VERY cool! i love stuff like this!

I am just posting to say that I saw a head right away but it was just a head. You Jesus people need to relax.

Wow, this is strange. But what a wonderful message.

The head looks more like Rasputin than Jesus

This is just another example of the brain’s tendency to distinguish between what psychologists call “Figure” (the image in so called “foreground") and “Ground” (the image that we perceive as the “background"). Of course because the brain is intrinsically predisposed to recognize faces rather than the truly mundane “background” of this image, we see an illusory face and not the true image of a child sitting in a rather convenient position.

odd.. i saw the child and spent like 3 minutes looking for the bearded head but i finally saw it

That’s really, really fucking creepy.

Cool image. It cracks me up how people say ‘that looks like Jesus.’ Because there are no drawings of Jesus, let alone photographs. ‘That looks like a guy in a beard.’ Okay, I’ll buy that. ‘That looks like Jesus.’ Hmmm .....

say it looks like jesus........NO ONE KNOWS WHAT HE LOOKED LIKE!!!!! were guessing based on paintings at best a couple of hundred years after he died!!wtf?! he may have had a mexican style tash and cornrows!

okay, got it BUT theres also another child next to the baby which is jesus hair!  they sit beside one another. slightly older, no bonnet. do you see him?

Clearly photoshopped. I can see that the grain has been rearranged, also these camera-obscura-slow-exposure type camera are actually a lot more definite than they’ve been pinned as being, it because photographers of the 1800’s were all incredibly dab hands at photoshop. Curse photoshop trickery.

its 2 children. look a little closer.

bollocks is it a child. Thats a huge floaty head if ever i saw one. so ask me arse.

....I don’t see shit.

Sorry.

I was just kidding.
haha.

Got you=D

Takes a while to see it… but interesting shot.

I didn’t see a head (and after a while of looking...I still can’t see a head.)

I see and saw a child from the beginning.

That is absolutely amazing!

Thanks for sharing it.....

lol cool, bet this caused a stir in the day

Actually, I saw the head of Rasputin—but yeah! I had to struggle to see the child.

maybe the child is Jesus
with or without a beard

That is a really nifty trick that our mind plays on us.  OK, so no we don’t know what Jesus looked like.  So saying that it “looks like” Jesus means that the image seen looks like the iconic Jesus that we know.  And Jesus would not have a Mexican mustache and cornrows.  He was middle eastern....

I saw the kid straight away. It took me ages to see the head, I thought this was some kind of double joke.

Definitely photoshopped.

It’s Jesus,and baby Jesus.

ITS 2 CHILDREN !!!

ITS 2 CHILDREN, NOT 1 !  LOOK CLOSER

I actually saw the child initially, and didnt see the jesus-face until i read all of your description. Odd!

Jesus arrives to save the world.

Next Stop: Toast

First thing I saw was the baby, I actually had to try to see Jesus haha

You people are all retarded and looking for something special. I looked at it and immediately seen two people and a baby on the guys knee. What is wrong with all of you. You religious nuts have to be the stupidest people around. Go read your bible and leave the internet to the non-retarded folk.

I looked at it again and I did see the second baby.
.
But the longer I looked at it I also saw a teddy bear.
.
Over-active imagination? Or just crazy?

That’s cool, i like it.  Jesus died like 2000 years ago, he doesn’t exist, GET OVER IT!!!

AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO SEES THE SECOND CHILD??

i seen the kid first i had to search for jebus, praise jebus.

i see the teddy bear, its to the right of both kids right under the womans waist. your not crazy, lol.

it is a kid.

I say it’s Jesus.

Okay. That’s creepy.

Wow that is totally Jesus!  I’m converted...he was hiding in the foliage the whole time!

I’d just like to point out that the image used to represent Jesus is actually that of Cesar Borgia. So, you aren’t seeing an image of Jesus, you’re seeing an image of a Cesar.

too bad Jesus is black

I can’t see the kid. O_O

If Jesus actually existed he would not at all look like what this picture, or your modern religious propaganda, would lead you to think. 

Why would a tall, blonde haired, blue eyed, jewish man be living in the middle east over 2000 years ago? 

If you think this is a picture of Jesus, kill yourself and find out if it’s true.

Wow.  It took me a while to see the child.  You truly have to ignore the `hair` to see the child.  The child is sitting on the man`s knee and his bonnet is rather large for his head.  The `wavy hair`I think is what leads us to see the image as a man`s head instead of a child.

rational thinking 1; blind belief 0

Took me a long while, and I still need to go back and remind myself where it all is, but I see it.
There is a word that explains the phenomenon of people seeing familiar images in places where they could never be-like the man in the moon, or some of those pictures where people say they see Jesus in the clouds.

Does any one know what it is? I lsimply cannot remember it.  I heard it used on TV a long time ago and it’s a helpful little tidbit to use in discussions but only if you can remember it.
Feel free to email me if you know it.

Thanks for the image.

So I opened this pic in Photoshop just so I could adjust exposure and gamma to see it better, there are THREE kids in this pic, There is one obvious kid in white on his lap, then one right next to that kid out on his knee swaddled up and also with a bonnet, then there is a shy kid standing there (back to the camera) leaning against “Mom” with it’s face buried in her lap.  Standing kid has on a light shirt and plaid pants.

Mom is also holding something that could possibly be a baby, but from the way she is holding it-I don’t think so.

Jesus r u nuts its just a big giant head y does everything have to look like Jesus

I am jesus and yes, it’s me. I’m using the child as a human shield to protect me from satanic devils. It’s normal in heaven.

I saw the kid first, i had to work to see the head.

Worth a thumbs up on stumble, I had to look hard to see the child instead of the face.

Paradolia is fun.

Wow, that kid looks, er… creepy.

How do you know what Jesus looked like?

PLEASE. Your petty bickering over whether or not this is shopped or if it looks like Jesus is obnoxious. If you think it’s shopped, you probably haven’t focused hard enough to actually see the child, and if you’re trying to make the author more PC by asking if they know what Jesus “actually looked like,” then you have no life whatsoever. It resembles the westernized concept of Jesus and you damn well know it, so STFU asshat.

It is an awesome photo. If you’re going to take the time to leave a comment make it something interesting, or at least useful.

To begin with I saw the kid and was looking up above between them at what seemed to be a lion.... anyway after I read that there was supposed to be a jesus head I saw it and lost sight of the kid. lol

Praise Jesus!

If Jesus were white...Looks more like the lead singr from NIckelback

it probably takes a while because your trying to make something appear that isnt really in the picture (ps where did you find that brush i had it but when i reinstalled windows i lost all of my ps brushes and cant find that particular one anywhere) you knwo what i’m talking about you phony

ohh now i see it, pretty cool

what you see is the childs angel

ITS JEESUS!!! Sell it on ebay!

but who’s to say that the kid isn’t Baby Jesus?

I thought it was Saddam Hussein. Imagine my surprise when someone pointed out it was actually Jesus!

Just goes to show...it’s not faith, it’s an overactive imagination.

‘shopped.

Takes a lot of starring at the picture, but you can see it.  Amazing how the mind plays tricks isn’t it.

I don’t see anything. All I see is a kid sitting on the guys lap

OH MY GOD ITS JESUS!!! PRAISE THE LORD HE’S REAL!

haha, just kidding.

thats one freaky looking kid

Usually I can see things like that immediately.  This took me forever, though.  It’s hard to see because his coat is so blown out.

Looks more like Leonious from 300 than Jesus, though, the beard looks all long and pointish.

How is it that some people don’t see “Jesus”? The sleeve that makes out the shape of a nose and the waviness of the foliage (the hair) should give “Him” away. It should look like “Jesus’s” profile. I saw “Jesus” right away. and I had to block out “His hair” to see the kid with the bonnet. I see both now.

Oh yeah? Well, I saw Jesus’ face in my cheerios today. So ha! You’re all blasphemers.

Anyways, very cool pic.

By the way, Gestalt psychology indicates that certain amount of people will initially see the face, and the others will initially see the child. It’s a simple matter of figure-ground perception. Anyways, my point is, it’s not a matter of whose image recognition is the correct one. It’s solely dependent on the psychological predisposition of the person viewing it.

