Virgin of Guadalupe's Image Spooks FarShores Reader
As an article, Science Stunned By 16thC Scene Found In Virgin Of Guadalupe's Eyes has consistently been among the top 10 most read stories on the FarShores web site. How could an image of the Virgin imprinted on a 600 year old 'tilma', or cloak, contain not one but many pictures - and all within the corneas of both eyes?
This phenomenon was first observed in 1929 and has been rediscovered a number of times in the years since but remained controversial until Aste Tonsmann, of the Mexican Center of Guadalupan Studies, published the results of his 20 year study last year.
Using the latest digital technology techniques the Peruvian engineer magnified the iris of the Virgin’s eyes 2,500 times and, through mathematical and optical procedures, was able to identify scenes of people apparently, and miraculously, imprinted in the eyes. This, he claims, captured the moment that 16th century peasant Juan Diego unfurled his tilma before Bishop Juan de Zumárraga and others present in the room on Dec. 9, 1531.
Clicking on the above headline will take you to the news story in question. While there be sure to click on the two further hyperlinks for enlarged versions of the Virgin's eye in question.
It was while reading and viewing these enlargements last month that FarShores visitor Kim Del Rio had an extraordinary experience. It proved so unsettling she felt obliged to log off and subsequently e-mailed myself about the event.
Said Kim, "I clicked on the 'Virgin of Guadalupe's' article. I also clicked on the two images of the magnified eyes. I want you to keep in mind Im not a Christian. Im not religious
at all. But..... I looked at both images, went back and forth between the two and
re-read the article several times.
"I was looking at image #1, squinting my eyes, looking at it from different angles. At first I didn't see anything. Then all of a sudden I started seeing faces popping out all over
the image!
"I wasn't seeing the image described by the investigator, I was seeing faces, almost scary looking. They seemed to be coming really fast, here and there all over the image."
The strange thing is that what Kim was seeing wasn't in the eyes but the entire area around the eye, the cheek area surrounding the eye and she wondered, "I want to know if it's just me, my eyes playing tricks on me, or if it is the image. Could this image be a hoax? The pixels looked raised, like digital
camera image."
Not one to jump to conclusions, "or let my imagination get the best of me," reports Kim, she was however spooked by the fact that the faces were scary and, "not nice angelic biblical faces like the ones described in the article that went along with the photo.
"Two faces in particular were very strange. They appeared to have something tubular coming out of their mouths. I wish I had a computer that was capable
of my out lining these images so I could show you where they are.
"I downloaded the photo and showed it to my husband when he got home from work. He saw skulls every where. And when he showed me where they were I could see them too. He didn't, however see all of the faces in the same way I did. He would see different faces attached to or made out of the faces I could see," Kim continued.
"I also saw a pink face with it's cheeks puffed up with air and it's eyes bugging out of it's head. In the pink areas you can pick out arms, elbows, eyes and noses. I could even see an image of Pres. Nixon! I sent this photo to my Mom. She didn't see anything at all."
Kim has come to the conclusion that the photo is a hoax.
"If you blow up the image and look at it, it seems like a mosaic of hundreds of tiny images cut up and pieced together. That might be why I am seeing so many different things in this photo. I think that someone should take this man's photos of the Virgin's eyes and have them analyzed on a computer. I believe that would show the photo is a hoax, made up of several cut up images of different things.
"It's still weird and creepy. And why am I the only person who has seen these things in the Virgins eyes?", wonders Kim. "Maybe people are seeing things and know one else has reported it?"
Well, what do you think reader? If you haven't already visited the page in question, please do so now and tell FarShores of your observations. Can you see what Kim and her husband have observed, or do you think, like her, that this is all some clever hoax?
To help you all here are two additional images, highly enlarged and deliberately retouched by Aste Tonsmann, in order to draw attention to what he says is visible in both of the Virgin of Gualaloupe's eyes:
