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while i believe that people have a soul and could walk around after there dead, i also think it's an inkblot.
cats that are looking at something are probably watching a dust mote or a fly to small to see.
ok, i don't know this for sure, but people give off different smells depending on there emotions and cats and dogs can smell this.

so, there's no cause to start thinking spirits yet. but if something does totally creep you out, get rid of it. you know that scene in ghost busters two where the baby carriage is pulled? our house had a bad feeling for weeks after that.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It's an optical illusion.

The human mind craves order. It will find patterns where none exsist and create recognizable pictures from otherwise unrelated dots. Did you see the devil face in the smoke coming from the twin towers? It was a lot more clear of an image then your cat's eye here. So was the Mars face I mentioned before. That one still creeps me out even after I know what it is. Stuff like this happens all the time. It's interesting to look at and talk about, but it's very simple to explain really.

Geoschmo

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No, I didn't. Link please.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No, I didn't. Link please.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">http://www.twin-towers.net/devil_in_smoke.htm

And the mars face...
http://www.msss.com/education/facepage/face.html

[ July 23, 2003, 03:05: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

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That's really freaky. Thanks.

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It either looks like a face or a storm trooper. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1058926360.bmp

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That middle image there looks almost exactly like the shape in the eye. Strange indeed. But it is just as everyone has already said a reflection of something that your minds eye is making out to be a face.

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Looks like a good one for "Art Bell" or what's that new fellow's name that replaced him? George Norrie's "Coast to Coast AM" I think. He gets a lot of calls from people in the Portland area.

I think Portland is a mecca for strange occurances, so it wouldn't surprise me about something odd with your cat. Mine have been spending alot of time sitting in front of the mirror starring off into something. It's funny, their eyes don't quite follow their own reflection.

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i think what should be done is someone should make a program to do comparisions and find out how close these inkblots are to a real thing and how close they are. after all, the inkblot interpretation is subject to human bias to. of course, the program would have built-in bias from the programmer's, but i think it would have less.

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Heres another thought, could it be a face within a face? The upper protion looking like that of a normal human, the lower a distorted face of something else?

The sick thing is the more I look at it, the more the face looks familar. I wonder if I am being followed around by someone I killed, or worse, who killed themselfs because of me?

Since I can not think any one that I would care to disclose of ever killing http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif I am forced to think that I am being followed by some ghostly figure who wishes to do nothing but bring me bad luck and misfortune for something I ........ It is male looking isn't it? If not, then this could be, naw, it is to male looking to be her.

Seriously, the face does kinda look familar. I just can't place it. It looks kinda like the actor who played Bud Bundy in Married with children.... I am watching that show now.

The only thing that image can be is a bizzare light reflection. And not there are no trees out side of that window, they have all long since been cut down. There is no picture behind me, just a while wall, and there was no one else in the room at the time I took the image. I also video taped her and will be reviewing the tape for images. As I recall, she was acting very strange and that prompted me to tape her. Then I took the digital still to test out the digital camera on the Sony DV Cam. I should have a few more of her someplace, I wonder what they will reviel.

I should have ran this topic as a pole, Ghose, Optical Illusion, Fake, Other.

Illusion has my vote.

And I joking about the killing thing, I wound not harm a any thing larger than a fly unless it threatened to eat or kill me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif