Mystery Faces

Several years ago, Nick of Square America found some strange slides of young women with letters on their faces - and no one knows what the slides are for or why they came to be ...

There are about 50 slides in all- all dating from between 1959 and 1969 and all of young women. Some, like the ones here have letters written on their foreheads, others have press type with their names on it affixed to either their temples or foreheads. Were the slides taken by a dermatologist or plastic surgeon or were these young women part of some now forgotten experiment. In less than fifty years these slides have gone from most likey being unambiguous data for some medical study to being a complete mystery.

Do you know the reason of the mysterious letters? Link - via growabrain


Interesting. Such is the power of the internet and media that this mystery will be solved soon, as well as name put to the faces. Will probably turn out to be something harmless
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Is it possible that the blogger took these photos himself and invented the backstory to gain traffic to his site? I'm an incurable cynic when it comes to these things...
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Actually, this is an old mystery. I remember reading about this in some newspaper or article (for the love of me I can't remember) but there was speculation that it was either a set of pictures of dermatological volunteers, some (can't remember) syndrome (look at the eyes and the nose being prominent similarities), or a set of pictures of mental patients.

Then again it may have been something entirely different like a model shoot for something? Still, this intrigues me alot. I love a good mystery.
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Best guess: a high-school prank. Kids get their yearbook shots taken with two letters each on their foreheads: when they appear in the book in alpha order, it spells out something. This could be the first in the string "LO-SE-RB-AB-YS-OW-HY-DO-NT-YO-UK-IL-LM-E?"
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I guess the all powerful web hasn't cracked this one yet- I remembered seeing this a while back on BB, and if you look at the linkbacks these pics have been under scrutiny since 2006.
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Has no one here seen "Carnal Knowledge"? Jonathan has a slide show near the close of the movie where he shows his guests photos of all the women he's had sex with. I agree with Kaela - they are initials of the women. None of them look terribly pleased about the event, though some of them do look rather ... knowing.
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Like Jen, I was hoping somehow this mystery had been solved. Yes, they'd been around for a few years now. I've occasionally checked back to find if the mystery had been solved, but alas, no.

I'd wondered about a hoax. It seems either the markings could be faked or the photos themselves modern creations. If the latter, I give high marks to the hoaxer for making such authentic looking photos. If the former, the photos still seem quite mysterious, even without considering the markings, given some of the subjects seem to be the same person several years apart, the poses, and expressions, etc.
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Fascinating. I took these photos and created two more ways of looking at these same 10 pictures. One (http://tinyurl.com/4dysoq)is a little disturbing, but the second (http://tinyurl.com/64zxoc), as we've all been taught, that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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It looks like their initials - Lauren Oswald, Linda O'Reilly, Larissa Olenik... who knows?

This picture is worth 1000 words (or any number divisible by two)
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