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 ...

, 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 ...

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 ...

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 definition of pareidolia is pretty broad. It's a psychological phenomenon that causes people to see or hear a vague image or sound as something significant. On the internet, however, we're mostly ...

“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 ...