You can read more about this phenomenon here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure-ground_(perception)

How many of you see the vase, before seeing the two faces?

“Be patient.  It may take you awhile to see this.”

true story i couldn’t see the head forever! don’t be so condescending like no one will see the child, it’s harder to see the “illusion” than what’s really there

when i finally found it i thought it looked more like shakespeare

Maybe it’s just me, but I can see a kangaroo next to the lady’s head.

it took me a while to see the face :p

Maybe I’m weird, but it took *me* a while to see the large head.  I saw the child immediately. :p

I see the head but the child is lost to me.  Still looking.

Oh jeez. I saw this before on another site but I couldn’t make it out for the life of me. Even with your explanation it’s really hard to keep the actual image in focus. Thanks!

if you look to the right there is a little boy also between the baby and the mom

@ the person who commented saying Jesus was blond hair, blue eyed. Since when was Jesus blond? I always thought his iconic symbol was, huuur, brown haired, brown eyed. (Actually, I never envisioned/seen an eye color… he often has them closed, like “Oh no, I’m on the cross.") I think you’re thinking of Hitler’s Aryan race. Totally different thing, pal.

Funny, like only a couple other people here, I saw the child immediately and needed some time to figure out where the floating face was. I wonder if there is a reason or neural explanation for that.

People need to lighten up about Jesus. It does look like the common artist renderings of Jesus. If you don’t like it, get bent. You have no right to expect others to protect you from random Jesus references. There’s something wrong with you if you are offended by the mere evocation of his name.

$20 to whoever can find the virgin mary and buddah lmao… well i guess its better to find jesus in a picture than on a tortilla or something that i remember hearin about a while back

OH DEAR GOD ITS
JESUS

Pretty cool. I saw the head and thought, “Huh, it looks like a head.” Realizing it had to be something else, I looked closer and saw the child.

What is it with people who think everything looks like Jesus or the Virgin Mary?

Okay, since when was Jesus a white male? If I saw an arabic looking fella there, I might shit bricks… but it’s more George Washington than Jesus.

The head is a Heavy-Metal bassist

that is creepy.

funny story, I have no idea where there is supposed to be a head...I only see a kid....

I am Sarah Palin.  I can see Vladimir Putin in this picture, using my binoculars from my back porch in Wasilla.

I’m a bitch, too.

I’m with ‘lol’ way above me, calm down with the jesus crap

I don’t see a child there..well,but there may be a child..really interesting picture..

WOW - I jumped a bit when I saw it. Not sure if the face or child is freakier.

Yeah, I see the kid.
And the beard man.
I ALSO see the vague figure of a woman standing over the man.
Not the ACTUAL woman to the right, but like over his head.
In the far-up left corner directly above him.

Yeah, I figured it out after a few seconds; the fact that the photo is monochrome helps mask the illusion, but my how lucky was the photographer who snapped this one.

of course the religitards will all point and shout ‘LOOK! PROOF OF TEH ALMIGHTY11!!’ So easily fooled.

How do you know what Jesus looked like? We see what we want to see, don’t we?

Holy @#$% that’s cool.  It really took me a while to see!

Uh, how exactly do we know what Jesus looked like?

Jesus wasn’t fucking white, you idiots.  Think, where was he born?  He was a fucking arab just like the people we’re at war with.  Dumbfucks

I saw the child first...I was so confused at first ("What Jesus head? Why don’t I see the Jesus head!") And then I saw it.  It’s pretty cool.

i think it’s a black slave child and jesus wants you to free him

looks like Photoshop/

i can c the face & the child but no 2nd child.

You know, the first thing I saw was the child sitting on his lap. It was for just a couple of seconds then after reading the title I started seeing the head and took me ages to see the kid again. Trippy.

what’s hardest for me is to look at the lady and still see the CHILD in the periphery.  for some reason, when i focus on her, the face is almost impossible NOT to see.

perhaps it was the title of the post that caused me to see the face far more readily than the child...?  anyway, took about 5 minutes and now i can switch between them pretty easily, but the face far and away remains my “default” perception.

