Sure, you’ve seen the Virgin Mary in an oil slick (or at least some part of her), Jesus in the Eagle Nebula, an angry monkey angel in a cloud, and maybe even Lenin in a shower curtain. But these don’t really look all that much like what they’re supposed to (except for Lenin).
Now we have Elvis. And he rocks. Literally.
Ohhhhhh, baby. That makes me wanna peanut butter ‘n’ nana sammich.
Oh yeah.
Note: this marks the obvious need for the "pareidolia" category. So be it. I’ll add in older posts.
Tip o’ the sequined 45-degree-angle glasses to Fark.
July 16th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Thank you. Thank you verra much.
July 16th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
This is proof that Elvis is God.
July 16th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
This one’s actually pretty good.
July 16th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
I don’t believe in Elvis.
July 16th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Elvis has left thee buil… is part of the building?!?
July 16th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Come on, that’s clearly cut/pasted in..
Oh, the one on the left.
July 16th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Am I the only one who starts humming the Destroyer by the Kinks when I see the word “pareidolia”?
There’s a little yellow man on my bread…
July 16th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
I think it looks a little more like Tom Paine myself. But then, I’m a heathen.
July 16th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
At least this one is a lot clearer than most of the other ones out there.
July 16th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
that’s not even his good side.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Being in a rock, I guess it’s “old Elvis”. (As in way more than 6K years old…)
July 16th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
If I squint at it, it kinda looks like one of those old portraits of Shakespeare or someone of his time.
Wait! Does this mean Elvis was guided/inspired by Shakespeare?
July 16th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Those darned Elvis fanatics are always taking credit for things inappropriately! That is clearly an image of the prophet Pete Townshend from about the time of the release of “Tommy.” Death to the theiving Elvians! Long Live Rock!
July 16th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
No, you’re all wrong. It’s very clearly James Madison…during his presidential years, with comb-over. Where’s Dolly?
July 16th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Hmmm…. looks more like one of the early portraits of Napoleon to me. “Pareidolia is in the eye of the beholder.”
July 16th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
looks more like José de San MartÃn in our five pesos from Argentina (little more than a dollar and a half); It matches the colour at least.
–> link
c’mon, i mean: this guy liberated almost half a continent from spain! almost as big as elvis!
Link fixed by The Bad Astronomer
July 16th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
For more pareidolic fun, you guys can see the following page. The guy in the picture gave me this link in a chat room just a few days ago.
http://www20.brinkster.com/techsoft/
July 16th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
I definitely see the Napolean previously mentioned. The Kang didn’t have that kind of nose.
July 16th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
I like the Kinks reference, ABR, and your play on the song lyrics.
July 16th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
His nose points very downward and it looks like little glasses on his bridge, so it looks like John Lennon to me. Perhaps in a Sgt. Pepper getup.
July 17th, 2007 at 12:28 am
Les Miserables? No, more like ‘The Little Match Girl’ – the snow is steadily falling on her bare breast. Or is it the composite image of the little poor girl with her grand ma’s sagging whatnot? Strange. They are supposed to be reunited in heaven, but the rock seems to have fallen to the earth. Maybe the God didn’t buy the story, and sent it back.
July 17th, 2007 at 5:36 am
Does anyone have a clip of the Denis Leary bit on Pareidolia?
Well, he didn’t call it that, but he did have some interesting comments on people who see the Virgin Mary in water stains, road signs, and I think a muffin…..
July 17th, 2007 at 7:26 am
BWAHAHAHAHAHAH.
Pareidolia, how you mock us.
I have to agree on the Napoleon image, though Elvis is understandable. Actually, I’m just glad that nobody’s seen a cat in it yet.
July 17th, 2007 at 8:54 am
Hang on, wait a minute, should it not be the other way around? Isn’t this a picture of Elvis that strongly resembles a piece of rock? After all, he has been dead for almost 30 years…
July 17th, 2007 at 9:26 am
I’ll second the Napoleon and living in Memphis I think I have the authority to say that that ain’t no Elvis.
July 17th, 2007 at 9:47 am
It’s the Duke of Wellington
July 17th, 2007 at 11:51 am
I also see a guy in 18th or 19th century clothing and with a haircut from that era. Sorry!
July 17th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
You’re all wrong! Can’t you see it’s Liberace?
July 17th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
hmm i see Napoleon there, not Elvis.
BTW anybody seen French&Saunders on BBC making fun of ghost talkers?