According to this story, the picture below was taken by a family visiting Pearl Harbor. The article goes on to actually wonder if it is a ghost!

Richard Wiseman posted this image on his blog, and it has made its way to us. Anyone else see a “tattoo”? Do you see anything in the “tattoo”? Would that make this a pareidolia within a pareidolia?

Here are two independent reports from Britain of people seeing the word ‘allah’ in Arabic appearing on food.

The first story is from Scotland, where Mariam Nadeem found Allah in her potato as she was cutting it to make samosas.

Our second allah sighting is by Asim Taj in Nottingham, England, who noticed the omnipotent creator’s name on an egg.

The British Muslim community is in jitters about where allah will choose to reveal himself next. He was last heard mumbling something about radishes…

The Crown is for Clarification

Thanks to Sathiajith for the image.

In this widely-reported story, a bit of reflected light is believed to be an angel. Furthermore, the timely appearance of this shiny apparition is thought to have saved a girl from the clutches of death. This is a great example of how people weave together superstitions to give meaning to their ignorance.

Do you have a hypothesis as to what the cause of the light might be? Glowing Gremlins, perhaps?

This pattern was noticed by skeptic and astronomer Phil Plait, and posted on his blog here. Do check it out. Here is an excerpt from the article:

People are always seeing faces in inanimate objects. We see them in clouds, in smoke, in random patterns on walls and floors. The technical term is “pareidolia”. The reason behind it is pretty clear: as humans, we have evolved to recognize familiar faces. We see our mothers mere seconds after being born. We know by sight friends, family, enemies. We read a lot into faces, and our brain is hardwired to fit faces to patterns. It takes remarkably little information to see a face; think of those “Have a Nice Day” buttons that only have two dots and a crescent, yet we see a smiling face in them. Amazing. Natural, not paranormal at all, but amazing nonetheless.