Just paste the image in Microsoft Paint and press Ctrl+I, you will see the image with colors inverted (a negative) and the child can be easily seen. Its basically the shrewd combination of colors, which makes you see this.

I thought it was king Charles the 1st....hence only the head!

I wonder why the little girl’s bonnet is pulled down so low over her face. There is no way she could have been able to see anything like that.

i’m sick of stuff like this.  even if Jesus was real, he wasn’t italian.  the man you all call jesus is a european depiction of a man nobody knows is real or not.  so you can take this picture say what you want, but just be prepared to be called a liar.

photoshopped

jesus looks like he likes to be everywhere that’s way they nailed him to a cross but he wants to come out also in pics...............

id say its something as simple as a botched developing.and the whole jesus thing.we have a fair idea what he looked like,probably more palestinian looking than anything

Nobody has any idea what Jesus looked like, even if he did exist (as also we we have no evidence!). I saw the picture as it was, at first, and it took a while to conjure up the Jesus pic, after following the instructions. Nice illusion, in any case.

I couldn’t see the giant head at all until you described how to not see it.  Now I can’t not see it!  Very cool.

the guy in a beard is my uncle, I took the shot.

dam! i see the little kid now

Why, anytime there is an image of a face on something, must it be a religious face?  If it’s a female face, it’s the virgin mary, and if it’s a male face, it’s jesus.  Are there no other faces in the world?
And it doesn’t even look like paintings of jesus.  Did jesus have curly hair, a mustache, and wear too much eye makeup?  Not as I recall.

At first when I saw the photo I was thinking “what are these people smoking? all I see is a couple with their kid on the father’s knee” I stared at it for a good 20 seconds searching for a large floating head and couldn’t find one. Then I tilted the computer screen slightly and then it hit me I could see the head. Just goes to show that people often see the world differently than one another.

How does that look like Jesus?

That child looks like E.T. o_0

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!! TOOK ME A MINUTE AND I WASNT BELIEVING(SEEING) ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE BEARDED DUDE!!!!! WOW

What I’m a lot more interested in than the “it’s Jebus!” “no, it’s a hobo!” debate is that some people don’t see the head immediately.

I saw the head, knew it was an trick of the eye, looked like hell for the ACTUAL picture. Couldn’t find it. Found the foliage/hair, but couldn’t for the life of me figure out what the face was until I read it was a child. It’s the bonnet that gets you. Who the hell wears a bonnet, anyway?

Why do some people not see the head at all, and have to dedicate as much effort to find the head as I did to find the child?

That being said, this is clearly photoshopped. The pixels add up to a prime number.

I counted.

I might not have all my facts straight but I have heard the way they used to take photos was to take an image and lay it on a blank slate or piece of metal and if that was not whipped off properly before the next photo you end up with a double exposure.. interesting photo i love old photos they seem to capture so much more then modern photos.

i actually saw the child first

Oddly enough I saw the picture with the child on the man’s lap first, only after I started to read the article did I realize there was an illusion of a face and honestly I kinda had to look. Which makes me wonder what that says about my psychology. (in reference to comment further down)

cool

It’s Jesus. LOL

That’s very weird, I don’t know what You people see on that freak picture.. ;-/

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Jesus was black he did not look like a white junkie so it just looks like a white guy with a jherri curl

WHOA. That was hard to find. Lol Interesting, though.

At first I had no idea what you were talking about with the floating head--I only saw the child...but after trying to see it differently, I could see the floating head. I wonder why I saw the child first....

WOW That is totally freaky.  Is it your photo? or just one you found?  It did take me awhile to see the child.

nice one, took me about 15-20 secs id say 2 see it lol. cool cool coolios.

pretty cool!~

thats pretty sweet but it doesnt look like a child more like an older man. but who knows. and the douche who said jesus people need to relax cause he saw the person right away is narrow minded and needs to know their options.

I actually saw the child first. I had to stare at it a moment to see the ‘jesus head’. lol
Cool photo though.

