Comments on: Mystery Faces

By: Jerse

Jerse — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:57:05 +0000

It looks like their initials - Lauren Oswald, Linda O’Reilly, Larissa Olenik… who knows?

This picture is worth 1000 words (or any number divisible by two)

By: vladicus

vladicus — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:56:35 +0000

quick, someone tell snopes!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:44:40 +0000

I smell scientology… no evidence or reason, I just don’t trust those guys.

By: Howard

Howard — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:03:53 +0000

@ empty-minded: That must be what “LO” stands for.

By: fsmarch

fsmarch — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:08:58 +0000

They are not human. They came from the andromeda galaxy.

The letters are for their national lottery game.

By: empty-minded

empty-minded — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:05:30 +0000

It’ll show up on an episode of Law and Order: Criminal Intent.

By: Jess

Jess — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:29:53 +0000

The last two girls are the same person, only in the second picture she looks older. It appears these are some sort of before and after pics.

By: ted

ted — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:15:09 +0000

Serial killer victims with their intials on their foreheads because he had a black marker but no paper at the time.

By: SteveT

SteveT — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:09:34 +0000

Fascinating. I took these photos and created two more ways of looking at these same 10 pictures. One (http://tinyurl.com/4dysoq)is a little disturbing, but the second (http://tinyurl.com/64zxoc), as we’ve all been taught, that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

By: shecky

shecky — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:10:47 +0000

Like Jen, I was hoping somehow this mystery had been solved. Yes, they’d been around for a few years now. I’ve occasionally checked back to find if the mystery had been solved, but alas, no.

I’d wondered about a hoax. It seems either the markings could be faked or the photos themselves modern creations. If the latter, I give high marks to the hoaxer for making such authentic looking photos. If the former, the photos still seem quite mysterious, even without considering the markings, given some of the subjects seem to be the same person several years apart, the poses, and expressions, etc.

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:41:50 +0000

I saw this post and got SO excited thinking someone had finally solved the mystery. Alas…

*sigh*

By: Louise

Louise — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:12:54 +0000

Has no one here seen “Carnal Knowledge”? Jonathan has a slide show near the close of the movie where he shows his guests photos of all the women he’s had sex with. I agree with Kaela - they are initials of the women. None of them look terribly pleased about the event, though some of them do look rather … knowing.

By: Gorf

Gorf — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:15:10 +0000

Watch the pictures and read the comments while listening to Jean Michel Jarre’s “Oxygene Part 2″ for that extra creepy effect :P.

By: Alannah

Alannah — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:01:39 +0000

Now I’m going to obssess over what these could be. They do look…odd.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:22:42 +0000

IT looks like they were used in that stupid eugenics movement that swept across America.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:21:08 +0000

They reallly look like medical pictures. ‘Nose job’ was my first guess before reading the text, so now I’m betting on psychiatry ward classification.

By: Wrassilon

Wrassilon — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:42:18 +0000

I guess the all powerful web hasn’t cracked this one yet- I remembered seeing this a while back on BB, and if you look at the linkbacks these pics have been under scrutiny since 2006.

By: MisterDevious

MisterDevious — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:14:53 +0000

Best guess: a high-school prank. Kids get their yearbook shots taken with two letters each on their foreheads: when they appear in the book in alpha order, it spells out something. This could be the first in the string “LO-SE-RB-AB-YS-OW-HY-DO-NT-YO-UK-IL-LM-E?”

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:31:49 +0000

Actually, this is an old mystery. I remember reading about this in some newspaper or article (for the love of me I can’t remember) but there was speculation that it was either a set of pictures of dermatological volunteers, some (can’t remember) syndrome (look at the eyes and the nose being prominent similarities), or a set of pictures of mental patients.

Then again it may have been something entirely different like a model shoot for something? Still, this intrigues me alot. I love a good mystery.

By: Kaela

Kaela — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:27:50 +0000

Maybe the letters are the initials of the women.

By: bean

bean — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:24:12 +0000

Promo for the Helter Skelter movie?

By: Oomi

Oomi — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:54:15 +0000

Hormone treatment patients.
Sooper secret boy to girl experiment.

By: MrPumpernickel

MrPumpernickel — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:08:53 +0000

I somewhat second dilbart, it smells viral marketing from a mile away.

By: World's Most Beautiful Woman

World's Most Beautiful Woman — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:05:18 +0000

Could they be part of a religious cult….look at how intense and vacuous their stares are.

Almost as if being hypnotized

By: dibart

dibart — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:35:33 +0000

Is it possible that the blogger took these photos himself and invented the backstory to gain traffic to his site? I’m an incurable cynic when it comes to these things…

By: Yosh

Yosh — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:19:42 +0000

That made me feel weird and bad and dirty.

By: jack.wh

jack.wh — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:51:00 +0000

Weird! Do they know who any of these people are?

By: Keleborn

Keleborn — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:22:22 +0000

Creepy by the way.

By: Keleborn

Keleborn — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:22:10 +0000

If anyone or Alex know one day the answer to this I would be glad if you post it

By: Sofar

Sofar — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:21:20 +0000

It’s art. We’re constantly doing stuff like that these days, they must have just been ahead of the curve.