A Happy Group Hike Turned Terrifying: The Uninvited Face in the Photo 😱🌲📸
It started as a joyful day in the great outdoors. 🌞 Six university friends from around the world had reunited for a long-awaited hiking trip through the forests of southern Argentina, near the border with Chile. 🌿With backpacks loaded and spirits high, they ventured deep into the Patagonian wilderness, snapping photos, laughing, and soaking in nature’s beauty.
By noon, they stopped on a mossy ridge to take a group selfie. 📱 All six of them squeezed together, with the vast forest stretching out behind them. The picture was meant to be a memory of pure joy — and at first glance, it was. 😄🌳
Later that night, sitting around the fireplace in their rustic lodge, they began scrolling through the day’s photos. That’s when Eliza gasped. 😨
«Wait. Zoom in. Bottom left corner,» she said, her voice shaking.
The room fell silent as they all leaned in. There, just beneath her own shoulder… was a face. Not hers. Not any of theirs. A seventh face. Pale, gray-green, eyes wide and empty. A crooked grin stretched across its face — a face that was clearly not human. 🧟♂️👁️👁️
“What the actual hell is that?!” shouted Tom, dropping his phone.
The friends went into full panic mode. 🫣 They scoured every other photo from the hike, trying to see if the figure had appeared elsewhere. But no — only this one image held the nightmare.
They uploaded it to Reddit under the title “Unedited selfie… but who is number 7?” 😰
Comments poured in within minutes:
— “This is why I don’t go into forests. Ever.”
— “That smile. That’s not human. That’s… wrong.”
— “Please delete this, I can’t sleep now.”
Others tried to be rational:
— “Maybe it’s a prank? A mask?”
— “Could be a trick of the light or a double exposure.”
But the original poster replied: “We took ONE photo. And nobody was standing behind us. I swear.”
A few hours later, the post had gone viral. Paranormal enthusiasts, digital experts, even a few horror filmmakers weighed in. 📢 Some declared it the best “real ghost photo” they’d ever seen. Others zoomed, enhanced, and claimed they saw claw-like fingers in the shadows. 🧤👀
One chilling theory came from a local who messaged the group privately:
“There’s a legend here,” he wrote. “Of a spirit known as El Silente. It appears in lonely forests and joins groups unnoticed — until seen in photos. If you look directly at it in real life, it’s said to drive you mad.” 🧝♂️🌫️
The group was shaken. Was this just a hoax or something much darker?
The next day, Eliza woke up screaming. She claimed she had seen the face in her dream, standing at the edge of her bed. 👻 Her roommates found her phone on the floor — with the photo open and the brightness turned to max.
Terrified, they deleted the image from every device. But the damage was done.
Even after deleting it, each of them reported feeling watched. Doors creaked open. Mirrors fogged for no reason. A cold breeze followed them indoors. 🕯️🥶
Eventually, they went their separate ways. But one friend, Lucas, later confessed he kept the photo. He wanted to “study it.” Two weeks later, his account went dark. His last post?
“Sometimes I dream… and it’s smiling at me.”
📸😵
To this day, the photo occasionally resurfaces in obscure corners of the internet. But every time it does, it disappears again — deleted by someone, somewhere. 🕳️
So what do you think? A clever hoax? A glitch? Or something much more chilling lurking in the forests of Patagonia? 🌲📷💀
Would you zoom in… or look away?