I think it is a picture of a hippie with two small people standing on his shoulders!

that was awesome! so bizarre! haha jesus freaks surely love this pic, i found the image of jesus in the anus of a dog, it has a site really for all those people, also theres a virgin mary in a loaf of bread, in my country they love to find jesus in all kinds of shit

Noone knows how jesus looked like. And btw, it looks photoshopped. I can tell by some of the pixels and because I have seen quite a few photoshops in my time.

Looks like a toasted cheese sandwich with the virgin Mary

Interesting

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i spent a hell lot of time to see that little boy

I saw the head right away, but it took a few seconds of concentrating before I saw the child. This is a very good optical illusion.

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That is pretty cool. I also want to point out what looks like a ghost in the background. of a lady in a hoop dress with an unbrella over her head. This photo has a lot of neat material in it. any idea who, when, and where these subjects are from?
shnazzy!

That’s pretty amazing, not a trick, just an ‘accidental’ illusion. Wonder what the people who took the picture thought?

wow.... amazing oO

omg! i see it! wow, it took me a while, but i got it, that’s cool.

honestly, i saw it, and first thought of a side profile of handel

also, shouldn\t that be “take you a while”? two words?

Cool! It took several minutes for me to actually see the kid but i did it. One of the mysteries of the world is solved! Well done!

These type of photos are eerie in a way that they project alternate visions to the viewer. Christ’s face in the melting snow, a crucified Christ’s eyes opening and closing, the Blessed Virgin’s image on a grilled cheese sandwich, et al .

shopped

In between the father and baby I see the face and partial body of another baby (the baby’s face would be touching the fathers).  Another illusion?

Wow.  It took me FOREVER to see the child...I only saw it when I looked at it out of my peripheral vision.

This is really, really odd.  But cool.

I can switch between picture to picture very easily and saw both photos immediately!

Whoa things like this don’t come around often

Would it be normal for a white couple to take a photograph with a black child in the 1800s?

thats really weird. i couldnt see it for ages and then i read some of the comments and scrolled back up to the picture then i saw it straight away.

how does every bearded man look like jesus?

Funny, I must be a born atheist. Because I saw the child first, it took me a moment to actually see the face.

i don’t see jesus at all! all i see is a child on the man’s knee.

nvm, i finally saw jesus

Yes, of course, it MUST be the REAL Jesus !!!! This will change the world !!!

hahaha. I was reading above the picture about seeing a bearded head. But I didn’t see anything! It said “Between the two figures” and I kept saying to myself, “but there’s 3 people in this photograph. A man, child, and woman.”

So, I scrolled down and read the bottom… and it said about it not being a face, it’s a child. And I was like, “Duh. I don’t see any danged face.”

So, I scrolled up and Bam! There was the face! How weird!

That is amazing.  I did think it was one of those fake photos.

Jesus hates Christians. That is why he is in this photograph.

WOW! It just hit me all of a sudden!

So strange really

That’s not my head

i dont see the person, please explain better

This is wack...and Jesus is a fake messiah. And he would not be white, most likely he would have been looked like a Arab.

ITS FAKE!!!!!

Esta fotografía fue sacada con doble expocision, es decir que la misma fue expuesta a la luz en dos oportunidades. En la época en que parece haber sido sacada la foto, este “truco” se hacía en forma artesanal, quizás dejando el obturador abierto y realizando primero una foto y luego el otro fotograma.
En esos años para el común de la gente que apenas conocía la “fotografí” todo esto podía ser tomado como “mágico”. Luego, cuando la fotografía se desarrolla, la doble expocisión es una herramienta mas a la hora de sacar una fotografía artistica.

I agree with Hwyman...that’s Rasputin back from his grave!! I always knew he’d come back to save us all from our sins!

Yes. It´s a great photo. Don´t show it to UFO Fans

great pic

You’re sooo right. It took me a while to see it, but I finally did xD

it took me like 5 minutes to see the child i immediately saw the face of a dead ape/man

What could the toughts of intelligent life in outer space be if we send this image into the outer space? What could they think about this image? Non-sense maybe? We form the fake image automatically in our brain because we knows the usual silouete of a face, or even a human body… (sorry about my english...)

Amazing! I spent a couple minutes until I could see it :D

Wow.
Our brains can be tricked very easily.

