BP-2026.014.1
Las caras de Bélmez
- Claim
- 1 of 5
Possessions, or a person’s state of mind, affected in a way that passes. - Evidence
- 2 of 5
One retelling, publication or sale listing. - Provenance
- 2 of 3
Its history is partly documented.
These three figures are kept separate and are never combined into a single score. How grave the claim is, what it rests on, and whether the object can be traced are different questions. How the register reads them.
Asserted
Accounts attributed to a source. The register does not adopt them.
That being near them makes people uneasy. From August 1971, faces were said to appear in the concrete floor of a kitchen, to change expression between observations, and to return after the floor was dug up and relaid. Part of the commentary attributes them not to anything in the floor but to the occupant herself, producing them without intending to.
- P18
change in appearance or expression
- P23
marks or writing appearing on it
- C6
unease
- E1
an unnamed presence attributed to them
index v0.8: Unnamed presence attributed
- E10
attached to a person rather than the object
- X1
bound to a location
reported by: since 23 August 1971
Recorded
Established by the register, or received with the object.
File
- Register number
- BP-2026.014.1
- Entry type
- Object entry
- Opened
- 2026-09-16
- Coded against
- Claim Index v0.8
Object
- Type
- architectural element, concrete floor
- Materials
- concrete, cement
- Date
- house of the twentieth century
- Origin
- Andalusia, Spain
- Whereabouts
- sections removed and preserved; the house stands
Custody
No custody record has been entered.
On what grounds
Published retellings. Reported since 23 August 1971. Evidence is capped at 2: evidence has been altered.
Counter-indications
What weighs against the claim. These are never subtracted from a figure; the lowest applicable ceiling is applied instead.
- CI7
an ordinary explanation has been offered
- CI10
evidence has been altered or manipulated
- CI23
those reporting the claims had a commercial interest in them
A commission appointed by the national interior ministry in 1971 found vinegar, a brown pigmentation and an aggressive chemical compound in the floor. Later analyses reported zinc, lead and chromium, all common pigment constituents, and infrared photography brought brush bristles to light. The house was operated as a paid attraction.
Register findings
- MT7
price records on file
- MT27
object of organised visitation
- MT16
subject of an official examination
Note. Local press photographed the floor at the time, which is a record made by professionals. It records that marks were present. It does not record that they appeared without a human hand, and the register scores the claim, not the marks.