Photo of Mount Rainier's snow monster!

Files 2012 07 Snow-Monster

Caught on camera! The horrific snow monster of Mount Rainier Creek! Photo by Gisela Taranovski via National Geographic.

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Steve Collins

What am I supposed to be seeing here? I even checked out the detail provided at the link. I still only get ice and snow, and deep longing. Edit: Is it vaguely face-y? OK, I guess.
- Max
  
  This is one of those “Jesus Toast” things where people who want to see patterns in stuff can see an image of a yeti. Check out the other links about pareidolia.
ahecht

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/files/2012/07/snow-monster-closeup.jpg

He’s winking.
- Paul Renault
  
  I would have gone with ‘Santa Claus’.
jonw

what is it?
- Ipo
  
  Virgin Mary’s vagina.
Shibi_SF

Oh. So, THATS what a snow monster looks like?? LOL snow monster, LOL.
Rich Keller

Glaciespithecus pareidoliensis?
info

Yay me! I just can’t see any para-thing there. Does this mean that I don’t exist?
- http://memoid.tumblr.com/ memoid
  
  Who said this?
http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby

It took a while, but I finally saw it. Quite detailed when you know where/how to look!

Bit like a magic eye.
Petzl

It’s like seeing Jesus, only more snow monster-ier.
CognitiveDissident

Monster made of snow?
Frosty’s absentee father!
Viktor

I just see a vase…
Boundegar

Aha. I had to click through to the zoomed-in version. Even then, I did not actually roll on the floor laughing. It’s just an expression.
theflusheddotcom

Oh come on. Huff Post did this too. Lame! Maybe it was just a snow bear like this using the bathroom: http://www.theflushed.com/2012/03/tp-bear.html
snagglepuss

Poor li’l fella. He looks cold.
Eark_the_Bunny

It looks like bunny rabbits to me. Although everything looks like bunny rabbits to me. We are up to our asses in bunny rabbits. I really have to buy more condoms!
Culturedropout

It popped out at me immediately. Whenever I’m faced with something like a sponge-painted wall, or something made of wood with the grain visible, I almost immediately start seeing people, faces, animals, demons, eyes, and so on. In my parents house all the doors were made of bookmatched wood, producing lots of approximately symmetrical “faces”. To me they always looked like spirits or demons. Does that make me weird, guys? Guys…? Where’d everybody go?
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  In my case, that’s an acid flashback.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Linley-Lee/665497022 Linley Lee
  
  It’s ok. I am the same.
- penguinchris
  
  In the bathroom in my parents’ house, the grain in the wood door looks distinctly like an enormous, nasty-looking knife, and you face it directly when seated on the toilet. I think I subconsciously trained myself not to look at it when I was a kid. I noticed it again when using that bathroom last year and realized that I hadn’t noticed it in years and years.
  
  I mean, a face would have been worse, but I guess I must have thought the knife was pretty scary when I was a kid ;)
Ben Burger

Actually ice monster, I was looking at the snow for a while.