9/11 is a joke in my town

There's a saying that really stupid people use: "9/11 changed everything". It's a trite little tautology and is usually used as a rhetorical blackjack to club readers or viewers with some horrible idea (ie: "torture is wrong, but 9-11 changed everything." You know the type.) Still, for a lot of people the attacks of 9/11 did change everything, whether it impacted them directly through the loss of a friend or family member, or if only by shattering the illusion of American security. For others, though, the events of 9/11 drove them completely fucking nuts(and I ain't just talking about the folks at the National Review).

Taste the crazy.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was working at my home office. After being informed of the first terrorist attack on the Trade Center towers I turned on the television and watched the horror unfold. I was shocked at the unimaginable destruction, and overwhelming loss of life. It was a tragedy beyond belief.

As I watched that morning, I noticed a series of eerie faces in the billowing smoke. These images appeared to morph in the seemingly never-ending pillars of ugly black smoke. I made a mental note of these surreal apparitions, and I mentioned it to my wife. I did not discuss these sightings again. After all, I tend to see images in clouds. However the images I see in clouds are always pleasant images, usually animals.

In assembling the archives for this site, I viewed thousands of images and newspaper covers. Again, I noticed the eerie faces in the still images of the smoke of the burning towers. They seemed to be present in not just one, but several of the burning tower images. Further research provided additional information and seemed to confirm what I was seeing.

I was not alone in noticing these awful faces.

My favorite bit is how he usually sees kittens and baby elephants in the contours of visible bodies of very fine water droplets or ice particles suspended in the atmosphere, but saw mean nasties in the smoke and flames of a burning building where hundreds of people were dying horrible deaths. Anyway, there's not much more I can say, but do make sure you check out the photos of the "faces", especially this horrible vision: