In today’s modern day and world it is so easy to start an urban legend. One of the most recent and most popular one is the one from the World Trade Center incident. “The picture shows the face of the Devil gloating over the destruction the terrorist caused”(Redman Lucas Wells). If you would like to see the picture it is located in the appendix.

The reason why, when sum times you walk into a black room and you look into the blackness. Your mind will start to make shapes and make you think that you are seeing a face, or a person when it is just nothing. Because the brain try’s to do its best to recognize any features that might be construed in the context of a face or a body or something having a human resemblance.

As an inadvertent side effect [of the evolutionary development of the ability to recognize faces at an early stage of each individual's life], the pattern-recognition machinery in our brains is so efficient in extracting a face from a clutter of other detail that we sometimes see faces where there are none. We assemble d

See the Animal Churning in Icy Water

isconnected patches of light and dark and unconsciously try to see a face. The Man in the Moon is one result. … There are many other examples (Sagan 46).

Ever since the advancement of the Internet as a popular means of communication. a matter of mere days. The Kurt Vonnegut hoax of 1997 is a standout example of how rapidly in the modern age a false belief can spread, be found out and change, and end up totally different. It's amazing, really. “As a result, the internet appears to be at least as efficient at spreading myths as it is at disseminating truth”(Wallich 54).

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