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Speaker 1: Approache production. Welcome to Silent Secrets, where each night we

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Speaker 1: explore a real mystery, softly told to help you fall asleep. Tonight,

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Speaker 1: we journey to a small village in Spain with something

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Speaker 1: unusual began appearing in a family's kitchen, not in the

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Speaker 1: cupboards or on the walls, but in the floor itself. Faces,

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Speaker 1: dozens of them, some smiling, some screaming, some so vivid

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Speaker 1: they looked alive. This is the true story of the

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Speaker 1: Belmies Face, a mystery that's puzzled skeptics and believers for decades.

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Speaker 1: So settle in, take a deep breath, let your mine

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Speaker 1: drift off to a quiet town in Spain, where the

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Speaker 1: walls and even the concrete may have something to say.

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Speaker 1: Maria Gomez, a quiet housewife in her fifties, was going

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Speaker 1: about her daily routine in her modest kitchen in southern Spain.

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Speaker 1: Nothing was out of the ordinary until she looked down

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Speaker 1: in the concrete floor, right near the stove. A face

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Speaker 1: was staring back at her. It wasn't a stain, it

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Speaker 1: wasn't a smudge. It was detailed, expressive, almost human. Startled,

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Speaker 1: she showed her husband and son. They tried to scrub

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Speaker 1: it off, thinking it was dirt or a trick of

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Speaker 1: the light. But it wouldn't budge, so they did the

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Speaker 1: next logical thing. They took a pick axe and destroyed

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Speaker 1: that section of the floor. They poured fresh cement and

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Speaker 1: patched it up. But within days a new face appeared,

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Speaker 1: then another, and another. Soon neighbors began visiting, then reporters,

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Speaker 1: then scientists. Photos were taken. People claimed to see men, women,

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Speaker 1: even children's faces etched into the floor. Some looked sad,

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Speaker 1: others looked tormented. No one, not Maria, not her family,

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Speaker 1: had any idea where the faces were coming from. The

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Speaker 1: phenomenon became known as the Faces of Bellemees. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: like before. Paranormal investigators began to arrive, and what they

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Speaker 1: found only deepened the mystery. In the hopes of solving

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Speaker 1: a riddle, local officials agreed to excavate beneath the kitchen floor.

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Speaker 1: What they found shocked everyone. Human remains, including skulls, buried

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Speaker 1: beneath the house. No one had any idea a gravesite

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Speaker 1: was under this home. The bones were exhumed and reburied

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Speaker 1: in cemetery. For a moment, people hoped that it would end,

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Speaker 1: but the faces kept coming, some disappeared, others changed expression.

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Speaker 1: Over time, new ones appeared in other parts of their house,

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Speaker 1: on the walls in the hallway. It was like the

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Speaker 1: house was alive or haunted. This mystery true skeptics, of course,

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Speaker 1: Some claimed the faces were painted by hand, using chemicals

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Speaker 1: or dies. In nineteen ninety a team of experts from

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Speaker 1: the Spanish Ministry of the Interior studied the house. They

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Speaker 1: sealed the kitchen for several weeks with tamperproof tape and

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Speaker 1: left cameras inside. When they returned, new faces had appeared,

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Speaker 1: despite no one having access. The concrete was tested. No

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Speaker 1: pigments were found. The faces weren't painted, and they weren't carved.

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Speaker 1: They seemed to emerge from within the material itself. Even

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Speaker 1: scientists had to admit they couldn't explain it. Some suggested

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Speaker 1: Maria herself might have some psychic ability, unknowingly caused by

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Speaker 1: the images through a process known as thotography, which projects

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Speaker 1: mental images onto physical surfaces. Others thought it was an

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Speaker 1: elaborate hoax for attention. Though Maria never profited, never wrote

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Speaker 1: a book, and often seemed distressed by the faces. Some

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Speaker 1: parapsychologists suggested the house was a kind of psychic hotspot

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Speaker 1: where emotional energy from the past had soaked into the

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Speaker 1: walls and floors. Still, no one could prove it, and

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Speaker 1: the faces kept coming for decades. Maria passed away in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and four, and some say the activity slowed

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Speaker 1: after her death, but never really stopped. Today, the house

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Speaker 1: still stands. It's now a small museum. Visitors come from

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Speaker 1: around the world, standing quietly in the kitchen, staring down

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Speaker 1: at the floor. Say the faces blink or move slightly.

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Speaker 1: Some say they feel watched, Others just feel cold. Where

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Speaker 1: they manifestations of grief, stress, or belief, or were they

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Speaker 1: something even stranger, messages from beyond? Using the only canvas available,

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Speaker 1: The Bellmse faces remain one of the most documented and

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Speaker 1: still unexplained paranormal cases in modern history. No one has

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Speaker 1: recreated them, no one has explained them, and no one,

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Speaker 1: not even skeptics, can fully say how or why they appeared.

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Speaker 1: As you close your eyes tonight, picture that quiet kitchen,

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Speaker 1: and just below your feet, the hint of a face watching, waiting, wondering,

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Speaker 1: as you slowly drift off a sleep, remember some homes

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Speaker 1: keep secrets in the strangest of places. Good Night, MONSI