Chilling Photo of Six Friends Goes Viral After Viewers Notice a ‘Seventh Face’

What should have been a whole­some group pho­to of six friends on a hik­ing trip in Chile has instead left the inter­net unset­tled — thanks to what looks like a mys­te­ri­ous sev­enth face lurk­ing in the back­ground.

At first glance, the pic­ture appears harm­less: six smil­ing hik­ers pos­ing togeth­er against a lush green back­drop, with oth­er walk­ers scat­tered in the dis­tance. But a clos­er look reveals some­thing that doesn’t quite belong. Between two women on the left side of the frame, a pale face seems to peek through the gap — as if pho­to­bomb­ing from anoth­er world.

The chill­ing detail first sur­faced on Reddit’s r/whenyouseeit thread, and the reac­tions were instant.

“I am not exag­ger­at­ing when I say that when I final­ly saw it, I got goose­bumps and felt gen­uine fear. What the f***. I believe in ghosts again now,” one shocked user admit­ted.

Anoth­er wrote: “My dum­ba** was look­ing at the red thing in the bot­tom left cor­ner. I was like, ‘Uhhh, looks like some­one was just cut out of the pic…’ Then BOOM, I saw it. Runs to hide under the cov­ers.”

A third added sim­ply: “That is the creepi­est thing! I did not expect that!”

Creepy Illu­sion or Para­nor­mal Proof?

Skep­tics, how­ev­er, weren’t con­vinced it was any­thing super­nat­ur­al. Some sug­gest­ed it could be a sim­ple case of opti­cal illu­sion, shad­ows, or a hid­den friend blend­ing into the back­ground.

“It’s just a per­son also in the group, with their face obscured by shad­ow between the two women, made creepi­er by the blue fil­ter,” one user explained. “You can even see the top of their head catch­ing day­light nor­mal­ly.”

But for many oth­ers, the eerie face felt far too out of place to dis­miss. “It gave me chills, for sure,” anoth­er Red­di­tor con­fessed. “Usu­al­ly, I just laugh these things off or assume the pho­to is doc­tored … but not this time. It looks like some­thing — or some­one — that doesn’t belong there.”

Whether it’s just a trick of light, an unlucky angle, or some­thing more sin­is­ter, one thing is cer­tain: once you spot that sev­enth face, it’s impos­si­ble to unsee it. And maybe that’s what makes the pho­to so haunt­ing — the pos­si­bil­i­ty that some­times, even in the hap­pi­est snap­shots, some­thing else is watch­ing.