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The eerie image of a human “face” has been formed by a rock fall in cliffs at a Cornish beauty spot.
Louise Coe, from Truro, says she was walking the coast path at Bedruthan Steps, near Padstow and Newquay, with her husband on Sunday, April 10 when they noticed the unusual sight.
The couple used to walk the route regularly but hadn’t been back for a year, due in part to recent landslides. Bedruthan Steps itself had been shut multiple times as a result.
But this weekend Louise was stopped mid-walk by her husband. On the cliff, gazing towards the sea, was what appeared to be a huge human face.
Set into the rocks, as if someone had carved it by hand, the face which looks startlingly real. Louise told Cornwall Live she thinks it was created by one of the landslides in an incredible natural occurrence.
She said: “We’ve gone there so many times before but never noticed. It’s quite different, looks like a recent landslide formed it – but it looks man-made. Obviously it can’t be, though, we haven’t heard anything because of where it is. We’ve lived here for many years and are National Trust members so go there quite often.”
She said it was a brilliant sight and one she didn’t expect on their walk. The pair snapped a few pictures as evidence and hope people won't think that it's a manipulated image.
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Pareidolia – where humans see faces in random images – is a well-known psychological phenomenon and there’s even a specific word, Mimetoliths, for naturally occurring “sculptures” in rocks, such at The Face on Mars.
Bedruthan Steps, just a few miles north of Mawgan Porth, started to become treacherous in December 2019, when a huge rockfall destabilised the cliff face. Another large landslide happened on the afternoon of New Year’s Day 2021.
Cordons have been set up in the area, warning people to not approach some parts of the coast path. Erosion and the risk of future landslides has rendered large parts of it a huge risk to human life. Louise said signs remain up warning people of the dangers.
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