This is quite possibly the scariest optical illusion ever ! Do you see some
women looking at themselves in a mirror... or is it the devil staring
right out at you! Definitely a scary optical illusion right out of a
haunted house or a horror movie! Boo!
A variation, if you'd like to learn something: With ambiguous art like this, where it could be more than one thing, here's something to try: Stare at the picture, but squint your eyes... In this case, you'll notice the scary face/figure pop out much more, since the facial features are much larger than the women's' small faces. As you squint, you'll see their figures fade into the background, and you'll see the scary devil face pop right out at you with his evil smile. If you squint for long enough, you'll notice that it looks like he has a dark, black beard and dark, mean eyebrows pointing down.
This also works if you look at the picture from across the room. The farther away you get, the scarier and more frightening it becomes.
Halloween is our absolute favorite holiday, what about you? Here's something you probably don't care about.... When I was in 8th grade I wanted to grow up and be a mask maker artist. That's right, create the scary, gory masks that people wear for Halloween.
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Same Shade Diamonds Our newest optical illusion.
We just created it on 10/10/2009
Wow! It will look like the diamonds on the top are much darker than the diamonds on the bottom.
You won't believe how amazing this incredible optical illusion is.
Watch as the scary faces disappear before your eyes.
The longer you stare the stronger the illusion. Perfect to send to your friends for Halloween!
The Obama Illusion
We made this original Barack Obama Illusion and then we made it famous!
Stare for about 30 seconds and you'll see his ghostly image appear on the wall!
Valentines Day Love Test Illusion
This is one of our most highly rated illusions by our visitors. Watch the hearts disappear before your very eyes!
This is really cool. You'll start to see the hearts disappear as you fixate at the center. Don't miss it.
Moving Spiral Illusion
A version of our original moving spiral illusion was recently published in a popular college textbook.
It uses multiple illusory principles to give the illusion that it is moving when it is absolutely not moving. Big enough to be your desktop background!
Build Your Own Impossible Triangle
Instructions so you can build your own impossible triangle. Tell M.C. Escher that it's not so impossible after all!
Comes with a printable PDF guide with dotted lines for the folds and clearly marked lines to cut. See pictures of visitors submitted triangles too!
If you don't have time to see the hundreds of illusions today, see if you can at least catch all of these...
