When belmez resident maria gomez pereira noticed a stain forming on her kitchen floor one day in august 1971 little did she know that she would become the center of one of the most fascinating and best documented cases of paranormal phenomenon in the whole of the 20th century the belmez faces.
Faces in concrete floor and maria.
The bélmez faces or the faces of bélmez is an alleged paranormal phenomenon in a private house in spain.
However the pereira story goes a new face formed on the floor.
Smooth the marks the gauge rake leaves behind it with the squeegee image 2.
On september 8th one week after juan destroyed the original face an identical face appeared in exactly the same place as the first.
This face eventually became known as the pava a spanish word meaning female turkey.
The gauge rake is a specialty tool used to drag across the top of the metal lath giving an even depth of concrete across the floor.
Undaunted faces began appearing on the new concrete floor and later in other parts of the kitchen.
In hard to reach corners spread it using the squeegee or a 1 1 2 inch putty knife.
The face appearances in bélmez began on august 23 1971 when maría gómez cámara claimed that a human face formed spontaneously on her concrete kitchen floor.
Not only that but the stain appeared to have moved.
Belmez faces appeared and skeletons were found.
Located at the pereira family home at calle real 5 bélmez de la moraleda jaén andalusia spain the bélmez faces have been responsible for bringing large numbers of.
María s husband juan pereira and their son miguel destroyed the image with a pickaxe and new concrete was laid down.