Mount Nebo

Alabama · United States · Cemetery

Some of the headstones here have faces on them, and the faces change: smiling, angry, or simply moving.

This old cemetery in Alabama has a boardwalk a short way up the road, and the two are reported together.

Some of the headstones carry faces. Visitors say the faces change expression, to a smile or to anger, or simply move.

The practical instruction that comes with the account is the interesting part. If the light on the back of the old church is not on, you will not be able to see anything at all.

That is an honest admission that the whole effect depends on a single dim light source at a distance, which is precisely the condition under which the human visual system invents detail. Faces are the thing we are best at seeing and quickest to see where there is none, and carved portrait stones under weak raking light are about the strongest possible trigger for it.

The cemetery is a burial ground and the church is in use.

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Where is Mount Nebo located?

Mount Nebo is in Alabama, United States.