Satan or smoke? This is one of those new 'net legends circling around right now that I don't know what to think/believe... Here are a few pages if you'd like to check it out and decide for yourself, with different versions of the photo: 1) Urban Legends Reference Pages, 2) The SF Gate, 3) The Saginaw News, 4) KUSA-TV Denver
>From the SF Gate: "Skeptics say the face is no different from someone seeing images in clouds -- they are seeing patterns where there is randomness. Vin Alabiso, an AP vice president and the news cooperative's executive photo editor, has said that the photo was untouched and that the AP has a strict policy that prohibits the alteration of the content of a photo in any way. Nevertheless, the photo has made a terrible week even more surreal for Mark D. Phillips, the sometime photojournalist who climbed to his Brooklyn roof on the morning of the attacks to take pictures of a burning World Trade Center, and sold them to the Associated Press. He barely looked at one photograph -- filled with a dark cloud of billowing smoke -- before he sent it from his laptop. On the night of the attacks, Phillips said, his agent called to ask, "Do you know that the face of the devil is in your photograph?" Phillips says he started to shake when he looked at the picture again. Now, he says, he isn't sure what to believe."
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