Face of [Insert Your Own Messiah] Found in [Insert Your Own Natural Phenomenon]
Monday, 30th April 2007 by Alex Turnbull
Free UK daily paper The Metro published an article last week about a YouTube video1 in which someone claimed to have found the shape of Jesus in a cloud, floating over Mount Sinai in Egypt.
We thought this was such a blatant (and totally lame) rip-off of our own Face of Jesus Found in Sand Dune that we'd better up the ante!2
First in Utah, we find a terrifying looking skull face...
Then in Nevada, we've got a Blues Brothers style one-eyed alien...
And finally in Kenya we've got... the Rock Eater Biter from the NeverEnding Story!
How long before the Metro steals this story I wonder?
See our other related posts for even more Google Earth Pareidolia:
- Irish Rock Face
- Face of Santa Claus
- Native American Listening to an iPod
- The Face of Mother Earth
- The Simian Messiah
- Face of Jesus Found in Sand Dune
Thanks to Jayden Brown, Vaughn Nelson and cruzito.
About the author
Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
It was reported elsewhere last week too. The YouTube video appears to have been taken down, but we do now have some map links:
Google Maps link
Google Earth link
That cloud is lame, it looks like a… cloud.
However thar picture of the Schwarzenegger Rock face is brilliant!
SUE THEM!
I’ve updated the post because, as James rightly pointed out to me, the Metro did indeed credit us on two of those stories (although I’m still bitter that the print article about the TS didn’t mention us!).
Also, they described us as “the excellent Google Sightseeing website”, which was really quite nice of them 🙂
That should be Rock BITER, not Rock Eater from the Neverending Story.
There is one more face in Indonesia, as soon as i’ll find it, i’ll submit.
Oh, c’mon, the second one is definitely a profile of one of the apes from Planet of the Apes. It’s got a helmet and everything.
Dammit! Thanks Cyre, post updated.
Well, I can’t see it. I would also like to direct people to this
Been there. We used to go out here and have bonfires in college. It’s mostly bird-refuge type area near some farms and open land.