{"id":792,"date":"2025-01-31T11:43:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T12:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/?p=792"},"modified":"2025-03-11T23:10:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T23:10:43","slug":"google-earth-sleuth-thinks-theyve-found-a-face-in-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/google-earth-sleuth-thinks-theyve-found-a-face-in-antarctica\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Earth sleuth thinks they\u2019ve found a face in Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Google Earth image of Antarctica that appears to show a face (Picture: Google Earth)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A Reddit<\/a> user believes they\u2019ve found a face peering back at them in a Google Earth image from Antarctica.<\/a> <\/p>\n

The satellite picture shared on the r\/strangeearth page shows what appears to be a half closed eye, a nose and a grimacing mouth in the snow and ice.<\/p>\n

Several on Reddit were quick to liken it to Megatron, the main antagonist from the popular Transformers franchise.<\/p>\n

You can find it for yourself by entering the coordinates 72\u00b000\u201952\u2033S 168\u00b035\u201937\u2033E.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time Antarctica has sparked intrigue by findings on Google Earth.Users think they\u2019ve found a massive door<\/a> while some believe there is an \u2018alien pyramid\u2019 half-buried in the snow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Is this a door to another realm? (Picture: Google\/SWNS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The face posted on Reddit, it turns out, has actually been shared on the same site previously, in 2019.<\/p>\n

A UFO<\/a> enthusiast suggested it could be evidence of aliens visiting earth, while conspiracy theorists believed it to be relics of an ancient civilisation.<\/p>\n

Blake Cousins, of YouTube channel\u00a0thirdphaseofmoon, said: \u2018It appears to be a massive, ancient structure of some kind of face that is being revealed for the first time on Google Earth.<\/p>\n

\u2018I would have to concur that whatever we\u2019re looking at resembles some sort of megastructure.\u2019<\/p>\n

But several posting on Reddit believe it\u2019s just a natural formation created by snow and ice, with some simply commenting \u2018pareidolia.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Some Reddit users said the Antarctica face looks like Megatron from Transformers (Picture: Paramount\/Everett\/REX\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pareidolia is the psychological phenomenon that causes the brain to see an object, patterns or meaning where there is none. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s particularly common for people to see faces and bodies and there are several theories as to why. <\/p>\n

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Adam Waytz, a professor and psychologist at Northwestern University in Illinois, has\u00a0spent years studying the possible reasons behind anthropomorphism, has it\u2019s called.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Metro last year<\/a>, he partly put it down to the fact that the \u2018self is so accessible for us and the self represents the prototypical human\u2019.<\/p>\n

Also, he said we need to make sense of the world or of an object and often do this by \u2018treating it as something we are familiar with \u2013 a human.\u2019<\/p>\n

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A woman said she found the image of Freddy Mercury in her teaspoon (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Queen frontman in his iconic pose (Photo by FG\/Bauer-Griffin\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A third reason, he explained, is that \u2018when we are deprived of social connection from humans we will seek it in other sources, including nonhumans\u2019.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile,\u00a0Punit Shah, a psychologist at the University of Bath, said our brains have evolved over many years to \u2018process visual information that is most useful to our survival\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018Social information, like faces, is extremely important for successfully existing and thriving in social groups \u2013 which is exactly what we as humans need to do,\u2019 she added. <\/p>\n

Among some of the most bizarre anthropomorphism finds we\u2019ve reported on over the years was Freddie Mercury on a teaspoon <\/a>and singer Lewis Capaldi in some chip wrapping.<\/a><\/p>\n

Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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