The faces of Bélmez

It is one of the supposedly paranormal phenomena best known to all lovers of mystery. In Calle Real number 5 in the town of Bélmez de la Moraleda , Jaén, Andalusia, it is assured by many that spots appear on the floor of the house located in that place. This in itself has nothing relevant, except for the fact that the spots seem to have the shape of human faces.

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María Gómez Cámara , the owner of the house until she died in 2004, alerted her neighbors in August 1971 of the strange episode that occurred in her home. It seems that then they considered it a coincidence, so it is said that María Gómez had the plaster covered with plaster. However, a few days later the spot with the same supposed human face reappeared.
But the fact was not there, a few days later began to appear more spots along the floor of the house, and all, according to the witnesses, had the appearance of human faces.
Hypothesis:
Obviously, before a phenomenon like this always arise two confronted positions, those who consider it a fraud and those who believe that there was and there is a paranormal phenomenon.
Fraud:
The main theory that ensures that the matter is a fraud alludes to some analysis that could show that the faces would have been painted.Apparently there are methods that allow drawing in the cement and that the image appears a few days after having been painted if certain chemical products are used. There is talk of the existence of CSICreports that would talk about the use of these products. There are people who say they have such reports, there are also people who consider them unreliable.
Another theory affirms that the stains are produced, but trying to see human faces in them requires a great imaginative effort . In such a case, they would simply be moisture stains like those that could occur anywhere else without anything special.
Among those who consider this phenomenon as a fraud, they accuse interested groups , such as the town council of Bélmez. Without a doubt, the phenomenon has attracted many people to the Jaén locality during the almost 40 years that the existence of the "faces" is known. It is common to think that fraud, if it exists, would be basically motivated by economic issues .
In summary, the Bélmez faces would have been painted with notoriety motivations using a series of determined chemical products that would allow a gradual and variable appearance of the spots, causing a mystery effect. Once the spots appeared, it was decided to sell it as a paranormal phenomenon and to make the matter economically profitable.
Paranormal phenomenon:
Once it is accepted that what happened on Calle Real de Bélmez is a paranormal phenomenon, a series of arguments have been created to try to explain why the apparitions occur.
There is a current that ensures that the house is built on a medieval cemetery . It is said that there were excavations that could demonstrate this hypothesis with findings of human remains in the basement of the building.
Another theory assumes that the faces are the result of the humiditygenerated by the underground currents that flow through the subsoil of Bélmez rather than by a phenomenon related to the world of the "Beyond".
The main idea that would be under the paranormal phenomenon would be from a past of the place related to death, such as an old cemetery. The tortured souls of deceased deceased under the subsoil of Calle Real number 5 of Bélmez show their pain to the living appearing again and again as if seeking the redemption that they did not have at the time.