as 'Pareidolia in Google Earth and on Toasts and on chimneys.' (:

This guy -reminded me Rózsa Sándor (hungarian name order/english wikipedia)- appeared on the indoor section of the chimney of the backyard hut. (sorry, no placemark!)
If only were an old, worn daguerreotype of the legendary outlaw I thought yesterday evening. Now as editing this post I already see the differences, what is more; my colleague have seen 'nothing but patches' and 'maybe a heart shape'...)<

still thought would not be an off topic post to this thread. (for those who see the man's face (okay, then half-face) with mustache on my photos)

[diane9247]

There's always this oGEC chestnut, a collection started on 6 January 2008: Some things look like other things. A sample...

         
         Wolong Man, Wolong, China. Oct. 2009

         As I look at this again, he could also be Leonard Bernstein.  

[syzygy]

Mar 17, 2017 6:37:59 GMT diane9247 said:

There's always this old chestnut, a collection started on 6 January 2008: Some things look like other things.

and BTW:
A bit other stuff, still 'GE imagery tricks the eye' at Keyhole Art/Google Art by Hill, posted on 2005. 05. 16., where other links leading you to other "art-valued" screenshot collections just right by the start.

Besides some solo posts as my multiple human profile, NZ or the nebraskan smily face or the wink and smile by MM or others, do not forget:

Faces in Google Earth by smickel, posted and has been left there on 2006. 12. 08., but embraced by other members.
Pretty cool collection of links to e.g. above mentioned solos and genuine contributions.

Just now have checked last reply, a find from Libya by Thomas S. and it is hilarious! Sad, even not a coordinate given to screenie...:

well, a try to find anyone? -I have already given up.

[syzygy]

37°23'25.35"N, 54°59'15.70"E

(placemark in mounds collection)

[syzygy]

just have found this chap in Ukraine (of course while hunting for signs of ancient burials - mound "ghost" some 400 meters to WNW of placemark)

probably better title would be "cartoon man with headshot"...


48°37'51.01"N, 35°30'1.55"E
best visibility by imagery timestamp: 9/3/2012

cartoon man.kmz (818 B)

...
p.s.: hey! one more post and thread go hot! now come on!(;

[syzygy]

Let me introduce "Pareidoll" from Kazakhstan who have made this thread hot!



pareidoll.kazakh.kmz (733 B)


spot first doll-like face in centre, then imagination can grab other spooky details of a blink from a nightmare. (it is just my own impression)

[syzygy]

I could only recognize a Jesus-like halfprofile. Co members see also other stuff.

Follow thread :
googleearthcommunity.proboards.com/post/23839/thread

[TomKjeldsen]

Hi syzygy et al

I appreciate that you keep this "Pareidolia in Google Earth ..." thread in progress.
Continue sending observations!

About this last observation, I think I may need to add a few bourbon additives to make it clear ....
But continue the research work!

All the best, Tom

[willi1]

The head of a duck

Attachments:

Duck.kmz (778 B)

[syzygy]

nice spotting, however seems to be a bit off topic with pareidolia.

check by archive imagery date at 2002 when it seems new, also line of a regular plantation and a small building can be seen. (plantation was not the best idea: not much of the trees survived standing in water)

so, well, sorry to say new friend, that it is not simply our eyes make trick on us, but someone actively helped us to see this head of a duck.

[willi1]

Here I see the grimace of the devil with a long nose and gaping mouth in the Sahara.

Attachments:

devils face.kmz (684 B)

[ET_Explorer]

Deep Sea Fish on Mars

Image below is in daytime infrared






Deep Sea Fish.kmz (718 B)

[syzygy]

Jun 11, 2018 5:41:42 GMT ET_Explorer said:

Deep Sea Fish on Mars...

great find! I like much better than the "face of mars" for example!
no pareidolia needed however as it looks exactly the same as some Saccopharyngiformes (:

[TomKjeldsen]

This should finally confirm that there is water on Mars... Why do they have to send all those robot missions to check it?  Just send a fisherman to startup a harbor

[syzygy]

semi-3D visual experience of (a row of) chest of drawers built up by 2D landscape elements: (I have put TV icon on the top of the cabinet)



old nokia mobile keeps burning with dark smoke on the shelf... nah, okay; let that be a carrot! (:

Chest of drawers.kmz (785 B)

[syzygy]

other good patterns on imagery for some "tripping" around.
pareidolia extra Krim.kmz (708 B)

for those, who missed some essential additives, I give some help with the hat to see the guy I have spotted at first:

[willi1]

Mar 12, 2019 9:28:18 GMT syzygy said:

other good patterns on imagery for some "tripping" around.

Mafioso ! 

[ET_Explorer]

Eerie Face 

[syzygy]

Mar 12, 2019 11:13:36 GMT willi1 said:

Mafioso!

Zorro! (:

[willi1]

The smile of Versailles

Attachments:

Smiling Face.kmz (794 B)

[syzygy]

Apr 17, 2019 7:43:10 GMT willi1 said:

The smile of Versailles

as a matter of fact, the whole thing definitely looks like a female plush-bear holding a battle-lance:



...the SOB sliced 2/3 of a 1000 years old country off with her weapon, causing 3,3 millions of ethnic hungarian people and all their descendants the most tragic turns of their lives, affecting the fate of all my nation until today and beyond!

sorry, I cannot smile with her! ...

***
useful read in english to a deeper understanding:

Yves de Daruvar: The tragic fate of Hungary - A Country Carved-up Alive at Trianon

***
Csapó Endre: Peace to end Peace - The Trianon Peace Treaty in quotations -

g

[ET_Explorer]

Alien Face Antartica

[syzygy]

face (by some help), hat, long hair from Mauritania:



>> 21.466135, -11.885614<<

some ancient stone burial mounds can be found around this formation.

[willi1]

The head of Anubis, the god of death, mummification, embalming, the afterlife, cemeteries, tombs, and the Underworld in ancient Egyptian religion. Found in the Mauritanian desert.

Attachments:

Anubis.kmz (747 B)

[syzygy]

nice one...

Dec 13, 2019 10:45:19 GMT willi1 said:

... Found in the Mauritanian desert.

glad to see you have stuck around for a while! (;

(still I cannot forget that sign.. so as still can be found on my open-questions' list)  (: