This rocky hill in Ebihens, France, is, well, just that -- a rocky hill in Ebihens, France. But to pretty much any human observer, the assemblage of meaningless angles takes on a familiar appearance, ...

Why do people supposedly see a woman in pictures sent from Mars by the Curiosity Rover? For the same reason that people see ...

Pareidolia is the phenomenon where the mind perceives faces in objects that are not faces. Seeing a man in the moon is pareidolia. So is noticing Abe Lincoln's distinguished head judging you from the ...

GREENSBURG –Photographer Kate Palyshniuk, PhD, will be appearing from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 13 at the Greensburg Decatur County Public Library to discuss her photography exhibition “Rock Face ...

Humans tend to anthropomorphize things: we give names to our pets, plushies, and even cars and boats. For me, a pack of colored pens once served as all the X-Men during childhood playtime. Other times ...

Sometimes we see faces that aren’t really there. You may be looking at the front of a car or a burnt piece of toast when you notice a face-like pattern. This is called face pareidolia and is a mistake ...

Greg Borenstein has run pareidolia-inducing photos through FaceTracker software to see if computers perceive faces in everyday objects the same way we do. Greg Borenstein has run pareidolia-inducing ...

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 ...