The Study Skills Programme
Belmez Faces : Mystery of the People in the Floor by Katie Steben
Overview The faces in the floor mystery occurred in Belmez , a small village in Andalusia in Spain at the home of Maria Gomez Pereira in 1971 . A stain on her kitchen floor turned over time into a face and the further faces appeared . Successive investigations found that this was not a hoax .
The People in the Floor When Maria Gomez Pereira first noticed the face , she was terrified and tried to scrub it off . It was reported to be a female ‘ the visage of someone burdened by deep grief and worry ’ ( https :// medium . com / our-weird-wonderful-world / thepeople-in-the-floor KS 04.08.21 ). The face reappeared and Pereira ’ s husband and son dug up the floor and laid a new cement floor . However , the faces reappeared .
The local Mayor ordered the kitchen to be excavated and skeletons were found 10 feet beneath the floor without skulls . The skeletons were taken away for testing and found to be 700 years old . A new concrete floor was laid . Two weeks passed and then multiple faces appeared . This time the faces continually changed and sometimes they were the faces of women and children . The Everything2 . com website , gives detailed descriptions of some of the faces , including a ‘ figure of a particularly eerie woman had long curly hair and empty eye sockets ’ and also mentions other body parts appearing including a long arm which appeared to have ‘ a claw rather than a hand ’ ( https :// Everything2 . com KS 04.08.21 )
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