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Mystery surrounds huge face etched into cliff on remote B.C. island
CTV News ^ | 22 June 2015 | CTVNews.ca Staff

Posted on 06/24/2015 10:27:50 AM PDT by Theoria

Was it created by man, or by Mother Nature? That's what many are wondering about a giant face that appears to be carved into a cliff on a remote island near Vancouver Island.

Hank Gus of the Tseshaht First Nation had heard about the "face in the rocks" years ago. A Washington State kayaker stumbled upon the face back in 2008 while paddling past Reeks Island in the Broken Group Islands.

Gus had been searching for the carving for two years. Then, just a few weeks ago, he finally found the hidden treasure and took a cellphone video of the seven-foot-tall face carved into a cliff.

"It's quite noticeable from the water; It's pretty large," he says.

"It's about 40 feet up and from the top of the cliff, and it's about another 20 or 25 feet down, at least. It's high up and there's bunch of rock cliffs on the side and it's so hard to access."

When the kayaker stumbled upon the carving, she took pictures and sent them to Parks Canada but wasn't able to pinpoint the precise location. Parks Canada knew the island was in traditional First Nation territory, so contacted the Tseshaht administration office.

Gus finally found the carving a few weeks ago. He says, to him, the face appears to be blowing, and is perhaps a symbol of wind. The face reminds him of a wood carving on the door of the Tseshaht administration offices.

"It's something really similar to this face in the rock. Its name is Ugi and it describes when it's blowing the wind, it's sharing the history of our ancestors and keeping it alive," he explained.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: canada; carving; face; godsgravesglyphs; vancouverisland
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Man Discovers Mysterious, 'Large' Face on Canada Cliffside After 2-Year Search


1 posted on 06/24/2015 10:27:50 AM PDT by Theoria
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To: SunkenCiv

Not sure to take it at face value...ping


2 posted on 06/24/2015 10:28:49 AM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Theoria

No one nose who put it there. BTT


3 posted on 06/24/2015 10:30:37 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Theoria
Probably just my imagination running away with me, but...

There's two faces there. The second below the first. That one is a profile with hair.

5.56mm

4 posted on 06/24/2015 10:32:09 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Billthedrill

One of the Rockettes?


5 posted on 06/24/2015 10:32:51 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Theoria

It’s not really a face. It’s merely symbolic of a face and it was never even symbolic until somebody saw it and thought it looked like a face.


6 posted on 06/24/2015 10:33:14 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

How ya doin, Cliff?!!


7 posted on 06/24/2015 10:33:22 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Theoria; SunkenCiv

Dwarf planet Ceres reveals pyramid-shaped mystery
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/23/us/feat-ceres-pyramid/index.html


8 posted on 06/24/2015 10:33:40 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

What’s with the long face?


9 posted on 06/24/2015 10:33:42 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Theoria
If it really is a carving, it's an odd place for it.

10 posted on 06/24/2015 10:34:18 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: M Kehoe

Second one on the left looks like an alien with almond eye...

Ooooo


11 posted on 06/24/2015 10:34:41 AM PDT by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: Theoria

“Face value” being the key words.


12 posted on 06/24/2015 10:34:44 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Sharon Stone?


13 posted on 06/24/2015 10:35:09 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Theoria

I think it’s just one of those things that happen randomly like the virgin mother on the piece of toast.


14 posted on 06/24/2015 10:36:33 AM PDT by bkepley
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To: Theoria

I sure close up someone could discern if it was carved.


15 posted on 06/24/2015 10:37:01 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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To: BitWielder1

I think that is a natural formation that’s probably been there long before man. Therefore, at one time it didn’t look like anything.


16 posted on 06/24/2015 10:37:12 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Theoria

I’m sure close up someone could discern if it was carved.


17 posted on 06/24/2015 10:37:20 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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To: Theoria

Loggers find face in a tree


18 posted on 06/24/2015 10:37:43 AM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: Theoria

Mount Mouthmoore?


19 posted on 06/24/2015 10:40:43 AM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS,)
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To: Theoria

... face of the cliff... where Michelle O landed after being kicked off the mother ship...


20 posted on 06/24/2015 10:41:17 AM PDT by dps.inspect (rage against the Obama machine...lief systems)
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