What this got to do with Jesus? Did he wear his hair Luis XIV style?

Fantastico!

Oddly enough, I saw that boy immediately and could only see the face after reading the caption

B.S. at it’s best. Congrats for sending out another bit of crap on the net. I think I have to take a shit now....time better spent.

Whoa that really took me a long time to see. I saw the face even before reading the above paragraph. The covering up the hair tip really helped.

i took classes on how to paint and draw noses, eyes and the like. its just a face. its probably not Jesus. but it’s definately a face. most likely what happened was two negatives got stuck together when making the print, producing a double exposure.

hmmm.... just posting to say that in fact, I saw the kid the first time I looked at the picture, and it actually took me time to see the head. I guess that’s just the way my brain works O.o

The “child” looks more like an ape. And it really doesn’t look like Jesus OR Rasputin. It looks like the homeless guy that hangs out in the Walmart parking lot, holding up that “Will Work For Food” sign.

Very interesting I would have to say...I seen it right away...lol..Freaky ahy......

Curiously enough, I’ve seen first the baby and it took a little for me to see the face, sort of 30 secs. What does it mean? Am I crazy or something?

damn that took me a minute....trip

WOW SUPER OLD!

It’s a hoax.  I’m pretty sure he’s holing Jesus’ head…

Yeah, that’s for sure.

I seen that right away! Cool picture.

it exctually took me a while to see the jesus head. I first saw the child sitting

The first thing i saw was a man, a child sitting on his knee and the lady. I didn’t see the face. Now that I read the comment, that’s when I saw the face. I figured we use different side of the brain.

I’ve never actually seen a pic of Jesus, don’t think they had cameras when he was around, I know he couldn’t possibly be blonde & fair skinned (as he is so often depicted)
I can clearly see a toddler sitting on the blokes knee though.

It looks like in the “hair” that there is another child there?

Whoa!
:]

i believe it is both a child and jesus who appears in mysterious ways. god bless.

Jesus was black.

Fascinating!

LOL.  Rob Zombie!

It is not Jesus!

Jesus Christ was a black man.

By the way, Mexico has weapons of mass destruction.

That is amazing.  It did take a minute or so to see anything other that the huge head.  Kinda freaky.....

It appears to me that this isn’t an actual photograph and is itself an illusion all together.  Did anyone notice that more than half of the photograph is black?  If anything, the left or right side would have been black if the camera had a malfunction with the silver and chalk mixture, correct? 

things aren’t always what they seem.

Funny how human nature simply insists on seeing faces, in ALL of their forms. I watched bubbles in the bathtub this morning whilst contemplating the phenomina. Dalmatians they were.

It might just be because I’m REALLY stoned, but HOLY F*** that is creepy. :|

No one knows what Jesus actually looks like.
The photo is very interesting. I do see a bearded man in the photo but I too had a beard at one time and people didn’t call me Jesus.
If you look carefully you can see several other figures in this photo.

Wowowowow…
It got me…

But nice one…

obviously doctored come on

How cool. I can switch between seeing a big head and a little child at will. Took a minute to see the child the first time.

It’s not a fucking picture of Jesus. Everyone seems to have this image in their head of Jesus with long hair, sometimes a beard, and white skin. The truth is that we don’t know what he looked like, nor will we ever. He was most definitely not caucasian because of where he was born.

Not the best photoshop job just adding the same shaped scratch to make you think it’s the top of a big head, but nice find.

Amazing......I see it!  So interesting, how our minds create images we can relate to....especially faces.........remember the “Face on Mars”

freaky

seriously...that could be anyone with a beard…

and anyone heard of this fancy thing called a double-exposure…
I think its when you expose the film twice!

the first thing i saw was the kid, it took me awhile to find jesus actually…

Why is the child wearing a retarded-looking hat? lol but still, that’s pretty cool. I love illusions like this.

this is fucking gay.

jesus isn’t real, that’s just either some weird lighting of the picture.. or it’s just like that cause it’s fucking old!

=]

I could only see the child.
I eventually saw ‘jesus’
But jeez, calm it on finding jesus.
you’ll get to him soon enough.