The Faces of Belmez – Video

Posted by scarygeek on December 12, 2009 at 15:12 pm

On August 23, 1971, in a small town called Belmez, began one of the most well documented hauntings in the world.  Maria Gomez-Pereira noticed an unusual formation on her kitchen floor. She watched each day as the formation became an image, the image of a woman. Maria’s husband decided that he would take a pick axe tore out the cement floor. He then replaced the floor with more cement and they waited. Things returned to normal, and then just over a week later the face almost instantaneously reappeared on the kitchen floor.  Soon, Maria and the Faces of Belmez, grabbed the attention of curious people, and paranormal investigators who came to the home to see the faces. Soon, the Belmez city council then became involved and decided that they should dig up Maria’s kitchen and excavate the earth beneath it, in an attempt to find the reason for this strange phenomena.  What they would find, would shock the small town of Belmez. Buried almost nine feet under her kitchen were the skeletal remains of not one, but numerous headless bodies in a pile, and some of the remains were determined to have been dated back to the 13th century. They were removed and the kitchen floor was re-cemented, but it did not solve their problem.

The Pereira’s then noticed that the face reappeared, but this time there were also other faces starting to appear. Soon they called in experts to investigate the phenomenon. They were able to take a sample of the floor and examine it, and it was determined that there had been no evidence of paint or dyes. Once they were through with their examination they sealed the kitchen with wax on all windows and doors. The floor was covered with as well, and they made sure that no one could tamper with the evidence. The kitchen went untouched for a period of three months, and then the experts returned to reexamine the room. What they found was that the faces had evolved, and had even moved from their original places.  In 2004, a group of investigators took EVP recordings of the room, and found that they had recorded voices crying, and one spoke directly to Maria and said, “I want to leave.” 

There has been some reports that the Belmez Faces are a hoax, but it has not been verified. Maria Gomez-Pereira has died since, and the faces remain. Here is a video I found on YouTube, that shows you some of the faces that appeared during the time of the investigation. Watch them and make a decision for yourself. I am not sure that the Belmez City council did not know what they would find when they excavated the ground beneath her floor, maybe they did. Also why would this poor woman and her husband create such a hoax in the first place? Well, you decide. Enjoy!