There Was A Hidden Face In The Leaves

There is a written piece by Heart of Darkness that has always meant something to me and Id like to share it with you as it speaks of seeing human features with the leaves of a tree. 

"I saw a face amongst the leaves on the level with my own, looking at me very fierce and steady;

And then suddenly, as though a veil had been removed from my eyes, I made out, deep in the

tangled gloom, naked breasts, arms, legs, glaring eyes. 

The bush was swarming with human limbs in movement, glistening, of bronze colour. The twigs shook, swayed, and rustled, the arrows flew out of them, and then the shutter came to."

Heart of Darkness

A Strange Face was Watching us from The Grass. Bawtry, Summer 1972 - Witness Report: Jo “This is what happened to me one summer's afternoon when I was playing out as a child in Bawtry Doncaster. I saw something so strange that the experience remains with me to this day. The face in the foliage that I (and a school friend) saw happened around the time I was 15 in I would say approximately 1972.

My Friend and I were playing truant from school, and we knew we wouldn't be caught if we went to a certain area not really ideal for kids but it was out of the way and no adults would see us. We were there just messing about in an old abandoned sewage works, known locally as “dead-dogs island” As we were playing we noticed a face watching us from within the brambles. He was lying flat on his belly, keeping himself hidden well in the bushes and grass. I couldn't see a body and I have no idea of the size or height of this thing. What we could see clearly was the face, whatever this “thing” was, it was hairy and looked like the Green Man pictures and artworks that you see in the UK. A face hidden in the leaves with just two eyes watching you.

It seemed to me at the time it was as if he had foliage on his face or was using foliage and greenery to mask his face and hide in plain sight. His skin was dark. He had small dark eyes and he was just looking at us, observing what we were doing. My friend was really scared and frightened by him but I was more interested, and I wanted to know more. it looked like the foliage was being used to disguise his face somehow or it was a mask made from the grass and leaves? He didn't try to move or approach us and we ran off and he didn't try to follow us either, he just stayed in position. As far as I know he just stayed in the brambles.

I can still remember the incident as clear as day all these years later. I wasn't scared and I really wanted to know more but my friend running off left me there alone with “him” so I quickly followed her out of there.

In the same area within a year of my first encounter myself and my Brother were walking home and we realised we were being followed by something we couldn't see. We could hear it moving, shadowing our steps in the trees and bushes off to the left of us. It was a dark night and we caught a glimpse of something that had orangish eyes and whatever this thing was it growled at us from the bushes in almost the same area.” Jo.